Visual Basic 6.0 Level 1 Training Class

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