VISUAL STUDIO.

NET
OVERVIEW
Microsofts comfortable old Visual Basic is undergoing a major refit and the results are amazing. Microsofts
Visual Basic.Net is one of the core development language in the new Visual Studio.NET and it remains a critical
component in almost every enterprise wide development effort.
OBJECTIVES

AUDIENCE

At the end of the training, the student should be

able to learn :

Object Oriented Programming Concepts

Windows Forms Controls
ADO.NET Data Access
Inheritance, Override members
Use VB.NET for COM access
Debugging
Error Handling with Exceptions
.NET data structures

Anyone interested in Understanding

VB.NET
Programmers
Software Developers
VBA Experts
IT Personnel interested in the latest Visual
Studio Developments

COURSE BENEFITS

Hands-on Training
Practical Real World Examples

COURSE OUTLINE:
I.

THE VISUAL STUDIO.NET

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

II.

IV.

WORKING WITH CONTROLS

The Visual Studio .NET languages

Standard Project types
Environment options
Creating Windows GUI applications

Populating forms with controls

Setting control characteristics
Text box, label and list box controls
Creating push buttons and check boxes
Grouping radio buttons with panels and
group boxes

THE .NET FRAMEWORK

V.

III.

The build process

The Common Language Runtime (CLR)
Compiling, running and saving your
projects
Application distribution and deployment

Language Fundamentals: VARIABLES

Declaring variables
Choosing data types
Scoping variables
Defining constants
Creating arrays

CREATING AND USING FORMS

VI.

Form characteristics
Adding forms to your project
Using properties to refine the interface
Inserting event procedures

EXPRESSIONS AND STATEMENTS

Performing calculations with expressions

and arithmetic operators
Testing results with relational and logical
expressions

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VII.

Assignment statements
Commenting code effectively

XII.

CONTROL FLOW

VIII.

Controlling execution sequence with

conditional logic
Branching instructions
Repeating code sequence with loops

XIII.

IX.

Building a Professional GUI : ADDING

MENUS

X.

XI.

The design and layout of dialog boxes

Built-in and common dialog boxes
Building and showing custom dialog boxes
Exchanging data with the parent form
INTEGRATING ADVANCED CONTROLS

XIV.

Displaying tabular data with a list view

Organising dialogs with the tab control
Resizing panes with the splitter control

XV.

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Instantiating objects
Building custom classes
Adding properties and methods
Comparing collections to arrays
ACCESSING DATA WITH ADO.NET :
FILE I/O

XVI.

Working with the file object

Reading and writing streems
MANIPULATING DATA WITH ADO.NET

DURATION

Object-oriented design in .NET

The relationship between classes and
objects
Employing inheritance to reuse base
classes
Protecting private data with property
procedures
IMPLEMENTING AND USING CLASSES

Designing menus
Pop-up contact menus
Adding toolbars
EXTENDING THE USER INTERFACE
WITH DIALOGS

Increasing modularity with subroutines and

functions
Passing parameters
Scope

Debugging and defensive programming

Types of errors
Catching exceptions
CLASSES AND OBJECTS

METHODS

Object-Oriented Programming:
STRUCTURED EXCEPTION HANDLING

The ADO.NET object model

The data binding model
Connecting to a database server
Interacting with data using forms and the
data greed control
The connection-oriented
Connection/Command models

30 hours
P 10,500.00
300.00 (one time payment)
300.00 (per course)
P 11,100.00

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