Visual Basic IDE Intro.pdf

INTRODUCTION
Programming in general is
the process of making
instructions for a
computer to follow.

VB.NET
Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is
an object-oriented computer
programming language
implemented on the .NET
Framework. Although it is an
evolution of classic Visual
Basic language, it is not
backwards-compatible with
VB6, and any code written in
the old version does not
compile under VB.NET.

IDE
IDE stands for Integrated
Development Environment.
These are tools that are used
for programming using a
certain programming language.
Each programming languages
have their own IDE and
feature that will help in
compiling and checking of
errors in your code.

IDE
The .Net framework is a
revolutionary platform
that helps you to write
the following types of
applications:
• Windows applications
• Web applications
• Web services

IDE
Microsoft provides the
following development
tools for VB.NET
programming:
• Visual Studio 2010 (VS)
• Visual Basic 2010 Express
(VBE)
• Visual Web Developer

PARTS OF THE VB.NET IDE
The Toolbox is the
part where every
control that can
be used in your
program is
located. Most of
the things that
are inside the
toolbox are
arranged
alphabetically and
you can also
arrange it in a
way that you like.

• The Solution
Explorer is the
part that shows
every file in
your project
you can see all
the files shown
here if you
look on the
directory of
the project.

The Properties
is the part
that shows
every property
of the control
and events that
can be used
with it (more
on this on the
next topic).

The [Design]
Window is where
you can see
what your form
looks like and
you can arrange
the control in
it accordingly.

Double Clicking
a control on
the design
window will
show a sub for
the control in
the code-behind
file of the
form.

• Each form in your solution have
a code-behind file where you
can put the command that’s
going to be associated for the
control.

•In case you
accidentally
closed one of
the windows. You
can open it
again by
clicking the
“View” tab on
the Menu strip
on the top of
the window.

CONTROLS
The items in the toolbox are
the controls. Each control
are tools that can be placed
in the form to perform
various tasks. Here are some
of the controls that you can
use in your program. In order
to put one on your form, you
can click and drag the
control from the toolbox or
click then resize the control

CONTROLS
• The use of a button is to
run the code that is
assigned when the button
click event happened.
• The textbox is one of
the ways that your
program can accept
user input.

CONTROLS
• The picturebox is
the control that is
used to place
images on your
forms.
• The use of label is to
put text on your form. It
is generally used to
display some informative
text on the GUI which is
not changed during
runtime.

CONTROLS
• Checkbox are used for
multiple selections. An
example of using it is on
questions like “What
three items in a list do
you like most on this
list of items?”
• Radiobutton are the
counterpart of checkbox
but in a group of
radiobuttons, only one
of the will always be
selected.

CONTROLS
• ComboBox are like textbox
but will accept multiple
text using their “Item”
property and have a
dropdown button to show
all its contents.
• Listbox are similar
to combobox with
their difference is
that the items are
shown.

CONTROLS
• MenuStrip are the list of
intractable buttons that are
permanently located of the top
part of the form. A pop up
version of it is the
“ContextMenuStrip”.

PROPERTIES
• Each control
has properties
that govern how
one can
interact with
it and what it
can react to.
Also properties
define how the
control will
look like.

PROPERTIES
• Most controls have
the same properties
and if more than
one control is
selected, all the
properties that the
selected controls
shared will be the
only ones that are
shown. In order to
view the properties
of a control, click
one and it will
show its properties
in the property
window like these.

PROPERTIES
The icons below on the top of the
properties window have different
effects.
• The first 2 are for sorting the
properties by uses or alphabetically.
• The next 2 are for the properties and
events associated with the control.
• The last one is used to show the
property page of the whole project.

PROPERTIES
Now here are some of the commonly
used properties and their uses:
• (Name) – The use of this
property is to give the control
a name that is used to call the
control on the code. You can
use alphanumeric characters in
the name of your control but
try to name your control with
something that will remind you
of what that control do.

PROPERTIES
• Text – This property contains
the text that will be shown
by the control. It is used to
get or set the text of the
associated control.
• ForeColor, BackColor – This
property change the color of
the text and the background
color of the control
respectively.

PROPERTIES
• Enabled - Gets or sets a
value indicating whether
the control can respond to
user interaction.
• Visible - Gets or sets a
value indicating whether
the control and all its
child controls are
displayed.

PROPERTIES
• Location – Gets or sets the
location of the control
from the reference point
which is the upper-left
corner of the form.
• Size - Gets or sets the
height and width of the
control.

PROPERTIES
In order to use the property of
the control, you must first call
the (Name) property of the
control then call the respective
property that you are using or
changing.

EVENTS
The other tab
of the
Properties
window is the
Events Window.

EVENTS
When you double
click a control
on the [Design],
the default
Event will be
selected.
You can choose
which event to
use by going to
the events
window and
selecting

EVENTS
Here are some of the
events that you can find
in the Events window:
• Click– This event happens
when the control is
clicked.

EVENTS
• MouseEnter – This occurs
if the mouse pointer
enters the visible part
of the control.
• TextChanged – Occurs when
the text property of the
control is changed.

EVENTS
• KeyPress– Occurs when the
control receive keyboard
input the the key is
released.
• Enter– Occurs when the
control becomes the
active control of the
form.

HELLO WORLD
Open the “Microsoft Visual Basic 2010
Express”, create a new project, set it to
“Windows Form Application” and name it
“HelloWorld”. Click ok.

HELLO WORLD
Save the project on the specified folder
given by the trainer.

HELLO WORLD
On the toolbox, select the “Button” and
place in the form as shown in the
screenshot below.

HELLO WORLD
Double-click the button control and the
code behind file will show up. After that,
type the following code on the area as
shown in the image:
MsgBox(“Hello World!”)

HELLO WORLD
Run the program by pressing the “F5” key
and click the button. The result must look
like in the picture below.

NAMING CONVENTIONS
Control type pref
ix
Example
Form frm frmEntry
Label lbl lblHelpMessage
Text box txt txtLastName
Button btn btnConfirm
List box lst lstPolicyCodes
Combo box, drop-
down list box
cbo cboEnglish
Picture box pic picVGA
Check box chk chkReadOnly
Radio Button opt optEnabled
Timer tmr tmrAlarm
• Naming
Conventions
are optional,
they serve as
guidelines in
order to
easily
understand
your code.

LAYOUT
• As you’ve tried to
make your own
program, you have
designed it and
possibly have
trouble designing
your form. A Tool
that can help you
is the Layout
Toolbar.
• You can access it
by right-clicking
the menu bar and
selecting “Layout”.

LAYOUT
• After selecting the Layout
toolbar, the toolbar will show
up. We will go through the uses
of it that is mostly used.

LAYOUT
• The items above are used
for alignment of
different controls. To
the left, right, middle,
top, center and bottom.
Just remember that the
alignment that is
followed comes from the
selected control with a
white box in the corner
as seen on the image to
the right.

LAYOUT
• On the image, a
Label, TextBox and a
Button are selected.
The Textbox have the
white box on its
border which means
that the alignment or
any Layout selection
done will from the
location of the
TextBox.

LAYOUT
• This is used for changing
the size of the selected
controls to follow the size
of the selected control
with a white box if the
other controls can change
size.

LAYOUT
for the spacing of each
control either horizontal
or vertical.

LAYOUT
for the alignment to the
center or middle with
respect to the form itself.

LAYOUT
for overlapping controls to
put one control above or
below another.

LAYOUT
• The item above is “Tab
Order”. It is used for any
interact able controls so
that when you press tab
stop, you can choose which
control will get focused
next.

LAYOUT
• On the picture to the left, if
you click “Tab Order”, it will
show you the order of which
control will receive the focus
next.

LAYOUT
• You can click the numbers to
change which control will be
selected next. Click the “Tab
Order” button again to finalize
the changes.

Visual Basic IDE Intro.pdf

More Related Content

What's hot

Similar to Visual Basic IDE Intro.pdf

Recently uploaded

Visual Basic IDE Intro.pdf