Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition

Summary

This chapter showed you how to place controls onto a form and how to size and position those controls. After you place a control, you must set its properties so that it takes on the appearance and characteristics that your application requires. You experienced the creation of a simple Visual Basic program that included a Form window, controls, and code that you typed into a code window. In the next chapter, you will begin learning the specifics of the Visual Basic language, with which you can test for message and input box return values and execute the same section of your program several times.

• Events drive Windows programs.

• For simple, single-window applications, you will use the Standard EXE option when creating a new project.

• You can ...