Visual Basic 4.0: Beginning Skills

Synopsis
Visual Basic 4.0: Beginning Skills explains the principles involved in developing robust applications. Users develop their programming skills while building a solid understanding of Visual Basic. Each program teaches a new concept in Visual Basic and shows users how to apply the concept to their programs.

Audience
This course is for Windows software developers new to Visual Basic.

Time
8 hours, based on viewing all pages and completing all practices and exercises.

Product Code: VB4TC1

After completing Beginning Skills, the user should be able to:

Use properties and controls

Create Visual Basic procedures, functions, statements, and variables by using the important programming language concepts

Take full advantage of the mouse in Visual Basic programs

Implement menus

Implement Dialog Boxes

Use graphic controls for drawing in Visual Basic

Writing Your First Program
Teaches how to write a simple Visual Basic program and shows why the package is called "Visual" Basic.

Creating and saving a new project

Working with the project window

Changing properties

Adding controls to a form

Attaching code to objects

Executing a program

Creating an executable file

Properties and Controls
Teaches about properties and controls, the building blocks for the visual implementation of programs.

Using the scroll bar control

Using the option button control

Using the check box control

Using the radio button control

Programming Building Blocks
Describes the programming building blocks of Visual Basic.

Using procedures, functions, and methods

Using conditional statements such as If and Select Case

Using loop statements such as Do While...Loop and For...Next

The Mouse
Shows how to use the mouse device from within a program.

Detecting mouse movements and using mouse events

Responding to mouse clicking

Dragging and dropping with the mouse

Menus
Describes how to implement menus in a program.

Creating menu controls

Using the menu editor

Adding shortcut keys to a menu item

Setting properties of menu items

Creating a menu control array

Dialog Boxes
Teaches how to implement dialog boxes, how to get users' input, and how to use Windows common dialog boxes.

Using predefined dialog boxes

Creating custom dialog boxes

Using Windows common dialog boxes

Graphics Controls
Explains how to use Visual Basic's graphics control to draw lines, circles, and other shapes.

Using colors

Drawing lines

Drawing shapes

Using pictures

Creating control arrays

This course is distributed with the following items:

Visual Basic Glossary

sample Visual Basic project and form files

sample Visual Basic executable programs

a file containing the text of practices and exercises