Get to know Visual Basic

What is Visual Basic?

Visual Basic is an application / program to create a program, whether the program is simple to highly sophisticated program, a visual basic program is the Program Billing and program data input. Visual Basic was built on the idea / ideas to make the language simple and easy in making the script (simple scripting language) for a graphic user interface that was developed in the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Basic manufacture in visual basic is the form, which can be set and executed with an easy script, so the usage is very easy. Besides Visual Basic can interact with other applications in Windows with components of ActiveX Control, and also in particular visual basic 6.0 version has the ability to internet programming with DHTML (Dynamic HyperText Mark Language), and some additional features and multimedia database are getting better.

Main Page Visual Basic

Here is the main page of Visual Basic :

1. Menu, like the other applications, Visual Basic also has a menu to support the performance, such as opening a project, save the project, and create a new project.
2. Toolbar is sub from menu.
3. Toolbox is a row / list of components to be used to create a program, toolbox in the picture is toolbox default / common used.
4. Form is a place to put the components that exist in the Toolbox.
5. Project Explorer is a list of the active form of the project which is being done.
6. Properties is a list of property that can be used to set the form or components.
7. Sub Properties is an explanation of each of the existing property.
8. Form Layout is a broad overview of the form that is being used to wide-screen monitor.

Basic Concepts of Visual Basic programming

Basic concepts of Visual Basic 6.0, is a form of making programming to follow the rules of the Property, Method, and Event. Here's an explanation:

1. Property

Each component in the Visual Basic programming can set the properties as needed. Property that can not be forgotten on each component is "Name", which means the name of the variable (component) to be used in scripting. Property of "Name" can only be set through the Property window, whereas the other property’s value can be set through a script such as:

Command1.Caption = "Play"

Text1.Text = "Blues Pedia"
Label1.Visible = FalseTimer1.Enable = True

Bold Text = Name

The Property of "Name" can be described as number of identity like number of identity cards, where one component with the other should not be the same.

2. Methods

That way of the program can be set as the application using programming method that is set as the action of each component. This is a method to express the programming logic of making an application program.

3. Event

Each component can act through events, such as the command button click event was written in the script Command1_Click screen, or the Mouse Down event in the picture was written with Picture1_MouseDown. Setting event in every component that will execute all methods are made.

It’s enough to explain about Visual Basic, for next explanation and tutorial, I will explain about How to Create a New Project.

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