In the chapter of [[Visual Basic Essentials]] we will cover the drawing of 2D graphics on controls using Visual Basic. In the this tutorial we will create a project containing a blank form and work step by step through drawing on the form.
Start Visual Studio and create a new Windows Application project.
== Drawing a Filled Shapes in Visual Basic ==
Begin by double clicking on the new Form in the Visual Studio project to access the event procedure code for the form control. From the pulldown pull-down list, select the ''Paint'' event as shown below (if you are using Visual Studio 2008 the events are accessed by clicking on the lightning bolt above the properties list):
[[Image:vb_graphics_paint_event.jpg]]
Exception encountered, of type "Error"
[2d7a2e03] /index.php/Special:MobileDiff/7228 Error from line 434 of /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php: Call to undefined function each()
Backtrace:
#0 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(544): DiffEngine->diag()
#1 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(344): DiffEngine->compareSeq()
#2 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(227): DiffEngine->diffLocal()
#3 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(721): DiffEngine->diff()
#4 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(859): Diff->__construct()
#5 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(980): MappedDiff->__construct()
#6 /var/www/techotopia/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/diff/InlineDiffFormatter.php(99): WordLevelDiff->__construct()
#7 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DiffFormatter.php(140): InlineDiffFormatter->changed()
#8 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DiffFormatter.php(82): DiffFormatter->block()
#9 /var/www/techotopia/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/diff/InlineDifferenceEngine.php(117): DiffFormatter->format()
#10 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DifferenceEngine.php(797): InlineDifferenceEngine->generateTextDiffBody()
#11 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DifferenceEngine.php(728): DifferenceEngine->generateContentDiffBody()
#12 /var/www/techotopia/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/specials/SpecialMobileDiff.php(241): DifferenceEngine->getDiffBody()
#13 /var/www/techotopia/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/specials/SpecialMobileDiff.php(135): SpecialMobileDiff->showDiff()
#14 /var/www/techotopia/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/specials/MobileSpecialPage.php(53): SpecialMobileDiff->executeWhenAvailable()
#15 /var/www/techotopia/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(384): MobileSpecialPage->execute()
#16 /var/www/techotopia/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(553): SpecialPage->run()
#17 /var/www/techotopia/includes/MediaWiki.php(281): SpecialPageFactory::executePath()
#18 /var/www/techotopia/includes/MediaWiki.php(714): MediaWiki->performRequest()
#19 /var/www/techotopia/includes/MediaWiki.php(508): MediaWiki->main()
#20 /var/www/techotopia/index.php(41): MediaWiki->run()
#21 {main}