Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition

Other Controls

Now that you have created a simple Visual Basic application, you should experiment with other controls by placing them on a new form. All the familiar Windows controls, such as check boxes and list boxes, appear on the toolbox. Each tool has its own set of unique properties. For example, labels, which hold text on the window, have Alignment, BorderStyle, Font, size, and location properties such as those you saw in the previous section. In addition, you can set other properties for labels such as the background color, text color, and even add ToolTips to the labels.

Table 6.1 lists all the standard tools that appear on the toolbox, with a brief description of each. Most of these controls will be familiar to anyone who has used Windows ...