Online Programming with Visual Basic course

Impartica IT Training

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Introduction

• Common Language Runtime (CLR)
• Common Type System (CTS)

Introduction to Visual Basic

• Getting started with Visual Basic
• Visual Studio IDE

Getting started

• Creating a project
• The Main procedure
• Visual Basic basics
• Displaying to the console screen
• Adding comments
• Compiling and running the program from the command line
• Compiling and running the program using Visual Studio

Variables

• Variables in Visual Basic
• Declaring variables
• Variable name rules
• Visual Basic keywords
• Assigning a value to a variable
• Strings
• Character data types
• Numeric data types
• Signed and Unsigned
• Byte
• Signed Byte
• Short Integers
• Unsigned Short Integers
• Signed Integers
• Unsigned Integers
• Long Integers
• Unsigned Long Integers
• Real Numbers Single
• Double-Precision Numbers
• Decimal
• The Boolean Data Type
• The Date Data Type
• Assigning a Date value
• Default variable values
• Constants

Data type conversion, properties and methods

• About data type properties and methods
• String properties Length
• String methods PadLeft and PadRight
• String method Substring
• More String methods
• Date properties
• Shared Date properties
• Date methods
• Converting Date to a String
• Date format masks
• Converting numeric data to string
• Implicit and explicit conversion
• Using Parse to convert data types
• Using TryParse to convert data types
• System Convert

Operators

Conditional logic

• Conditional control If Then
• Conditional control If Then cont.
• Using If on a single line
• Conditional control Else
• If ElseIf
• If ElseIf Else
• The Ternary If Operator
• Case Switches
• GoTo

Loops

• The While loop
• While cont.
• Do While
• Do Until
• The For..Next loop
• Exiting out of a loop
• Continuing a loop

Procedures

• Procedures of a class
• Types of procedure
• Sub procedures
• Declaring a sub procedure
• Procedure parameters
• Specifying procedure parameters
• Optional parameters
• Overloading a sub procedure
• Functions
• What are functions?
• Calling functions
• Declaring a function
• Returning a value from a function
• Overloading a function

Introduction to Classes

• Object oriented programming
• Classes
• Objects
• Member variables
• Creating a class
• Creating a class in its own file
• Creating an object
• Assigning a value to an object
• Accessing class members
• Objects as parameters and return types
• Reference types
• Access modifiers
• The Public access modifier
• The Private access modifier

Properties

• Encapsulation
• Properties
• Coding a Property
• Implementing a Property
• Accessing a property
• Read only Properties
• Write only Properties

Constructors

• What are constructors?
• Constructors with arguments
• Calling a constructor
• The default constructor
• Constructor chaining
• Shared constructors
• Shared constructor execution
• Declaring a shared constructor
• Shared constructor rules

Inheritance

• Introduction to Inheritance
• Examples of inheritance use
• Deriving one class from another
• Adding to a Derived Class
• Overriding Members of the Base Class
• The Object class
• Preventing the overriding of a member
• Calling Members of the Base Class
• Multi-Level Hierarchies
• The Protected access modifier
• Constructors and Inheritance
• Explicitly calling Base Class Constructors
• Protected Constructors
• Substituting derived objects for base class objects

Shared members and classes

• Shared Members of a Class
• Examples of shared behaviour
• Declaring Shared Members
• Referencing Shared Members

Sealed and Abstract classes

• NotInheritable
• MustOverride
• Creating an abstract class
• Members of an abstract class

Polymorphism and Shadowing

• Substituting a derived class for its parent
• Polymorphism
• Shadowing

Arrays

• Array Types
• Declaring an Array Variable
• Accessing the elements in an array
• Declaring and populating an array variable
• Changing the size of an array
• Retrieving the length of an array
• Using For Each to loop through an array

Error handling

• Introduction to Exception Handling
• Try Catch
• Finally
• The Exception Class
• Catching the Exception instance
• The Exception Message
• Derived Exception Classes
• FormatException
• OverflowException
• IndexOutOfRangeException
• DivideByZeroException
• Catching Multiple Exceptions
• Exception Nesting
• Throwing an Exception
• Passing a message to the Exception class
• Custom Exceptions
• Defining Custom Exceptions
• Throwing custom Exceptions

Enumerators

• What are Enumerators?
• When to use Enumerators?
• Declaring enumerators
• Enumerators cont.
• Using enumerators

Namespaces and Modules

• What is a namespace?
• Accessing Members of a Namespace
• Namespace Nesting
• Importing a Namespace
• Root namespaces
• Modules

This course is for anyone who wants to learn Visual Basic

There are no prerequsites for this course

These skills could be useful for anyone in a role that requires knowledge of Visual Basic