Toolbars are made relatively easy with VB.Net.  They are just another control you add to the form. The normal place for a tool bar is just under the menu bars. Once you add the toolbar you can click on it and you will see a generic button appear. Once you give it a name or […]

Visual Studio Express Tools are the limited but free versions of the Microsoft IDE. One of their limitations is the lack of database server tools. Whereas the paid versions of these tools let you connect to SQL Server this tool only intrinsically connects to Access databases, SQL Server files or SQL Server Compact files. SQL […]

The BASIC programming language was an extremely simple and easy tool. Visual Basic integrated that easy language into a Visual IDE, and it was a in relatively easy language to learn work. But it could not do a lot of things that more powerful languages like C++ could do. Programmers wanted more functionality. As Visual […]

The If Statementt Select Case. Using Goto Using Exit Using an Example in our Program In the previous chapter we programmed the Simple Calculator Form with this code: Dim dNumber1 As Decimal Dim dNumber2 As Decimal Dim dNumberResult As Decimal dNumber1 = CDec(TextBox1.Text) dNumber2 = CDec(TextBox2.Text) If RadioButton1.Checked = True Then dNumberResult = dNumber1 + […]

6 Visual Basic 2010  –  A Quick Look At  Operators In a previous chapter we programmed the Simple Calculator Form with this code: Dim dNumber1 As Decimal Dim dNumber2 As Decimal Dim dNumberResult As Decimal dNumber1 = CDec(TextBox1.Text) dNumber2 = CDec(TextBox2.Text) If RadioButton1.Checked = True Then dNumberResult = dNumber1 + dNumber2 If RadioButton2.Checked = True […]

In the previous chapter we programmed the Simple Calculator Form with this code: Dim dNumber1 As Decimal Dim dNumber2 As Decimal Dim dNumberResult As Decimal dNumber1 = CDec(TextBox1.Text) dNumber2 = CDec(TextBox2.Text) If RadioButton1.Checked = True Then dNumberResult = dNumber1 + dNumber2 If RadioButton2.Checked = True Then dNumberResult = dNumber1 – dNumber2 If RadioButton3.Checked = True […]

Intro to Event Driven Programming Building, Clearing any Errors and Running the Program in Debug Mode In the previous lessons we have been working with a project called LearningVB1.  Open the project.  In the previous lesson we developed Form 1 to this point: Intro to Event Driven Programming Almost 40 years ago, when I first […]

In the previous lesson we created a project called LearningVB1.  Open the project. Drag Controls onto the Form Using Snap Lines for Professional Looking Alignment In the toolbox drag a textbox onto the form at about the top right of the form.  Drag another textbox again. As you drag this next one, notice the “snap […]

Create a New Project Saving Your New Project Visual Basic comes in several editions, from the very basic Express edition to the Enterprise version. We will be looking at the Express version (which can be downloaded for free at http://www.microsoft.com/express/windows/ ): Click on Start, then on All Programs, and then on Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 […]

It looks like Microsoft’s direction is that all desktop development should be done with WPF. Windows Visual Basic Unleashed reads,  “Windows Forms is quite obsolete when compared to the power and flexibility of WPF, but.NET framework necessarily needs to provide support for Windows Forms because it is settled in application development, but you have to […]