Chapter 14

Advanced Techniques in Visual Basic .NET

After reading this chapter, you will be able to create MDI based projects, to place a toolbar on the form, to use the facility of drawing, to use the facility of printing, to use the various techniques of debugging, and, finally, to use the facility of structured error handling.

14.1 SINGLE DOCUMENT INTERFACE AND MULTIPLE DOCUMENT INTERFACE

Interfaces of Visual Basic projects can be classified into the following categories:

  1. Single Document Interface (SDI): All the projects we have created so far belong to this category. The text editor Notepad (Windows application) also belongs to this category. You know that we can open and display only one text file in the main window of Notepad (that’s ...

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