1. The Visual Basic Integrated Development Environment

2. Visual Basic Startup Screen Main window Form window Project window (Project Explorer) Properties window Form layout window Toolbox

9. Visual Basic Objects All of the controls in the toolbox are objects. The form is also an object. Visual Basic Objects have properties events methods

10. Object Properties A property is a named attribute of an object. used to change the behavior and appearance of an object can be set at design time or with code at run time  frmFirst.BackColor = vbBlue

11. Object Events action taken by the object in response to an event such as a mouse click or key press an event procedure tells an object how to respond to an event Example: Private Sub Form_Click() lblNew.Caption = “You clicked the form!” End Sub

12. Object Methods code held by the object that operate on the object’s data methods in Visual Basic are predefined procedures frmFirst.PrintForm

13. The Code Window

14. Projects Every Visual Basic application is defined and saved as a project. Each project contains a collection of files such as forms or modules. Save all forms and modules individually within the project. Save the project (.vbp extention)