Cutting-Edge Tools for Visual Basic

Ventana Power Toolkit unlocks VB's most advanced capabilities

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., November 28, 1994 -- Visual Basic's thriving supply of
custom controls, along with a host of other important and valuable, but
often ignored, programming topics receives thorough treatment in Visual
Basic Power Toolkit, Ventana Press's new guide for Windows applications
developers. Written by Richard Mansfield, author of the acclaimed Visual
Guide to Visual Basic, and Evangelos Petroutsos, the new Power Toolkit
comes with a CD-ROM and an Online Companion.

"Visual Basic Power Toolkit covers sophisticated, advanced topics, but
explains them so simply and clearly that anyone who programs in Visual
Basic can easily add these impressive techniques to their own
applications," said Mansfield. Hundreds of sample routines and practical
examples make the step-by-step tutorials come to life. Visual Basic Power
Toolkit demonstrates how to

* Optimize programs for speed, create custom DLLs, use the new Visual
  Basic for Applications, OLE automate and exploit the best, most
  useful built-in Windows APIs.
* Create database applications and understand the principles of VB's
  database management language.
* Make programs look good with professional visual transitions, image
  processing and user-friendly interfaces.
* Add voice, sound effects, music, animation and video to VB programs
  with no specialized hardware or authoring tools.
* Harness the Windows for Workgroups electronic mail engine to
  establish communication not only between users, but between
  applications as well.
* Put recursive programming to use and write a math parser.
* Demystify the math behind fractals and learn to create, and even
  animate, these often stunning images.
* Develop data security with a technique so airtight that the authors
  offer a $1,000 prize to the first person to send in the solution to
  the encrypted message in Chapter 15!

The Visual Basic Power Toolkit CD-ROM contains all the program examples
from the book; a variety of never-before released utilities developed by
the authors; sounds, animations and images using programs from the book;
and sample tools and demos from select third-party VB developers.

Another unique feature of this book is its Online Companion, developed by
Ventana Online and residing on Ventana's World Wide Web server. Offering
access to an archive of free VB programs available on the Internet, it
also provides hot links to other Internet VB resources. The URL for the
Visual Basic Power Toolkit Online Companion is
http://www.vmedia.com/vbtoolkit.html.

Visual Basic Power Toolkit is 950 pages, illustrated, with CD-ROM and an
Online Companion. ISBN: 1-56604-190-2. Suggested retail price: $39.95. For
orders in the U.S. only, call 800/743-5369.

Ventana Press and Ventana Online are divisions of Ventana Communications
Group, Inc., a diversified publisher of computer-related information
tools. Ventana Online supports VCG products with Internet-based content
and context. Ventana Press publishes books and other materials that help
computer users become more productive, including The Visual Guide to
Visual C++, The Visual Guide to Visual Basic for Applications, The Visual
Guide to Microsoft Access, The Windows Internet Tour Guide, Mosaic Quick
Tour, Voodoo Windows and Windows, Word & Excel Office Companion. All
titles are available in bookstores and by writing Ventana Press, PO Box
2468, Chapel Hill, NC 27515; by calling Ventana's toll-free order line,
800/743-5369; by faxing Ventana at 919/942-1140; by sending email to
orders@vmedia.com; or via the World Wide Web at
http://www.vmedia.com/index.html.

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