Your First Visual Basic Program
The following example walks you through the creation of a fully functional Visual Basic program. You might not have access to a Visual Basic system, and you might never have used Windows. Even so, this example and the remaining chapters in this part give you a glimpse of Visual Basic.
To write a fully functional Visual Basic Windows program, all you have to do is start Visual Basic. Select Standard EXE from the Project window and then double-click the box in the center of the screen. You will see a window open up such as the one shown in Figure 5.1.
Figure 5.1. You've now opened Visual Basic's code window.
The window ...
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