Book excerpt: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 10 Minutes is a tutorial-based book, organized into a series of easy-to-follow, 10-minute lessons. These well targeted lessons teach you in 10 minutes what some books take several hours or days to teach. It is for those users who don't have the time to read lengthy chapters, or are not inclined to read "manuals." This book will provide the basics of the programming language, including: - Managing Projects and Files - Declaring and Using Variables, Constants and Data Types - Controlling Program Flow - Procedures and Functions - Debugging - Using ActiveX Controls - DHTML - Creating and Using Menus - Graphics and Images