| Skills measured by exam 70-176 |
Course
1013 |
| Deriving
the Physical Design |
| Assess the potential impact of
the logical design on performance, maintainability, extensibility, and availability. |
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| Design Visual Basic components to
access data from a database. |
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| Design the properties, methods,
and events of components. |
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| Establishing
the Development Environment |
| Establish the environment for
source code version control. |
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| Install and configure Visual
Basic for developing desktop applications. |
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| Creating
User Services |
Implement navigational design.
 | Dynamically modify the appearance of a menu. |
| Add a pop-up menu to an application. |
| Create an application that adds and deletes menus at run time. |
| Add controls to forms. |
| Set properties for controls. |
| Assign code to a control to respond to an event. |
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Create data input forms and
dialog boxes.
| Display and manipulate data by using custom controls. Controls include TreeView, ListView,
ImageList, Toolbar, and StatusBar. |
| Create an application that adds and deletes controls at run time. |
| Use the Controls collection to manipulate controls at run time. |
| Use the Forms collection to manipulate forms at run time. |
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Write code that validates user
input.
| Create an application that verifies data entered at the field level and the form level
by a user. |
| Create an application that enables or disables controls based on input in fields. |
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Write code that processes data
entered on a form.
| Given a scenario, add code to the appropriate form event. Events include Initialize,
Terminate, Load, Unload, QueryUnload, Activate, and Deactivate. |
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| Add an ActiveX control to the
toolbox. |
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| Create a Web page by using the
DHTML Page Designer to dynamically change attributes of elements, change content, change
styles, and position elements. |
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| Use data binding to display and
manipulate data from a data source. |
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Instantiate and invoke a COM
component.
| Create a Visual Basic client application that uses a COM component. |
| Create a Visual Basic application that handles events from a COM component. |
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| Create callback procedures to
enable asynchronous processing between COM components and Visual Basic client
applications. |
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Implement online user assistance
in a desktop application.
| Set appropriate properties to enable user assistance. Help properties include HelpFile,
HelpContextID, and WhatsThisHelp. |
| Create HTML Help for an application. |
| Implement messages from a server component to a user interface. |
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Implement error handling for the
user interface in desktop applications.
| Identify and trap run-time errors. |
| Handle inline errors. |
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| Creating
and Managing COM Components |
| Create a COM component that
implements business rules or logic. Components include DLLs, ActiveX controls, and active
documents. |
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Create ActiveX controls.
| Create an ActiveX control that exposes properties. |
| Use control events to save and load persistent properties. |
| Test and debug an ActiveX control. |
| Create and enable property pages for an ActiveX control. |
| Enable the data binding capabilities of an ActiveX control. |
| Create an ActiveX control that is a data source. |
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Create an active document.
| Use code within an active document to interact with a container application. |
| Navigate to other active documents. |
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| Debug a COM client written in
Visual Basic. |
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Compile a project with class
modules into a COM component.
| Implement an object model within a COM component. |
| Set properties to control the instancing of a class within a COM component. |
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| Use Visual Component Manager to
manage components. |
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| Register and unregister a COM
component. |
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| Creating
Data Services |
| Access and manipulate a data
source by using ADO and the ADO Data control. |
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| Testing
the Solution |
| Given a scenario, select the
appropriate compiler options. |
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| Control an application by using
conditional compilation. |
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| Set watch expressions during
program execution. |
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Monitor the values of expressions
and variables by using the Immediate window.
| Use the Immediate window to check or change values. |
| Use the Locals window to check or change values. |
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Implement project groups to
support the development and debugging processes.
| Debug DLLs in process. |
| Test and debug a control in process. |
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| Given a scenario, define the
scope of a watch variable. |
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| Deploying
an Application |
| Use the Package and Deployment
Wizard to create a setup program that installs a desktop application, registers the COM
components, and allows for uninstall. |
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| Plan and implement floppy
disk-based deployment or compact disc-based deployment for a desktop application. |
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| Plan and implement Web-based
deployment for a desktop application. |
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| Plan and implement network-based
deployment for a desktop application. |
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| Maintaining
and Supporting an Application |
| Fix errors, and take measures to
prevent future errors. |
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| Deploy application updates for
desktop applications. |
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