Visual Basic 6.0 Introduction

 

Course specifications

Course number: VB060-101

Course length: 3 days

 

Course description

 

Overview: Students will learn how to use Visual Basic 6.0 to develop Windows applications.

 

Prerequisites: Windows 95: Introduction or equivalent knowledge, and some programming experience.

 

Delivery method: Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

 

Benefits: Students will learn how to create Windows applications by using Visual Basic 6.0.

 

Target student: Students enrolling in this course should be familiar with the Windows environment and have some programming experience.

 

What's next: Visual Basic 6.0: Introduction is the first course in this series. Visual Basic 6.0 Advanced, the next course in this series, teaches students how to create database applications.

 

Performance-based objectives

 

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

 

*      Identify and describe the purpose of various components of the Visual Basic programming environment.

*      Build and run a small application.

*      Use the code editing tools in the Code Editor window to write conditional statements and other code constructs.

*      Isolate, identify, and correct logic, compile, and run-time errors in a Visual Basic application.

*      Develop multiple-form applications.

*      Declare variables and constants.

*      Examine and discuss Sub and Function procedures, and pass arguments by value and by reference.

*      Create application interfaces with standard and custom controls.

*      Build common and pop-up menus into an application.

*      Write an error-handling routine.

*      Create an application by using the VB Application Wizard, and create, install, and remove a setup program.

*      Use the data control to access a database table and discuss the features of an MDI environment.

 

Visual Basic 6.0 Introduction

 

Course content

 

Lesson 1: Introduction to Visual Basic programming

What is Visual Basic?

Terminology

Steps to create an application

Modular environment

 

Lesson 2: Building an application

Setting properties of objects

Forms

Introduction to controls

Object-based, event-driven programming

 

Lesson 3: Coding

The Code Editor

Using the Object Browser to view properties and methods of objects

Statements and functions

Conditional statements

Looping statements

Native code

 

Lesson 4: Debugging

        Overview

 

Lesson 5: Forms

Showing and hiding forms

Order of events

Multiple forms

Startup and end of applications

 

Lesson 6: Variables

Data types

Scope and lifetime of variables

Constants

Arrays and user-defined types

 

Lesson 7: Procedures

Introduction to procedures

Arguments and parameters

Named arguments and optional arguments

 

Lesson 8: Controls

Control formatting

Standard controls

Custom controls

 

Lesson 9: Menus

Creating and coding menus

Custom pop-up menus

 

Lesson 10: Error handling

An introduction to error handlers

 

Lesson 11: Wizards

The Package and Deployment Wizard

Application Wizard

 

Lesson 12: The next step

Data access using the Data Form Wizard and the data control

MDI forms

Classes

An introduction to ActiveX controls within Visual Basic