Programming in Visual Basic 6

AUDIENCE: Anyone wishing to use Visual Basic 6 to develop Object Oriented business applications.
PREREQUISITES: Some previous experience with a programming language and some basic knowledge of the Windows environment is recommended.
DURATION: 5 days. Hands on.
OBJECTIVES: This course will include a comprehensive study of all features and functions available in the Visual Basic 6 environment. Course lectures will describe how to use the Visual Basic language to create structured, event-driven, Visual Basic applications, how to debug the programs, handle run-time errors and optimise performance. A series of hands-on workshops using the complete set of VB6 Controls will create working VB applications, providing students with both confidence and experience of design, coding and debugging techniques.
COURSE CONTENT:
The Visual Basic IDE

Event-driven programming
User interface design
Using standard controls
Using custom controls

Dialog boxes
Using the Common Dialog box

Menus
Mouse handling
The clipboard

The Visual Basic language
Types, constants and variables
Functions and subroutines

Static arrays
Error handling
Using the debugger effectively
Accessing the Help Engine
MDI applications
File handling
Printing
Drag-and-drop programming
Packaging and deploying applications
Simple database access using the Data Control