Visual Basic 6: Introduction to Programming

3 days

Overview

Students will learn how to use Visual Basic 6 to develop Windows applications.

Prerequisites

Windows Introduction or equivalent knowledge, and some programming experience.

Benefits

Students will learn how to create Windows applications by using Visual Basic 6.

Target student

Students attending this course should be familiar with the Windows environment and have some programming experience.

What's next

Visual Basic 6 Database Programming is the next course in this series.

Introduction to Visual Basic programming

What is Visual Basic?
Terminology
Steps to create an application
Modular environment

Building an application

Setting properties of objects
Forms
Introduction to controls
Object-based, event-driven programming

Coding

The Code Editor
Using the Object Browser to view properties and methods of objects
Statements and functions
Conditional statements
Looping statements
Native code

Debugging

Overview

Forms

Showing and hiding forms
Order of events
Multiple forms
Startup and end of applications

Variables

Data types
Scope and lifetime of variables
Constants
Arrays and user-defined types

Procedures

Introduction to procedures
Arguments and parameters
Named arguments and optional arguments

Controls

Control formatting
Standard controls
Custom controls

Menus

Creating and coding menus
Custom pop-up menus

Error handling

An introduction to error handlers

Wizards

The Package and Deployment Wizard
Application Wizard

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

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Visual Basic 6: Introduction to Programming training courses