Install Visual Basic

When you run Setup, you create a table of contents for Visual Basic, which allows you to select the VisualBasic part you want to install.

In addition to the operating system files in the \os directory, other files on the CD are not compressed, so they can be used directly from the disk. For example, there are a number of tools and parts in the \tools directory that can be run or installed directly from the CD-ROM.

To install from a CD disk, follow these steps:

1. Insert the CD disc in the CD-ROM drive.

2. Setup is available in the root directory of disk 1 and can be run using the appropriate commands in the operating system. If your computer is able to run AutoPlay on your system, the installer will automatically load when you insert the CD disk.

3. Select "Install Visual Basic 6.0".

4. Follow the installation instructions on the screen.

For more information about installing Visal Basic, please read the Readme file.

Add or remove Visual Basic parts

You can run Setup as many times as you need. For example, you can reinstall VisualBasic in another directory, or you can install other parts of Visual Basic.

To add or remove a Visual Basic part, follow these steps:

1. Insert CD disc in CD-ROM drive.

2. Setup is available in the root directory of the CD disk and can be run using the appropriate commands in the operating system. If your computer is able to run AutoPlay on your system, the installer will automatically load when you insert the CD disk.

3. Select the Customize button in the Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Setup dialog box.

4. In the Customize dialog box, in the Options list box, select the part you want to install (or deselect the part you want to delete).

5. Follow the installation instructions on the screen.

Start Visual Basic

Once the installation process is complete, you can start VisualBasic by clicking the Start button in the Windows taskbar. If you can start AutoPlay on your system, you can also insert the Visual Basic CD into the drive to start Visual Basic.

For more information, see chapter II, "Developing applications in visual Basic."

Assistant in the actual work

The Help that the online document system provides to Visual Basic can be considered exhaustive. Its contents include:

All manuals in 1.Visual Basic provide conceptual information about using Visual basic powerful features.

2. Language reference, including information on the Visual Basic programming environment and a wide range of language content.

3.Visual Basic Online link that provides pointers to Visual Basic information resources in the world Wide Web.

4.Microsoft Product Support Services, provide technical support information.

Note You can view the document from the MSDN CD (you must go through the MSDN installation process) or, during the MSDN installation process, select a custom Visual Basic installation to install only the documents and samples to your computer.

The content Help content of reading Help includes many features designed for easy reading.

What's new in 1.Visual Basic 6

Use this section to quickly learn what new and enhanced Visual Basic features are. By functional classification, there are approximately 200 descriptive links to provide detailed information.

2. Quick Find

With this section, you can sort the topics that cover the entire document. For example, depending on the type of project you are working on, you can find a wide variety of debugging information. This section describes the links that make retrieval easier.

3. Summary of topics

Before you read a variety of topics, you can learn about the summary of the topics contained in the manual or in each chapter. By providing a summary of the content of each topic, the description link at the beginning of the book, the summary section at the beginning of each chapter, and the chapters, saves a lot of time for the user.

4. See the Links

Click the See also link below the topic to view more detailed or relevant information about the topic.