Designing and Implementing Desktop Applications with Microsoft® Visual Basic® 6.0- Part 2 CBT Training CD

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Review: Course Overview
This is the second course in a five part series that will provide students with the skills to write a Microsoft Visual Basic-based application that accesses data from a database. In this course, students will learn to use class modules to define and create an instance of a component. Students will also be provided with the basic instruction on the ActiveX Controls feature of Visual Basic 6.0.

Learn To

Create a COM component that exposes properties, methods and events.
Create property pages for an ActiveX control.

Audience
This course is designed for programmers who need to create basic applications with Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0. Participants should have completed the first course in this series.

Deployment Options
e-Learning

Accreditation
NASBA credits: 4 CPE Credits
CEU credits: 0.70 CEUs

Language Options
Japanese, Chinese, US English

Total Learning Time
6 to 8 hours

Objectives
Unit 1: Class Modules 3 - 4 hours

Identify the features of objects and components.
Identify the advantages of using COM components.
Identify the features of Distributed interNet Architecture.
Identify the features of class modules.
Create class modules using the Class Builder.
Identify characteristics of class module events.
Add component information and help files to a class module.
View properties, methods and events using the Object Browser.
Create properties and methods.
Identify uses of named constants.
Add events to a class.
Identify code to raise errors from a class.
Identify the code needed to test the methods and properties of a class.
Identify uses for collections.
Perform the steps to handle an event.
Create a data source class.
Create a data consumer class.

Unit 2: ActiveX Controls 3 - 4 hours

Identify key concepts of ActiveX controls.
Create an ActiveX control.
Identify the characteristics of UserControl events.
Identify guidelines for designing a control that can function in different containers.
Support the Enabled property of a control.
Identify the elements of a control that manage its appearance.
Identify ways you can customize an ActiveX control.
Identify the functions of ActiveX Control Interface Wizard.
Add properties to an ActiveX control.
Identify methods of exposing constituent control properties.
Identify ways of adding methods to an ActiveX control.
Store and retrieve property values.
Identify the code used to expose named constants.
Raise control events.
Test the user interface of a control.
Identify considerations for testing a control programmatically.
Identify the features of the Property Page Wizard.
Create the property page interface manually.
Implement Property Page behaviors.
Establish Property Page relationships.
Perform the steps to make a control bindable.
Enable updating of bound properties.
Display data in a custom grid using the DataRepeater control.
Test a data-bound control.
Create a data source control.