Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition

Sampling the Internet Controls

If you use Visual Basic's Professional or Enterprise edition, you can use several advanced Internet-based (and ActiveX) controls to add and control Internet access from within your applications. The previous section's example demonstrated the power of one single control, the WebBrowser control. This section explains more about these controls.

Several Internet controls appear when you choose Components from the Project menu. Here, you'll review those controls and understand how and when you can use them in projects that access the Internet.

As you learn more about programming, especially object-oriented programming as you'll do beginning in Chapter 14, “Programming with C++,” you will run across the term encapsulation ...