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Visual Basic .NET Tutorial
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Visual Basic .NET Tutorial by: Paul Michelbrink Jan 15, 2004 This tutorial was originally prepared by Sarah Thompson for Visual Basic 4.0.
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INTRODUCTION 3 PROGRAMMING TOOLS 3 TOOL BAR 3 TOOL BOX 4 PROPERTIES WINDOW 7 HOW TO BEGIN 9 IMPLEMENTING THE VISUAL STACK PROGRAM 10 Step 1 : “The blank form properties” 10 ADDING AN ICON 11 Step 2 : “Adding objects to our form” 11 Step 3 : “Changing the Properties of the controls.” 14 COMMAND BUTTONS: 14 PICTURES: 15 LABELS: 16 TEXT BOX: 16 MENUS: 16 ADDING NEW FORMS 19 ADDING THE CODE TO THE FORMS 20 THE SOURCE CODE: 21 ABOUT FORM: 21 DEFINITION FORM: 21 STACK FORM: 21 STACK FORM CODE: 22 Text Box Code: 23 PUSH: 23 POP: 24 PEEK: 24 INITIALIZE: 24 MENU CODE 25
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INTRODUCTION Visual Basic is a programming language that is designed especially for windows programming. This tutorial will step through and demonstrate some of the features of Visual Basic. It will explain most of the tools available for implementing GUI based programs. After introducing the basic facilities and tools provided by Visual Basic, we apply our knowledge to implementing a small VB program. Our program will implement a visual interface for a commonly know “stack” abstract data type. PROGRAMMING TOOLS First, we must look at the different tools that we have to work with. When you are creating a program you must interact with four main windows. They are the Tool bar, Tool box, Project box, and the Properties window. TOOL BAR The tool bar is the bar is at the very top of the editing window. It consists of the dropdown menus: File, Edit, View, Project, Build, Debug, Data, Tools, Window, and Help. Below those options are the “quick buttons”. These buttons, reading from left to