Visual Basic 5: Introduction

Course Overview

Students will learn how to use Visual Basic 5 to develop Windows applications.

Students should be familiar with Microsoft Windows, and should have some experience with programming¾ although not necessarily professionally.

Students will learn how to how to apply the principles of the Visual Basic development language.

Students attending this course should want to learn how to apply their programming skills to the Visual Basic environment.

Introduction to the Visual Basic programming
What is Visual Basic? Terminology Steps to create an application Modular environment
Building an application
Setting properties of objects Forms Introductions to controls Object-based, event-driven
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
Enhanced control formatting Standard controls custom controls
Menus
Creating and coding menus Custom pop-up menus
Error handling Wizards
Setup Wizard and Application Wizard
The next step
Data access using Data Form Wizard and the data control MDI forms Classes An introduction to ActiveX technology

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