Tutorial 11 Five windows included in the Visual Basic Startup Screen Main Form Toolbox Project Explorer (Project) Properties

Tutorial 12 Visual Basic startup screen

Tutorial 13 Project and Properties Windows

Tutorial 14 Caption vs Name Property Caption property Controls the text seen by the user Name property Assigns a name to an object Used by the programmer to refer to an object in code

Tutorial 15 Name Property Must begin with a letter Can contain letters, numbers, and the underscore character only Must not contain punctuation characters or spaces Must not exceed 40 characters Use the three-character IDs shown in Figure 1-10

Tutorial 16 Saving a Project Click the Save Project button on the Standard toolbar. Provide a name for the form and the project You also can use the Save As and Save Project As commands on the File menu. However, be sure to save the form before saving the project

Tutorial 17 Starting and Ending a Project To start a project: Click the Start button on the Standard toolbar. You also can press F5 or use the Start command on the Run menu To end a project: Click the End button on the Standard toolbar. You also can use the End command on the Run menu

Tutorial 18 Opening a Project To open a new project, use the File menu’s New Project command To open an existing project, click the Open Project button on the Standard toolbar. You also can use the Open Project command on the File menu, or the Ctrl+O key combination

Tutorial 19 Getting Help Use the Help menu’s Contents, Index, or Search commands Click the object, window, property, and so on for which you want help, then press the F1 key

Tutorial 110 MSDN Library Visual Studio 6.0

Tutorial 111 Caption Property’s Help Screen

Tutorial 112 Default-size label control added to the form

Tutorial 113 Classes and Objects Each tool in the toolbox represents a class, which is a pattern from which one or more objects, called controls, are created Each control you create is an instance of the class from which it was created

Tutorial 114 Sizing, Moving, and Deleting Controls You can size, move, and delete a control, as well as set its properties Before you can delete a control, the control must be selected and the form must be the active window

Tutorial 115 Selecting More Than One Control You can change a property for more than one control at a time Click the first control you want to select, then Ctrl- Click the remaining controls Use the mouse pointer selection method

Tutorial 116 Open Code Window

Tutorial 117 Listing of Properties and Methods

Tutorial 118 Editor Tab in the Options Dialog Box

Tutorial 119 Printing an Application

Tutorial 120 Making an Executable File Visual Basic’s compiler translates the application’s code into machine code The machine code is stored in a file with a.exe extension on its name

Tutorial 121 Debugging Technique Print the application’s properties (Form As Text) and code In the properties printout, look for a property that is not set correctly In the code printout, look for an instruction that is either in the wrong object’s Code window or in the wrong event procedure