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Visual Basic Tutorial
Programming!
We can now finally get on to actually doing something! To start off, we are going to create a simple program that asks you for your name, and then says hello. Although this might not sound much, it should get you going on the basics of VB.
To begin, ensure that you have the Form Window we described in the last section. If you can't see it, double click on the text Form1 on the right hand side of your screen (in the Project Window). Next, take a look at the left hand toolbar. This displays the controls that you can currently use in your project (ie what you can add to the form). Click the icon shown below:
This is known as the Label control. As its name suggests, it is used to 'label' other controls, and provides a means of adding text to your form. To add the control to your form, move the mouse to over the Form and hold down the left mouse button. Keep the button down, and move the mouse - you will see a rectangle form, and change shape as you move the mouse. This is showing you where the new control will go. When you are happy with the shape, let go, and you will see the text 'Label 1' appear.
Once you have placed a control on your form, you are free to move it around to wherever you want, by simply clicking and dragging. If you want to change the shape of the control, just like in almost any Office, or graphics program, simply select it, hold down the mouse over one of the blue boxes that appear, and drag.
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I take IT course, n we'll gonna use VB for nxt semester.1st n 2nd semester we already have C n C++,so i hope any1 here can help me out..TQVM..
Hi,
I have been using Visual Basic for one year. Now, I want to switch to VB.net as it is the latest technology. I am totally confused how should I go about doing this. Could you tell me the name of a few books that are for new users. I dont even have any knowledge of ASP(I know a bit of HTML). Do I need to install IIS on my laptop to start web development ? If yes , where can I get it for free?
Thnaks a ton!
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Whether to learn VB or VB.NET depends on your reason for learning the language - at the moment, VB probably has more use in a commercial sense; VB.NET is still too new. But if you're looking to the future, then VB.NET/C# is where its at!
Hi i'm a beginner with programming & i'd like a piece of advice on whether to learn vb or visual basic .net and i would also like to know if knowledge of vb is a prerequisite to knowing visual studio.net
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In where clause use [primary key
i like to learn vb
Many thanks to James Crowley, he has removed my fears of moving on from QB to VB.
Does anyone else know of a good source of VB tutorials.
Regards,
welcome to DF
thats what we are all here for... learning and working together
I just read your post about the VB for beginners and I want to thankl you about your help and love for learning VB,
thank you alot,really you gave me the motivation that was needed to start with it.
sorry for my english it's not perfect but you can understand me (i understand everything that you whrote)
ok and continue like that people need your help
thank u
by the way, do u know of any vb samples for developing a meeting room booking system?
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MsgBox "Hello " & txtName.Text & "!"
end sub
That should work
I put MsgBox "Hello " & txtName.Text & "!" in between the () tags on the cmdOK_Click() command, it didint work but i couldnt see anywere els to put it im proberly making a compleat begginer mistake so i'll keep at it till i figure out what im doing wrong.
Im useing Visual Basic 5.0 CCE if anyone can figure out what im doing wrong =)
Thanks James, for a really helpful and very well written crash course. I've been wondering about having a go with VB, and you've convinced me!!
I have much more knowledge to add to my head, and it is because of this tutorial. Thank you once again. You have helped my greatly in my assignment.
Thanks for your great article. Before reading this I had no idea about VB, this has given me a head start, I will surely pass this info on to my friends who are interested in programming.
Thanks again
Great article for someone who knows no programming, with exception of HTML. Obviously, I'm new to the world of VB. I'll be sure to spread the word, should I come across anyone else new. Great site, also.
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