Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition

Summary

A picture is worth a thousand words, and your Visual Basic application won't be complete with lines, shapes, and images. Don't overload the graphics and make your form look too busy. Instead, use graphics to accent your application's goals. This chapter showed you the fundamentals of placing graphics on your form. In the next chapter, you will walk through the creation of a complete Visual Basic application. The goal of the next chapter is to tie together some loose ends and help you gain a better overall picture of the way Visual Basic works and how you program in Visual Basic.

• Use the Shape control to draw various shapes on the form.

• Properties determine the kind of shape you place and its characteristics, such as the pattern used to ...