Visual Basic Concepts
Getting Assistance While You Work
The online documentation system references nearly all aspects of Visual Basic. It includes:
All of the Visual Basic books, providing conceptual information on using the multitude of features in Visual Basic.
Language Reference, containing extensive information on the Visual Basic programming environment and language.
Visual Basic online links, providing pointers to sources of Visual Basic information on the web.
Microsoft Product Support Services, with information on obtaining technical support.
Note You can view the documentation from the MSDN CDs (you must go through the MSDN installation process) or you can custom install the Visual Basic documents and samples to your machine during MSDN installation.
Getting the Most Out of Help Content
Help content includes several features designed to make finding information easier.
What's New in Visual Basic 6.0?
Use this section to go quickly to information on new and enhanced features of Visual Basic. Organized by feature category, it provides close to 200 described links to more information.
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Use this section to sort out subject areas covered throughout the documentation. Debugging information, for example, comes in a variety of flavors, depending on the kind of project you're working on. The described links in this section make the search easier.
Overview topics
Use these to get information about topics in a book or chapter before you go to the topics themselves. By providing a glimpse of content in each topic, the described links in overviews at the head of books, parts, and chapters save time.
See Also links
Click the See Also link under the topic title to view the titles of topics you can go to for more or related information.