Visual Basic V6.0 Fundamentals    

 Prerequisite: None  

Microsoft Course #: 1303 

No MCP Exam

This course is the easiest and fastest way to learn to write Visual Basic programs.

Here's what you’ll learn:
• Work with ActiveX® controls, compiler options, and the new development tools
• Master programming fundamentals, including variables, decision structures, loops, and functions
• Create custom dialog boxes, clocks, menus, and animation effects
• Use Automation to integrate Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Outlook™ features into your applications
• Explore Professional Edition ActiveX controls that process RTF files, run videos, display progress information, and play audio CD-ROMs
• Call the memory management functions in the Windows API
• Design DHTML pages
• Exploit corporate data resources with advanced database tools and the new ActiveX Data Objects

Designing & Implementing Desktop Apps with VB6

Prerequisite: VB Fundamentals  

Microsoft Course #: 1013

MCP Exam #: 70-176

Learn to construct a full-featured desktop application; then extend its functionality—and your expertise—through additional skill-building exercises. You will gain practical experience with essential Visual Basic® 6.0 programming tasks.

Here's what you’ll learn:
• Installing and configuring the Visual Basic 6.0 development environment
• Designing applications for performance, maintainability, extensibility, and availability
• Creating user services—navigation, menus, data input forms, dialog boxes, callback procedures, and online help
• Building and managing COM components—ActiveX® controls, DLLs, and documents—for business rules or logic
• Developing data services with ADO
• Testing and debugging solutions
• Planning and implementing deployment through various media and modes
• Application support—handling errors, updates, and maintenance

Designing & Implementing Distributed Apps with VB6

 Prerequisite: Desktop Apps  

Microsoft Course #: 1016

MCP Exam #: 70-175

Learn to construct a full-featured distributed application using Visual Basic® 6.0; then extend its functionality—and your expertise—through additional skill-building exercises. You will gain practical experience with essential enterprise development tasks.

Here's what you’ll learn:
• Installing and configuring Visual Basic 6.0 for developing distributed applications
• Planning the conceptual, logical, and physical design
• Creating the user interface—controls, menus, events, data validation, callback procedures, and online help
• Developing COM components—class modules, DLLs, and ActiveX® controls
• Accessing data sources with ADO and writing basic syntax for SQL using stored procedures
• Using Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) to manage objects and transactions
• Implementing security for enterprise applications
• Testing and debugging
• Deploying and supporting solutions