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About This Course

This course will teach Microsoft Visual Basic programmers how to create database applications using components.

Prerequites

This course assumes the student has a good working knowledge of the Microsoft Visual Basic programming system. Potential students should be able to accomplish the following tasks before taking this training:

• Create an application with multiple forms and add functionality for multiple events to the controls on those forms
• Write a Function procedure and a Sub procedure, and invoke them from Event procedures
• Declare variables and use conditional statements
• Describe the purpose and use of each of the controls in the Toolbox
• Add a simple menu interface to an application
• Retrieve and validate information from a user
• Add a custom control to a project
• Describe the relationship between properties, methods, and objects
• Add run-time error handling to an application
• Run the application and use debug mode within the Visual Basic environment
• Create an EXE file from the project files
• Design and use a relational database
• Use SQL syntax to create database queries

The course materials, lectures, and lab exercises are in English. To benefit fully from our instruction, students need an understanding of the English language and completion of the prerequisites.

At Course Completion

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Write a Microsoft Visual Basic-based application that accesses data from a database.
• Write a Visual Basic-based application that uses component object model (COM) components.
• Create an ActiveX control.
• Create a COM component.
• List the opportunities that Visual Basic developers have to incorporate Internet technologies into their applications.