Description
This course provides developers with a practical, hands-on introduction to Visual Basic Scripting and its use in interactive Web pages. The course explores VBScript's syntax and event-handling mechanisms, building interactive forms, and developing complex Web applications with multiple frames.

Audience
Intranet and Internet developers who plan on building interactive Web pages using VBScript.

Prerequisites
Completion of Arkoa's Programming with HTML course or equivalent knowledge is required. Prior experience with a structured programming language, such as C, Java, or Visual Basic, is recommended.

Hardware and Software
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000, latest version of MS Internet Explorer, and text editor.

Format

• Presentation
  
• Hands-on
  

Objectives
After completing this course, participants should be able to:

• Identify and use the basic elements of the VBScript language
• Create simple Web pages using VBScript
• Construct user interaction using VBScript and HTML forms

Introduction

VBScript Language

• Web scripting languages
• VBScript basics
• Invoking scripts
• Data types
• Declaring variables
• Arrays
• VBScript control structures
• Case selection and looping
• String functions
• Procedures and functions

Browser Object Model

• Window object and events
• Document object
• Link and anchor objects
• Form object
• Element object
• Collections
• History, navigator, and frame objects

Tools, ActiveX, and Active Server Pages

• FrontPage and scripting
• Debugging scripts
• ActiveX controls
• HTML layout controls
• Integrating client and server scripting