Visual Basic 6 : Intensive Professional Program
VB6 Training Course Outline
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VB6 Training Course Duration
5 Days
VB6 Training Course Objectives
This highly acclaimed Hands-On course provides delegates who prefer a
fast track learning route with intensive practical tuition in Visual Basic 6. Apart from
helping on route to certification, the course should prove invaluable for anyone planning
to gain the essential practical skills to develop commercial VB systems for the enterprise
and web (internet & Intranet). Available as a public or closed course at our London
training centre, or can be tailored to your team's requirements and delivered onsite as a
bespoke, customised training course.
Who Should Attend VB6 Training Course
IT professionals who are completely new to Visual Basic programming or
those with elementary skills in VB who need to gain the skills and hands-on experience of
developing commercial VB6 applications.
Pre Requisite Skills to VB6 Training Course
Programming skills gained in any language.
VB6 Training Course Outline
Part 1 Introduction to the VB Environment
Visual Basic Overview & Terminology
Event driven vs traditional programs
VB Programming Environment
Project Types & Screen Components
Part 2 Creating the User Interface
Building the User Interface
Creating an Application
Building Menus
Part 3 Programming Language
Events, Properties, Methods
Functions & Statements,
Visual Basic - Application writing
Structure of a code module
Naming Conventions
Variables, The scope of variables
Constants, Arrays of Variables,
Dynamic Arrays, User Defined Types
Comments
Statement Terminators, Separators, Continuation
Assignment Statements
Operators
Loops & Decision structures
Message Boxes (Msgbox)
Input Boxes (Inputbox)
Sub-Routines and Procedures
Part 4 Error handling and debugging
Error Handling
Introduction
Trappable Errors
On Error...
Resume
Error Handlers
Err, Error and Error$()
Techniques
Avoid Variable Name Errors
Setting Your Own Error Codes
Simulating A Visual Basic Error
Catering for Unexpected Errors
Delayed Error Handling
Turning Off Error Handling
Function Specific Error
Procedures
Debugging your code
Interactive Debugging Tools
Stepping Through Code
Breakpoints
Watches
Instant Watch
The Calls Window
Set Next
Part 5 Working with more advanced controls
File management
Timer
ActiveX custom controls
Tree view and List view
Common dialog
Masked edit
Status Bars
Toolbars
Part 6 Using Drag and Drop
Mouse Events
Dragging and Dropping Controls
Moving data around
Part 7 More About Controls
Using Control Arrays
Collections
Using the Controls Collection
Working with Object Variables
Part 8 Data base use in Visual Basic
Database Use in VB
The ActiveX Data Control
Data Bound Controls
DataGrid
DataList
DataCombo
The Data Form wizard
Visual Data Access Tools
ADO
SQL
Multiple-User Issues
External Databases
ODBC Databases
MTS (Microsoft Transaction Server) and ADO
Part 9 Using Dynamic-Link Libraries
Introduction to DLLs
Declaring DLLs
Calling DLLs
Providing Callback Procedures
Part 10: ActiveX
The Component Object Model (COM)
ActiveX Clients
Creating ActiveX Servers
Creating ActiveX Controls
Introduction to Controls
Creating the Control's User Interface
Testing
Exposing Properties, Methods, and Events
Creating Property Pages
Data Binding
Distributing
Using ActiveX Components on a Web Page
Creating and Using ActiveX Documents
Introduction to ActiveX Documents
ActiveX Document Projects
Testing and Debugging
Multiple Documents
The User Interface and User Documents
Creating Internet-Aware Applications
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