Visual Basic Programming An Introduction

Why Visual Basic? H Programming for the Windows User Interface is extremely complicated. H Other Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) are...

Why Visual Basic?

• H Programming for the Windows User
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• Interface is extremely complicated.
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• H Other Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) areno better.

• H Visual Basic provides a convenient methodfor building user interfaces.

• H Visual Basic can interface with code written

in C, for efficiency.

What Visual Basic is not

H Visual Basic is not, a powerful

programming language that enables you to

do anything you want.

H Visual Basic is not, elegant or fast.

H Visual Basic is not, a replacement for C.

H Visual Basic is not, anything like any other

programming language you have ever used.

When You Program in VB:

H You draw pictures of your user interface.

H You draw buttons, text boxes, and other

user-interface items.

H You add little snippets of code to handle the

user interaction.

H You add initialization code, usually as the

last step.

H If you like, you can code more complex

functions. (But many do not.)