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
- 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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