This book covers the depth as well as breadth of the Visual Basic. It begins with a very elementary level of programming and gradually illustrates the basics of Visual Basic and Graphical User Interfaces. For example, the book elaborates what is: IDE; Front-end/Back-end; ADO locks, cursors, and disconnected recordsets; DED; OOPS and how to implement it in VB; FSO; COM/DCOM and how to create ActiveX Controls; and, DHTML and where does VB fit in. Theoretical concepts have been blended with simple and easy practical examples to help the students/readers to understand the subject easily. Even if the learners do not have a programming background, this book can help since it starts from \'ground zero\'. It will also be quite handy for VB programmers upgrading to ADO/DATA REPORTS/COM/FSO/OOPS. Based on its wide and in-depth coverage of the subject, the book will be extremely useful for MCA/MSc/MCM/BE/BCA students.