Visual Basic 5: Introduction

3 Day Course

Overview

Students will learn how to use Visual Basic 5 to develop Windows applications.

Prerequisites

Students should be familiar with Microsoft Windows, and should have some experience with programmingū although not necessarily professionally.

Benefits

Students will learn how to how to apply the principles of the Visual Basic development language.

Target student

Students attending this course should want to learn how to apply their programming skills to the Visual Basic environment.

Introduction to the Visual Basic programming

• What is Visual Basic?
• Terminology
• Steps to create an application
• Modular environment

Building an application

• Setting properties of objects
• Forms
• Introductions to controls
• Object-based, event-driven

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 overview 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

• Enhanced control formatting
• Standard controls custom controls

Menus

• Creating and coding menus
• Custom pop-up menus

Error handling Wizards

• Setup Wizard and Application Wizard

The next step

• Data access using Data Form Wizard and the data control
• MDI forms
• Classes
• An introduction to ActiveX technology