Notice: this course covers
the older Visual Basic 6.0 programming application. Microsoft no
longer sells VB6. If you want to learn VB6, you'll have to find a used
copy somewhere like eBay or Craigslist. We will be updating this course
for use with Visual Basic 2013 soon. If you've purchased this
course within the last year, you'll get a free upgrade when it's
released.
This course follows VB201.
We'll spend a great deal of time in this class building a Hot Dog
Stand application. Now, there's not a lot to show as far as
different screen-shots go, but you will be learning lots of new
Visual Basic techniques as well as tying together a lot of the material
you've already learned thus far into a working, real-world
application.We'll start out by building our
form to sell Hot Dogs, Fries, and Drinks. Notice the scroll bar spinner
buttons to change the quantities. Our program will automatically
calculate all of the totals and tax. We'll learn about the
FormatCurrency function.
We'll use our file output techniques from VB201
to create a sales log of all of our orders for the day. We'll learn
about the Open For Append command to add information to an
existing file.
I'll then show you how to load this information
into Microsoft Excel to perform your "daily bookkeeping" on it.
If you don't have Excel, don't panic. We
only spend a few minutes with it.
We'll also learn how to create a printable
receipt out of a text file that you can then save or print for your
customers.
Now we're done with the Hot Dog Stand (for this
class). We'll next learn more about variable types, user-defined
types, fixed-length strings, and arrays.
We'll learn more about the difference between
public and private variables, adding our own custom modules,
adding private and public subs in those modules, how to change from a
startup form to a Sub Main, static variables, and constants.
Lots of fundamental programming
techniques in this course, so
there's not too much to show you in the form of screen shots.
Sorry!
Finally, we'll cover a whole ton of programming
"stuff" we haven't gotten to yet: integer division, converting to
upper/lower case, number and date formatting, calculating dates, and
more. See the Teacher's Outline for a complete list of all of the
functions we cover in this class. There are a lot of them!
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