The 2 day fundamentals course is designed to introduce students to the Visual Basic Environment. While the course is fast paced, students are given detailed step by step instructions on how to paint forms, add code and create executables. Students are introduced to the Basic language, and shown how to use the debugger.

Welcome to Visual Basic 4.0, The History of Visual Basic, Visual Basic Editions, System Requirements for Visual Basic 4.0, Installing the Course Software, Creating a New Shortcut

Starting Visual Basic, The Main Menu, The Project Window, The Toolbox, Walkthrough: Creating Our First Application, Create The Interface, Setting Properties, Writing Code, Lab: Adding Code To The Command Button, Lab: Setting The Environment Options

Controls, Properties, Exercise: Create A Signon Screen, How To Set The Tab Order For Controls, Exercise: Setting The Tab Order

Projects & File Types, Visual Basic File Types, Creating, Opening And Saving Projects, Adding And Removing Files, Saving Files, Other File Menu Options, Creating New Forms And Modules, Adding And Removing Custom Controls, Replacing VBX Controls With OLE Custom Controls, Installing Add-Ins, Project Management Exercise, Bonus Exercise.

Event-Driven Language Overview, Event Procedures, Referencing Control And Form Properties, Guidelines To Entering Code, Methods, Exercise: Creating Event Procedures, Exercise: Handling Keyboard Events, Exercise: Adding The Setfocus Code, Bonus Exercise.

Text Boxes, Masked Edit Text, Rich Text Box, Labels, Control Editing Techniques, Control Arrays, Height, Left, Top And Width Properties, Container Controls, Frames And Panels, The Tab Control, Lab: Creating An Electronic Requisition Form, Bonus Exercise

Check Boxes, Coding Techniques For Check Boxes, Option Buttons (Or Radio Buttons), Coding Techniques For Option Buttons, Lab: Working With Option Buttons And Check Boxes, Command Buttons, Scroll Bars, Images And Picture Boxes, File List, Directory, And Drive Controls, Exercise: Creating A Picture Viewer, Bonus Exercise

Working With Fonts, Color Properties, Visual Basic Menus, Lab: Defining A Menu, Message Box Function/Statement, Lab: Working With Message Boxes, Input Box Function, The Grid Control, Lab: Display Data In The Grid Control

Declaring Variables, Working With Variant Data Types, Other Declaration Statements, Scope Of Variables, Variable Naming Conventions, Operators, Expressions, Exercise With Operators

Visual Basic Modules, Procedures, Functions, Property Procedures, Calling Procedures In Other Modules, Passing Arguments To Procedures, Language Syntax, If Statement, Select Case Statement, For Loops, Do Loops, Exercise With Functions

List Boxes & Combo Boxes, Listbox And Combobox Methods, Essential Properties, Multi-Select And Sorted List Boxes, Advanced Listbox Properties, Exercise: Multi-Selection List Boxes, Lab2: Working With Listboxes, Exercise Using Comboboxes

The Show Method, Hiding, Loading And Unloading Forms, Exercise With Show And Hide Methods, Form Events, Lab: Creating A Lookup Form, Bonus Exercise: Displaying Forms From A Menu

Custom Controls, The Graph Control, The Outline Control

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