• Overview of Visual Basic and its applications
• VB IDE (Integrated Development Environment) setup
• Understanding projects, solutions, and modules
• Basic programming concepts: variables, data types, constants
• Writing your first VB program
• Practice: Create a simple console application

• Conditional statements: If…Then, Select Case
• Loops: For, For Each, While, Do While
• Subroutines and functions
• Passing arguments and returning values
• Scope and lifetime of variables
• Hands-on: Build small programs using loops and conditional logic

• Introduction to Windows Forms
• Adding and customizing controls: TextBox, Label, Button, ListBox
• Properties, methods, and events
• Handling user input and output
• Basic form navigation
• Practice:  Create a multi-control form application

• Common VB runtime and syntax errors
• Using Try…Catch…Finally
• Debugging techniques in VB IDE
• Input validation and error messages
• Logging and troubleshooting

Hands-on: Implement error handling in a sample form-based app

• Classes, objects and encapsulation
• Properties, methods and constructors
• Inheritance and polymorphism basics
• Using modules and namespaces effectively
• Hands-on: Create a small OOP-based application with multiple classes

• Introduction to ADO.NET and database connectivity
• Connecting VB applications to SQL Server
• Executing queries and handling results
• Data binding to controls
• CRUD operations: Create, Read, Update, Delete
• Hands-on: Build a database-driven VB application

• Using advanced controls: ComboBox, ListView, TreeView
• File handling: reading/writing text and binary files
• Working with CSV and XML files
• Printing and reporting basics
• Introduction to menus and toolbars
• Practice: Implement file operations and advanced controls in an app

• Designing a complete VB application
• Applying OOP, database, and file handling concepts
• Testing and debugging the application
• Code organization and documentation
• Final project presentation