AUDIENCE:   Anyone wishing to use Visual Basic 6 to develop Object Oriented business applications. PREREQUISITES:   Some previous experience with a programming language and some basic knowledge of the Windows environment is recommended. DURATION:   5 days. Hands on. OBJECTIVES:   This course will include a comprehensive study of all features and functions available in the Visual Basic 6 environment. Course lectures will describe how to use the Visual Basic language to create structured, event-driven, Visual Basic applications, how to debug the programs, handle run-time errors and optimise performance. A series of hands-on workshops using the complete set of VB6 Controls will create working VB applications, providing students with both confidence and experience of design, coding and debugging techniques. COURSE CONTENT:   The Visual Basic IDE Event-driven programming User interface design Using standard controls Using custom controls Dialog boxes Using the Common Dialog box Menus Mouse handling The clipboard The Visual Basic language Types, constants and variables Functions and subroutines Static arrays Error handling Using the debugger effectively Accessing the Help Engine MDI applications File handling Printing Drag-and-drop programming Packaging and deploying applications Simple database access using the Data Control