Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) 6.0: Effective programming with VB6

Course Overview

A hands-on introduction to programming in Visual BASIC V6.

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Related Courses

• Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) 6.0: 8-day track: [Part 1 of 3] Programming Fundamentals
• Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) 6.0: 8-day track: [Part 2 of 3] Programming Applications
• Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) 6.0: 8-day track: [Part 3 of 3] Advanced Programming Concepts
• Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) 6: VB6 Introduction:

Audience

• Anyone wishing to program in Visual BASIC.
• Anyone wishing to build Windows based applications.

Skills Gained

By the end of the course delegates will be able to:

• Build Visual BASIC applications.
• Build simple components.
• Debug Visual BASIC programs.
• Examine existing code and determine its function.

Prerequisites

• None although experience in another high level language would be useful.

Course Outline

Application development using VB

VB features. VB editions, VB terminology. Working in the Development Environment. Event-Driven Programming. Creating a program in VB. Project and executable files. VB reference materials.

Visual Basic fundamentals

Objects. Controlling objects. Introduction to forms. Introduction to controls. Basic controls.

Working with code and forms

Modules. Working with code. Interacting with the user. Working with code statements. Managing forms.

Variables and procedures

Introduction to variables and constants. Working with Procedures and Functions.

Controlling program execution

Common VB functions. Comparison and relational operators. Conditional structures. Looping structures.

Debugging

Error types. Debugging logic errors in VB.

Working with controls

Control types. Standard controls. Advanced standard controls. ActiveX controls. Insertable controls.

Data access using the ADO data control

Overview of ActiveX Data Objects. VB data access features. Relational database concepts. Using the ADO data Control to access data. SQL. Manipulating data. Using the data form wizard.

Input validation

Field-Level validation. The masked edit control. Form-Level validation. Form events used when validating data.

Error trapping

Trapping run time errors. Error handling overview. Enabling an error trap. Errors and the calling chain. In line error handling.

Enhancing the User Interface

Menus. Status bars. Toolbars.

Drag and Drop

• Overview of Drag and Drop. Mouse events
• Drag and Drop basics.

More about controls

Using control arrays. Using the controls collection. Working with object variables. Collections.

Finishing touches

User Interface design principles. Distributing an application. Creating a default project