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Hands-On Visual Basic 6

Implementing Business Solutions in Windows
 
Course: 304   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 5 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Use Visual Basic 6 to develop Windows applications quickly and effectively
  • Build full-featured Windows programs
  • Access data with ActiveX Data Objects
  • Create client/server database applications that connect to SQL servers
  • Use COM to integrate Windows programs
  • Enhance application design with object-oriented programming techniques

Course Benefits

The Visual Basic programming system empowers developers to create applications that provide fast and effective solutions to pressing business needs. This course provides the skills and knowledge to fully exploit the features and capabilities of Visual Basic. During in-class exercises, you develop real-world Windows applications and integrate them using COM and other advanced techniques.

Who Should Attend

Those who want to develop applications using Visual Basic 6. Familiarity with Windows is assumed; prior experience with macros or a scripting language is helpful.

Hands-On Training

During this course, you perform extensive exercises that provide practical development experience with the Visual Basic environment. Instructor-led hands-on exercises include:
  • Working with buttons, list boxes and text boxes
  • Using timers, graphs, cursors, icons
  • Creating and attaching menus, dialog boxes and help files
  • Building client/server database applications
  • Incorporating graphics and bitmaps into Windows and dialog boxes
  • Incorporating MDI into your Windows applications
  • Using COM to control Windows applications

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  • 209 VBA Programming Comprehensive Introduction
  • 509 Programming Windows Applications with .NET
  • 131 SQL Server 2005 Comprehensive Introduction
  • 377 Programming Access 2003
  • 296 Project Management: Skills for Success
  • 218 User Requirements for Software Development
  • 503 Visual Basic 2008 Programming

 
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24 - 28 Nov, 2008
London

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Hands-On Visual Basic 6

Implementing Business Solutions in Windows
 
Course: 304   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 5 Days
 
 
Course Content
 

Introduction to Visual Basic

The Visual Basic 6 environment

  • Visual design process
  • Distributing Visual Basic applications
  • Event-driven programming paradigm

Flavours of Visual Basic 6

  • Visual Basic Learning, Professional and Enterprise Editions
  • Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
  • VBScript

Providing business solutions using proven object-oriented methods

  • Object-oriented techniques
  • Integrating Windows applications with COM (Component Object Model)
  • The ActiveX controls
  • What's new in Visual Basic .NET

Building an Application with Visual Basic

Getting started

  • Becoming familiar with the Visual Basic 6 integrated environment
  • Adding controls and other display objects
  • Using properties to refine the interface
  • Writing the event procedures

Managing Visual Basic Projects

  • Grouping items into projects
  • Setting environment options
  • Compiling, running and saving the project

The Visual Basic Toolbox

Using the standard controls

  • Buttons
  • Scroll bars
  • Text boxes
  • List boxes
Graphs
  • Grids
  • Timers
  • Masked-edit controls
  • Picture and image control
  • Customising controls

Using the common controls

  • UpDown
  • Slider
  • ToolBar
  • ProgressBar
  • TreeView
  • ImageList
  • Tabbed dialog
  • DateTimePicker

Data Types and Procedures

Data types, variables and constants

  • Attributes of built-in data types
  • Naming conventions
  • Symbolic constants
  • Arrays and structures

Statements and procedures

  • Conditional logic
  • Loops
  • Comments
  • Subroutines and functions

Object-Oriented Programming

Object-oriented design concepts

  • Designing classes
  • Increasing reusability through encapsulation

Applying object-oriented techniques

  • Building collections
  • Public and private members

Menus and Dialog Boxes

Creating menus

  • Design time vs. runtime
  • Menu design guidelines

Creating dialog boxes

  • Modal
  • Modeless
  • Using the common dialog box control
  • Control arrays and properties

Database Access and COM

Creating GUI front-ends for client/server applications

  • Using the data control
  • Adding data reports
  • The DataEnvironment Window

ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)

  • OLE DB: the basis for data access
  • The ADO object model
  • Connections, commands and Recordsets
  • Querying the database with SQL

Exploiting COM

  • Creating scripts with Automation
  • Automating Office applications

System-Level Techniques

Debugging Visual Basic code

  • Watch variables
  • Breakpoints and call trees
  • Statement and procedure steps

Tapping the power of Windows

  • Multiple Document Interface
  • Calling the Windows API
 
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Hands-On Visual Basic 6 Tuition

Implementing Business Solutions in Windows
 
Course: 304   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 5 Days
 
 

Course 304 Tuition

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  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Lunch
  • Course Completion Certificate
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