VB.Net Tutorial : PROPERTIES WINDOW The Properties window contains the list of design-time properties for a selected form,control, class, module, or menu. These properties can be changed at design time, and the Properties window shows each property’s current setting. When you select multiple controls, the Properties window contains a list of the properties common to all the selected controls. The Properties window consists of: The Object box. Located beneath the title bar, the Object box [...]

Introduction Purpose This tutorial is intended to show some of the differences VB.Net has introduced over VB6. Scope This tutorial is aimed at the VB.Net beginner. It will show some of the major differences VB.Net has introduced over VB6. This tutorial does not cover changes in the IDE, only basic code changes. Variable Declaration Variable types in VB.Net have altered when compared to VB6. Below is a table listing the variable types and the associated [...]

VB.Net Tutorial: 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 [...]

C# and VB Connecting to Database How To Use A Database In Your Program: Many .NET solutions are database driven and so many of us often wonder how to access the database. To help you understand the answer to this question I’ve provided the following as a quick example of how to retrieve data from a database. In order to connect to a SQL Server Database using .NET you will need to import the System.Data.SqlClient [...]

VB.Net Tutorial: LABELS: As I mentioned before Visual Basic .NET does not support control arrays, so all of the labels on the form will be simple labels. You can go ahead and change the same properties you changed for each command button using the format “lblXxxxxx” for the name. e.g. lblEdit TEXT BOX: This object that will allow the user to enter a string, we will also use text boxes to display the last popped [...]

VB.Net Tutorial : HOW TO BEGIN When you first start Visual Basic .Net, the tools that we just discussed may or may not be visible. If they are not, make them visible by clicking on VIEW->TOOL BOX, VIEW- >PROPERTIES WINDOW. Also visible will be a blank form for you to start working with. Note: You may change the size of the form by clicking on any corner and dragging. Remember it is just a window [...]