17.11 TIGER BY THE TAIL – A VB FORM

Visual basic has become very popular among programmers. Its main advantage is development of “form” interactively on the screen (No programming involved!). There are many components which can be selected and placed on the form. Programmers started using VB for foreground and C/C++ for background tasks.

Does it imply that VB has put C++ language in the background? No. Not at all! Which language do you think was used to develop it? C++ of course.

The strength of VB is in forms. Let us attempt to study whether C++ and object orientation is suitable for developing forms. As form in VB has large number of attributes, it will not be possible to implement it in a small size program. We will attempt a very simple application ...

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