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Introduction to Visual Basic 6 (VB6) Training Course UK

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Visual Basic 6 (VB6 Introduction) Course Overview

Course Code:	VB60020
Price:	£1250
Duration:	3 days
Date:
Who should attend:	IT professionals looking for an introduction to VB6 and those looking to get into IT, and are planning to use the course as their first step in the visual programming ladder.
Prerequisite Skills:	Programming skills gained in any language.

This highly acclaimed Hands-On course provides delegates with a practical hands-on introduction to creating commercial applications in Visual Basic 6, a simple to use yet powerful development tool which is widely used in the business community. Delegates will build Interactive applications which access relational databases for information update & retrieval.

Course Content

This course has been developed for real-world, commercial scenarios by our expert instructors. See below for detailed syllabus. If you have a technical question, please email

Course Objectives

1. Understand the Visual Basic development environment and language.
2. How to write an application that uses a database.
3. How to write an COM Client application.

Hands-On Exercises

The exercises during the course combine to create a currency converter application, a banking application, plus stand-alone modules, covering:
1. GUI front-end e.g. containing menus.
2. Validation of input and dialog windows.
3. Database handling.
4. Client-server / n-tier implementation.
5. Allow only one copy of the application to be started.

Visual Basic 6 (VB6 Comprehensive) Course Outline

Part 1 Introduction to the VB Environment

Visual Basic Overview & Terminology
Event driven programming
VB Programming Environment

Part 2 Creating the User Interface

Building the User Interface
Creating an Application
Building Menus

Part 3 VB Programming Language

Event Handling
Using Properties
Methods
Naming Conventions
Variables
Variable Scope
Constants
Arrays
User Defined Types
Comments
Continuation Statements
Assignment Statements
Operators
Loops & Decision structures

• If.......Then.......Else
• Do...Loop, For, While, Exiting a loop

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

• Using the Debug Window Passively
• Using the Debug Window Actively

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

Associated Courses

VB6 Introduction