I remember when I first started programming, I wanted help, and no one would help me. So, I taught myself. I'm going to write some simple tutorials for you guys to learn from. These were on my website about 3-4 months ago, and I took it offline.
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Controls in VB2010 are useful tools that can be placed in the form to perform various tasks. They are used to create many kinds of Windows applications. The diagram on the right is the Toolbox that contains the controls of VB2010. They are categorized into Common Controls, Containers, Menus, Toolbars, Data, Components, Printings and Dialogs. At the moment, we will focus on the common controls. Some of the most used common controls are Button, Label, ComboBox, ListBox, PictureBox, TextBox etc.
To insert a control into your form, you just need to drag the control and drop it into the form. You can reposition and resize it as you like. Lets examine a few programs that made use of Button, Label, TextBox , ListBox and PictureBox . You don't have to worry so much about the code because I will explain the program syntax as you progress to later lessons.
When you click on the Toolbox tab, the common controls Toolbox will appear.
1.1 Creating your first program
To create your first program, drag the button control into the form, and change its default Text Button1 to OK in the properties window, the word OK will appear on the button in the form, as shown below:
Now double click on the OK button and the code window appears. Enter the code as follows:
When you run the the program and click on the OK button, a dialog box will appear and display the "WELCOME TO VISUAL BASIC 2010" message,as shown below:
There you are, you have created your first VB2010 program.
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I hope this helps you new programmers out, I'll be adding a new tutorial every couple of days, I just want to see the responses, etc on this. I know this is the easiest thing you can do in programming, but its a place to start. The next tutorial will show you the uses of text boxes, by creating a calculator.
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Working with Controls
Controls in VB2010 are useful tools that can be placed in the form to perform various tasks. They are used to create many kinds of Windows applications. The diagram on the right is the Toolbox that contains the controls of VB2010. They are categorized into Common Controls, Containers, Menus, Toolbars, Data, Components, Printings and Dialogs. At the moment, we will focus on the common controls. Some of the most used common controls are Button, Label, ComboBox, ListBox, PictureBox, TextBox etc.
To insert a control into your form, you just need to drag the control and drop it into the form. You can reposition and resize it as you like. Lets examine a few programs that made use of Button, Label, TextBox , ListBox and PictureBox . You don't have to worry so much about the code because I will explain the program syntax as you progress to later lessons.
When you click on the Toolbox tab, the common controls Toolbox will appear.
1.1 Creating your first program
To create your first program, drag the button control into the form, and change its default Text Button1 to OK in the properties window, the word OK will appear on the button in the form, as shown below:
Now double click on the OK button and the code window appears. Enter the code as follows:
When you run the the program and click on the OK button, a dialog box will appear and display the "WELCOME TO VISUAL BASIC 2010" message,as shown below:
There you are, you have created your first VB2010 program.
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I hope this helps you new programmers out, I'll be adding a new tutorial every couple of days, I just want to see the responses, etc on this. I know this is the easiest thing you can do in programming, but its a place to start. The next tutorial will show you the uses of text boxes, by creating a calculator.
