Visual Basic Essentials

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		About Visual Basic Essentials

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Visual Basic Essentials is an online book designed to aid both novices and experienced programmers in learning Visual Basic. Using theory, code examples and screenshots, this book is intended to provide everything necessary to begin developing Windows applications in Visual Basic.

About Visual Basic Essentials Downloading and Installing Visual Studio Getting Visual Studio Downloading a Visual Studio Trial Installing Visual Studio Starting Visual Studio for the First Time Creating a New Visual Basic Project Creating a Project in Visual Studio A Simple Visual Basic Example Creating a New Project Adding Controls to the Form Setting Control Properties Creating an Event Handler Building and Running a Visual Basic Application Visual Basic and Forms Creating a New Form Changing the Form Name Changing the Form Title Changing the Form Background Color Changing The Form Background Image Configuring the Minimize, Maximize and Close Buttons Setting Minimum and Maximum Form Sizes Specifying the Position of a Form on the Display Changing the Form Border Stopping a Form from Appearing the Windows Taskbar Creating a Transparent Form Designing Forms in Visual Studio Visual Basic Forms and Controls Double Clicking the Control in the Toolbox Dragging a Dropping Controls onto the Form Drawing a Control on the Form Positioning and Sizing Controls Using the Grid Positioning Controls Using Snap Lines Selecting Multiple Controls Aligning and Sizing Groups of Controls Setting Properties on a Group of Controls Anchoring and Autosizing Form Controls Setting Tab Order in a Form Understanding Visual Basic Events Event Triggers Wiring Up Events in Visual Studio Setting Up a Visual Basic Timer Event Hiding and Showing Forms in Visual Basic Creating a Visual Basic Application Containing Multiple Forms Understanding Modal and Non-modal Forms Writing Visual Basic Code to Display a Non-Modal Form Writing Visual Basic Code to Display a Modal Form Hiding Forms in Visual Basic Closing Forms in Visual Basic Creating a Visual Basic MDI Form What is an MDI? Creating an MDI Parent and Child Forms in Visual Studio Writing the Visual Basic Code to Add the Children to the MDI Parent Creating Top-Level Menus in Visual Basic Creating a Top-Level Menu Deleting and Moving Menu Items Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts to Menu Items Programming Menu Items in Visual Basic Creating Context Menus in Visual Basic Adding Context Menus to a Visual Basic Form Associating a Component with a Context Menu Programming Visual Basic Context Menu Options Compiling and Running the Application Building a Visual Basic Toolbar Creating a Toolbar Adding Tooltip Text to Toolbar Controls Programming Toolbar Controls Changing the Toolbar Position Building a Visual Basic Status Bar Adding a Status Bar to a Visual Basic Application Adding Items to a Status Bar Visual Basic Modules and Procedures Visual Basic Code Modules Visual Basic Code Procedures Defining Visual Basic Subroutines Passing Parameters to Functions and Subroutines Defining Visual Basic Functions Understanding Visual Basic Variable and Constant Types Boolean Variable Char Variable Byte Variable Date Variable Decimal Variable Double Variable Integer Variable Object Variable Long Variable Short Variable String Variable Declaring Visual Basic Variables and Constants Declaring Visual Basic Variables Initializing Visual Basic Variables Assigning New Values to Visual Basic Variables Referencing Variable Values Understanding Variable and Constant Scope Declaring and Referencing Visual Basic Constants Static Variables in Visual Basic Declaring and Referencing Visual Basic Constant Visual Basic Arithmetic Understanding Expressions Visual Basic Operator Precedence Visual Basic Addition Visual Basic Subtraction and Negation Visual Basic Multiplication Visual Basic Division Visual Basic Exponentiation Visual Basic Modulus Arithmetic Visual Basic Comparison and Logic Visual Comparison Operators Visual Basic Logical Operators Visual Basic Flow Control Using If ... Then to Make Decisions Using If ... Then .. Else to Make Decisions Using If ... Then .. ElseIf to Make Decisions Evaluating Multiple Possibilities using Select Case Using the Visual Basic GoTo Statement Visual Basic For Loops Creating a Visual Basic For Loop Incrementing a For Loop by a Value Greater Than 1 Early Exit of a For Loop Continuing a For Loop Visual Basic Do ... Loops Creating a Visual Basic Do ... Loop Visual Basic Do While Loops Visual Basic Do Until Loops Visual Basic Arrays What is a Visual Basic Array How to Declare a Visual Basic Array Initializing a Visual Basic Array Assigning Values to Individual Array Elements Accessing Array Element Values Finding the Size of an Array Changing the Size of a Visual Basic Array Clearing a Element Ranges from a Visual Basic Array Sorting a Visual Basic Array Searching for Array Elements Visual Basic Multidimensional Arrays Creating a Visual Basic Multidimensional Array Assigning Values to Multidimensional Array Elements Accessing Elements of a Multidimensional Array Working with Dates and Times in Visual Basic Creating and Initializing a Visual Basic Date Accessing the Date and Time in a Date Variable Formatting Dates and Times Adjusting a Date or Time Retrieving Parts of a Date or Time Finding the Interval Between Two Dates or Times Accessing the System Date and Time from Visual Basic Checking if a Value is a Valid Date Working with Strings in Visual Basic Joining Strings in Visual Basic Finding the Length of a String Extracting Text from the Beginning of String Extracting Text from the End of a String Extracting Text from Anywhere in a String Searching for a Substring Trimming Leading and Trailing Spaces from a String Replacing Text in String Object Oriented Programming with Visual Basic What is an Object? What is a Class? Defining a Visual Basic Class Creating Visual Basic Class Properties Defining Class Methods Instantiating an Object from a Visual Basic Class Accessing Object Properties and Methods Accessing Databases Using Visual Basic Connected to a Database Selecting the Data Source Linking Data Sources to an Application Adding SQL Statements to a Visual Basic Application Visual Basic and the DataGridView Control Connected to a Database Selecting the Data Source Adding a DataGridView Control Saving Changes to a DataGridView Customizing the DataGridView Control Working with Files in Visual Basic Opening a Text File in Visual Basic Writing to a File with Visual Basic Reading From a File in Visual Basic Detecting a Change to a File Working with Directories in Visual Basic [[Working with Directories in Visual Basic|Creating and Removing a Directory In Visual Basic Obtaining a Directory Information and Contents Listings in Visual Basic Extracting Parts of a Path Name in Visual Basic Copying Directories in Visual Basic Renaming a Directory in Visual Basic Drawing Graphics in Visual Basic Drawing a Filled Shapes in Visual Basic Drawing in Visual Basic Using a Pen Drawing Shapes in Visual Basic Drawing Text in Visual Basic Clearing a Drawing Area

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