Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition

Chapter 6. Input and Output

In This Chapter

• A Quick Windows Program Analysis

• Controlling Events

• Application Specifics

• The Interface Controls

• Walking Through an Application's Development

• Other Controls

• Document with Remarks

• Message and Input Boxes

In this chapter, you're going to create your very first Visual Basic application from scratch. You will learn how to place controls onto a form and how to set up those controls, such as a command button, with characteristics that make them work for your specific application. Don't expect to become a Visual Basic guru by the end of this chapter; rather, enjoy the tour, and you'll pick up several pointers that you can use in your programming career.

The highlights of this chapter include the following:

• The graphical ...