Visual Basic Introductory Outline
Aims of the Three-Day Course
This course has been designed for new users to learn how to use Visual
Basic to develop Windows applications. The course is 100% hands-on, with
exercises to help delegates practice the new skills they learn.
Course Content
- Introduction to Visual Basic programming
- What is Visual Basic?
- Terminology
- Steps to create an application
- Modular environment
- Building an Application
- Setting properties of objects
- Forms
- Introduction to controls
- Object-based, event-driven programming
- Coding
- The Code Editor
- Using the Object Browser to view properties and methods
of objects
- Statements and functions
- Conditional statements
- Looping statements
- Native code
- Debugging
- Error Handling
- An introduction to error handling
- Wizards
- The Package and Deployment Wizard
- Application Wizard
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- Forms
- Showing and hiding forms
- Order of events
- Multiple forms
- Startup and end of applications
- Variables
- Data types
- Scope and lifetime of variables
- Constants
- Arrays and user-defined types
- Procedures
- Introduction to procedures
- Arguments and parameters
- Named arguments and optional arguments
- Controls
- Control formatting
- Standard controls
- Custom controls
- Menus
- Creating and coding menus
- Custom pop-up menus
- 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
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Prerequisites
Trainees must have a good working knowledge of Windows and some programming
experience.
Duration
Eighteen hours - 9.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 4.30pm on each day.
Next courses
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us for prices for this course
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