IT461 Advanced Visual Basic

Unit 1: Course Introduction

Sydney LilesSCaddel-Liles@Kaplan.edu

AIM: sydneyliles

Who Am I?

• Sydney Liles

• Long and winding road to Programming– BA in Anthropology– MA in History– MS in Computer Science (finally)– PhD student in Computer Forensics

What is this class about?

• This course teaches advanced Visual Basic programming techniques. Upon completion of this course you will be able to write, debug, compile, and execute Visual Basic programs. During this course, you will focus on building well-engineered and maintainable programs to meet business applications and programming standards.– Differentiate advanced Visual Basic programming components.– Develop object-oriented applications.– Use SQL technologies to manipulate databases.– Create Web-based applications using Active Server Pages and Web

Forms.– Solve real-world problems using mathematical skills.– Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of

original materials in Standard American English.

What do you need?

• Textbook– Title: Advanced Programming Using Visual Basic 2008, 4th

Ed.– Author: Julia C. Bradley and Anita C. Millspaugh– Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.– ISBN:  978-0-07-351722-3

• Software– Visual Studio .NET 2008 Professional

» MSDNAA for FREE software!!! Strongly Encouraged!

–  Microsoft Word 2003 (or later)

What are the expectations?

• Discussions– Minimum of 3 times on each discussion question

• Avoid “I agree” “Good post” and other very short responses• You can respond to the original question, a post I make or posts from other students.• First post each week no later than Saturday evening of each week

• Projects & Late Policy– Projects every unit– Late policy strictly enforced

• Plagiarism– Each project must have a header with your name and the name of the assignment.

By signing the student is saying this is his or her original work.– Do NOT share your code with other students, even as a way to help.

• Seminars– Adobe Connect field trips

How to Do Well in This Class

• You probably won’t remember this or be able to write it down, so download this slide show from the Doc Sharing and review it later if you wish.

• Do NOT wait until the last minute to work on your projects.

• Participate! – Post on the discussion thread(s) – early and often– Make sure to come to seminar

• Ask questions!– There are NO dumb questions in my class!6

Final Project

• The final exam covers two different projects.

• Project 1 (80 points)– In the first project you will create a Smart Device application to display the

employee table of Northwind.sdf. Display the employees in details view, with a concatenated employee name in a combo box for navigation. See Figs. 1 and 2. Use the Smart Device Emulator skin of your choice. This project is worth 40 points.

• Project 2 (120 points)– The second project will test your programming development skills by having you

create aa application using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Use the techniques and concepts learned in Chapter 13 of the textbook, throughout the course, and in the Video series listed under the Web Reading section.

• You CANNOT complete project 1 with Visual Studio 2010 – you MUST have Visual Studio 2008.

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Unit Objectives

• By the end of this Unit, you should be able to: – Identify the features of the Visual Studio IDE and the .NET

Framework. – Describe what happens at compile time. – Develop a multiple document interface (MDI) project with

multiple Forms, a toolbar, status bar, context menus, and ToolTips.

Project for Unit 1

• Program: Create the Visual Basic .NET project “Claytor’s Cottages” listed on page 47 of the textbook.

• Project Objectives:– Use MDI parent and child forms – Create menu, toolbar, context menu, status bar, and ToolTips

items – Create Splash Screen and About forms

• Save the project into a zip file with the name IT461_YourName_Unit_1_Project.zip.

• Hint: Work the Hands-On Project at the end of the chapter

The End

• My E-Mail: SCaddel-Liles@kaplan.eduMy AIM: sydneyliles

• My office hours are held on AIM – – Wednesdays 10:00am - 11:00am Eastern– Sundays 8:00pm - 9:00pm Eastern – and you are welcome to ask questions anytime you see me

online, which is a lot.

• Any questions?

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