Visual Basic Essentials

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Visual Basic Essentials is an online book designed to aid both novices and experience programmers in learning Visual Basic. Using both theory and extensive examples, this book is intended to provide a everything needed to begin developing Windows applications in Visual Basic.

1. About Visual Basic Essentials
2. Downloading and Installing Visual Studio
3. Creating a New Visual Basic Project
4. A Simple Visual Basic Example
5. Visual Basic and Forms
6. Designing Forms in Visual Studio
7. Understanding Visual Basic Events
8. Hiding and Showing Forms in Visual Basic
9. Creating a Visual Basic MDI Form
10. Creating Top-Level Menus in Visual Basic
11. Creating Context Menus in Visual Basic
12. Building a Visual Basic Toolbar
13. Building a Visual Basic Status Bar
14. Visual Basic Modules and Procedures
15. Understanding Visual Basic Variable and Constant Types
16. Declaring Visual Basic Variables and Constants
17. Visual Basic Arithmetic
18. Visual Basic Comparison and Logic
19. Visual Basic Flow Control
20. Visual Basic For Loops
21. Visual Basic Do ... Loops
22. Visual Basic Arrays
23. Visual Basic Multidimensional Arrays
24. Working with Dates and Times in Visual Basic
25. Working with Strings in Visual Basic
26. Object Oriented Programming with Visual Basic
27. Accessing Databases Using Visual Basic
28. Visual Basic and the DataGridView Control
29. Working with Files in Visual Basic
30. Working with Directories in Visual Basic
31. Drawing Graphics in Visual Basic