Microsoft Visual Basic Programming

Visual Basic Programming -   Duration 5 days

Course Aims:

This course is design to provide programmers with the essential skills and knowledge necessary to allow them to become competent in developing simple VB applications.

Course Outline:

The Microsoft Visual Basic IDE:
The menus in the IDE
The IDE toolbars
The IDE Windows
Objects, Forms and controls
Coding Event procedures
Naming Conventions
Controls:
Textbox
Label
Command Button
Option Button
Frame
Checkbox
Listbox
Combobox
Scrollbars
Timer
Picturebox
Toolbar
Common Dialog
Imagebox
Programming in VB:
Procedures & Functions
Arguments
GoTo statement
If statement
Logical Operators
Select Case statement
Loop statements
With statement
Error trapping
Comments
Variables:
Declaration of Variables
Initialisation
Scope of variables
Persistency
Arrays
Constants
Control Arrays:
Creating control arrays
Adding & removing elements at run time
Control array events
Saving code using control arrays
Drag & Drop:
The MouseMove event
The DragOver event
The DragDrop event
Menus:
The Menu editor
Design considerations
The Data Control:
Properties & methods
Binding
Other data controls
Treeview & Listview controls:
Treeview control
Listview control
File I/O:
Sequential (text) files
Binary files
File management
The FileSystem Object
Error Handling
The Windows Clipboard:
GetText
SetText
MDI:
MDI Parent forms
MDI Child forms
Menus & toolbars in MDI applications
Coding MDI Applications
Debugging:
Break mode
Step by step execution
Interrogating variables
Creating an executable file
The VB MSDN help system
OO Programming in VB:
The OO Paradigm
Class Modules
The VB Class builder
Object initialisation & termination
Collections:
The Add method
The Item method
Iterating with For Each
More Databases:
The VB Data Environment
Windows API:
Declaring API functions
Calling API functions
.INI files
Windows registry:
Overview of the Windows registry
GetSetting & SaveSetting
ActiveX OLE Server Objects:
ActiveX projects
Instancing
Events
Reporting:
The Printers collection
The Printer object
Data Report Designer
Crystal Reports

Target Audience:

Systems and applications programmers who will be developing systems in VB. Anyone who wants a practical understanding of VB will benefit from this course. It is suitable for software engineers who want to expand their knowledge in a powerful all-purpose language and managers who want to manage VB programming projects.

Assumed Knowledge:

Participants should have a basic knowledge of programming techniques and at least one programming language such as COBOL, BASIC, FORTRAN or the like.