Introduction to Visual Basic 6.0

BY :- Manav khandelwal

To :- Rakesh Sir

Content• Front page Form Window• Content Toolbox • History Project Explorer Window• Introduction Properties Window • IDE playground Form Layout Window• Title Bar Tool in Toolbox • Menu bar Visual Basic Project • Tool bar OOPS• Thank you

History

• VB 1.0 was introduced in 1991. The drag and drop design for creating the user interface is derived from a prototype form generator developed by Alan Cooper and his company called Tripod.

Introduction

• Visual Basic is a programing language.

• It’s a high-level programing language that provides Graphical User Interface (GUI) for designing and developing application as per user requirement.

IDE Playground

• An integrated development environment refers to the programming environment that has been stacked consisting of code editor, compiler, debugger and also GUI builder.

• The integrated development environment works as interface in Visual Basic 6.0.

• Some components make an IDE Playground. The components are as follows:-

Title bar• The Title Bar appears at the top end of Visual

Basic Application Window.

• It displays the name of the Project.

• The by default First project is named as Project1.

Menu Bar

• The menu bar provides you menus and submenus populated with standard commands which are useful in working with Visual basic project.

Toolbar

• The toolbar is Visual basic refers to the buttons which are used to perform frequently, used task, such as Save Projects, Open projects, etc.

Form Window

• The form window is known as the prime components of Visual Basic application and hence it is known as the “basic building block”for creating the applications.

Toolbox• The toolbox contains icons of

different controls such as Labels, command Buttons, etc.

• These tools are used to create an interface while working with Forms.

Project Explorer Window

• The Project Explorer Windows contains various elements, such ass Form, class and modules.

• The windows displays all the components created in the current project.

Properties Windows • The Properties Windows displays

the various properties for various components.

• This windows is only available in the design mode.

Form Layout Windows

• The Form Layout Window is used to locate the position of a Form with respect to the display area of the screen during runtime.

Tools in Toolbox

Visual Basic Project

• The Visual Basic Project refers to the repository where code modules and Form are saved collectively.

• The project file extension (.vbp) describes the Project as a whole, naming the individual files that are a part of the project

OOPS• Full form of OOPS is Object Oriented

programming System.

• OOPS refers to the concept of programming in a graphical environment where

• the modules are classified as an object

Thank you