Introduction to Microsoft Visual Basic 6
This is a three-day course designed for first time programmers who wish to use Visual Basic 6 Professional to create straightforward professional windows-based applications. Delegates will also be able to develop and maintain systems using the core features of Visual Basic. Each delegate will carry out various practical exercises during the course, which involves them working through examples of each subject covered, or build a program to help them understand the subject.
Course Outline
- Visual Basic Development Environment
- Visual Basic File Types
- Understanding Event Driven Programming
- Using Methods, Properties and Events
- Data Types Variables and Constants
- Program Structures
- Input Box and Message Box
- Intrinsic Controls
- Designing and working with dialog boxes
- MS Windows Common Dialog Controls
- Providing application menus
- Visual Basic techniques using custom controls, drag and drop
- Creating and using MDI applications
- Manipulating the file system
- Binary and Sequential Files
- Sequential Access
- Text Files on Disk
- Open, Save and Close Files
- Writing Reading & Closing Files
- Binary Access
Who would benefit from the course?
This course is designed for potential Visual Basic programmers or those wishing to create applications using the Visual Basic language.
Pre-requisites
Prior knowledge of Visual Basic or any other programming language is not essential. However, a basic understanding of programming methods and some exposure to basic VB code (for example application macros in VBA) would be an advantage.
