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01 Week Tutorial

This document provides an overview of how to get started with Visual Basic (VB) by introducing the VB integrated development environment and how to perform basic tasks like creating a new project and form, adding controls to a form, writing code, and debugging. It covers starting VB, opening a new or existing project, placing controls on a form and setting their properties, writing event procedures, and running and debugging a project. The last section provides an exercise for students to create a simple form to manipulate strings.

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01 Week Tutorial

This document provides an overview of how to get started with Visual Basic (VB) by introducing the VB integrated development environment and how to perform basic tasks like creating a new project and form, adding controls to a form, writing code, and debugging. It covers starting VB, opening a new or existing project, placing controls on a form and setting their properties, writing event procedures, and running and debugging a project. The last section provides an exercise for students to create a simple form to manipulate strings.

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Zack Quinn
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Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
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Week 01: Getting Started

TUTORIAL 1: GETTING STARTED


1.

How to Start VB

2.

How to Open VB

3.

How to Create a form

4.

How to Write code

5.

How to Debug and Build

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1. HOW TO START
1) CHOOSE THE WORK DESK

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1. HOW TO START
2) SELECT MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO PROFESSIONAL 2012 MENU

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1. HOW TO START
3) SELECT MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 2012 VISUAL STUDIO 2012

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2. HOW TO OPEN OR CREATE


1) When you launch VB2012, the Integrated Development Environment is
shown in the diagram below.

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2. HOW TO OPEN OR CREATE


2) THE NEW PROJECT PAGE COMPRISES THREE TEMPLATES, VISUAL BASIC,
VISUAL C# AND VISUAL C++.

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3. HOW TO CREATE A FORM


When you open the Visual Studio IDE, you generally see an empty environment
with a Start Page. The default startup object is Form1

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3. HOW TO CREATE A FORM: VISUAL BASIC MAIN SCREEN


The properties window shows the properties of Form1

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3. HOW TO CREATE A FORM: VISUAL BASIC MAIN SCREEN


SETTING A FORMS PROPERTIES: NAME, SIZE, COLOR, FONT, ETC.

Setting a forms
properties
- name, size,
color, etc.

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3. HOW TO CREATE A FORM: 4 WAYS TO PLACE A WINDOW CONTROL

4 Ways to Place a Window Control from the Toolbox onto the Form
1)

Double-click

2)

Drag and Drop

3)

Click, Point, and Click

4)

Click, Point, and Drag

Resize

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3. HOW TO CREATE A FORM: PLACE A CONTROL

You can scroll to view more


controls. To sort the tools in the
toolbox:
Right-click the toolbox and

select.
Sort Items Alphabetically from
the context menu (shortcut
menu).

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3. HOW TO CREATE A FORM: PLACE A CONTROL


1) CREATE A CONTROL FROM TOOL BOX CHOOSING A BUTTON CONTROL

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3. HOW TO CREATE A FORM: PLACE A CONTROL


1) CREATE A CONTROL FROM TOOL BOX SETTING PROPERTIES
Selected Control

Properties

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Settings

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3. HOW TO CREATE A FORM: PLACE A CONTROL


2) CREATE A CONTROL FROM TOOL BOX CHOOSING A TEXTBOX

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3. HOW TO CREATE A FORM: PLACE A CONTROL


2) TEXT BOX CONTROL SETTING PROPERTIES

Used for input and output


When used for output, ReadOnly property is set to True

Textbox tasks
-Multiline

sizing handles

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3. HOW TO CREATE A FORM: PLACE A CONTROL


2) TEXT BOX CONTROL SETTING PROPERTIES
selected
control

properties

settings

Description pane
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Window (Form) Name

Background color

Font/Size/Bold/

Font color

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4. HOW TO WRITE CODE : CODE EDITOR


Each control has its own events- clicking
- You can control an event by writing event procedures.

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5. HOW TO DEBUG AND RUN

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5. HOW TO DEBUG AND RUN

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MODE

Design Time used when designing the user interface and


writing code

Run Time used when testing and running a project

Break Time(Debug) if/when receiving a run-time error or

pause error

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EXERCISE STRING MANIPULATION


Input your name
Input your major
Input your course

To select a control, click on it. Sizing handles appear when a control is selected.

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EXERCISE STRING MANIPULATION

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WEEK 01 TUTORIAL

You should archive the whole directory of your window application to a zip file an
d submit it to the blackboard

Title : Week01_your name.zip by 7 Sep 17:00 pm.

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