The document discusses different types of controls in Visual Basic including tree view, list view, chart control, and grid controls. It provides instructions on how to add each control to a form and set basic properties. Details are given on displaying data hierarchically in a tree view, displaying items in different views in a list view, creating different chart types, and using a flex grid control to display data in rows and columns.

1. Topics: Tree view, List view, Chart
control, Grid controls

2. Tree View
• Present data in a hierarchical way.
• Example: View of directories that appears in the tree
view at left in the window explorer.
• Node consist of an image(set with the image
property) and a label(set with the text property).

3. Adding a tree view to a form
• Select the project | components menu items.
• Click the controls tab in the components dialog box
that opens.
• Select the windows common controls item.
• Click on OK to close the components dialog box.
• The preceding steps add the tree view control toll to
the toolbox. Draw a tree view in the form as you want
it.
• Set the tree view properties, and add the code you
want.

4. • Adding nodes to a tree view.
• Adding sub nodes to a tree view.
• Adding images to a tree view.

5. List View
• List of items.
• Example: List view at right in the windows explorer.
• List view can display data in four different view
modes:
 Icon mode
 Small Icon mode
 List mode
 Report mode

6. Adding a list view to a form
• Select the project | components menu items.
• Click the controls tab in the components dialog box
that opens.
• Select the windows common controls item.
• Click on OK to close the components dialog box.
• The preceding steps add the list view control toll to
the toolbox. Draw a list view in the form as you want
it.
• Set the list view properties, and add the code you
want.

7. • Adding items to a list view.
• Adding icons to list view items.
• Adding small icons to list view items.

8. Chart Control
• Types of charts:
• 2D or 3D bar chart
• 2D or 3D line chart
• 2D pie chart
• Etc….

9. Adding a chart to a form
• Select the project | components menu items.
• Click the controls tab in the components dialog box
that opens.
• Select the Microsoft chart control entry.
• Click on OK to close the components dialog box.
• Draw a new chart control on your form.
• Add the code you want.

10. • Adding data to a chart control.
• Creating pie charts.

11. Grid Controls
• Displays data in a table-like form, with rows and
columns of cells.
• Types of grid controls:
 Data grid control
 Flex grid control

12. Adding a flex grid control to a form
• Select the project | components menu items.
• Click the controls tab in the components dialog box
that opens.
• Select the Microsoft flex grid control entry.
• Click on OK to close the components dialog box.
• Add a flex grid control to your from in the usual way
for visual basic controls.
• Set the flex grid’s rows and cols properties to the
number of rows and columns you want in your flex
grid.