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Now that Visual Basic 5 has hit the streets, programmers like you don't have to choose between easy-to-use but inefficient languages and inscrutable but fast and powerful ones. Visual Basic 5 Power OOP is the authoritative guide you need to exploit Visual Basic 5's sophisticated object-oriented features, including Web-friendly ActiveX objects that impart advanced functionality to otherwise static Internet sites. In Visual Basic 5 Power OOP, author and programming guru Martin L. Rinehart takes you step by step through real-world projects that demonstrate what Visual Basic 5 can do. Rinehart guides you as you Master the basics of object-oriented programming the Visual Basic way Create an Object Database class Define Property let and get methods to protect object data members Develop your own events for asynchronous communication among objects Substitute powerful Collections for arrays See how inheritance works in Visual Basic 5 Build ActiveX,.DLLs,.EXEs, and controls as Visual Basic objects Convert objects into Web-ready ActiveX components Plus, Visual Basic 5 Power OOP comes complete with a CD-ROM full of objects created by Rinehart. Learn from them, experiment with them, and even adapt them for your own projects.