Visual Basic 6 (VB6) Data Types, And Operators Visual Basic uses building blocks such as Variables, Data Types, Procedures, Functions and Control Structures in its programming environment. Data types in Visual Basic 6: 1. Numeric Byte Store integer values in the range of 0 – 255 IntegerStore integer values in the range of (-32,768) - (+ 32,767) LongStore integer values in the range of (- 2,147,483,468) - (+ 2,147,483,468) SingleStore floating point value in the range of (-3.4x10-38) - (+ 3.4x1038) DoubleStore large floating value which exceeding the single data type value Currencystore monetary values. It supports 4 digits to the right of decimal point and 15 digits to the left

2. String Use to store alphanumeric values. A variable length string can store approximately 4 billion characters 3. Date Use to store date and time values. A variable declared as date type can store both date and time values and it can store date values 01/01/0100 up to 12/31/9999 4. Boolean Boolean data types hold either a true or false value. These are not stored as numeric values and cannot be used as such. Values are internally stored as -1 (True) and 0 (False) and any non-zero value is considered as true. 5. Variant Stores any type of data and is the default Visual Basic data type. In Visual Basic if we declare a variable without any data type by default the data type is assigned as default.

Operators in Visual Basic Arithmetical Operators Add Substract Divide Integer Division Multiply Exponent Remainder of division20 Mod 62 String concatenation"George"&" "&"Bush""George Bush“ Relational Operators Greater than Less than Greater than or equal to Less than or equal to Not Equal to5 Equal to Logical Operators OR-Operation will be true if either of the operands is true AND-Operation will be true only if both the operands are true

Variables In Visual Basic 6 Variables are the memory locations which are used to store values temporarily. A defined naming strategy has to be followed while naming a variable. A variable name must begin with an alphabet letter and should not exceed 255 characters. It must be unique within the same scope. It should not contain any special character like %, &, !, #, @ or $.  EXPLICIT DECLARATION. Syntax Dim variable [As Type] For example, Dim strName As String Dim intCounter As Integer Local Variables A local variable is one that is declared inside a procedure. This variable is only available to the code inside the procedure and can be declared using the Dim statements as given below. Dim sum As Integer

Control Structures In Visual Basic 6.0 Control Statements are used to control the flow of program's execution. Visual Basic supports control structures such as if... Then, if...Then ...Else, Select...Case, and Loop structures such as Do While...Loop, While...Wend, For...Next etc method. If...Then selection structure The If...Then selection structure performs an indicated action only when the condition is True; otherwise the action is skipped. Syntax of the If...Then selection If <condition> Then statement End If e.g.: If average>75 Then txtGrade.Text = "A" End If If...Then...Else selection structure The If...Then...Else selection structure allows the programmer to specify that a different action is to be performed when the condition is True than when the condition is False. Syntax of the If...Then...Else selection If <condition > Then statements Else statements End If

Nested If...Then...Else selection structure e.g.: If average>50 Then txtGrade.Text = "Pass" Else txtGrade.Text = "Fail" End If Nested If...Then...Else selection structure If < condition 1 > Then statements Else If < condition 2 > Then statements Else If < condition 3 > Then statements Else Statements End If End If EndIf e.g.: Assume you have to find the grade using nested if and display in a text box If average > 75 Then txtGrade.Text = "A" ElseIf average > 65 Then txtGrade.Text = "B" ElseIf average > 55 Then txtGrade.text = "C" ElseIf average > 45 Then txtGrade.Text = "S" Else txtGrade.Text = "F" End If

Select...Case selection structure Syntax of the Select...Case selection structure Select Case Index Case 0 Statements Case 1 Statements End Select e.g.: Assume you have to find the grade using select...case and display in the text box Dim average as Integer average = txtAverage.Text Select Case average Case 100 To 75 txtGrade.Text ="A" Case 74 To 65  txtGrade.Text ="B" Case 64 To 55 txtGrade.Text ="C" Case 54 To 45 txtGrade.Text ="S" Case 44 To 0 txtGrade.Text ="F" Case Else MsgBox "Invalid average marks" End Select

Loops (Repetition Structures) In Visual Basic 6 Do While... Loop Statement The Do While...Loop is used to execute statements until a certain condition is met. The following Do Loop counts from 1 to 100. Dim number As Integer number = 1 Do While number <= 100 number = number + 1 Loop While... Wend Statement A While...Wend statement behaves like the Do While...Loop statement. The following While...Wend counts from 1 to 100 Dim number As Integer number = 1 While number <=100 number = number + 1 Wend Do...Loop While Statement The Do...Loop While statement first executes the statements and then test the condition after each execution. The following program block illustrates the structure: Dim number As Long number = 0 Do  number = number + 1 Loop While number < 201

Do Until...Loop Statement Unlike the Do While...Loop and While...Wend repetition structures, the Do Until... Loop structure tests a condition for falsity. Statements in the body of a Do Until...Loop are executed repeatedly as long as the loop-continuation test evaluates to False. An example for Do Until...Loop statement. The coding is typed inside the click event of the command button Dim number As Long number=0 Do Until number > 1000 number = number + 1 Print number Loop The For...Next Loop The For...Next Loop is another way to make loops in Visual Basic. For...Next repetition structure handles all the details of counter-controlled repetition. The following loop counts the numbers from 1 to 100: Dim x As Integer For x = 1 To 50 Print x Next