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Visual Basic 6.0 Designing & Implementing Desktop Applications Course

Course Description

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.

Course pre-requisites:

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

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    Course Fee = £590   (excl.VAT)

    Scheduled course dates

    March 2010April 2010May 2010June 2010July 2010

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    If you would prefer to run this course at your premises as you have several employees to place on the course perhaps, then we are also able to offer onsite Visual Basic Training and bespoke Visual Basic courses