Visual Basic 6

You will learn how to

• Use Visual Basic 6 to develop Windows applications quickly and effectively
• Build full-featured Windows programs
• Access data with ActiveX Data Objects
• Create client/server database applications that connect to SQL servers
• Use COM to integrate Windows programs
• Enhance application design with object-oriented programming techniques

Course benefits
Microsoft Visual Basic 6 is one of the most popular environments for building full-featured Windows applications quickly and easily. The Visual Basic programming system empowers developers to create applications that provide fast and effective solutions to pressing business needs.

This course provides the skills and knowledge to fully exploit the features and capabilities of Visual Basic. During in-class exercises, you develop real-world Windows applications, and integrate them using COM and other advanced techniques.

Who should attend
This course is valuable for those who want to develop applications using Visual Basic 6. Familiarity with Windows is assumed; prior experience with macros or a scripting language is helpful.

Hands-on training
During this course, you perform extensive exercises that provide practical development experience with the Visual Basic environment. Instructor-led hands-on exercises include:

• Working with buttons, list boxes and text boxes
• Using timers, graphs, cursors, icons
• Creating and attaching menus, dialog boxes and help files
• Building client/server database applications
• Incorporating graphics and bitmaps into Windows and dialog boxes
• Incorporating MDI into your Windows applications
• Using COM to control Windows applications

Course content

Introduction to Visual Basic The Visual Basic 6 environment Visual design process Distributing Visual Basic applications Event-driven programming paradigm Flavours of Visual Basic 6 Visual Basic Learning, Professional and Enterprise Editions Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) VBScript Providing business solutions using proven object-oriented methods Object-oriented techniques Integrating Windows applications with COM (Component Object Model) The ActiveX controls What's new in Visual Basic .NET Building an Application with Visual Basic Getting started Becoming familiar with the Visual Basic 6 integrated environment Adding controls and other display objects Using properties to refine the interface Writing the event procedures Managing Visual Basic Projects Grouping items into projects Setting environment options Compiling, running and saving the project The Visual Basic Toolbox Using the standard controls Buttons Scroll bars Text boxes List boxes Graphs Grids Timers Masked-edit controls Picture and image control Customising controls Using the common controls UpDown Slider ToolBar ProgressBar TreeView ImageList Tabbed dialog DateTimePicker Data Types and Procedures Data types, variables and constants Attributes of built-in data types Naming conventions Symbolic constants Arrays and structures Statements and procedures Conditional logic Loops Comments Subroutines and functions Object-Oriented Programming Object-oriented design concepts Designing classes Increasing reusability through encapsulation Applying object-oriented techniques Building collections Public and private members Menus and Dialog Boxes Creating menus Design time vs. runtime Menu design guidelines Creating dialog boxes Modal Modeless Using the common dialog box control Control arrays and properties Database Access and COM Creating GUI front-ends for client/server applications Using the data control Adding data reports The DataEnvironment Window ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) OLE DB: the basis for data access The ADO object model Connections, commands and Recordsets Querying the database with SQL Exploiting COM Creating scripts with Automation Automating Office applications System-Level Techniques Debugging Visual Basic code Watch variables Breakpoints and call trees Statement and procedure steps Tapping the power of Windows Multiple Document Interface Calling the Windows API