1. Visual Basic Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 56:150 Information System Design

2. Workspace Toolbar Toolbox Development Area Property Description Window Form Layout Window Project Explore

3. Important Functions in Menu File Menu Remove Project Make Executable file View Menu code, object, project explorer, properties window, form layout window Immediate window (Debug.print …) Watch window (watch the specified expression) Local window (watch all the variables in the scope of current procedure)

4. View Menu Cont. Definition: To find the definition place of variables, constants, functions, and procedures. Object browser to view the component's classes, as well as the properties, methods, events, and constants associated with the objects of each class.

5. Project Menu Add Form, Add Module …… Components Add new components to your project Project Properties Startup Objects Application related information Compile setting

6. Debug Menu Step into Step over Run to cursor Toggle breakpoint

7. Tools Menu Menu Editor Add procedure Options Configure your IDE

8. Add-Ins Add-In Manager Loaded behavior: Loaded, startup Visual Data manager Explore the data in database. Test your sql statement.

9. Components in Toolbox Through Project/Components, you may add more components to the toolbox of your current project. Put the component on the form, and you can play with it. The properties are shown in property window, the events are listed in the coding window

10. Project File Extensions Visual Basic produces a number of files when you create and compile a project. These can be categorized as follows: design-time, miscellaneous development, and run-time. Miscellaneous files are produced by Visual Basic Development Environment. Package and Deployment Wizard dependency files (.dep), for example.

11. Project File Extensions Design time files are the building blocks of your project: basic modules (.bas) and form modules (.frm), class modules (.cls) for example. When you compile your application, all the necessary design-time files are included in the run-time executable files. (*.dll, *.exe, *.ocx) You just need to understand the design time files currently.

12. References http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp http://graphicsmagician.com/vbcourse/index.htm