Online Visual Basic Application eLearning Training

Visual Basic 6 0 Database Access Part I This course provides an introduction to Visual Basic's capabilities relating to database access and manipulation in an online environment. It explains how databases are organized, how information is retrieved and manipulated in databases, and what technologies are available to ensure cross-platform and uniform access to database information. This course describes the fundamentals of viewing  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 Database Access Part II This course provides a detailed look at the ActiveX Data Object (ADO)that acts as the bridge between your application and a database. Designed for intermediate to advanced Visual Basic application programmers Database administrators, Database analysts, and Database developers who are working toward the Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) credential.  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 Enterprise Client Server Development Part 1 This course introduces developing programs for an enterprise client/server environment. It introduces multi-tier application architecture, reviews how to instantiate a COM component, and describes how to make and compile COM configurations. It also describes how COM components are registered and identified in the Windows registry. This course also introduces the concept of transactions and  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 Enterprise Client Server Dev Part II Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) is a tool that enlists objects and their associated resources into transactions, and manages those transactions to ensure that changes to data are made correctly. This course discusses the role of transactions in MTS, and explains how MTS uses a context to manage objects and transactions. Additionally, it covers the steps required to build MTS components that  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 Advanced Enterprise Client Server Dev Part I This course discusses database security implementations to aid a developer in correctly programming components that access data without compromising security. The different security modes available to Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and previous versions of SQL Server are explained, as well as their respective advantages. It also explains creating Windows NT accounts and user groups. This course  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 Advanced Enterprise Client Server Dev Part II This course investigates advanced concepts and technologies that will help you develop more capable and reliable client/server applications with Visual Basic. It discusses the attributes of interfaces and the concept of an interface as a contract. It examines the basic IUnknown interface, the creation and implementation of abstract classes and multiple interfaces, and the fundamentals of the  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 Using the Win 32 API Part I This course provides an overview of the Microsoft Win32 application programming interface (API), how it is organized, and some of its features that you can use in your Visual Basic Windows applications. The Win32 API includes services that go beyond the core language and controls provided with Visual Basic such as system management, networking, printing, and security. Using the Win32 API, you can  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 Using the Win32 API Part II This course describes how to use some of the more common Win32 API drawing functions, it explains how to obtain and release a device context and how to draw dots, lines, and rectangles on a form or control. It also describes how to change pen and brush styles by using stock objects and by creating customized pens and brushes. In addition, it explains how to place a text string on a control or form  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 ActiveX COM Part I This course builds and extends the skills beyond basic Visual Basic programming by introducing ActiveX components and the Component Object Model (COM). The Component Object Model (COM) is an open, extensible standard on which ActiveX is based. By understanding COM, you can design applications from components that communicate through a common set of interfaces. Component software development cuts  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 ActiveX COM Part II This course covers advanced topics related to ActiveX controls. It describes how to create your own ActiveX controls, discusses the dependency of ActiveX controls on their container applications and gives an overview of ambient properties and the User Control object. This course also introduces the ActiveX Control Interface wizard, which simplifies the creation and coding of a control and  more...