- The Visual Basic 6 environment
- Defining terms
- Creating a Visual Basic Project
- Practice project – Building a Football Scoreboard
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
- Improving the VB application
- Using a step-by-step approach
- Writing a VB procedure
- Calling procedures
BUILDING BLOCK OF VB 6
- Using the Visual Basic 6 code editor
- Adhering to programming standards
- Data types, variables and constants in Visual Basic
- Using operators
- Control structures – IF…THEN, Select Case, DO…LOOP, FOR…NEXT
- Practice assignment – Upgrading the Scoreboard
DESIGNING VB APPLICATION
- Designing the Visual Basic Application
- Working with users
- Guiding principles
- Choosing a Visual Basic interface style
- Defining the Visual Basic Form
- Standard controls: Picture, Frame, CommandButton, Label, TextBox, CheckBox, etc.
- Visual Basic practice assignment: Creating a Payroll Form
- Arrays
- More controls: ListBox, ComboBox
- Properties and Methods of objects in Visual Basic
- Building a file search application: DriveListBox, DirListBox, FileListBox
- Building a Menu
- Debugging Visual Basic code
- Error trapping
ENHANCING VB APPLICATION WITH CONTROLS
- Manipulating text – string functions
- Visual Basic functions for dates, numbers
- Using the Windows Clipboard and Screen objects
- Creating Copy, Paste, Cut, Delete functions
- Pictures, Graphics and Drawing controls in Visual Basic
- Multimedia – incorporating sounds and pictures
- Building a CD player in code
FILE ACCESS
- Working with Visual Basic files
- Writing and reading a Sequential-access file
- Sample project: the Address Book
- Creating a sequential output form
- Creating and using a Random-access file
DATABASE PROGRAMMING
- Creating a Microsoft Access database – refer to SQL tutorial
- The Project Management example
- The Data control
- Visual Basic Bound controls – TextBox controls linked to database
- Validating data – ensuring database integrity
- Finding a specific record in the database
- Using multiple tables from the database
- Creating multiple data controls
- Using Data Bound List Controls
- Using VISDATA – the Visual Basic Data Manager
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