Syllabus of Andhra University BTech Information Technology - IT 4.1.5 - Visual Programming Techniques (Elective I)

Fourth year - First Semester

Instruction: 3+1 Periods/week
Univ. Exam : 3 Hours

Sessional Marks: 30
Univ-Exam-Marks:70

Visual Basic Language: Variables, Constants, Arrays, Collections, Procedures, Arguments, Function return Values, Control Flow statements, Loop statements, Nested Control structures.

Working with Forms: Appearance of forms, Designing Menus, Building Dynamic forms atruntime, Drag and Drop Operations.

Basic ActiveX Controls: The TextBox Control, The ListBox and Combo Box Controls, Thescrollbar and Slider Controls, The File Controls.

Getting Started in Visual C++: Parts of Visual C++ program - application object – main windowobject, view object document object. Event oriented window programming , device context.Microsoft foundation classes an overview

Event Handling :Reading keystrokes, handling mouse , creating menus, tool bars, buttons,status bar prompts, dialog box, check box, radio buttons, list boxes, combo boxes, sliders, serialization , file handling, multiple documents.

File Handling: Understanding and working with objects, controls, file handling , debugging

Creating ActiveX controls: DLLs , OLE, Object technologies. Creating internet program’s usingvisual C++ and visual basic. Creating Active X controls. Connecting to database using VC++ andvisual basic.

Text Books:

Mastering Visual Basic 6 –Evangelos Petroutsos –BPB Publications

Visual C++ 6 - Steven Holzner –BPB publications