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Five windows included in the Visual Basic Startup Screen

Main

Form

Toolbox

Project Explorer (Project)

Properties

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Visual Basic startup screen

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Project and Properties Windows

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Caption vs Name Property

Caption property

Controls the text seen by the user

Name property

Assigns a name to an object

Used by the programmer to refer to an object in code

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Name Property

Must begin with a letter

Can contain letters, numbers, and the underscore character only

Must not contain punctuation characters or spaces

Must not exceed 40 characters

Use the three-character IDs shown in Figure 1-10

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Saving a Project

Click the Save Project button on the Standard toolbar. Provide a name for the form and the project

You also can use the Save <filename> As and Save Project As commands on the File menu. However, be sure to save the form before saving the project

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Starting and Ending a Project

To start a project: Click the Start button on the Standard toolbar. You also can press F5 or use the Start command on the Run menu

To end a project: Click the End button on the Standard toolbar. You also can use the End command on the Run menu

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Opening a Project

To open a new project, use the File menu’s New Project command

To open an existing project, click the Open Project button on the Standard toolbar. You also can use the Open Project command on the File menu, or the Ctrl+O key combination

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Getting Help

Use the Help menu’s Contents, Index, or Search commands

Click the object, window, property, and so on for which you want help, then press the F1 key

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MSDN Library Visual Studio 6.0

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Caption Property’s Help Screen

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Default-size label control added to the form

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Classes and Objects

Each tool in the toolbox represents a

class, which is a pattern from which one

or more objects, called controls, are

created

Each control you create is an instance of

the class from which it was created

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Sizing, Moving, and Deleting Controls

You can size, move, and delete a

control, as well as set its properties

Before you can delete a control, the control

must be selected and the form must be the

active window

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Selecting More Than One Control

You can change a property for more than one control at a time

Click the first control you want to select, then Ctrl-Click the remaining controls

Use the mouse pointer selection method

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Open Code Window

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Listing of Properties and Methods

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Editor Tab in the Options Dialog Box

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Printing an Application

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Making an Executable File

Visual Basic’s compiler translates the

application’s code into machine code

The machine code is stored in a file with

a .exe extension on its name

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Debugging Technique

Print the application’s properties (Form As Text) and code

In the properties printout, look for a property that is not set correctly

In the code printout, look for an instruction that is either in the wrong object’s Code window or in the wrong event procedure