VISUAL BASIC FORM – container for all the controls OBJECT: anything that can be seen, touched, or

PROJECT - It contains files and other information used

specific to a single programming undertaking.
CONTROLS in Visual Basic 2012 are objects that
can be placed on the form to perform various
tasks.
TEXT BOX – controls allowing the entering of text.
 LABEL CONTROL – Used to display some
informative text.
 BUTTON CONTROL – used to generate a
click event
 RADIOBUTTON CONTROL – used to
provide a set of mutually exclusive option
 GROUPBOX CONTROL – used to place
adiobutton, displays caption
CHECKED – property of radiobutton used to set the
state of radiobutton
APPEARANCE – change the appearance of
radiobutton
 PANEL CONTROL – similar to groupbox,
have scroll bars
 CHECKBOX CONTROL – used to set
true/false or yes/no options
CHECKBOX STATE:
1. Checked
2. Unchecked
3. Indeterminate
 LISTBOX CONTROL – displays list of items
to a user.
 COMBOBOX CONTROL – used to display a
drop-down list of various items.
 PICTUREBOX CONTROL
DATA CONTROL:
CLASS: a pattern used to create an object
INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
(IDE): Contains all the tools and features
needed to create, run, and test programs
APPLICATION: program or suite of programs
WINDOWS-BASED APPLICATION:
 Has a Windows user interface
 Runs on a personal computer
USER INTERFACE: what the user sees and
interacts with when using an application
WEB-BASED APPLICATION:
 Has a Web user interface
 Runs on a server
 Accessed with a computer browser
SOLUTION: a container that stores projects and files
for an entire application
PROJECT: a container that stores files associated
with a specific portion of the solution
WINDOWS FORM DESIGNER WINDOW:
Allows you to create (design) the GUI
GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI):
What the user sees and interacts with
INTELLISENSE displays a list of the properties and
methods that you might be trying to select.
WINDOWS FORM OBJECT (OR FORM):
 Foundation for the user interface
 Add other objects such as buttons/text boxes
to form
 Title bar with caption and Minimize, Maximize,
and Close buttons
 Tab at top of designer window has Form1.vb
[Design]

 LABEL SOLUTION EXPLORER WINDOW:

 DataGridView Displays a list of projects contained in this
 ListView, solution
 TreeView Displays the items contained in each project
 PropertyGrid SOURCE FILE
A file containing program instructions
FEEDBACK CONTROLS; CODE
 ToolTip Program instructions
 HelpProvider FORM FILE
 ErrorProvider A file containing code associated with a
 NotifyIcon Windows form
Give each form file a meaningful name using
 StatusStrip
the Properties window
 ProgressBar
PROPERTIES
A set of attributes
GRAPHICS CONTROLS:
PROPERTIES WINDOW
Displays properties of the selected object
 NAME AND TEXT PROPERTIES
 Form Assign meaningful names
 PictureBox  TEXT PROPERTY
 PrintPreviewControl Controls the caption displayed
 PrintDocument  STARTPOSITION PROPERTY
 PrintPreviewDialog Determines the form’s position on the
screen when application starts
 FONT PROPERTY
general shape of characters in text
 SIZE PROPERTY
VISUAL BASIC 2012 is an object-oriented
programming language (OOP) EVENTS:
 User actions while program is running 2. Long
3. Decimal
EVENT PROCEDURE: 4. Single
Set of instructions to be processed 5. Double
CODE EDITOR WINDOW: 6. String
Used to enter event procedure’s code
CLASS STATEMENT NOT A NUMBER (NaN) – indicates that the result
Used to define a class cant be defined.
CLASS NAME LIST BOX BOOLEAN – stores true/false statements
Lists the names of objects CONSTANTS – doesnt change values
METHOD NAME LIST BOX
Lists the events ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS
SYNTAX 1. Exponentiation
Rules of the language 2. Negation
KEYWORD 3. Multiplication and Division
A word with special meaning 4. Integer division
SUB PROCEDURE 5. Modulus division
Block of code that performs a task 6. Addition and subtraction
BUG
An error in a program’s code CONCATENATION OPERATIONS
DEBUGGING 1. String Concatenation (&)
The process of locating and correcting bugs 2. String concatenation (+)
in a program
SYNTAX ERROR COMPARISON OPERATIONS
Occurs when you break one of the 1. Equality
programming language’s rules 2. Inequality
3. Less than, Greater than
4. Greater than or equal to
VARIABLE – stores data. 5. Less than or equal
PROGRAM – list of statement that manipulates 6. Like
variables.
DATA TYPE – determine what kind of value we can LOGICAL / BITWISE OPERATORS
store in a variable 1. Negation
2. Conjunction
FIVE CATEGORIES OF VARIABLES: 3. Disjunction
1. Numeric
2. String DECISION STATEMENTS
3. Boolean 1. If … Then
4. Date 2. If … Then … Else
5. Object 3. Select Case

MAJOR CATEGORIES OF VARIABLE TYPE: LOOP STATEMENTS

1. Numeric 1. For … Next
2. String 2. Do … Loop
3. While ... End While
NUMERIC VARIABLES – stores numbers
STRING VARIABLES – stores text ARRAYS – fixed-sized sequential collection of
OBJECT VARIABLES – stores any kind of data type elements
CHARACTER VARIABLES – Stores single Unicode INITIALIZATION - use to initialize the variable.
character.

TYPES OF NUMERIC VARIABLES

1. Integer
2. Double
3. Decimal
4. Single

DATA TYPES:
1. Byte
2. Char
3. DateTime
4. Double
5. Integer
6. String
7. Object

CHARACTER TYPES:
1. Integer