Visual Basic 6: Introduction to Programming

Course Overview

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

Windows Introduction or equivalent knowledge, and some programming experience.

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

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

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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