1.The Integrated Development Environment


The IDE Windows

Commonly used IDE Windows
1.   Project window- gives you an overview of all the modules that are contained in your application.
2.   Form Designer window-use to design your application's user interface.
3.   Toolbox window- includes a set of objects that you can place on a form or on another designer.
4.   Code window-use to write code that determines the behavior of your forms and other objects in your application.
5.   Properties window-lists all the properties of the object that's currently selected and gives you the opportunity to modify them.
6.   Color Palette window - is handy for quickly assigning a color to an object, such as the control that's currently selected on a form designer.
7.   Form Layout window-shows how a given form will be displayed when the program runs.
8.   Immediate window-lets you enter a Visual Basic command or expression and see its result using the Print command.

The ToolBox

Commonly Used Controls
  1. Label-serves to display static text.
  2. TextBox- is a field that contains a string of characters that can be edited by the user.
  3.  CommandButton- present in almost every form, you usually write code in the Click event procedure of this control.
  4. CheckBox-used when the user has to make a yes/no, true/false selection.
  5. OptionButton-are always used in groups, and you can select only one control in the group at a time.
  6. Frame-used as a container for other controls.
  7. ListBox-contains a number of items, and the user can select one or more of them (depending on the value of the control's MultiSelect property).
  8. ComboBox-combination of a TextBox and a ListBox control, with the difference that the list portion is visible only if the user clicks on the down arrow to the right of the edit area.
  9. Timer -peculiar in that it isn't visible at run time. Its only purpose is to regularly raise an event in its parent form.
  10.  PictureBox -used to display images.

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