VB.NET – Adv

Program/Class:

Degree/ B.Sc.

Year: Third

Semester: Sixth

Subject: Computer Science

Course Title: Programming with VB.NET(Elective)

Course Outcome:  The course is designed to enable the students to develop applications using event driven programming with VB.net.

Credits: 4

Core Compulsory/Elective

Max. Marks: 25+75

Min. Passing Marks: 33

Unit

Topics

I

Overview of the Visual Studio .NET IDE: Introduction to .NET Framework and the Common Language Runtime, Introduction to Visual Studio.NET IDE: Menu Bar and Tool Bar, Design Window, Code Editor, Server Explorer, Solution Explorer, Toolbox, Properties Window, Object Browser, Class view Window, Working with windows forms and events, Adding different controls of Toolbox (Text Box, Label, Check Box, Radio Button, Button, Frame, List Box, Combo Box, Picture Box, Progress Bar, Timer) to Forms , Setting their Tab orders, enabling and disabling controls.

II

Basics of VB.Net: Constants, Variables, data types, Operators: Arithmetic, Concatenation, Comparison, logical operators, and assignment operators, Control structures: If, if/then/else selection structures, select case Multiple-selection structure, While, do while, do until, For/Next, For each repetition structure.

III

Procedures: Introduction, sub-Procedures, function procedures, event procedures, commonly used Form events, creating message boxes, input boxes and dialog boxes Arrays and Strings: declaring and allocating Arrays, Using Strings and String functions: len, right, left, ucase, lcase, ltrim, trim Designing Menus: The Menu Strip control and Tool Strip Menu Item objects, working with Multiple Forms, Setting the Startup Form.

IV

Working with Data and ADO.NET: Understanding ADO.net Object model, components, Basic operations in ADO.net, Data Reader, Data Adapter and Data sets, connecting to and querying a data source, Using Data Grid view for viewing the records from tables