Visual Basic 5.0: Advanced Skills

Synopsis
Visual Basic 5.0: Advanced Skills teaches the more advanced features of Visual Basic. Users hone their programming skills by developing advanced applications which employ the most sophisticated features of Visual Basic such as interfacing with databases creating multiple-document interface applications and using OLE 2.0. .

Audience
This course is for Windows software developers with an intermediate knowledge of Visual Basic.

Time
6 hours

Product Code: VB5C03

After completing Visual Basic 5.0: Advanced Skills the user should be able to:

Create arrays

Use OLE 2.0 in Visual Basic programs

Use the data control to interface with databases

Create Multiple-Document Interface applications

Use the Spin OLE control in Visual Basic programs

Add a custom property to a form

Arrays OLE and Other Topics
Covers some of the miscellaneous topics in Visual Basic such as the format of the form files arrays and OLE 2.0.

Understanding the ASCII format of Visual Basic form files
Creating arrays
Understanding the Visual Basic data types
Passing arguments to procedures and functions
Using OLE 2.0 in Visual Basic programs

The Data Control and SQL
Shows how to use the data control and SQL statements to interact with a database in a Visual Basic program.

Creating a database
Adding deleting and modifying records in a database
Using SQL statements

Multiple-Document Interface
Teaches how to develop Multiple-Document Interface (MDI) programs.

Creating a parent form
Adding child forms to an MDI project
Using the menus of a parent and child form
Adding a Window list menu to the parent and child forms
Creating a toolbar and status bar

Sending Keystrokes and the Spin Control
Explains how to send keystrokes from within a Visual Basic program and how to use the Spin control.

Sending keystrokes to another application
Sending keystrokes to yourself
Using OLE controls
Using the Spin control

Adding Your Own Custom Property to a Form
Shows how to add your own custom property to a form and how to use that property as if it were a regular property.

This course is distributed with

Exercises that allow users to practice in Visual Basic

A file containing the text of the exercises

sample Visual Basic project and form files

sample Visual Basic executable programs

A Visual Basic glossary

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