Introduction

Visual basic is a high level programming language evolved from the earlier dos version called basic. Basic means beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code. It is fairly easy programming language to learn. The code looks a bit like English language. Different software companies produced different version of basic, such as Microsoft QBASIC, QUICKBASIC, GWBASIC, and IBM BASICA AND SO ON. Visual basic is a visual and drive driven programming language. These are the divergence from the old basic. In basic, programming is done in a textonly environment and the program is executed sequentially. In visual basic, programming is done in a graphical environment. Because users may click on a certain object randomly, so each object has to be programmed independently to be able to response to those actions (events). Therefore, a visual basic program is made up of many subprograms, each has its own program codes, and each can be executed independently and at the same time each can be linked together in one way or another. VISUAL BASIC Visual basic (VB) is an event driven programming language and associated development environment created by Microsoft. It is derived heavily from basic. VB enables rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, easy access to database using DAO, RDO, OR ADO AND easy creation of active controls. A programmer can quickly put together an application using the component provided with visual basic itself. Programs written in visual basic can Also use the windows api, but doing so requires external function declarations. With control like this you can create many applications.

Features of visual basic Visual basic 6.0 has many powerful features that are required in today s programming environment which include features from previous versions. Some of these features are: Programming objects and event: the visual forms and objects like list, boxes and radio buttons that you use on the forms help you to interact with the application in order to find out flow of the program. The forms and objects perform a specified action when an event occurs. This is known as event driven programming. Object types: New object types, called file system. Objects or fso, have been added to visual basic 6.0. These objects enable you to work faster and more easily with files and directories. Functions: There are additional functions in visual basic 6.0. All of them deal with string data. Some of these callbyname, filter, formatcurrency, formatdatetime, formatnumber, and formatpercent. Activex features: visual basic allows you to migrate applications to an activex document, which enables the application to install and run from a web browser. Thus, the developer need not know languages like java or html. visual basic also enables you to creative activex controls. Database enhancement: Earlier versions of visual basic used data access objects (Dao) and remote data objects (RDO) visual basic 6.0 include activex data objects (ado) as the visual data access tool. Which will be covered in detail in a later section? Data access features allow you to create databases and front end applications for most popular database formats including Microsoft SQL server and other enterprise-level databases.ado requires very little coding to interact with a data source. Quick editing, testing, and debugging: The visual basic development environment includes extensive editing and debugging tools. Internet features: Server side applications, responding to user requests from a browser, can be written with the help of IIS applications. The methods, properties, and events of every element on a web page can be exposed using the dynamic html technology. Without having to transfer processing to the server, this technology also allows you to write visual basic codes to respond to actions on an html page.

The integrated development environment Visual basic is not just a language. its an integrated development environment (IDE) in which you can develop, run, test and debug your applications. The controls: Controls are objects designed to perform specific tasks. Like form objects, controls have associated properties, events, and methods. The properties: Properties consist of the objects data, settings and attributes. it describes the object, their appearance and behavior. The events: Any action recognized by a form or control is called an event. visual basic is an event driven programming.

INTRODUCTION TO MS-ACCESS Microsoft Access is a computerized database management system (DBMS) that allows efficient data storage and retrieval as well as efficient and effective data presentation. You can create a database in which information can be stored in an organized manner that also allows tailoring to efficient, effective data retrieval and presentation. Microsoft access is a relational database management system (RDBMS) used to store and manipulate large collection of information of any kind. Here RDBMS refers to the organization of data in a series of rows and columns in such a manner that any specific piece of information is available with a click of mouse and a few keystrokes .ms access has tools, which are easy to use and provide powerful development environment, making it an appropriate choice for novices and professionals. For example: access can be used to enter and maintain student awards, inventory record of warehouse, telephone numbers. Once the records are stored, any type of queries can be asked, reports can be created and data entry forms can be designed. Access is both a program for ordinary computer and a professional development tool. It is used for developing database, which are used in system; you can use to set up a billing system or an efficient indexing system Access is easy to make tables, screen displays and function, but if you want to develop an effective database you will need to do a little more. You will have to plan and systematic.

FEATURES OF MS ACCESS You can import data from Microsoft access database into your contains folder in outlook .you can also export outlook data back into ms access. When you output a report with a sub report to a .txt, .rtf or .xls file format, the sub report is output along with the main report. Microsoft access objects from other applications, such as Microsoft excel.

You can link from Microsoft excel or lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet as long as the data is arrange in an appropriate tabular format. When a Microsoft spreadsheet is no longer the appropriate tool for your data, you can create a Microsoft access database from the spreadsheet by clicking convert to access on data menu in Microsoft excel. You can link data from Microsoft excel or lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet as long as the data is arrange in an appropriate tabular format. When you use Ms-Access as an ActiveX component, you can manipulate Microsoft access objects from other applications, such as Microsoft excel. Create a pivot table control in a Microsoft access from using pivot table wizard, you can create a control on a form that allow you to summarize large amount of data using a format and calculation method you choose. A pivot table is like a cross tab query, but you can switch the row and column heading dynamically to see different views of data.