Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition

Learning the Visual Basic Environment

Mastering the Visual Basic environment—that is, learning its windows and controls—is the first step toward becoming a Visual Basic programming pro.

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The window where the program's results appear is called the output window. If you were to compile the Visual Basic program and save it to the disk, then execute the program from the Windows environment instead of from within the Visual Basic environment, this is the only window you would see. It would then be the program window.

Visual Basic Programming Steps

These are the basic steps you'll follow every time you write a Visual Basic program:

1.	Start Visual ...