Chapter 2 Critical Thinking

1) Describe how the windows, components, and the

features of the Visual Basic IDE are used to develop,
run, and debug an application.
Form - Graphical object that contains a title bar, system menu,
minimize, maximize and close buttons.
Toolbox - Contains controls used to add things to a form. Label
Object- Displays text unchangeable by the user.
Menustrip object - Displays a menu when the program runs,
can be used to exit out and such.
Radiobuttons - Allows users to choose from a set of options and
shows other text when pressed.
Buttons - Used to preform actions, can interact with labels and
menu strips and such.
Properties window - Lists properties of selected object, allows
programmer to modify said object.
Application - Consists of statements that are instructions for
preforming tasks.
Comments - Used to explain code for other programmers that
want to help.
2) Indicate what would be displayed if each of these
expressions where assigned to a label:
a) 10 + 3 6 = 7
b) 2 ^ 3 + 5 * 4 = 28
c) 4 + 3 * 2 = 10
d) 2 + 9 ^ (1/2) = 6
e) 15 * 2 + 4 = 34
f) 15 * (2 + 4) = 90
g) 2 + 4 / 2 + 1 = 2
h) 5 3 ^ 2 + 1 = -3
i) 15 / 3 + 2 = 7
j) 6 + 3 2 = 6 + 3 2
k) 2 + 9 ^ = 5
l) 5 3 ^ (2 + 1) = -22
3) Explain the term eventdriven.
Executes code in response to events, such as clicking,
hovering, etc.
4) List the controls presented in this chapter and
explain if and how the user can interact with each one.
Buttons Push it to do a specific task, such as change text
Label It is writing that you can change in font, size, and what
is display with events.
Group Box Put different objects inside of it so only one can be
active at once
Radio Buttons Basically a checkbox, runs code based on
whichever was checked.
Menu Strip Displays menus which can have sub menus, which
can do many different things, just as close the form
5) List at least one difference in the way a form looks
between the Design window and at run time.
In design mode, the programmer can move things around and
modify as wanted. While the program is running, you cant edit
the form or code.
6) List two ways to terminate a running application.
Code an exit command, or click the stop debugging button.
7) Explain the difference between the (Name) and Text
properties of a control.
The name refers to the name of the object in the code, whereas
the text is the name it displays.
8) Why is it better to type the statement
Me.lbl.Message.Text = Hello world! rather than just
lbl.Message.Text = Hello world!
That is because it is a code convention, where the Me is
referring to an object assignment command.
9) Write the statements needed for the Click event
procedures of radSum and radDifference base on the
following application. Assume the first label is
lblMessage and the second is lblResult:
Sum= lblMessage.Text = "The sum of x and y is " lblResult.Text
= 5 + 3 Difference= lblMessage.Text = "The difference of x
and y is " lblResult.Text = 5 3
10) Explain the error(s) in the following comments:
The date does not have a single quotation in front of it () and
the display greeting code has a () in front of it, turning it in to a
comment.
11) Determine if each of the following are true or false.
If false, explain why.
a) A Visual Basic application consists of a single file.
False, it consists of several files for the program.
b) A Windows application includes at least one form.
True.
c) The Text property of a form defines what is displayed
in its title bar.
True.
d) The properties of an object can only be set in the
Properties window.
False, it can also be set at run time with an assignment
statement
e) Text displayed in a label can be changed by the user.
False, the text is set by the programmer, and cant be changed
by the user
f) A MenuItem object can have a Click event procedure.
True
g) A MenuStrip component can have only one MenuItem
object.
False, it can have many.
h) Each line of program code is called an object.
False, A line of program is called a Statement
i) Visual Basic is an object-oriented programming
language.
True.
j) Program code is typed into the design window.
False, Program code is typed in the Code Window, not the
Design Window.
k) Buttons in the Toolbox are used to switch between
the Code and Design window.
False, Buttons in the Solution Explorer Window are used to
switch between code and design
l) Click is an example of an event.
True.
m) Private indicates that a procedure can be accessed
outside of the Form1 class.
False, Private indicates that 1 or more declared programming
element are only accessible from their declaration context
n) Options displayed in an IntelliSense list vary
depending on what is typed before the dot.
True.
o) An assignment statement is used to change a value
at run time.
True.
p) More than one radio button in a set can be selected
at a time.
False, only one Radio Button can be selected at a time.
q) The only purpose of a GroupBox object is to display
the title for a set of RadioButton objects.
False, GroupBoxes are used for grouping related radio buttons,
GroupBoxes act as a sort of Caption and Border
r) Comments affect the way an application runs.
False, They just Explain and Clarify what the program code
is/does
s) Multiline comments are created by placing a question
mark (?) at the beginning of each line.
False, you use a single quotation mark at the beginning of each
line
t) Code conventions are a set of guidelines for writing
an application.
True.