This volume provides a hands-on tutorial for beginners and professionals alike to the powerful new programming language, Visual Basic for MS-DOS a new development language that lets general computer users create visually appealing applications i.e., fully functional GUI applications that run in the Microsoft Disk Operating System (DOS) environment. Shows how to create custom applications; modify a custom application; build a multiform application; add features to a multiform application; produce sound and graphics; use data files; create menu controls; program for error handling.