October 2000 Visual Basic Tutorial (Lesson 1)

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Visual Basic Tutorial (Lesson 1). By Chris Boyce. Lesson 1. Hopefully you will learn this during lesson 1. :. . About the Development Environment …

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Visual Basic Tutorial (Lesson 1)
By Chris Boyce
Lesson 1
Hopefully you will learn this during lesson 1. :
?About the Development Environment
?The project explorer windows
?Running a form
?Making your first *.exe
?Understanding the tool bar
?Introducing Source code
?Command Button properties
?Explanations of global modules
?Opening an existing Visual Basic project.
?Explore the forms and the source code behind the an existing project in
design mode
?Recognise and understand the function of the main component of the Visual
Basic environment eg. toolbar’s , toolboxes , project window, properties
window and most importantly the source code window.
?Saving your project to a file.
?Button Properties.The Development Environment
Learning the ins and outs of the Development Environment before you learn visual basic is
somewhat like learning for a test you must know where all the functions belong and what their
purpose is. First we will start with labelling the development environment.
The above diagram shows the development environment with all the important points labelled.
Many of Visual basic functions work similar to Microsoft word eg the Tool Bar and the tool
box is similar to other products on the market which work off a single click then drag the
width of the object required. The Tool Box contains the control you placed on the form
window. All of the controls that appear on the Tool Box controls on the above picture never
runs out of controls as soon as you place one on the form another awaits you on the Tool Box
ready to be placed as needed.
The project explorer window
The Project explorer window gives you a tree-structured view of all the files inserted into the
application. You can expand these and collapse branches of the views to get more or less
detail (Project explorer). The project explorer window displays forms,…