Visual Basic 6.0 Tutorial Content
Lesson 1
The Visual Basic 6 environment
Defining terms
Creating a Visual Basic Project
Practice project - Building a Football Scoreboard
Lesson 1b
Improving the VB application
Using a step-by-step approach
Writing a VB procedure
Calling procedures
Lesson 2
Using the Visual Basic 6 code editor
Adhering to programming standards
Data types, variables and constants in Visual Basic
Using operators
Control structures - IF...THEN, Select Case, DO...LOOP, FOR...NEXT
Practice assignment - Upgrading the Scoreboard
Lesson 3
Designing the Visual Basic Application
Working with users
Guiding principles
Choosing a Visual Basic interface style
Lesson 4
Defining the Visual Basic Form
Standard controls: Picture, Frame, CommandButton, Label, TextBox, CheckBox, etc.
Visual Basic practice assignment: Creating a Payroll Form
Lesson 5
Arrays
More controls: ListBox, ComboBox
Properties and Methods of objects in Visual Basic
Building a file search application: DriveListBox, DirListBox, FileListBox
Lesson 6
Building a Menu
Debugging Visual Basic code
Error trapping
Lesson 7
Manipulating text - string functions
Visual Basic functions for dates, numbers
Using the Windows Clipboard and Screen objects
Creating Copy, Paste, Cut, Delete functions
Pictures, Graphics and Drawing controls in Visual Basic
Multimedia - incorporating sounds and pictures
Building a CD player in code
Lesson 8
Working with Visual Basic files
Writing and reading a Sequential-access file
Sample project: the Address Book
Creating a sequential output form
Creating and using a Random-access file
Lesson 9
Creating a Microsoft Access database - refer to SQL tutorial
The Project Management example
The Data control
Visual Basic Bound controls - TextBox controls linked to database
Validating data - ensuring database integrity
Finding a specific record in the database
Lesson 10
Using multiple tables from the database
Creating multiple data controls
Using Data Bound List Controls
Using VISDATA - the Visual Basic Data Manager
Lesson 11
Downloads - sample Visual Basic 6 code and database
with new examples
Lesson 12
New sample application: Project management
Visual Basic 6 ADO database programming
with connection to MySQL database server.