Programmers constantly confront new technologies they must immediately understand. This text takes the programmer from "square one" with Visual Basic 6.0. The book teaches the ins-and-outs of the Visual Basic toolset and gives the reader code, and more code. Included is information on: implementing encryption and digital signatures; interacting with SQL databases and Microsoft BackOffice; using ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) as the standard for data access; and all aspects of Visual Basic 6.0. The book's companion CD-ROM contains all the supplemental files the user needs to begin programming right away.