VB.NET Using Visual Studio

Introduction to Visual Basic .NET Programming
(Prerequisite: Introduction to Programming Concepts or equivalent experience with another programming language.) This course, intended for students with no previous Visual Basic experience, introduces the Visual Studio development environment and fundamental Visual Basic programming statements. Learn to design professional user interfaces that feature a variety of Windows controls, including buttons, text boxes, combo boxes, and radio buttons. Add Visual Basic procedures to your Windows forms to interact with users and add functionality to your applications. Review essential programming concepts, including variable declarations, conditional statements, loops, and arrays, using the Visual Basic syntax. Other topics include an introduction to classes and methods using fundamental classes in the .NET Framework. [Table of Contents]
Fee: $399

Two-Day Class Meets 8:30am-4:00pm (13 hours)
Code Dates Location Instructor
G0551 Wed., Nov. 11 & Thurs., Nov. 12West CountyLloyd Abernathy
G0853 Tues., Feb. 16 & Wed., Feb. 17West CountyLloyd Abernathy
Intermediate Visual Basic .NET Programming
(Prerequisite: Introduction to Visual Basic .NET Programming or equivalent experience.) Streamline your Visual Basic projects by creating your own user- defined classes. This course will review and expand on the object-oriented programming concepts presented in the introductory Visual Basic course and guide you through creating and instantiating user-defined classes with user- defined properties, methods, and constructors. Discover tips on searching Visual Studio documentation to locate and use classes and methods provided by the .NET Framework to perform necessary tasks. Learn to declare and use overloaded methods and static members. Use collections to work with groups of objects. Consider the principles of good object-oriented design in your Visual Basic programs. Practice inheritance to extend the functionality of existing classes, and then take advantage of inheritance using polymorphic variables and methods. [Table of Contents]
Fee: $399

Two-Day Class Meets 8:30am-4:00pm (13 hours)
Code Dates Location Instructor
G0552 Mon., Nov. 23 & Tues., Nov. 24West CountyLloyd Abernathy
H0154 Mon., Mar. 1 & Tues., Mar. 2West CountyLloyd Abernathy
Advanced Visual Basic .NET Programming
(Prerequisite: Intermediate Visual Basic .NET Programming or equivalent experience.) Develop and refine your skills in Visual Basic as you learn more advanced programming concepts. Explore the more advanced user controls provided by Visual Studio and add your own controls. Learn to use the "My" objects, which provide access to commonly used functions in the .NET Framework. Create class diagrams that represent the structure of your projects, survey the key classes for creating and manipulating XML documents, and learn to parse XML documents using XMLDocument and XMLTextReader. Additional topics include writing multi-threaded applications that perform several tasks simultaneously, creating multiple document interface (MDI) applications consisting of child forms within parent forms, and designing forms that contain toolbars and menus. [Table of Contents]
Fee: $399

Two-Day Class Meets 8:30am-4:00pm (13 hours)
Code Dates Location Instructor
G0653 Wed., Dec. 9 & Thurs., Dec. 10West CountyLloyd Abernathy
Advanced Topics in Visual Basic .NET: Data Access
(Prerequisite: Intermediate Visual Basic .NET Programming or equivalent experience. Experience with a database is also recommended.) Learn to create Windows forms that access data using the Visual Basic programming language and the Visual Studio development environment. Configure data sources and data-related components using a variety of tools, including the Data Source Configuration Wizard, the Dataset Designer, and the TableAdapter Configuration Wizard. Take advantage of the Data Sources window and Visual Studio's drag- and-drop data-binding capabilities to build data-centric forms. Set up datasets that include data from related tables by creating relationships and establishing foreign keys. Learn techniques to validate data and make updates to the underlying database. Other topics include creating reports using Crystal Reports for Visual Studio and using the BindingSource component to navigate through, sort, and filter data. [Table of Contents]
Fee: $399

Two-Day Class Meets 8:30am-4:00pm (13 hours)
Code Dates Location Instructor
G0654 Mon., Dec. 21 & Tues., Dec. 22West CountyLloyd Abernathy