1. Visual Basic Code & No.: CS 218
CREDIT HOURS: 5 UNIT
Lecture 3.0 hours/week
Lab: 2.0 hour/on every week
This course introduces the students to a Visual Basic Integrated Development Environment
b.  Also deals with data types , variables, events and control structures
c. The course also permits the user to build different types of Visual Basic applications.

2. 14/11/1435 H Lecture 1 Introduction to Visual basic IDE components
Chapter 6 - Visual Basic Schneider

3. Introduction Q:What is Visual Basic?
VB is a programming language. Easy and powerful tool for developing Windows applications in Basic.
· Visual Basic is a tool that allows you to develop Windows (Graphic User Interface - GUI) applications.

4. Why VB?
1.Easy for beginners. 2 .Capable of high end programs 3.Graphical(OOP for the most part) 4.Many free resources. available 4

5. VB Development Environment
Q: Define the following:
1. Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
It is a visual environment to develop, run, test and debug.
IDE is a term commonly used in the programming world to describe the interface and environment that we use to create our applications.

6. .
2. Controls
They are visual, and readymade components, assigned a set of properties (I.e. Text Box, Button, List Box, etc…).
3. Event driven programming
flow of the application stated by the user actions (click of a mouse, keystrokes, etc…).

7. VB IDE menu bar Toolbar Project Explorer Toolbox Properties window
Immediate window
Form layout

8. Visual Basic 6 Interactive Development Environment
Project Explorer
Toolbox
Form Designer Window
Properties window
Code Editor Window
Form Layout Window
Exploring MS Visual Basic 6
Copyright 1999 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

9. Q: Mention VB IDE Components and define each
1. Menu Bar: contains all commands needed to run VB (File, Edit, View etc…). 2. Toolbars: quick access to commonly used menu commands. 3. Project Explorer: displays the project’s components.

10. .
4. Toolbox: contains icons of the controls that can be placed on the project’s Forms to create the application’s interface. 5. Properties Window: Shows the property settings of the selected control (size, caption, color, etc…).

11. .
6. Form Designer: Main window in which one can design and edit the application’s user interface. In this window the user can enter and edit the application’s code. It displays two windows: Form and Code window. 7. Form Layout: Shows the initial positions of the forms in the application. It is useful in multiple forms applications. 8.Immediate Window: Debugging tool.

12. Q: Mention VB Programming Steps?
Step 1: Customize the windows that the user sees. I.e. placing controls and components on the layouts of the project’s Forms.
Step 2: Decide on the events each control should recognize.
Step 3: Coding the event procedures for those events.

13. Q: Mention the Visual Basic IDE components?
Tool Bar
Project Explorer
Properties window
Form Layout
Window Toolbox
Form Designer
Object Browser
Chapter 6 - Visual Basic Schneider

14. Chapter 6 - Visual Basic Schneider
Form Layout
Chapter 6 - Visual Basic Schneider

15. Q: What do we mean by that Visual Basic is event-driven
It means that the code remains idle until called upon to respond to some event (button pressing, menu selection, ..
Chapter 6 - Visual Basic Schneider