Part 1 Introduction to the Visual Basic Programming
Environment
Visual Basic Overview
Visual Basic Terminology
Event driven code
Event driven vs traditional programming
VB Programming Environment
Project Types
Screen Components
Part 2 Creating the User Interface
Building the User Interface
Demonstration; Creating a complete Application
Exercise
Menus
Demonstration; Building a Menu
Exercise
Part 3 Programming Language
Events
Properties
Methods
Functions & Statements
Exercise
Structure of a code module
Naming Conventions
Variables
The scope of variables
Constants
Comments
Statement Seperators
Statement Continuation
Assignment Statements
Operators
Loops & Decision structures
· If.......Then
· If.......Then.......Else
· Select Case
· Do.......Loop
· For.......Next
· While.......Wend
· Exiting a loop
Message Boxes (MsgBox)
Sub-Routines and Procedures
· Calling procedures
· Procedure Scope
· Exiting a Procedure
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Part 4 Error handling and debugging
Error Handling
Err, Error and Error$()
Code techniques for error handling
Debugging your code
Interactive Debugging Tools
Part 5 Databases
Database Use in VB
· Database Types
· Database connectivity styles
The ActiveX Data Control
Data Bound Controls
· DataGrid
· DataList
· DataCombo
The Data Form wizard
Visual Data Access Tools
· Data Environment Designer
· Data View Window
ADO
· Introduction to ActiveX
· Data Objects
· Database access using ADO
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