5.13. Visual Basic Programming in a Windows Application
In chapter 2, we showed how to create a simple GUI application using visual programming—that is, defining the appearance of an application by dragging and dropping GUI controls onto a Form and setting properties in design mode without writing any program code. The application you created in Chapter 2 (Fig. 2.27) displayed text and an image, but did not perform any other actions. In Chapters 3, 4 and 5 we have focused on console applications, which do not provide a GUI but perform various actions, such as finding the average of several grades and displaying the results as text in the command prompt. Most Visual Basic programmers use a combination of visual programming and conventional programming ...
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