1. GETTING STARTED WITH VB.NET
     A. The IDE integrated Development environment
     B. The IDE components
          i. The IDE menu box
          ii. The toolbox window
          iii. The properties Window
          iv. The output window
          v. The command window
          vi. The task list window
      C. Environment Options
      D. Common Properties
      E. Common Events
      F. Common Methods
      G. Introduction To Console Application
  2. VISUAL BASIC THE LANGUAGE
      A. Variables
      B. Constant
      C. Arrays
      D. Variables as objects
      E. Flow-control statements
   3. WRITING AND USING PROCEDURE
      A. modular coding
         i. subroutines
         ii. functions
         iii. Calling functions and subroutines
      B. Arguments
         i. Argument passing mechanism
         ii. Event-handler arguments
         iii. Passing unknown number of arguments
         iv. Named arguments
         v. More types of function return values
         vi. Overloading functions
    4. Working with forms
      A. The appearance of forms
         i. Properties of form controls
         ii. Placing controls on forms
         iii. Setting the tab order
         iv. Anchoring and docking
         v. The form’s event
      B. Loading and showing forms
         i. The startup form
         ii. Controlling One form from within another
         iii. Form vs. dialog boxes
         iv. Multiple form projects
     5. Designing menus
        A. The menu editor
        B. The MenuItem Object
        C. Manipulating menus at runtime
        D. Iterating Menu’s Item
     6. Building dynamic forms at runtime
        A. The forms control collection
        B. The dynamic form project
        C. Creating event handlers at runtime
     7. THE BASIC WINDOWS CONTROL
        A. The texbox control
        B. Listbox,checkedlistbox and combobox
        C. Scrollbar and trackbar control
        D. The common dialog box
        E. Richtextbox
     8. Building custom classes
        A. What is a class
        B. Building minimal class
        C. Inheritance
        D. Polymorphism
     9. Building custom window control
        A. Designing windows control
        B. Enhancing existing control
        C. Building compound control
        D. Building user drawn control
        E. Designing irregularly shaped control
        F. Building overdrawn controls
        G. Using ActiveX control
     10. Automating Microsoft Office application
        A. Programming Microsoft Word
        B. Programming Excel
        C. Programming outlook
     11. Storing Data in a collection
        A. Advance Array topics
        B. The array list collectiom
        C. The hash table collection
        D. Sorted list class
        E. The IEnumerator and IComparer interface
        F. Thje Serialization class
     12. Handling String, Characters and dates
     13. Working With folders and files
     14. Drawing and Painting with visual basic
     15. Printing with Vb.NET
        A. The printing objects
        B. Printer and page properties
        C. Printing examples
     16. Error handling and debugging
        A. Types of error
        B. Exception and structured Handling
        C. Debugging
     17. Recursive Programming
        A. Basic concepts
        B. Scaning folders recursively
        C. The stach mechanism
        D. Special issues in recursive programming
     18. The multiple document interface
        A. The MDI application
        B. Built0in capabilities of MDI application
        C. Accessing Child Form
        D. Ending an MDI application
     19. DATABASE: ARCHITECTURE AND BASIC CONCEPTS
        A. What is a database
        B. The server explorer
        C. The structure query language
        D. The query builder
        E. Stored procedures
     20. Building database application with ADO.NET
        A. The architecture of ADO.NET
        B. Creating a dataset
        C. Data binding
        D. Programming data adapter
        E. The command and datareader objects
     21. Programming the ADO.Net objects
        A. The structure of a dataset
        B. Dataform Wizard
        C. Transactions

Prepared by

Jose G. de Jesus Jr. MCP, MCDBA
MCP/MCDBA # 2324787