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Visual Basic 6.0: Introduction (Windows 95)
Course specifications
Course number: 047 503
Software version number: 1.0
Course length: 3 days
Hardware/software required to run this course
You will need a PC with at least a 486DX/66 MHz processor; a Pentium processor (or higher) is recommended. You will also need the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system (or later); 16 MB of RAM (32 MB recommended); approximately 76 MB for a Typical installation of Visual Basic; and approximately 29 MB for a Custom installation of MSDN Library Visual Studio 6.0. See your reference manual for hardware considerations that apply to your specific hardware setup.
Course description
Overview: Students will learn how to use Visual Basic 6.0 to develop Windows applications.
Prerequisites: Windows 95: Introduction or equivalent knowledge, and some programming experience.
Delivery method: Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Benefits: Students will learn how to create Windows applications by using Visual Basic 6.0.
Target student: Students enrolling in this course should be familiar with the Windows environment and have some programming experience.
What's next: Visual Basic 6.0: Introduction (Windows 95) is the first course in this series. Visual Basic 6.0: Database Programming, the next course in this series, teaches students how to create database applications.
Performance-based objectives
Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify and describe the purpose of various components of the Visual Basic programming environment.
- Build and run a small application.
- Use the code editing tools in the Code Editor window to write conditional statements and other code constructs.
- Isolate, identify, and correct logic, compile, and run-time errors in a Visual Basic application.
- Develop multiple-form applications.
- Declare variables and constants.
- Examine and discuss Sub and Function procedures, and pass arguments by value and by reference.
- Create application interfaces with standard and custom controls.
- Build common and pop-up menus into an application.
- Write an error-handling routine.
- Create an application by using the VB Application Wizard, and create, install, and remove a setup program.
- Use the data control to access a database table and discuss the features of an MDI environment.
Course content
Lesson 1: Introduction to Visual Basic programming
- What is Visual Basic?
- Terminology
- Steps to create an application
- Modular environment
Lesson 2: Building an application
- Setting properties of objects
- Forms
- Introduction to controls
- Object-based, event-driven programming
Lesson 3: Coding
- The Code Editor
- Using the Object Browser to view properties and methods of objects
- Statements and functions
- Conditional statements
- Looping statements
- Native code
Lesson 4: Debugging
Lesson 5: Forms
- Showing and hiding forms
- Order of events
- Multiple forms
- Startup and end of applications
Lesson 6: Variables
- Data types
- Scope and lifetime of variables
- Constants
- Arrays and user-defined types
Lesson 7: Procedures
- Introduction to procedures
- Arguments and parameters
- Named arguments and optional arguments
Lesson 8: Controls
- Control formatting
- Standard controls
- Custom controls
Lesson 9: Menus
- Creating and coding menus
- Custom pop-up menus
Lesson 10: Error handling
Lesson 11: Wizards
- The Package and Deployment Wizard
- Application Wizard
Lesson 12: The next step
- Data access using the Data Form Wizard and the data control
- MDI forms
- Classes
- An introduction to ActiveX controls within Visual Basic
SKU | 047503IE |
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Weight | 1.7100 |
Coming Soon | N/A |
Days of Training | 3 |
Audience | Instructor |
Product Family | Select |
Product Type | Print Courseware |
Electronic | No |
ISBN | 1587199106 |
Language | English |
Page Count | 308 |
Curriculum Library | No |
Year | N/A |
Manufacturer's Product Code | N/A |
Current Revision | 2.11 |
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Revision Notes | No Revision Information Available |
Original Publication Date | 1998-11-30 00:00:00 |
datafile | 047503IE Data File |
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overhead | 047503IE Overhead File |
rtf | 047503IE RTF File |
outline | 047503IE Outline File |