Building Your First VB Application
Understanding the Visual Basic IDE | Built-in & ActiveX controls | Properties, methods and events | The code editor | Working with projects

Visual Basic Fundamentals
Structure of a VB application| Numbers & constants | Data types, variable declarations | Operators and connectives

Constructing Visual Basic Code
Control structures | Subs & functions | Scoping & lifetime | Arrays & user-defined types | Built-in functions & statements

Working with Controls
Properties, events & methods | Focus, tab order & access keys | Command Button, Text Box, List Box | Status Bar, Toolbar, ImageList, Slider, Progress Bar, TabStrip, TreeView, ListView, Updown, Animation, Date/Time Picker | Rich Text Box, Chart, Masked Edit, Tabbed Dialog, OLE Drag & Drop

Menus
The Menu Design window | Pop-up menus

Dialogs
Modal & non-modal dialog boxes | InputBox & MsgBox | The Common Dialog control | File-system controls

Forms Properties, Events and Methods System Objects
App, Clipboard, Debug, Screen

Debugging VB Applications
Break mode | Inspecting code & variables | The Call Stack window | Setting up watches | The Immediate & Locals windows

Run-time Errors
Error-handling strategies | The Err object

Collections
Forms, Controls

Introducing MDI
Using the Applications Wizard
Graphics | Graphical methods | Shape & Line controls, Colors

Printing & Fonts
The Print method, Formatting text | Sending output to the printer

Interacting with Users
The Clipboard | Keyboard handlers | Shell, AppActivate

Working with Other Applications
Object linking & embedding (OLE) | The OLE control | Creating & using Automation objects (Word documents and Excel worksheets)

Program Optimization
Speeding up programs | Restricting memory usage

Calling the Windows API
Introducing VB Data Handling
Database concepts, The JET engine | Data Access Objects (DAO) and ActiveX | Data Objects (ADO), Data Control

Introduction to SQL
The SELECT statement | Action queries, Joins

Using VB's Data-bound Features
Databound Controls | The VB6 Data Environment Designer | Reporting

Hands-on Exercises
Experiment with VB's event-driven model | Construct dialog boxes using menus, and both built-in and ActiveX controls | Explore data validation techniques | Build a simple data maintenance application | Use VB to control Word and Excel