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Visual Basic Tutorial - Common Words

James Crowley

Common Words

Now that we have saved our project, we can get on and do some programming. But first, I have created a list of common words that you will need to know. If you come across a word in this tutorial that you don't know, refer back to this.

Application When you 'program', you are creating a program. This is also known as an Application. Word, Excel and Lotus Notes are all applications.
Code This is what you type when you are programming!
IDE The IDE or Integrated Development Environment is simply the main Visual Basic window. This is where you create and run your Visual Basic Applications.
Form This is what programmers often call a dialog box, or as you probably know it, a window.
Form Window In the Visual Basic window, you can see a form or window, within another window. This, is the Form Window, and is where you create your own form, and add your own controls and text to it. (See Figure 1)
Control A control is something you place on a form. When you see a box to enter text, or have a drop-down box of choices, or a button to click, these are all controls.
Toolbox This is the window shown down the left-hand side of the IDE , which lists all the controls that you can add to the form. (See Figure 2)
Project Window This is the window on the right hand side of the Visual Basic window, which lists all the items in your project, and lets you choose a form to modify, or edit its code. (See Figure 3)
Property When programming, every control has properties. These allow you change the appearance of a control, or the text it displays.
Properties Window The properties window, not surprisingly allows you to modify these properties (See Figure 4).


Figure 1 - The Form Window


Figure 2 - The Toolbox


Figure 3 - The Project Window


Figure 4 - The Properties Window

James first started writing tutorials on Visual Basic in 1999 whilst starting this website (then known as VB Web). Since then, the site has grown rapidly, and James has written numerous tutorials, articles and reviews on VB, PHP, ASP and C#. In October 2003, James formed the company Developer Fusion Ltd, which owns this website, and also offers various development services. In his spare time, he's a 3rd year undergraduate studying Computer Science in the UK. He's also a Visual Basic MVP.

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    Posted by eric2358 on 10 Aug 2005

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