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Fundamentals of Visual Basic .NET

Course id: 0061

Synopsis

Visual Basic .NET is an object-oriented programming language that allows the developer to rapidly create graphical-based programs for the Microsoft Windows platform.

This course introduces Visual Basic .NET to beginners and is particularly suited for those new to GUI-based program development. The course covers the fundamentals of the language, visual controls and exception handling; allowing one to create fairly complex applications.

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What you will learn

This course concentrates on the practical knowledge to allow participants to achieve the following learning outcomes. Upon completing the course, participants would be able to:

Understand object-oriented programming techniques in Visual Basic
Use forms and controls to develop programs in Visual Basic
Develop applications with compound data types
Create menus and icons for applications
Gracefully handle exceptions to prevent premature program termination

Who should attend

This course is particularly suited for people intending to develop applications in Visual Basic .NET.

Prerequisite

Participants should have a diploma/degree in computer science- or engineering-related fields. They should have programming experience with other programming languages.

Course methodology

This course is presented in a workshop style with lectures interlaced with demonstrations and hands-on practicals for maximum understanding

Course duration

3 days.

Course structure

Introduction
- Getting started with Visual Basic 2010
- Using the programming environment
- Creating a project
- Hands-on practical: Hello VB World
- Debugging techniques
Classes and Objects
- Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
- Overview of the .NET framework classes
- Inheritance of classes
- Creating objects
- Hands-on practical: Instantiating Objects
Fundamentals
- Namespaces
- Data types
- Variable scope
- Hands-on practical: Namespace and Variable Scope
- Operators and expressions
- Data conversion
- Hands-on practical: Computation with Visual Basic
Program control
- Decision structures
- Iterative structures
- Functions
- Sub routines
- Pass by value versus pass by reference
- Hands-on practical: Program Control
Forms
- Understanding and customizing forms
- Handling multiple forms
- Dialog boxes
- Hands-on practical: Using Forms
Control elements
- Common control elements
- Modifying control element properties
- Hands-on practical: Implementing Common Controls
- Modifying control properties at run-time
- Hands-on practical: Customising Controls at Runtime
Events
- What are events?
- Handling events
- Hands-on practical: Event Handling
Menus
- Creating the menu bar
- Handling menus
- Using icons
- Hands-on practical: Creating Menus
Compound data types
- Arrays
- Enumeration
- Records
- Hands-on practical: Compound Data Types
Exceptions
- Detecting errors
- Exception handling
- Hands-on practical: Exception Handling

Instructor

Dr Royan Ong

Course Schedule

Consultancy

Technical Consultancy

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