Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition

An Aside About Controls

Now that you are somewhat familiar with Visual Basic, some of its controls, and property values for those controls, you should begin approaching Visual Basic differently. As you learn how to use a new control in your applications, study the properties that apply to that control. Visual Basic's online help lists all the details about any control you select. When you click on a control and press F1, the online help provides you with a list of properties, events, and methods related to that control.

By studying the various properties that a control supports, you learn about that control's characteristics. For example, in the next section, you learn about the Line control. The Line control's BorderWidth property determines ...