Visual Basic 6 Advanced Techniques

AUDIENCE: Experienced Visual Basic programmers wishing to use Visual Basic 6 to develop Object Oriented business applications which access ODBC compliant relational databases.
PREREQUISITES: Knowledge of Microsoft Windows is assumed. Previous experience with Visual Basic programming or attending our Visual Basic 6 Programming course is required.
DURATION: 5 days. Hands on.
OBJECTIVES: This course concentrates on the Object Oriented and Database access elements of the Visual Basic 6 environment. Course lectures will describe how to use the Visual Basic language to create structured, Object Oriented, event-driven, Visual Basic applications that access ODBC compliant relational databases. It will also detail how to debug the programs, handle run-time errors and optimise performance. A series of hands-on workshops using Access, SQL Server or Oracle will create working VB applications, providing students with both confidence and experience of object oriented design, coding and debugging techniques.
COURSE CONTENT:
User-defined types
Dynamic arrays
Object-oriented Programming in Visual Basic
Classes, Objects and References
Collections and collection classes
User-defined events
Polymorphism and Interfaces
Using the Windows Common Controls
Developing ActiveX (COM) components
In-Process ActiveX Servers
Out-of-Process ActiveX Servers
ActiveX Documents
ActiveX Controls
Visual Basic data access models
Accessing databases with ADO
The Data Environment Designer
Using and creating data-aware components
Introduction to Internet (DHTML) applications

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