Course Deliverables/syllabus

Introduction to Visual Basic

• Introduction Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Programming Language (Procedural, Object Oriented, Event Driven)
• The Visual Basic Environment
• How to use VB complier to compile / debug and run the programs
• Your First Visual Basic Program

Adding Controls to Forms

• Visual Basic Controls
• Creating and Manipulating New Controls
• Changing Design Time Control Properties
• Visual Basic Built-in Controls
• Textboxes, Frames, Check Boxes , Option Buttons, Images, Setting a Border & Styles
• The Shape Control, The line Control, Working with multiple controls and their Properties

Variables, Constants, and Calculations

• Variables: Public, Private, Static, Constants
• Data Types, Naming rules/conventions
• Declaring variables & Scope of variables
• Arithmetic Operations, Formatting Data.

Understanding Events

• Introducing Events and Event Procedures
• The Form Load ,Form ,Command Button Click and Text Box Change Events
• The Timer Control's Timer Event, GotFocus/LostFocus Events

Working with Forms and Controls

• Setting Properties at Run Time
• Setting Form Properties
• Setting Control Properties
• Using ActiveX Controls
• Adding ActiveX Controls to a Project
h5>Creating and Using Menus
• Menus in Visual Basic
• Using the Menu Editor
• HWorking with Menus
• Manipulating Menus at Run Time

Decision & Conditions

• If Statement, If ?then-else Statement
• Comparing Strings
• Compound Conditions(And, Or, Not)
• Nested If Statements, Case Structure
• Using If statements with Option Buttons & Check Boxes
• Displaying Message in Message Box

Menus, Sub-Procedures and Sub-functions

• Defining / Creating and Modifying a Menu
• Using common dialog box
• Creating a new sub-procedure, Passing Variables to Procedures
• Passing Argument By Value or By Reference
• Writing a Function Procedure

Multiple Forms

• Creating, adding, removing Forms in project
• Hide, Show Method
• Load, Unload Statement, Referring to Objects on a Different Forms