Technical Training - Mastering Visual Basic 6.0 Development

Course No: M1013 Course Lengh: 5 Days

Pre-Requisites: Delegates should be able to:

Create an application with multiple forms and add functionality for multiple events to the controls on those forms.
Write a Function procedure and a Sub procedure, and invoke them from Event procedures.
Declare variables and use conditional statements.
Describe the purpose and use of each of the controls in the Toolbox.
Add a simple menu interface to an application.
Retrieve and validate information from a user.

Topics Covered:

Write a Microsoft Visual Basic-based application that accesses data from a database
Write a Visual Basic-based application that uses component object model (COM) components
Create an ActiveX® control
Create a COM component
List the opportunities that Visual Basic developers have to incorporate Internet technologies into their applications system.

Module 1: Visual Basic Essentials Understanding Microsoft Visual Basic-based development
Creating an application
Debugging and error handling
Compiling an EXE file
Overview of the State University bookstore application family

Module 2: Using Visual Data Access Tools Universal data access
Connecting to a data source
Getting data from a connection
Organizing data P
resenting data installation

Module 3: Using Class Modules
Designing an application
Creating class modules
Adding properties, methods, and events
Using a class module
Creating data-bound class modules

Module 4: Building ActiveX Controls
Creating an ActiveX control
Exposing properties, methods, and events Testing a control
Creating property pages
Creating a data-bound control

Module 5: Using ActiveX Data Objects Overview of ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) Handling data access errors
Connecting to a data source
Retrieving data from a data source
Sorting and searching data
Updating data
Using disconnected data
Creating dynamic record sets
Understanding performance considerations

Module 6: Advanced Data Access Issues
Overview of Microsoft SQL Server™ security
Using cursors
Enforcing data integrity
Executing statements on a database

Module 7: Using COM Components Introduction to using COM components Creating a client application
Using Microsoft Internet Explorer

Module 8: Building COM Components Using the WebBrowser control
Creating Active Documents
Creating dynamic hypertext markup language (DHTML) applications
Creating Microsoft Internet Information Server applications

Module 9: Optimizing & Deploying An Application
Optimizing an application
Deploying an application
Deploying an ActiveX control

Module 10: Building Internet Applications
Using the WebBrowser control
Creating Active Documents
Creating dynamic hypertext markup language (DHTML) applications
Creating Microsoft Internet Information Server applications

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