Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2010 in 24 Hours Complete Starter Kit

Hour 4. Understanding Events

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Understanding event-driven programming

• Triggering events

• Avoiding recursive events

• Accessing an object’s events

• Working with event parameters

• Creating event handlers

• Keeping event names current

It’s easy to produce an attractive interface for an application with Visual Basic 2010’s integrated design tools. You can create beautiful forms that have buttons to click, text boxes in which to type information, picture boxes that display pictures, and many other creative and attractive elements with which users can interact. However, that’s just the start of producing a Visual Basic program. In addition to designing an interface, you have to empower your program to perform ...