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Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!, Second Edition
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Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!, Second Edition

by Patrice Pelland
February 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
256 pages
6h 52m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 3. Creating Your First Applications

You've installed Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition, so now it's time to create your first applications. You'll start this chapter by learning about the differences between console applications, Windows applications, and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications. You'll then look at the integrated development environment (IDE). As its name implies, the IDE is the application that provides all the tools you need to design, plan, develop, and distribute your applications. You could use any text editor, such as Notepad, for example, to create your applications, but in this chapter and for the reminder of the book, you'll be using the IDE.

Most programming books usually start with a fairly ...

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