Begining Visual Basic
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Well, you've just got the visual basic 2005, but now what do we do with it? I mean, what is all this stuff?
Well first we should start a project, you should get a window that pops up like this:
My default, Windows application is highlighted, this is what we want though. Under this white area You will see, Name, Location, and Solution Name. All of these are changable, so feel free to change the name, or where you want it to be saved (location). Note: The solution Name and name are the same, if you change one it changes the other.
Now that we have that done, double click on the windows application or hit the 'ok' button. Now you should have something like this: (click on it to see a better picture)
Next, we need to open the tool bar, with this program it allows us to see what the program looks like as well as the code. Where is the toolbar though? Its hidden at the moment until we tack it in place. first click on this:
The red part is what you need to click. But now we need to tack it in place so its always there, there is a tack looking icon on the toolbar menu, which you need to click:
Now, lets look at the right side of the window. Namely at the Solution Center.
What is this though? What am I supposed to do with it? Simply its a list of everything in your project, All of your forms, images and more. At the present time we only have one form and nothing else. Under the Solution Center you find the properties. It will tell you the properties of the object you have selected. We will get into this more though in other tutorials when we actually have to use it.
At the bottom of the screen you find the Error log, this will tell you any errors in your coding, where it is and what the issue is (like why it's doing that).
The only thing really to know next is how to test a program. On the top bar there is a play button. You hit the button and it will start the program and if there are errors it will tell you so.
Now we know the basic areas of the program, we can try and make a program.
