Overview
This is an intermediate course in programming using the Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition that is appropriate for all engineers. No prior knowledge of Visual Basic is needed. It is not necessary that you have to have completed the Introduction to Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition for Engineers course as the concepts covered in the Introduction course are reviewed in this course.
Advanced Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition for Engineers goes beyond introductory level training and covers many advanced features of the Visual Basic language. The course will familiarize you with the IDE and will explain some of the files used in a project. In the course, you will create several projects using three basic steps: (1) create the GUI, (2) set properties, and (3) write code.
We will use controls from the tool box of the IDE for input, output, and displaying information or to raise an event. Additionally, we will write event procedures, set properties, and use methods and functions. You will become familiar with name spaces and their associated classes, which may include constructors, fields, methods, properties and events.
Finally, in addition to working with several sort routines, users will create a web browser.
It is suggested that the student download the free version of Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition from the Microsoft website at:
http://www.microsoft.com/Express/Download
To receive PDH credit, the student must take a multiple choice quiz of twenty (20) questions.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Become familiar with the IDE
- Become familiar with the files used in a project
- Learn how to start and save a project
- Learn how to create the GUI, set properties and write code
- Learn how to write code for many different event procedures
- Learn how to write code for the bubble, shell and selection sort routines
- Learn how to use the following controls:
- Forms
- Labels
- Text boxes
- Buttons
- List boxes
- Group boxes
- Radio buttons
- Check boxes
- Combo boxes
- Linked labels
- Menu strips
- Tool strips
- Learn how to use the following functions:
- Val
- Msgbox
- Inputbox
- CSng
- Randomize
- Rnd
- Learn how to use the following methods
- Add
- Clear
- Close
- Start
- Stop
- Sort
- GoBack
- GoForward
- GoHome
- Refresh
- Navigate
- Learn how to use the following classes
- Process
- Stopwatch
- Array
- Web browser
- Learn how to set properties in the IDE and how to set them with code
- Learn how to use the following statements
- Dim
- Sub … End Sub
- If … Else … End If
- End
- If … Then
- Select Case … Case … End Select
- On Error Go To
- Exit Sub
- Resume Next
- For … Next
- Go To
Course
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Advanced Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition
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