Introduction to VB - Visual Basic 6.0
Course Description
Students will learn how to use Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) to develop Windows applications.
3 Days
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Prerequisites
Basic IT skills and ideally and some programming experience.Introduction to Visual Basic Programming
What is Visual Basic?Terminology
Steps to create an application
Modular environment
Building an Application
Setting properties of objectsForms
Introduction to controls
Object-based, event-driven programming
Coding
The Code EditorUsing the Object Browser to view properties and methods of objects
Statements and functions
Conditional Statements
Looping Statements
Native Code
Debugging
OverviewForms
Showing and hiding formsOrder of events
Multiple forms
Startup and end of applications
Variables
Data typesScope and lifetime of variables
Constants
Arrays and user-defined types
Procedures
Introduction to proceduresArguments and parameters
Named arguments and optional arguements
Controls
Control formattingStandard Controls
Custom Controls
Menus
Creating and coding menusCustom pop-up menus
Error Handling
An introduction to error handlersWizards
The package and development WizardApplication Wizard
The Next Step
Data access using the Data Form Wizard and the data controlMDI forms
Classes
An introduction to ActiveX controls within VB6
VBVB 6Visual Basic