Visual Basic Courses > Visual Basic 6.0 Designing & Implementing Desktop Applications Training Course

Visual Basic 6.0 Designing and Implementing Desktop Applications is a hands-on course that will introduce students to testing, deploying, and maintaining Visual Basic 6.0 applications.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Use Visual Basic 6.0’s debugging and error-handling tools.
• Describe and create a class module.
• Develop COM components and implement them in your project.
• Use COM components developed by other authors, including Microsoft programs like Word and Excel.
• Connect to a data source and retrieve data.
• Display retrieved data on screen and in reports.
• Create ActiveX Controls using constituent controls.
• Implement help files and other tools to make your application user-friendly.
• Prepare your application for Web deployment.
• Add Visual SourceSafe to your project and use it to maintain control over your project’s versions.
• Construct SQL queries and explain the cursor and record-locking options available to you.
• Build applications using WebBrowser and Active documents.

Knowledge of Visual Basic 6.0: Introduction. You should be able to:
• Create an application using Visual Basic.
• Describe the relationship between controls and events.
• Create a Microsoft Access database.
• Work with Microsoft Word documents.

Topics covered on the 2 day Visual Basic 6.0 Designing & Implementing Desktop Applications course

Debugging and Error-handling Review

Debugging Techniques and Tools

Error-trapping

Introduction to COM

Class Modules

Building Class Modules Manually

Using the Class Builder Utility

Using the Power of COM

Creating COM Components

Threading Models

Testing Components

Using COM Components

Using COM Components from Other Applications

Creating Objects for Components

Introduction to Data Access

Universal Data Access

The Data Environment Designer

Retrieving Data from a Connection

Data Services and ADO

Presenting Data

Shaping and Organizing Data

Presenting On-screen Data

Printed Reports

ActiveX Controls

ActiveX Controls and Constituent Controls

Using a Layer of Automation to Provide Property and Method Visibility

Property Pages

Data-aware Controls

Implementing Help

Setting Help File Properties

Implementing Tool Tips

Package and Deployment Wizard

Preparing Your Application

Optimization and Deployment

Deploying Your Application

Visual SourceSafe

Adding Visual SourceSafe to Your Project

Using Visual SourceSafe

Using SQL

SQL Overview

SELECT Statements

Cursors

Record-locking

Stored Procedures

Internet Applications

WebBrowser Control

What is an Active Document?

Appendix A: Applications Used in This Course

Appendix B: Physical Design of Applications

   (excl.VAT)