Designing and Implementing Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 - Part 5

Course Code NGE72594

Contents

1. Contents
2. Description
3. Audience
4. Prerequisites
5. Objectives
6. Topics Include
7. Duration
8. Minimum Requirements
9. Media

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Description

This is the final course in a five part series that will provide students with the knowledge to write a Microsoft Visual Basic-based application that accesses data from a database. In this course, students will learn to use ActiveX Data Objects to access and manipulate data sources. This course also addresses advanced database issues, such as data integrity and referential integrity.

Audience

This course is designed for programmers who need to create basic applications with Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0. Participants should have completed the first four courses in this series.

Prerequisites

(Currently no course prerequisite information)

Objective

• Optimize the usability and performance of an application.
• Use the tools provided with Visual Basic 6.0 to develop applications more efficiently.
• Create different kinds of components and applications for the Internet.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Optimizing Applications

• Write code to save application settings to the Registry.
• Write code to retrieve application settings from the Registry.
• Add the VB Resource Editor to the Tools menu.
• Create a resource file.
• Identify the resource functions used to load information from a resource file at run time.
• Identify techniques to optimize the speed of an application.
• Identify techniques to reclaim memory from an application.
• Identify native code optimization options.
• Identify advanced native code optimization options.
• Structure code for conditional compilation.
• Identify methods for setting conditional compilation constants.
• Identify the features of HTML Help.
• Write code to display Help.
• Identify the properties required to display context-sensitive Help.
• Identify the features of the different editions of Visual Basic 6.0.
• Identify the functions of Visual SourceSafe.

Unit 2: Packaging and Deploying Applications

• Identify the features of the Package and Deployment Wizard.
• Start the Package and Deployment Wizard.
• Identify options for creating a standard package.
• Identify options for creating an Internet package.
• Identify considerations for deploying a standard application.
• Identify the requirements for deploying an application for the Web.
• Identify the setup files necessary to install and uninstall an application.
• Choose the appropriate application update deployment method.
• Identify the options for distributing ActiveX controls.
• Identify considerations for packaging an ActiveX control for the Internet.
• License an ActiveX control for standard distribution.
• Identify the stages in the process to license an ActiveX control for Internet distribution.
• Determine the process for signing an ActiveX control.

Unit 3: Building Internet Application

• Identify the basic operations of the WebBrowser control.
• Identify the main WebBrowser control properties, methods and events used in creating a browser application.
• Identify the properties of an Active document.
• Identify the features of the UserDocument object.
• Identify the process for migrating a form to an Active document.
• Identify the process for determining the container application.
• Identify the process for persisting data in Active documents.
• Identify the features of DHTML applications.
• Identify the features of the DHTML Page designer.
• Import an existing HTML page into the DHTML Page designer.
• Identify the principal properties required to manipulate the style and content of HTML pages during run time.
• Identify the features of IIS applications.
• Add WebItems to a WebClass.
• Identify the principle methods and events of a WebClass.

Duration

8

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently, only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

Media