Hi Student today I would like to write for you on Visual Basic .NET. It is a computer programming language. It is used to create programs or application for Microsoft Windows operating system. It is very easy language to create affective application. Visual Basic .NET provides many tools that helps programmer to develop program easily and quickly.
So viewers there are a lot happening on the start page. But basically, this is where you can start a new project, or open an existing one. The first Tab, Projects, is selected. At this time, the area labelled "Open an Existing Project" is blank. This is what you will see when you run the software for the first time. When you create a project, the Name you gave it will be displayed on this page.
At the bottom of the screen, there are two buttons: "New Project" and "Open Project". To get started, click the "New Project" button. When you do, you'll see this dialogue box appear in the version 2008:
If you are beginner student, you'll normally want the option selected: "Windows Application", in the "Visual Basic Projects" folder. This means that you are going to be designing a programme to run on a computer.
However If you look in the Name textbox at the bottom, you'll see it says "WindowsApplication1". This is the default name for your projects. It's not a good idea to keep this name. After all, you don't want all of your projects to be called "WindowsApplication1", "WindowsApplication2", etc. So click inside this textbox and change this Name to the following:
First Test Project
Keep in mind the Location the same as the default. This is a folder inside of your "My Documents" folder called "Visual Studio Projects". A new folder will then be created for you, and its name will be the one you typed in the "Name" textbox. All of your files for your first project are then saved in this folder.
Now you click the OK button, and the Visual Basic NET design time environment will open. It’ll look like the following (version 2008):
Dear students In the Visual Basic NET design time environment, the first thing to keep in mind is that strange, big square in the top left. That's called a form.
To run the form of Visual Basic.NET
- From the menu bar, click Debug
- From the drop down menu, click Start
- Alternatively, press the F5 key on your keyboard
- Your programme is launched
Good! You have now created your very first programme. It should look like this:
Click the Red X on the form to stop it from running. You will then be returned to the software environment.
In next article I’ll try to teach how to create a project. So for that time bye.