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Training Course Summary:

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

Pre-Requisites:

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

Training Course Overview/Content:

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.