Classroom Training

Visual Basic for Beginners

Available as classroom training course only

£695 + VAT for most venues (£795 + VAT for London)

2 days

This introductory course focuses on how to write programs in Visual Basic (called VB by its friends, and also VB.NET). Forget about the user interface (this two-day course does), but learn instead how to use conditions, loops, error-trapping and all of the other standard VB programming techniques.

We don't have any dates scheduled for this course, but we may well consider adding them - it's always worth asking.

Alternatively, you could enquire about running the course in your office or even (if available) as a tailored online course.

Course Contents - PDF

Course Contents

The contents of this course are as follows:

Basics of forms

Creating basic forms
Form events

Coding in VB.NET

Writing routines
Commenting and uncommenting
Using code regions

Variables and constants

Defining variables
Scope of variables
Constants

Covered if time allows If time

Enumerations

Creating enumerations
Changing integer values

Testing conditions

IF, ELSE and END IF
Using SELECT CASE

Passing arguments

Writing modular code
ByRef and ByVal
Creating functions

Using arrays

Defining arrays
Using arrays to split text

Loops

Fixed number of iterations
Looping UNTIL or WHILE
Looping over collections

Working with files

Streamreaders and streamwriters
Defining scope with USING
FileInfo / DirectoryInfo

Debugging

Debugging applications
Stepping through code
Defining breakpoints

Error trapping

TRY / CATCH
The DEBUG.PRINT statement

Lists

The wonderful VB list
Adding and removing items
Finding items

Creating properties

Types of property
Writing properties

Although it's not a pre-requisite, you'll find this course much easier if you've already done some programming in another language.

Why Choose Us?

No more than 5 people per class
Proper restaurant lunch included
543 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

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Sample customer feedback

Our thanks to everyone who agreed to share their thoughts (note that some of these reviews may be for our online courses).

"We have used Wise Owl in the past and the fast track course was just what we needed to get everyone up to speed regardless of experience. Being the only company on the course allowed us to steer the content and questions towards our particularly business which was really useful. Overall very pleased with the training and excellent course manual provided."

Mark Webb (Sesame Bankhall Group)

"The course was great and I like the set up - where we are taught an example and we practice, with the teacher guiding us and correcting us. We had a wonderful instructor!"

Bianca Delgado (ICE Futures Europe)

"(SQL) Really enjoyed how we were able to interact & discuss various ways and means. (SSRS) Very good content and delivery."

Amanda Harkett (Countrywide)

"I was really impressed with this course, the prep, the content, pace and the excellent trainer. The course materials are fantastic; book, exercises, data files and examples, all of which will be really easy to refer back to. The most well organised and presented course I have been on in years. Wise Owl have seriously got this together from the customer's perspective and thought of everything to make sure the attendee succeeds both during the course and afterwards. "

Glynis Caulfield (Cheshire East Council)

"3 excellent courses and the trainer helped me so much."

Edward Wenham (Crown Commercial Service)

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