Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0

Objectives: To make the participants proficient in VB 6.0 Prerequisite: Working knowledge of programming concepts. Duration: 4 days Training Methodology: 50 % Theory and 50 % practical Suggested Man/Machine: 1:1 H/W Requirements: PIII Intel machines and above with minimum 256 MB RAM in a networked environment, CD ROM Drives S/W Requirements: Windows 2000 professional, latest service pack, visual studio 6.0 and MS-Office Detailed Coverage: Introduction to Application Development Using Visual Basic Features of Visual Basic Editions of Visual Basic Visual Basic terminology Working in the development environment Event-driven programming Creating a program in Visual Basic Project and executable files Visual Basic reference materials Self-check questions Lab: Creating a simple application Visual Basic Fundamentals Introduction to objects Controlling objects Properties, methods, and events Working with forms Introduction to controls Basic controls Self-check questions Lab: Creating a Visual Basic-based application Working with Code and Forms Understanding modules Using the code editor window Other code navigation features Code documentation and formatting Setting environment options Setting code formatting options Automatic code completion features Interacting with the user Using the MsgBox function Using the InputBox function Working with code statements Managing forms Self-check questions Lab: Working with forms Variables and Procedures Overview of variables Declaring variables Variable scope Using arrays User-defined data types Converting data types Using constants Working with procedures Working with dates and times Using the Format function Manipulating text strings Self-check questions Lab: Writing procedures Controlling Program Execution Comparison and logical operators Using If Then statements Using Select Case statements Overview of looping structures Using Do Loop structures For Next statement Exiting a loop Self-check questions Lab: Controlling program flow Debugging Types of errors Break mode Using the Debug toolbar Using the Watch window Using the Immediate window Using the Locals window Tracing program flow with the Call Stack Self-check questions Lab: Using the Visual Basic debugging tools Working with Controls Types of controls Overview of standard controls Using ComboBox and ListBox controls Using OptionButton and Frame controls Working with selected text Advanced standard controls ActiveX controls Insertable objects Self-check questions Data Access Using the ADO Data Control Overview of ActiveX data objects Visual Basic data access features Relational database concepts Using the ADO Data control to access data Structured query language (SQL) Manipulating data Using Data Form Wizard Self-check questions Lab: Accessing databases Input Validation Field-level validation Using text box properties to restrict data entry Using the Masked Edit control Form-level validation Form events used when validating data Self-check questions Lab: Input validation Error Trapping : Overview of run-time errors Overview of the error handling process The Err object Errors and the calling chain Errors in an error-handling routine Inline error handling Error-handling styles General error-trapping options in Visual Basic Self-check questions Lab: Error trapping Finishing Touches User interface design principles Distributing an application Creating a default project Review: Steps to creating a Visual Basic program Development resources Self-check questions Lab: Using the Package and Deployment Wizard Using Visual Data Access Tools Universal data access Connecting to a data source Getting data from a connection Organizing data Presenting data Using Class Modules Designing an application Creating class modules Adding properties, methods, and events Using a class module Creating data-bound class modules Building ActiveX Controls Creating an ActiveX control Exposing properties, methods, and events Testing a control Creating property pages Creating a data-bound control Creating a data source control Labs: Building an ActiveX control Data-binding an ActiveX control Using ActiveX Data Objects Overview of ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) Handling data access errors Connecting to a data source Retrieving data from a data source Sorting and searching data Updating data Using disconnected data Creating dynamic record sets Understanding performance considerations Lab: Using ADO Advanced Data Access Issues Overview of Microsoft SQL Server security Using cursors Enforcing data integrity Executing statements on a database Lab: Advanced data access issues Using COM Components Introduction to using COM components Creating a client application Using Microsoft Internet Explorer Lab: Using COM components Building COM Components Introduction to COM components Creating COM components Creating an object model Adding error handling Lab: Building COM components Optimizing and Deploying an Application Optimizing an application Deploying an application Deploying an ActiveX control Lab: Deploying the StateUBookstore solution Building Internet Applications Using the WebBrowser control Creating Active Documents Creating dynamic hypertext markup language (DHTML) applications Creating Microsoft Internet Information Server applications