Visual Basic Essentials

This Techotopia online book is currently under development. Completion is scheduled for August 2007.

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