Visual Basic .NET Introduction

Description

This class will give the students a thorough introduction to the basics of programming with Visual Basic. At the end of this class, students will be able to create Visual Basic programs that define variables and arrays and that use if statements, select case statements, for loops and while loops. Students will be able to define subroutines and functions. Students will be able to interact with objects on Visual Basic forms. This is class is good for students that have no experience with programming. Students will need a copy of Visual Studio. A 30-day trial version is available.

Objectives

• Students will be able to use Visual Basic.NET to build and run a basic application.
• Students will be able to create a Visual Basic .NET Windows form application that uses a button, label and textBox objects.
• Students will be able to write a Visual Basic .NET application that uses variables, if statements, and select case statements.
• Students will be able write Visual Basic .NET application that use functions, subroutines, for loops and do loops.
• Students will be able to define and use classes in their Visual Basic .NET applications.
• Students will be able to use Visual Basic .NET development environment to debug applications.
• Students will be able to build Visual Basic .NET applications that use combo box, list box, check box, radio buttons, and tabs.
• Students will be able to create a Visual Basic .NET application that uses multiple forms with parent and child forms.
• Students will be able to create Visual Basic .NET applications that use dialog boxes, menus, tool bars, status bars and help.
• Students will be able to create a Visual Basic application using what they have learned in this course.

Book

Lesson 1: Getting Started

Read Chapter 1

Lesson 2: Developing a Windows Form Application

2003: Read Chapter 2
2005, 2008: Read Chapters 2 and 3

Lesson 3: Variables and Conditional Statements

2003: Read Chapter 3 and pages 118 - 128 of Chapter 4
2005: Read Chapters 4 and pages 138-147 of Chapter 5.
2008: Read Chapters 4 and pages 142-151 of Chapter 5.

Lesson 4: Functions, Loops and Subroutines

2003: Read Chapter 4 pages 128 - 148 and Chapter 5.
2005: Read Chapter 5, pages 148 - 163 and Chapter 6.
2008: Read Chapter 5, pages 152 - 167 and Chapters 6 and 7.

Lesson 5: Object-Oriented Applications

2003: Read Chapter 6
2005: Read Chapter 11
2008: Read Chapter 11

Lesson 6: Testing and Debugging an Application

2003: Read Chapter 7
2005, 2008: Read Chapter 12

Lesson 7: Windows Controls

2003: Read Chapter 8
2005: Read Chapter 10, pages 290-301
2008: Read Chapter 10, pages 294 - 305.

Lesson 8: Multi-form Applications

2003: Read Chapter 9
2005: Read Chapter 10, pages 302-308 and Chapter 24, pages 758-763
2008: Read Chapter 24, pages 730 - 743

Lesson 9: Enhancing the User Interface

2003: Read Chapter 10
2005: Read Chapter 10, pages 310-320 and Chapter 24, pages 772-784
2008: Read Chapter 10, pages 306 - 324 and Chapter 24, pages 744 - 757.

Lesson 10: Putting it All Together

Review Chapters 1-10

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