101 Tech Tips for VB Developers
These tips and tricks were submitted by professional developers using Visual Basic 3.0, Visual Basic 4.0, Visual Basic 5.0, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and Visual Basic Script (VBS). The tips were compiled by the editors at Visual Basic Programmer’s Journal. Special thanks to VBPJ Technical Review Board members Francesco Balena, Chris Kinsman, Karl E. Peterson, Phil Weber, and Jonathan Wood. Instead of typing the code published here, download the tips from the free, Registered Level of The Development Exchange at http://www.windx.com.
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Writing a Windows Form Application For .NET Framework Using C#
This article is a very simple introduction on writing a Windows Form application for the Microsoft.NET framework using C#. The sample application demonstrates how to create and layout controls on a simple form and the handling of mouse click events. The application displays a form showing attributes of a file. This form is similar to the properties dialog box of a file (Right click on a file and Click on Properties menu item). Since attributes of a file will be shown, the sample will show how to use File IO operations in .NET framework.
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C# Tutorial #2 Developing a Windows Forms component (part 1)
This tutorial shows how to develop a Windows Forms component that can be reused in any Windows Forms program. This isn’t the same as a control - but the only difference is that a control draws its own user interface while a component does not. This means that components are used for functions where no visible interface is required.
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Learn Visual Basic 6.0
What is Visual Basic?
- Visual Basic is a tool that allows you to develop Windows (Graphic User Interface GUI) applications. The applications have a familiar appearance to the user.
- Visual Basic is event-driven, meaning code remains idle until called upon to respond to some event (button pressing, menu selection, …). Visual Basic is governed by an event processor. Nothing happens until an event is detected. Once an event is detected, the code corresponding to that event (event procedure) is executed. Program control is then returned to the event processor.
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