Fundamentals of Programming in Visual Basic

Fundamentals of Programming in Visual Basic

Introduction

Visual Basic 6.0 is a programming environment from Microsoft that allows the programmer to create windows (Graphical User Interface) applications. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) enables the user to interact with an application through the use of graphs, icon, buttons, menus, dialog boxes and windows. Visual Basic 6.0 is an event–driven language which is required writing a code in order to perform some tasks in response to certain events.

Visual Basic is derived from the “visual” term refers to the method used to create a Graphical User Interface. The “Basic” term refers to the BASIC (Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) language, a language used by more programmers.

Starting Visual Basic Program

To start Visual Basic program, the following steps have to follow:

Click on Start ? programs ? Microsoft visual studio 6.0 ? Microsoft visual basic 6.0.

The new project window will appear as shown in Figure (1). It has three tabs:
New : To start a new project.
Existing : To select from a list of existing projects.
Recent : To select from the list of recently opened projects.

Click on the Standard EXE icon (EXE means executable) to go into visual basic 6.0 programing environment.