1. Visual Studio 2010
Hello World
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2. Go to Start/All Programs/Microsoft Visual Studio 2010/Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
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3. Choose a default environment setting and click Start (I like General because I use Studio for both Visual Basic desktop and web development)
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4. This takes awhile the first time you are working at a particular computer
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5. Click on New Project on the start Page or go to File/New/Project
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6. Use the New Project dialog box to give the project a name
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7. Use the Browse button next to Location to determine where your project will be saved.
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8. After establishing a name and location click OK
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9. Mouse over the Toolbox icon on the left-hand side, then click on the pin icon to lock in place the Tool box that slides out in
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10. Determine how to sort the Properties Window on the lower right.
The sorting choices are categorized and alphabetical. Currently alphabetical is selected.
In addition to properties one can also look at “events” but for now we are interested in properties.
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11. Change the (Name) property of the Form by typing in the textbox.
A description of the selected property appears at the bottom of the Properties Window.
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12. Change the Text property of the form.
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13. In the Solution Explorer (upper right) right click on the Form1
In the Solution Explorer (upper right) right click on the Form1.vb file name and change the name of the file but not the extension.
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14. Select the Button icon from the Toolbox (left hand) and drag (an instance of) a button onto the form.
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15. With the button highlighted, go to the Properties Window and change the button’s (Name) property
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16. Highlight a label from the Toolbox and drag it onto the form
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17. With the label on the form highlighted change the (Name) property of the label in the Properties Window.
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18. Set the label’s AutoSize property to False.
The label will now be a fixed size on the form as opposed to adjusting to the size of the text it contains.
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19. Change the label’s BorderStyle property to FixedSingle
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20. Change the label’s TextAlign property to MiddleCenter
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21. Click on the ellipsis button next to the Font Property, and use the dialog box to change the Font Size property.
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22. Empty out the label’s Text property.
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23. Button Click Routine 1: Double click on the button on the form
Creates btnShowMessage_Click subroutine as seen below in “Code View”. Controls have more than one event associated with them. This approach picks out the “default” event.
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24. Button Click Routine 2: Go to Code View in the Solution Explorer (upper right); use the left drop-down list to choose the button and the right drop-down list to choose the Click event
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25. Button Click Routine 3: Highlight the button on the form, go to the Properties Window and choose the Event list and double click on the Click event.
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26. Write a comment about the subroutine
Write a comment about the subroutine. Comments start with a single quote and under default setting show up in green
A comment does not affect in any way how the program will execute. It’s there to offer some explanation to any human reader of the code.
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27. Within the subroutine type the name of the label control followed by a dot; that triggers a drop-down list to appear. Choose “Text” or type “Text”
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28. Type an equal sign followed by some text inside double quotes
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29. SAVE!
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30. RUN!
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31. Result of running program
Before button is clicked
After button is clicked
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