Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2012 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit

Hour 5. Building Forms: The Basics

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

• Changing a form’s name

• Changing a form’s appearance

• Displaying text on a form’s title bar

• Adding an image to a form’s background

• Giving a form an icon

• Changing the mouse pointer

• Showing and hiding forms

• Displaying a form in a normal, maximized, or minimized state

• Specifying a form’s initial display position

• Preventing a form from appearing in the taskbar

With few exceptions, forms are the cornerstone of every Windows application interface. Forms are essentially windows, and the two terms are often used interchangeably. More accurately, window refers to what the user sees and interacts with, whereas form refers to what you see when you design. Forms enable ...