Visual Basic 6.0 Development

Objectives

• 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
  
• Explain the opportunities that Visual Basic developers have to incorporate Internet technologies into their applications

• Exam 70-176: Designing and Implementing Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0

• 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