Visual Basic 6 Introduction - 3 days

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Overview:

To give delegates an introduction to the features and capabilities the Visual Basic 6 programming environment. At the end of the course the delegates will be able to create fully functional Window's applications.

Prerequisites:

Windows Introduction or equivalent knowledge, and some programming experience would be beneficial but is not essential.

Course Topics

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 me
• 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 dat
• MDI forms
• Classes
• An introduction to ActiveX controls within Visual

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