Enterprise Development using Visual Basic 6.0

Overview

Objectives

• Compare traditional client/server development with Internet development and describe Microsoft's enterprise development strategy
  
• Use the Application Architecture Model from the Microsoft Solutions Framework to
  organize applications into user, business, and data services
  
• Use the Microsoft Visual Basic programming system to build component object model
  (COM) dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) and implement them in a multiuser environment using
  Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS)
  
• Use MTS to address application infrastructure issues associated with building server-side
  COM objects that are used by many clients
  
• Create COM objects that use MTS services to participate in transactions and that use
  security
  
• Use programming techniques to increase the scalability of COM objects
  
• Use ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO) from the middle tier to access data and invoke business
  and data services implemented in SQL
  
• Implement business and data services in a Microsoft SQL Server™ database through the
  use of stored procedures
  
• Apply basic debugging, error handling, and security techniques in a three-tier application

Microsoft Certified Professional Exams

• 70-175: Designing and Implementing Distributed Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic 6

Prerequisites

• Build and debug a simple Visual Basic-based application
  
• Invoke and control an Automation server, such as Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word, from
  a Visual Basic-based application
  
• Create COM components using Visual Basic and invoke them from a client application
  
• Use ActiveX Data Objects to open a database and work with record sets
  
• Understand and use basic syntax for SQL