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Visual Basic 2010 is the version of Visual Basic launched by Microsoft in 2010. Visual Basic 2010 is almost similar to Visual Basic 2008, but it has added many new features. Like Visual Basic 2008 , Visual Basic 2010 is also a full fledged Object-Oriented Programming(OOP) Language, so it has caught up with other OOP languages such as C++, Java,C# and others. Start learning Visual Basic 2010 by following the lessons listed in the contents below:

Contents
Lesson 1- Introduction Lesson 2-Working with Controls Lesson 3-Working with Control Properties Lesson 4 -Object Oriented Programming Lesson 5-Writing the Code Lesson 6- Managing Data Lesson 7- Mathematical Operations Lesson 8- String Manipulation Lesson 9- Using If.Then.Else Lesson 10- Using Select Case Lesson 11- Looping

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Lesson 12- Functions Part 1 Lesson 13- Function Part II Lesson 14- Functions Part III- Math Functions Lesson 15 Functions Part IV- Formatting Functions Lesson 16 Functions Part V- Formatting Date and Time Lesson 17 Using Check Box Lesson 18 Using Radio Button

Lesson 19 Creating A Simple Web Browser Lesson 20 Errors Handling Lesson 21- Managing Graphics 1-Basic Concepts Lesson 22 Managing Graphics -Drawing Rectangle Lesson 23 Managing Graphics -Drawing Ellipse and Circle Lesson 24 Managing Graphics -Drawing Text Lesson 25 Managing Graphics -Drawing Polygon and Pie Lesson 26 Managing Graphics-Filling Shapes with Color Lesson 27 Using Timer Lesson 28 Creating Animation Lesson 29 Working with Databases Part 1 Lesson 30 Working with Databases Part 2 Lesson 31 Working with Databases Part 3

The complete Visual Basic 2010 tutorial is available in the form of our latest E-Book, Visual Basic 2010 Made Easy ,written by our webmaster and tutor , Dr.Liew to complement our online tutorial.

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With more than 200 pages of contents and many hands on examples, you should be able to master the basics of VB2010 quickly. This book can also be used as a textbook for classroom learning. Click on the book image below for more information.

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kyle says:
March 20, 2013 at 6:56 pm

Im trying to find a way to record the amount of characters within a file I need to open. Is there a way to do this?
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Michael Clark says:

November 15, 2012 at 7:38 am

Can you tell me where I can get the vb 2010 program? Thanks, Michael Clark
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Dr.Liew says:
February 11, 2013 at 3:38 pm

Following the link here: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads#d2010-express

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HOW TO USE LISTBOXES says:

November 11, 2012 at 4:45 pm

Please include a tutorial on how to use listboxes for 2010. I cant seem to be able to make a calculator with a listbox of choices and if u click a different one, it will determine the equations plus minus, division and multiplication. When it doesnt come up with errors, and test it, all the answers = to zero for some reason. Please explain what i have to do.
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vher_way says:
September 9, 2012 at 12:18 pm

Hello sir.. Can I ask something!! How do we create a new DataGrid automatically when new data is entered into the database! Illustration like this: We have 1 table in a database with the name A. in the A there are some data such as Brand, Color, Type. We want to make some DataGrid with an amount equal to the number of colors. 1 datagrid there are 3 columns (No, Brand, Type) We suppose initial color data is Red, Green, Blue. When we enter a new color, say Yellow new DataGrid will automatically be created by itself. with the same number of columns with datagrid previous color. Is that possible? Please tell me!!
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Dr.Liew says:
February 11, 2013 at 3:34 pm

You need to include another DataGrid and connect it to another table in the same database. In your case, Table A comprises Brand, Color, Type and Table B comprises No, Brand, Type. You can join the two tables using SQL syntax using a common indexed field, in your case maybe you can use brand, but normally we use a model number or serial number. You can refer to our database example in our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=528134630564359& set=a.528134627231026.122584.518642898180199&type=1&theater
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[CONTENTS] >>[Lesson 2] Visual Basic 2010 is the latest version of Visual Basic launched by Microsoft in 2010. VB2010 is almost similar to Visual Basic 2008, but it has added many new features. Like Visual Basic 2008 , Visual Basic 2010 is also a full fledged Object-Oriented Programming(OOP) Language, so it has caught up with other OOP languages such as C++, Java,C# and others.

However, you dont have to know OOP to learn VB2010. In fact, if you are familiar with Visual Basic 6, you can learn VB2010 effortlessly because the syntax and interface are similar. Visual Basic 2010 Express Edition is available free for download from the Microsoft site. Click on this link http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions /visual-basic-express The Integrated Development Environment when you launch VB2010 Express is shown in the diagram below. The IDE Start Page consists of a few sections, namely: The New Project/Open Project section. The Recent Projects section that shows a list of projects that have been created by you recently. The Getting Started Pane- It provides some helpful tips to quickly develop your applications.

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The Latest News section- It provides latest online news about Visual Basic 2010 Express. It will announce new releases and updates The Properties section-let you defines the properties of each control

To start creating your first application, you need to click on New Project. The following VB2010 New Project dialog box will appear.

The dialog box offers you five types of projects that you can create. As we are going to learn to create windows Applications, we will select Windows

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Forms Application. At the bottom of this dialog box, you can change the default project name WindowsApplication1 to some other name you like, for exampe, myFirstProgram. After you have renamed the project, click OK to continue. The following IDE Windows will appear, it is almost similar to Visual Basic 6. It consists of an empty form, the toolbox tab and the properties. The layout is slightly different from vb2008 as the Toolbox is not shown until you click on the Toolbox tab.When you click on the Toolbox tab, the common controls Toolbox will appear.

Now drag the button control into the form, and change its default Text Button1 to OK in the properties window, the word OK will appear on the button in the form, as shown below:

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Now click on the OK button and the code window appears. Enter the code as follows:

When you run the the program and click on the OK button, a dialog box will appear and display the WELCOME TO VISUAL BASIC 2010 message,as shown below: There you are, you have created your first VB2010 program.

[CONTENTS] >>[Lesson 2]

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thanks so much ! so helpful !

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December 29, 2012 at 9:48 pm

This site is quite easy to use and I cant wait to get into some harder VB!
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very nice.i like it.

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[Lesson 1]<< [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 3] Controls in Visual Basic 2010 are tools that can be placed in the form to perform various tasks. We can use them to create all kinds of Windows applications. The diagram below shows the Toolbox that contains the controls of Visual Basic 2010. They are categorized into Common Controls, Containers, Menus, Toolbars, Data, Components, Printings and Dialogs. At the moment, we will focus on the common controls. Some of the most used common controls are Button, Label, ComboBox, ListBox, PictureBox, TextBox and more. To insert a control into your form, you just need to drag the control from the tool box and drop it into the form. You can reposition and resize it as you like. Lets examine a few examples that made use of Button, Label, TextBox , ListBox and PictureBox . You dont have to worry so much about the code yet because I will explain the program syntax as you progress to later lessons.

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When you click on the Toolbox tab, the common controls Toolbox will appear.

2.1 Creating your first program

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To create your first program, drag the button control into the form, and change its default Text Button1 to OK in the properties window, the word OK will appear on the button in the form, as shown below:

Now click on the OK button and the code window appears. Enter the code as follows:

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When you run the the program and click on the OK button, a dialog box will appear and display the WELCOME TO VISUAL BASIC 2010 message,as shown below:

There you are, you have created your first Visual Basic 2010 program. 2.2 Using the Text Box Next I will show you how to create a simple calculator that adds two numbers using the TextBox control. In this program, you insert two text boxes , three labels and one button. The two text boxes are for the users to enter two numbers, one label is to display the addition operator and the other label is to display the equal sign. The last label is to display the answer. Now change the label on the button to Calculate,then click on this button and enter the following code: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim num1, num2, product As Single num1 = TextBox1.Text num2 = TextBox2.Text product = num1 + num2 Label1.Text = product End Sub When you run the program and enter two numbers, pressing the calculate

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button will allows the program to add the two numbers.

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amandeep says:
May 23, 2013 at 12:37 am

Sir, i want to resize the button in vb 2010, howz possible ?

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amandeep says:
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i have found solution, but anybody know how to enlarge label .

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Vidyadhish says:
February 25, 2013 at 11:17 am

Label1.Text = product I believe this should read as textbox3.text = product

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Vidyadhish says:
February 25, 2013 at 11:19 am

oops unless the third is also a label. my mistake then it would be label1.text =product Sorry for the confusion
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Britton says:
February 20, 2013 at 5:07 pm

Would be nice if you would explain how to get the + & = symbols.
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John says:
May 4, 2013 at 1:49 am

You can change the size and font in the properties menu
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Ramon Tan says:

November 15, 2012 at 10:15 am

I am struggling with your VB 2010 tutorial because the only version I can download from Microsoft is VB (Studio) 2012. So your screenshots in the tutorial are not quite the same. Is there a 2012 oriented tutorial?

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Dr.Liew says:
February 11, 2013 at 3:24 pm

We are in the process of developing VB2012 tutorial, follow us on our Facebook page for updates. https://www.facebook.com/Vbtutor
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mentol says:
November 14, 2012 at 11:52 am

Can I ask something sir? Well, i do as you told sir. But my output is nothing. I mean, no answer show in Label. Do i miss something? sorry for bad english. Im just start to learn Visual. Zero basic.
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[Lesson 2]<< [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 4] 3.1 The Control Properties in VB2010 Before writing an event procedure for a control in Visual Basic 2010 to response to a users input, you have to set certain properties for the control to determine its appearance and how it will work with the event procedure. You can set the properties of the controls in the properties window at design time or at runtime. Figure 3.2 on the right is a typical properties window for a form in Visual Basic 2010 IDE. It refers particularly to interface of the first program you have learned in the previous lesson :

Figure 3.1

Figure 3.2 The title of the form is defined by the Text property and its default name is Form 1. To change the forms title to any name that you like, simple click in the box on

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the right of the Text property and type in the new name, in this example, the title is Addition Calculator. Notice that this title will appear on top of the window. In the properties window, the item appears at the top part is the object currently selected (in Figure 3.1, the object selected is Form1). At the bottom part, the items listed in the left column represent the names of various properties associated with the selected object while the items listed in the right column represent the states of the properties. Properties can be set by highlighting the items in the right column then change them by typing or selecting the options available. You may also alter other properties of the form such as font, location, size, foreground color, background color ,MaximizeBox, MinimizeBox and etc. You can also change the properties of the object at runtime to give special effects such as change of color, shape, animation effect and so on. For example the following code will change the form color to yellow every time the form is loaded. Visual Basic 2010 uses RGB(Red, Green, Blue) to determine the colors. The RGB code for yellow is 255,255,0. Me in the code refer to the current form and Backcolor is the property of the forms background color. The formula to assign the RGB color to the form is Color.FormArbg(RGB code). The event procedure is as follows: Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Me.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(255, 0, 255) End Sub End Class You may also use the follow procedure to assign the color at run time. Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Me.BackColor = Color.Magenta End Sub

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Both procedures above will load the form with a magenta background as follows:

Here are some of the common colors and the corresponding RGB codes. You can always experiment with other combinations, but remember the maximum number for each color is 255 and the minimum number is 0.

The following is another program that allows the user to enter the RGB codes into three different text boxes and when he or she clicks the display color button, the background color of the form will change according to the RGB codes. So, this program allows users to change the color properties of the form at run time.

The code

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Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim rgb1, rgb2, rgb3 As Integer rgb1 = TextBox1.Text rgb2 = TextBox2.Text rgb3 = TextBox3.Text Me.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(rgb1, rgb2, rgb3) End Sub

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Supasam says:
May 10, 2013 at 6:18 am

You can define a boundary for the textbox value by using the IF Statement. E.g if ( rgb1 .ge. 0. and. rgb1 .le. 225) then write the code for execution Else MsgBox (please enter values between 0 and 255)
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Gabriel says:
April 15, 2013 at 7:54 pm

and if i enter 256 in a text box? or -1 or even a plain text as sadfg ? i will have an error! whats the way to let the user only use 0 to 255 numbers and only those?
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I think you can add some error handling codes somewhere

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[Lesson 3] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 5] In first three lessons, you have learned how to enter the program code and run the sample VB2010 programs but without much understanding about the logics of VB2010 programming. Now, lets get down to learning a few basic rules about writing the VB2010 program code. First of all, let me say that though VB2010 is very much similar to VB6 in terms of Interface and program structure, their underlying concepts are quite different. The main different is that VB2010 is a full Object Oriented Programming Language while VB6 may have OOP capabilities, it is not fully object oriented. In order to qualify as a fully object oriented programming language, it must have three core technologies namely encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. These three terms are explained below: Encapsulation Encapsulation refers to the creation of self-contained modules that bind processing functions to the data. These user-defined data types are called classes. Each class contains data as well as a set of methods which manipulate the data. The data components of a class are called instance variables and one instance of a class is an object. For example, in a library system, a class could be member, and John and Sharon could be two instances (two objects) of the library class. Inheritance Classes are created according to hierarchies, and inheritance allows the

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structure and methods in one class to be passed down the hierarchy. That means less programming is required when adding functions to complex systems. If a step is added at the bottom of a hierarchy, then only the processing and data associated with that unique step needs to be added. Everything else about that step is inherited. The ability to reuse existing objects is considered a major advantage of object technology. Polymorphism Object-oriented programming allows procedures about objects to be created whose exact type is not known until runtime. For example, a screen cursor may change its shape from an arrow to a line depending on the program mode. The routine to move the cursor on screen in response to mouse movement would be written for cursor, and polymorphism allows that cursor to take on whatever shape is required at runtime. It also allows new shapes to be easily integrated. VB6 is not a full OOP in the sense that it does not have inheritance capabilities although it can make use of some benefits of inheritance. However, VB2010 is a fully functional Object Oriented Programming Language, just like other OOP such as C++ and Java. It is different from the earlier versions of VB because it focuses more on the data itself while the previous versions focus more on the actions. Previous versions of VB are known as procedural or functional programming language. Some other procedural programming languages are C, Pascal and Fortran. VB2010 allows users to write programs that break down into modules. These modules will represent the real-world objects and are knows as classes or types. An object can be created out of a class and it is known as an instance of the class. A class can also comprise subclass. For example, apple tree is a subclass of the plant class and the apple in your backyard is an instance of the apple tree class. Another example is student class is a subclass of the human class while your son John is an instance of the student class. A class consists of data members as well as methods. In VB2010, the

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program structure to define a Human class can be written as follows: Public Class Human Data Members Private Name As String Private Birthdate As String Private Gender As String Private Age As Integer Methods Overridable Sub ShowInfo( ) MessageBox.Show(Name) MessageBox.Show(Birthdate) MessageBox.Show(Gender) MessageBox.Show(Age) End Sub End Class

Lets look at one example on how to create a class. The following example shows you how to create a class that can calculate your BMI (Body Mass Index). To create class, start VB2010 as usual and choose Windows Applications. In the VB2010 IDE, click on Project on the menu bar and select Add Class, the Add New Item dialog appears, as shown in the Figure below:

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The default class Class1.vb will appear as a new tab with a code window. Rename the class as MyClass.vb. Rename the form as MyFirstClass.vb. Now, in the MyClass.vb window, enter the follow code Public Function BMI(ByVal height As Single, ByVal weight As Single) BMI = Format((weight) / (height ^ 2), 0.00) End Function Now you have created a class (an object) called MyClass with a method known as BMI. In order to use the BMI class, insert a button into the form and click on the button to enter the following code:
Private Sub BtnCalBmi_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BtnCalBmi.Click Dim MyObject As Object Dim h, w As Single MyObject = New MyClass1() h = InputBox(What is your height in meter) w = InputBox(What is your weight in kg)

MessageBox.Show(MyObject.BMI(h, w)) End Sub When you run this program and click the button, the user will be presented with two input boxes to enter his or her height and weight subsequently and the value of BMI will be shown in a pop-up message box.
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when i make a new windows form and after completing my coding part when i hit the start button it loads the previous form which have made in visual studio 2012 for windows desktop. Why it loads the previous form not the new one? Pls reply thank you
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Abdullahi Tijjani R. says:

February 13, 2013 at 9:05 pm

I have tried it in VB2012 and it works perfectly, only that at the line MyObject = New MyClass1() has to be replaced with MyObject = New Class1() as the former line code generates error when the program runs. Thank you sir.
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February 13, 2013 at 8:52 pm

Sir, can we still use the same code given above in VB2012? In your first lesson, you made mention that VB2008 &VB2010 are almost similar to VB2012 only for addition of many features. Thanks a lot.
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Sir, How to open AutoCAD (Installed in C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 2008\acad.exe) through VBA in MS Excel Macro. Thanking you in advance
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[Lesson 4]<< [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 6] In previous lesson, you have learned that Visual Basic 2010 is an object oriented programming language. You have understood the meanings of class, object, encapsulation inheritance as well as polymorphism. You have also learned to write some simple programs without much understanding some underlying foundations and theories. In this lesson, you will learn some basic theories about Visual Basic 2010 programming but we will focus more on learning by doing, i.e. learning by writing programs .I will keep the theories short so that it would not be too difficult for beginners. 5.1 The event Procedure Visual Basic 2010 is an object oriented and event driven programming language. In fact, all windows applications are event driven. Event driven means the user will decide what to do with the program, whether he/she wants to click the command button, or he/she wants to enter text in a text box, or he/she might wants to close the application and etc. An event is related to an object, it is an incident that happens to the object due to the action of the user , such as a click or pressing a key on the keyboard. A class has events as it creates instant of a class or an object. When we start a windows application in Visual Basic 2010 in previous chapters, we will see a default form with the Form1 appears in the IDE, it is actually the Form1 Class that inherits from the Form class System.Windows.Forms.Form, as shown in the Form1 properties windows.

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When we click on any part of the form, we will see the code window as shown below. The is the structure of an event procedure. In this case, the event procedure is to load Form1 and it starts with Private Sub and end with End Sub. This procedure includes the Form1 class and the event Load, and they are bind together with an underscore, i.e. Form_Load. It does nothing other than loading an empty form. You dont have to worry the rest of the stuff at the moment, they will be explained in later lessons. Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load End Sub End Class The are other events associated with the Form1 class, such as click, cursorChanged, DoubleClick, DragDrop, Enter as so on, as shown in the diagram below (It appears when you click on the upper right pane of the

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5.2 Writing the code Now you are ready to write the code for the event procedure so that it will do something more than loading a blank form. The code must be entered between Private Sub.End Sub. Lets enter the following code : Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Me.Text = My First VB2010 Program Me.ForeColor = Color.ForestGreen Me.BackColor = Color.Cyan End Sub End Classs The first line of the code will change the title of the form to My First Visual Basic 2010 Program, the second line will change the foreground object to Forest Green( in this case, it is a label that you insert into the form and change its name to Foreground) and the last line changes the background to Cyan color.

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The equal (=)in the code actually is used to assign something to the object, like assigning yellow color to the foreground of the Form1 object (or an instance of Form1). Me is the name given to the Form1 class. We can also call those lines as Statements. So, the actions of the program will depend on the statements entered by the programmer. The output is shown in the windows below:

here is another example. Private Sub Button1_Click_1(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim name1, name2, name3 As String name1 = John name2 = Georges name3 = Ali MsgBox( The names are & name1 & , & name2 & and & name3) End Sub In this example, you insert one command button into the form and rename its caption as Show Hidden Names. The keyword Dim is to declare variables name1, name2 and name3 as string, which means they can only handle

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text. The function MsgBox is to display the names in a message box that are joined together by the & signs. The output is shown below:

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[Lesson 5] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 7] There are many types of data that we come across in our daily life. For example, we need to handle data such as names, addresses, money, date, stock quotes, statistics and etc everyday. Similarly in Visual Basic 2010, we have to deal with all sorts of of data, some can be mathematically calculated while some are in the form of text or other forms. VB2010 divides data into different types so that it is easier to manage when we need to write the code involving those data. 6.1 Visual Basic 2010 Data Types Visual Basic 2010 classifies the information mentioned above into two major data types, they are the numeric data types and the non-numeric data types. 6.1.1 Numeric Data Types Numeric data types are types of data that consist of numbers, which can be computed mathematically with various standard operators such as add, minus, multiply, divide and so on. Examples of numeric data types are your examination marks, your height, your weight, the number of students in a class, share values, price of goods, monthly bills, fees and etc. In Visual Basic 2010, numeric data are divided into 7 types, depending on the range of values they can store. Calculations that only involve round figures or data that dont need precision can use Integer or Long integer in the computation. Programs that require high precision calculation need to use Single and Double decision data types, they are also called floating point numbers. For currency calculation , you can use the currency data types. Lastly, if even more precision is requires to perform calculations that involve a many decimal points, we can

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use the decimal data types. These data types summarized in Table 6.1

6.1.2 Non-numeric Data Types Nonnumeric data types are data that cannot be manipulated mathematically using standard arithmetic operators. The non-numeric data comprises text or string data types, the Date data types, the Boolean data types that store only two values (true or false), Object data type and Variant data type .They are summarized in Table 6.2

6.1.3 Suffixes for Literals Literals are values that you assign to a data. In some cases, we need to add a suffix behind a literal so that VB2010 can handle the calculation more accurately. For example, we can use num=1.3089# for a Double type data. Some of the suffixes are displayed in Table 6.3.

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In addition, we need to enclose string literals within two quotations and date and time literals within two # sign. Strings can contain any characters, including numbers. The following are few examples: memberName=Turban, John. TelNumber=1800-900-888-777 LastDay=#31-Dec-00# ExpTime=#12:00 am# 6.2 Managing Variables Variables are like mail boxes in the post office. The contents of the variables changes every now and then, just like the mail boxes. In term of VB2010, variables are areas allocated by the computer memory to hold data. Like the mail boxes, each variable must be given a name. To name a variable in Visual Basic 2010, you have to follow a set of rules. 6.2.1 Variable Names The following are the rules when naming the variables in Visual Basic 2010 It must be less than 255 characters No spacing is allowed It must not begin with a number Period is not permitted Examples of valid and invalid variable names are displayed in Table 6.4

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6.2.2 Declaring Variables In Visual Basic 2010, one needs to declare the variables before using them by assigning names and data types. If you fail to do so, the program will show an error. They are normally declared in the general section of the codes windows using the Dim statement. The format is as follows: Dim Variable Name As Data Type Example 6.1 Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Dim password As String Dim yourName As String Dim firstnum As Integer Dim secondnum As Integer Dim total As Integer Dim doDate As Date End Sub You may also combine them in one line , separating each variable with a comma, as follows: Dim password As String, yourName As String, firstnum As Integer,. For string declaration, there are two possible formats, one for the variablelength string and another for the fixed-length string. For the variable-length string, just use the same format as example 6.1 above. However, for the fixedlength string, you have to use the format as shown below: Dim VariableName as String * n, where n defines the number of characters the string can hold.

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Example 6.2: Dim yourName as String * 10 yourName can holds no more than 10 Characters. 6.2.3 Assigning Values to Variables After declaring various variables using the Dim statements, we can assign values to those variables. The general format of an assignment is Variable=Expression The variable can be a declared variable or a control property value. The expression could be a mathematical expression, a number, a string, a Boolean value (true or false) and etc. The following are some examples: firstNumber=100 secondNumber=firstNumber-99 userName=John Lyan userpass.Text = password Label1.Visible = True Command1.Visible = false Label4.Caption = textbox1.Text ThirdNumber = Val(usernum1.Text) total = firstNumber + secondNumber+ThirdNumber 6.3 Constants Constants are different from variables in the sense that their values do not change during the running of the program. 6.3.1 Declaring a Constant The format to declare a constant is Const Constant Name As Data Type = Value

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Example 6.3 Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Const Pi As Single=3.142 Const Temp As Single=37 Const Score As Single=100 End Sub [Lesson 5] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 7]

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[Lesson 6] >> [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 8] Computer can perform mathematical calculations much faster than human beings. However, computer itself will not be able to perform any mathematical calculations without receiving instructions from the user. In Visual Basic 2010, we can write code to instruct the computer to perform mathematical calculations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and other kinds of arithmetic operations. In order for Visual Basic 2010 to carry out arithmetic calculations, we need to write code that involve the use of various arithmetic operators. The Visual Basic 2010 arithmetic operators are very similar to the normal arithmetic operators, only with slight variations. The plus and minus operators are the same while the multiplication operator use the * symbol and the division operator use the / symbol. The list of Visual Basic 2010 arithmetic operators are shown in table 7.1 below:

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Example 7.1 In this program, you need to insert two Text boxes, four labels and one button. Click the button and key in the code as shown below. Note how the various arithmetic operators are being used. When you run the program, it will perform the four basic arithmetic operations and display the results on the four labels. Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim num1, num2, difference, product, quotient As Single num1 = TextBox1.Text num2 = TextBox2.Text sum=num1+num2 difference=num1-num2 product = num1 * num2 quotient=num1/num2 Label1.Text=sum Label2.Text=difference Label3.Text = product Label4.Text = quotient End Sub Example 7.2 The program can use Pythagoras Theorem to calculate the length of hypotenuse c given the length of the adjacent side a and the opposite side b. In case you have forgotten the formula for the Pythagoras Theorem, it is written as c^2=a^2+b^2 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

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Dim a, b, c As Single a = TextBox1.Text b = TextBox2.Text c=(a^2+b^2)^(1/2) Label3.Text=c End Sub Example 7.3: BMI Calculator A lot of people are obese now and it could affect their health seriously . Obesity has proven by the medical experts to be a one of the main factors that brings many adverse medical problems, including the the heart disease. If your BMI is more than 30, you are considered obese. You can refer to the following range of BMI values for your weight status. Underweight = <18.5 Normal weight = 18.5-24.9 Overweight = 25-29.9 Obesity = BMI of 30 or greater In order to calculate your BMI, you do not have to consult your doctor, you could just use a calculator or a home made computer program, this is exactly what I am showing you here. The BMI calculator is a Visual Basic program that can calculate the body mass index, or BMI of a person based on the body weight in kilogram and the body height in meter. BMI can be calculated using the formula weight/( height )2, where weight is measured in kg and height in meter. If you only know your weight and height in lb and feet, then you need to convert them to the metric system (you could indeed write a VB program for the conversion). Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArsgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim height, weight, bmi As Single height = TextBox1.Text weight = TextBox2.Text bmi = (weight) / (height ^ 2)

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Label4.Text = bmi End Sub The output is shown in the figure below. In this example, your height is 1.80m( about 5 foot 11),your weight is 75 kg( about 168Ib), and your BMI is about 23.14815. The reading suggests that you are healthy. (Note; 1 foot=0.3048, 1 lb=.45359237 kilogram)

From the above examples, you can see that perform arithmetic operations is relatively easy. Here are more arithmetic projects you can try to programs: Area of a triangle Area of a rectangle Area of a circle Volume of a cylinder Volume of a cone Volume of a sphere Compound interest Future value Mean Variance Sum of angles in polygons
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i want to program the pythagoras theorem finding 1 side but both the other sides have to be given by the user im finding it difficult dont really know where to start.
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I would like a code for the computer to generate a random number.

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[Lesson 7] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 9] String manipulation is an important part of programming because it help to process data that come in the form of non-numeric types such as name, address, gender, city, book title and more. 8.1 String Manipulation Using + and & signs. In Visual Basic 2010 ,Strings can be manipulated using the & sign and the + sign, both perform the string concatenation which means combining two or more smaller strings into larger strings. For example, we can join Visual and Basic into Visual Basic using Visual&Basic or Visual +Basic, as shown in the example below Example 8.1(a) Public Class Form1 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim text1, text2, text3 As String text1 = Visual text2 = Basic text3 = text1 + text2 Label1.Text = text3 End Sub End Class
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The line text3=text1+ text2 can be replaced by text3=text1 & text2 and produced the same output. However, if one of the variables is declared as numeric data type, you cannot use the + sign, you can only use the & sign. Example 8.1(b) Dim text1, text3 as string Dim Text2 As Integer text1 = Visual text2=22 text3=text1+text2 Label1.Text = text3 This code will produce an error because of data mismatch.However, using & instead of + will be all right. Dim text1, text3 as string Dim Text2 As Integer text1 = Visual text2=22 text3=text1 & text2 Label1.Text = text3 You can combine more than two strings to form a larger strings, like the following example: Public Class Form1

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Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim text1, text2, text3, text4, text5, text6 As String text1 = Welcome text2 = to text3 = Visual text4 = Basic text5 = 2010 text6 = text1 + text2 + text3+text4+text5 Label1.Text = text6 End Sub End Class Running the above program will produce the following screen shot.

8.2 String Manipulation Using Visual Basic 2010 Built-in Functions A function is similar to a normal procedure but the main purpose of the function is to accept a certain input and return a value which is passed on to the main program to finish the execution.There are numerous string manipulation functions built into Visual Basic 2010 but I will only discuss a
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few here and will explain the rest of them in later lessons. 8.2 (a) The Len Function The length function returns an integer value which is the length of a phrase or a sentence, including the empty spaces. The format is Len (Phrase) For example, Len (Visual Basic) = 12 and Len (welcome to VB tutorial) = 22 Example 8.3 Public Class Form1 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Label1.Text = Len(TextBox1.Text) End Sub End Class The output:

8.2(b) The Right Function The Right function extracts the right portion of a phrase. The format for Visual Basic 6 is

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Right (Phrase, n) Where n is the starting position from the right of the phase where the portion of the phrase is going to be extracted. For example, Right(Visual Basic, 4) = asic However, this format is not applicable in VB2010. In VB2010, we need use the following format Microsoft.VisualBasic.Right(Phrase,n) Example 8.2(a) Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim text1 As String text1 = TextBox1.Text Label1.Text = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Right(text1, 4) End Sub The above program will return four right most characters of the phrase entered into the textbox. The Output:

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*The reason of using the full reference is because many objects have the Right properties so using Right on its own will make it ambiguous to VB2010. 8.2(c)The Left Function The Left function extract the left portion of a phrase. The format is Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left(Phrase,n) Where n is the starting position from the left of the phase where the portion of the phrase is going to be extracted. For example, Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left (Visual Basic, 4) = Visu . [Lesson 7] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 9]

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I am trying to read a string in a textbox character by character, and then determine whether or not it is a vowel, a consonant or a number. can anybody help me? This is in Visual Basic 2010.
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[Lesson 8] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 10] In the previous lessons, we have learned how to write code that can accept input from the users and then display the output without controlling the program flow. In this lesson, you will learn how to write Visual Basic 2010 code that can make decision when it process input from the users, and control the program flow in the process. Decision making process is an important part of programming because it can solve practical problems intelligently and provide useful output or feedback to the user. For example, we can write a Visual Basic 2010 program that can ask the computer to perform certain task until a certain condition is met, or a program that will reject non-numeric data. In order to control the program flow and to make decisions, we need to use the conditional operators and the logical operators together with the If control structure. 9.1 Conditional Operators The conditional operators are powerful tools that resemble mathematical operators . These operators allow a VB2010 programto compare data values and then decide what actions to take, whether to execute a program or terminate the program andmore. They are also known as numerical comparison operators. Normally they are used to compare two values to see whether they are equal or one value is greater or less than the other value. The comparison will return a true or false result. These operators are shown in Table 9.1.

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9.2 Logical Operators Sometimes we might need to make more than one comparisons before a decision can be made and an action taken. In this case, using numerical comparison operators alone is not sufficient, we need to use additional operators, and they are the logical operators. These logical operators are shown in Table 9.2.

* Normally the above operators are use to compare numerical data. However, you can also compare strings with the above operators. In making strings comparison, there are certain rules to follows: Upper case letters are less than lowercase letters, A<B<C<D.<Z and number are less than letters.

9.3 Using the If control structure with the Comparison Operators To effectively control the Visual Basic 2010 program flow, we shall use the If control structure together with the conditional operators and logical operators. There are basically three types of If control structures, namely If.Then statement, If.Then Else statement and If.Then.ElseIf statement. 9.3(a) If.Then Statement

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This is the simplest control structure which ask the computer to perform a certain action specified by the Visual Basic 2010 expression if the condition is true. However, when the condition is false, no action will be performed. The general format for the ifthen.. statement is If condition Then Visual Basic 2010 expression End If Example 9.1 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim myNumber As Integer myNumber = TextBox1.Text If myNumber > 100 Then Label2.Text = You win a lucky prize End If End Sub * When you run the program and enter a number that is greater than 100, you will see the You win a lucky prize statement. On the other hand, if the number entered is less than or equal to 100, you dont see any display. 9.3(b) If.ThenElse Statement Using only If.Then statement is not very useful in programming and it does not provide choices for the users. In order to provide a choice, we can use the If.ThenElse Statement. This control structure will ask the computer to perform a certain action specified by the Visual Basic 2010 expression if the condition is true. And when the condition is false ,an alternative action will be executed. The general format for the ifthen.. Else statement is

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If condition Then Visual Basic 2010 expression Else Visual Basic 2010 expression End If

Example 9.2 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim myNumber As Integer myNumber = TextBox1.Text If myNumber > 100 Then Label2.Text = Congratulation! You win a lucky prize Else Label2.Text = Sorry, You dif not win any prize End If End Sub * When you run the program and enter a number that is greater than 100, the statement Congratulation! You win a lucky prize will be shown. On the other hand, if the number entered is less than or equal to 100, you will see the Sorry, You dif not win any prize statement Example 9.3 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim myNumber, MyAge As Integer myNumber = TextBox1.Text MyAge = TextBox2.Text
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If myNumber > 100 And myAge > 60 Then Label2.Text = Congratulation! You win a lucky prize Else Label2.Text = Sorry, You did not win any prize End If End Sub * This program use the logical And operator beside the conditional operators. This means that both the conditions must be fulfilled in order for the conditions to be true, otherwise the second block of code will be executed. In this example, the number entered must be more than 100 and the age must be more than 60 in order to win a lucky prize, any one of the above conditions not fulfilled will disqualify the user from winning a prize. 9.3(c) If.ThenElseIf Statement If there are more than two alternative choices, using jus If.Then.Else statement will not be enough. In order to provide more choices, we can use the If.ThenElseIf Statement. executed. The general format for the ifthen.. Else statement is If condition Then Visual Basic 2010 expression ElseIf condition Then Visual Basic 2010 expression ElseIf condition Then Visual Basic 2010 expression .

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. Else Visual Basic 2010 expression End If Example 9.4 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim Mark As Integer Dim Grade as String Mark = TextBox1.Text If myNumber >=80 Then Grade=A ElseIf Mark>=60 and Mark<80 then Grade=B ElseIf Mark>=40 and Mark<60 then Grade=C Else Grade=D End If End Sub [Lesson 8] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 10]

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[Lesson 9] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 11] In the previous lesson, we have learned how to control the program flow using the IfElseIf control structure. In this lesson, you will learn another way to control the program flow in Visual Basic 2010, that is, the Select Case control structure. Select Case control structure is slightly different from the If.ElseIf control structure . The difference is that the Select Case control structure basically only make decision on one expression or dimension (for example the examination grade) while the If ElseIf statement control structure may evaluate only one expression, each If.ElseIf statement may also compute entirely different dimensions. Select Case is preferred when there exist multiple conditions because using IfThen..ElseIf statements will become too messy. 10.1 The Select CaseEnd Select Structure The format of the Select Case control structure is as follows: Select Case test expression Case expression list 1 Block of one or more Visual Basic 2010 statements Case expression list 2 Block of one or more Visual Basic 2010 Statements Case expression list 3

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Block of one or more Visual Basic 2010 statements Case expression list 4 . . . Case Else Block of one or more Visual Basic 2010 Statements End Select

10.2 The usage of Select Case is shown in the following examples Example 10.1 Examination Grades Dim grade As String Private Sub Compute_Click( ) grade=txtgrade.Text Select Case grade Case A Label1.Text=High Distinction Case A- Label1.Text=Distinction Case B Label1.Text=Credit Case C Label1.Text=Pass Case Else Label1.Text=Fail End Select Dim mark As Single mark = mrk.Text Select Case mark Case Is >= 85 Label1.Text= Excellence Case Is >= 70 Label2.Text= Good Case Is >= 60 Label3.Text = Above Examination Marks Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Example 10.2 In this example, you can use the keyword Is together with the comparison operators.

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Average Case Is >= 50 Label4.Text= Average Case Else Label5.Text = Need to work harder End Select End Sub

Example 10.3 Example 10.2 can be rewritten as follows: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Examination Marks Dim mark As Single mark = Textbox1.Text Select Case mark Case 0 to 49 Label1.Text = Need to work harder Case 50 to 59 Label1.Text = Average s

Example 10.4 Grades in high school are usually presented with a single capital letter such as A, B, C, D or E. The grades can be computed as follow: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Examination Marks Dim mark As Single mark = TextBox1.Text Select Case mark Case 0 To 49

Case 60 to 69 Label1.Text= Above Average

Label1.Text = E

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Case 70 to 84 Label1.Text = Good

Case 50 To 59 Label1.Text = D

Case 85 to 100 Label1.Text= Excellence

Case 60 To 69 Label1.Text = C

Case Else Label1.Text= Wrong entry, please reenter the mark End Select End Sub

Case 70 To 79 Label1.Text = B Case 80 To 100 Label1.Text = A Case Else Label1.Text = Error, please reenter the mark End Select End Sub

The output of Example 10.4

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[Lesson 10] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 12] Visual Basic 2010 allows a procedure to be repeated as many times as long as the processor and memory could support. This is generally called looping . Looping is required when we need to process something repetitively until a certain condition is met. For example, we can design a program that adds a series of numbers until the sum exceeds a certain value, or a program that asks the user to enter data repeatedly until he/she keys in the word Finish. In Visual Basic 2010, we have three types of Loops, they are the For..Next loop, the Do loop. and the While..End while loop 11.1 For.Next Loop The format is: For counter=startNumber to endNumber (Step increment) One or more Visual Basic 2010 statements Next To exit a For..Next Loop, you can place the Exit For statement within the loop; and it is normally used together with the If.Then..sstatement. For its application, you can refer to example 11.1 d.

Example 11.1 a

Example 11.1b

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Dim counter as Integer For counter=1 to 10 ListBox1.Items.Add (counter) Next * The program will enter number 1 to 10 into the list box.

Dim counter , sum As Integer For counter=1 to 100 step 10 sum+=counter ListBox1.Items.Add (sum) Next * The program will calculate the sum of the numbers as follows: sum=0+10+20+30+40+

Example 11.1c Dim counter, sum As Integer sum = 1000 For counter = 100 To 5 Step -5 sum = counter ListBox1.Items.Add(sum) Next *Notice that increment can be negative. The program will compute the subtraction as follow: 1000-100-95-90-.

Example 11.1d Dim n as Integer For n=1 to 10 If n>6 then Exit For End If Else ListBox1.Items.Add ( n) Next End If Next The process will stop when n is greater than 6.

11.2 Do Loop The Do Loop formats are a) Do While condition Block of one or more Visual Basic 2010 statements Loop

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b) Do Block of one or more Visual Basic 2010 statements Loop While condition c) Do Until condition Block of one or more Visual Basic 2010 statements Loop d) Do Block of one or more Visual Basic 2010 statements Loop Until condition * Exiting the Loop Sometime we need exit to exit a loop prematurely because of a certain condition is fulfilled. The syntax to use is known as Exit Do. Lets examine the following examples Example 11.2(a) Do while counter <=1000 TextBox1.Text=counter counter +=1 Loop * The above example will keep on adding until counter >1000. The above example can be rewritten as Do TextBox1.Text=counter Example 11.2(b) Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim sum, n As Integer ListBox1.Items.Add(n & vbTab & Sum) ListBox1.Items.Add( -) Do n += 1 sum += n ListBox1.Items.Add(n & vbTab &

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counter+=1 Loop until counter>1000

sum) If n = 100 Then Exit Do End If Loop End Sub

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[Lesson 11] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 13] A function is similar to a normal procedure but the main purpose of the function is to accept a certain input and return a value which is passed on to the main program to finish the execution. There are two types of functions in Visual Basic 2010, the built-in functions (or internal functions) and the functions created by the programmers. The general syntax of a function is FunctionName (arguments) The arguments are values that are passed on to the function.In this lesson, we are going to learn two very basic but useful internal functions of Visual Basic 2010 , i.e. the MsgBox( ) and InputBox ( ) functions. 12.1 MsgBox ( ) Function The objective of MsgBox is to produce a pop-up message box and prompts the user to click on a command button before he or she can continues. This syntax is as follows: yourMsg=MsgBox(Prompt, Style Value, Title) The first argument, Prompt, will display the message in the message box. The Style Value will determine what type of command buttons appear on the message box, please refer to Table 12.1 for types of command button displayed. The Title argument will display the title of the message board.

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We can use named constants in place of integers for the second argument to make the programs more readable. In fact, Visual Basic 2010 will automatically shows up a list of named constants where you can select one of them. example: yourMsg=MsgBox( Click OK to Proceed, 1, Startup Menu) and yourMsg=Msg(Click OK to Proceed. vbOkCancel,Startup Menu) are the same. yourMsg is a variable that holds values that are returned by the MsgBox ( ) function. The values are determined by the type of buttons being clicked by the users. It has to be declared as Integer data type in the procedure or in the general declaration section. Table 12.2 shows the values, the corresponding named constant and buttons.

Example 12.1

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Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim testmsg As Integer testmsg = MsgBox(Click to test, 1, Test message) If testmsg = 1 Then MessageBox.Show(You have clicked the OK button) Else MessageBox.Show(You have clicked the Cancel button) End If End Sub To make the message box looks more sophisticated, you can add an icon besides the message. There are four types of icons available in Visual Basic 2010 as shown in Table 12.3

Example 12.2 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim testMsg As Integer testMsg = MsgBox(Click to Test, vbYesNoCancel + vbExclamation, Test

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Message) If testMsg = 6 Then MessageBox.Show(You have clicked the yes button) ElseIf testMsg = 7 Then MessageBox.Show(You have clicked the NO button) Else MessageBox.Show(You have clicked the Cancel button) End If End Sub The first argument, Prompt, will display the message

12.2 The InputBox( ) Function An InputBox( ) function will display a message box where the user can enter a value or a message in the form of text. In VB2005, you can use the following format: myMessage=InputBox(Prompt, Title, default_text, x-position, y-position) myMessage is a variant data type but typically it is declared as string, which accept the message input by the users. The arguments are explained as follows: Prompt The message displayed normally as a question asked. Title The title of the Input Box.
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default-text The default text that appears in the input field where users can use it as his intended input or he may change to the message he wish to enter. x-position and y-position the position or tthe coordinates of the input box. However, the format wont work in Visual Basic 2010 because InputBox is considered a namespace. So, you need to key in the full reference to the Inputbox namespace, which is Microsoft.VisualBasic.InputBox(Prompt, Title, default_text, x-position, y-position) The parameters remain the same. Example 12.3 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim userMsg As String userMsg = Microsoft.VisualBasic.InputBox(What is your message?, Message Entry Form, Enter your messge here, 500, 700) If userMsg <> Then MessageBox.Show(userMsg) Else MessageBox.Show(No Message) End If End Sub The inputbox will appear as shown in the figure below when you press the command button

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Visual Basic 2010 Lesson 13- Function Part II

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We have learned the basic concept of functions in Visual Basic 2010 , in particular the usage of the MsgBox and InputBox functions in Lesson 12. I. In fact, I have already shown you a few string manipulation functions in Lesson 8, they are the Len function, the Left function and the Right Function. In this lesson, we will learn how to write codes involving other string manipulation functions in Visual Basic 2010. 13.1 The Mid Function The Mid function is used to retrieve a part of text form a given phrase. The syntax of the Mid Function is Mid(phrase, position,n) where phrase is the string from which a part of text is to be retrieved. position is the starting position of the phrase from which the retrieving process begins. n is the number of characters to retrieve. Example 13.1:

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Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim myPhrase As String myPhrase = Microsoft.VisualBasic.InputBox(Enter your phrase) Label1.Text = Mid(myPhrase, 2, 6) End Sub * In this example, when the user clicks the command button, an input box will pop up asking the user to input a phrase. After a phrase is entered and the OK button is pressed, the label will show the extracted text starting from position 2 of the phrase and the number of characters extracted is 6. The diagrams are shown below:

13.2 The Right Function The Right function extracts the right portion of a phrase. The syntax is
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Microsoft.Visualbasic.Right (Phrase, n) Where n is the starting position from the right of the phase where the portion of the phrase is going to be extracted. For example: Microsoft.Visualbasic.Right (Visual Basic, 4) = asic Example 13.2: The following code extracts the right portion any phrase entered by the user. Private Sub Button1_Click (ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim myword As String myword = TextBox1.Text Label1.Text = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Right (myword, 4) End Sub 13.3 The Left Function The Left function extracts the left portion of a phrase. The syntax is Microsoft.Visualbasic.Right (Phrase, n) Where n is the starting position from the left of the phase where the portion of the phrase is going to be extracted. For example: Microsoft.Visualbasic.Left(Visual Basic, 4) = asic Example 13.3: The following code extracts the left portion any phrase entered by the user. Private Sub Button1_Click (ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

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Dim myword As String myword = TextBox1.Text Label1.Text = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left (myword, 4) End Sub 13.4 The Trim Function The Trim function trims the empty spaces on both side of the phrase. The format is Trim(Phrase) .For example, Trim ( Visual Basic 2010 ) = Visual basic 2010 Example 13.4 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim myPhrase As String myPhrase = Microsoft.VisualBasic.InputBox(Enter your phrase) Label1.Text = Trim(myPhrase) End Sub 13.5 The Ltrim Function The Ltrim function trims the empty spaces of the left portion of the phrase. The syntax is Ltrim(Phrase) .For example, Ltrim ( Visual Basic 2010 )= Visual basic 2010

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13.6 The Rtrim Function The Rtrim function trims the empty spaces of the right portion of the phrase. The syntax is Rtrim(Phrase) .For example, Rtrim (Visual Basic ) = Visual Basic 13.7 The InStr function The InStr function looks for a phrase that is embedded within the original phrase and returns the starting position of the embedded phrase. The syntax is Instr (n, original phase, embedded phrase) Where n is the position where the Instr function will begin to look for the embedded phrase. For example Instr(1, Visual Basic 2010 ,Basic)=8 *The function returns a numeric value. You can write a program code as shown below: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Label1.Text = InStr(1, Visual Basic 2010, Basic) End Sub 13.8 The Ucase and the Lcase Functions The Ucase function converts all the characters of a string to capital letters.

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On the other hand, the Lcase function converts all the characters of a string to small letters. The format is Microsoft.VisualBasic.UCase(Phrase) Microsoft.VisualBasic.LCase(Phrase) For example, Microsoft.VisualBasic.Ucase(Visual Basic 2010) =VISUAL BASIC 2010 Microsoft.VisualBasic.Lcase(Visual Basic 2010) =visual basic 2010 13.9 The Chr and the Asc functions

The Chr function returns the string that corresponds to an ASCII code while the Asc function converts an ASCII character or symbol to the corresponding ASCII code. ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Altogether there are 255 ASCII codes and as many ASCII characters. Some of the characters may not be displayed as they may represent some actions such as the pressing of a key or produce a beep sound. The syntax of the Chr function is Chr(charcode) and the syntax of the Asc function is Asc(Character) The following are some examples: Chr(65)=A, Chr(122)=z, Chr(37)=% , Asc(B)=66, Asc(&)=38

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[Lesson 13] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 15] We have learned how to write programs in Visual Basic 2010 to perform arithmetic operations using standard mathematical operators. However, for more complex mathematical calculations, we need to use the built-in math functions in Visual Basic 2010. There are numerous built-in mathematical functions in Visual Basic 2010 which we will introduce them one by one. 14.1 The Abs function The Abs function returns the absolute value of a given number. The syntax is Math. Abs (number) * The Math keyword here indicates that the Abs function belong to the Math class. However, not all mathematical functions belong to the Math class.

14.2 The Exp function The Exp of a number x is the exponential value of x, i.e. ex . For example, Exp(1)=e=2.71828182 The syntax is Math.Exp (number)

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Example: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim num1, num2 As Single num1 = TextBox1.Text num2 = Math.Exp(num1) Label1.Text = num2 End Sub

14.3 The Fix Function The Fix function truncates the decimal part of a positive number and returns the largest integer smaller than the number. However, when the number is negative, it will return smallest integer larger than the number. For example, Fix(9.2)=9 but Fix(-9.4)=-9 Example: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim num1, num2 As Single num1 = TextBox1.Text num2 = Fix(num1) Label1.Text = num2 End Sub 14.4 The Int Function The Int is a function that converts a number into an integer by truncating its decimal part and the resulting integer is the largest integer that is

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smaller than he number. For example Int(2.4)=2, Int(6.9)=6 , Int(-5.7)=-6, Int(-99.8)=-100 14.5 The Log Function The Log function is the function that returns the natural logarithm of a number. For example, Log(10)=2.302585 Example: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim num1, num2 As Single num1 = TextBox1.Text num2 = Math.Log(num1) Label1.Text = num2 End Sub * The logarithm of num1 will be displayed on label1 14.6 The Rnd( ) Function The Rnd is very useful when we deal with the concept of chance and probability. The Rnd function returns a random value between 0 and 1. Random numbers in their original form are not very useful in programming until we convert them to integers. For example, if we need to obtain a random output of 6 integers ranging from 1 to 6, which makes the program behave like a virtual dice, we need to convert the random numbers to integers using the formula Int(Rnd*6)+1. Example: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As

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System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim num as integer Randomize( ) Num=Int(Rnd()*6)+1 Label1.Text=Num End Sub In this example, Int(Rnd*6) will generate a random integer between 0 and 5 because the function Int truncates the decimal part of the random number and returns an integer. After adding 1, you will get a random number between 1 and 6 every time you click the command button. For example, let say the random number generated is 0.98, after multiplying it by 6, it becomes 5.88, and using the integer function Int(5.88) will convert the number to 5; and after adding 1 you will get 6. 14.7 The Round Function The Round function is the function that rounds up a number to a certain number of decimal places. The Format is Round (n, m) which means to round a number n to m decimal places. For example, Math.Round (7.2567, 2) =7.26 Example Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim num1, num2 As Single num1 = TextBox1.Text num2 = Math.Round(num1, 2) Label1.Text = num2 End Sub

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[Lesson 14] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 16] The Format function in Visual Basic 2010 is a very powerful formatting function which can display the numeric values in various forms. There are two types of Format functions in Visual Basic 2010, one of them is the built-in or predefined format while another one can be defined by the users. (i) The syntax of the predefined Format function is Format (n, style argument) where n is a number and the list of style arguments is given in Table 15.1. Table 15.1 List of style arguments Style argument General Number To display the number without having separators between thousands. Fixed To display the number without having separators Format(8972.2, Fixed)=8972.23 Format(8972.234, General Number)=8972.234 Explanation Example

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between thousands and rounds it up to two decimal places. Standard To display the number with separators or separators between thousands and rounds it up to two decimal places. Currency To display the number with the dollar sign in front, has separators between thousands as well as rounding it up to two decimal places. Percent Converts the number to the percentage form and displays a % sign and rounds it up to two decimal places. Example 15.1 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click, Button5.Click, Button4.Click, Button3.Click Label1.Text = Format(8972.234, General Number) Label2.Text = Format(8972.2, Fixed) Label3.Text = Format(6648972.265, Standard) Label4.Text = Format(6648972.265, Currency) Label5.Text = Format(0.56324, Percent) Format(0.56324, Percent)=56.32 % Format(6648972.265, Currency)= $6,648,972.27 Format(6648972.265, Standard)= 6,648,972.27

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End Sub The Output window is shown below:

(ii) The syntax of the user-defined Format function is Format (n, users format) Although it is known as user-defined format, we still need to follows certain formatting styles. Examples of user-defined formatting style are listed in Table 15.2

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Example 15.2 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click, Button5.Click, Button4.Click, Button3.Click Label1.Text = Format(8972.234, 0.0) Label2.Text = Format(8972.2345, 0.00) Label3.Text = Format(6648972.265, #,##0.00) Label4.Text = Format(6648972.265, $#,##0.00) Label5.Text = Format(0.56324, 0%) End Sub The Output window is shown below:

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[Lesson 15] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 17] 16.1 Formatting Date and time using predefined formats In Visual Basic 2010, date and time can be formatted using predefined formats and also user-defined formats. The predefined formats of date and time are shown in Table 16.1.

* Instead of General date, you can also use the abbreviated format G , i.e. Format (Now, G). And for Long Time, you can use the abbreviated format T. As for Short Time, you may use the abbreviated format t Example 16.1 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Label1.Text = Format(Now, General Date) Label2.Text = Format(Now, Long Date) Label3.Text = Format(Now, short Date) Label4.Text = Format(Now, Long Time)

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Label5.Text = Format(Now, Short Time) End Sub The output is shown in the diagram below:

16.2 Formatting Date and time using user-defined formats Beside using the predefined formats, you can also use the user-defined formatting functions. The general syntax of a user-defined for date/time is Format (expression,style)

Example 16.2 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click, Button2.Click, Button3.Click

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Label1.Text = Format(Now, M) Label2.Text = Format(Now, MM) Label3.Text = Format(Now, MMM) Label4.Text = Format(Now, MMMM) Label5.Text = Format(Now, dd/MM/yyyy) Label6.Text = Format(Now, MMM,d,yyyy) Label7.Text = Format(Now, h:mm:ss tt) Label8.Text = Format(Now, MM/dd/yyyy h:mm:ss tt) End Sub The output is shown in the diagram below:

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[Lesson 16] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 18] The Check box is a very useful control in Visual Basic 2010. It allows the user to select one or more items by checking the check box/check boxes concerned. For example, in the Font dialog box of any Microsoft Text editor like FrontPage, there are many check boxes under the Effects section such as that shown in the figure below. The user can choose underline, subscript, small caps, superscript, blink and etc. In Visual Basic 2010, you may create a shopping cart where the user can click on check boxes that correspond to the items they intend to buy, and the total payment can be computed at the same time as shown in Example 17.1.

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Example 17.1:Shopping Cart

The program code for shopping cart: Private Sub BtnCalculate_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BtnCalculate.Click Const LX As Integer = 100 Const BN As Integer = 500 Const SD As Integer = 200 Const HD As Integer = 80 Const HM As Integer = 300 Const AM As Integer = 150 Dim sum As Integer If CheckBox1.Checked = True Then sum += LX End If If CheckBox2.Checked = True Then sum += BN

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End If If CheckBox3.Checked = True Then sum += SD End If If CheckBox4.Checked = True Then sum += HD End If If CheckBox5.Checked = True Then sum += HM End If If CheckBox6.Checked = True Then sum += AM End If Label5.Text = sum.ToString(c) Here is another example Example 17.2 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Const large As Integer = 10.0 Const medium As Integer = 8 Const small As Integer = 5 Dim sum As Integer If CheckBox1.Checked = True Then sum += large End If If CheckBox2.Checked = True Then sum += medium End If
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If CheckBox3.Checked = True Then sum += small End If Label5.Text = sum.ToString(c) Example 17.3 In this example, the user can enter text into a text box and format the font using the three check boxes that represent bold, italic and underline.

The code is as follow: Private Sub CheckBox1_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CheckBox1.CheckedChanged If CheckBox1.Checked Then TextBox1.Font = New Font(TextBox1.Font, TextBox1.Font.Style Or FontStyle.Bold) Else TextBox1.Font = New Font(TextBox1.Font, TextBox1.Font.Style And Not FontStyle.Bold) End If End Sub

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Private Sub CheckBox2_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CheckBox2.CheckedChanged If CheckBox2.Checked Then TextBox1.Font = New Font(TextBox1.Font, TextBox1.Font.Style Or FontStyle.Italic) Else TextBox1.Font = New Font(TextBox1.Font, TextBox1.Font.Style And Not FontStyle.Italic) End If End Sub Private Sub CheckBox3_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CheckBox3.CheckedChanged If CheckBox2.Checked Then TextBox1.Font = New Font(TextBox1.Font, TextBox1.Font.Style Or FontStyle.Underline) Else TextBox1.Font = New Font(TextBox1.Font, TextBox1.Font.Style And Not FontStyle.Underline) End If End Sub * The above program uses the CheckedChanged event to respond to the user selection by checking a particular checkbox, it is similar to the click event. The statement TextBox1.Font = New Font(TextBox1.Font, TextBox1.Font.Style Or FontStyle.Italic) will retain the original font type but change it to italic font style. TextBox1.Font = New Font(TextBox1.Font, TextBox1.Font.Style And Not FontStyle.Italic)

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will also retain the original font type but change it to regular font style. (The other statements employ the same logic)

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[Lesson 17] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 19] The radio button is also a very useful control in Visual Basic 2010. However, it operates differently from the check boxes. While the checkboxes work independently and allow the user to select one or more items , radio buttons are mutually exclusive, which means the user can only choose one item only out of a number of choices. Here is an example which allows the user to select one color only.

The Code: Dim strColor As String Private Sub RadioButton8_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles

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RadioButton8.CheckedChanged strColor = Red End Sub Private Sub RadioButton7_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles RadioButton7.CheckedChanged strColor = Green End Sub Private Sub RadioYellow_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles RadioYellow.CheckedChanged strColor = Yellow End Sub Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Label2.Text = strColor End Sub Although the user may only select one item at a time, he may make more than one selection if those items belong to different categories. For example, the user wishes to choose T-shirt size and color, he needs to select one color and one size, which means one selection in each category. This is easily achieved in Visual Basic 2010 by using the Groupbox control under the containers categories. After inserting the Groupbox into the form, you can proceed to insert the radio buttons into the Groupbox. Only the radio buttons inside the Groupbox are mutually exclusive, they are not mutually exclusive with the radio buttons outside the Groupbox. In Example 18.2, the user can select one color and one size of the T-shirt. Example 18.2

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The code: Dim strColor As String Dim strSize As String Private Sub RadioButton8_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles RadioButton8.CheckedChanged strColor = Red End Sub Private Sub RadioButton7_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles RadioButton7.CheckedChanged strColor = Green End Sub Private Sub RadioYellow_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles RadioYellow.CheckedChanged strColor = Yellow End Sub Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
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Label2.Text = strColor Label4.Text = strSize End Sub Private Sub RadioXL_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles RadioXL.CheckedChanged strSize = XL End Sub Private Sub RadioL_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles RadioL.CheckedChanged strSize = L End Sub Private Sub RadioM_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles RadioM.CheckedChanged strSize = M End Sub Private Sub RadioS_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles RadioS.CheckedChanged strSize = S End Sub [Lesson 17] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 19]

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[Lesson 18] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 20] Basically everyone likes to navigate the Internet using commercially produced web browsers such the Internet Explorer produced by Microsoft or those open source browsers designed by the experts such FireFox , Opera and the latest Chrome created by Google. However, isnt it cool that if you can create your very own web browser that you can customize to your own taste ? Yes, you can do that in Visual Basic 2010, and pretty easy too. In this chapter, I will show you how to create a simple web browser and get it running in a few minutes. First of all, start a new project in Visual Basic 2010 and name it with any name you like. Here I am just using the name Web Browser. Change the name of Form1 to MyWebBrowser and the text property to Web Browser and set its size property to 640,480. Next, you need to add an engine so that your web browser can connect to the Internet, and this very engine is the WebBrowser control, located on the Toolbox on the left side, set the size property to 600,400. Next, drag a text box and place it at the top of the WebBrowser control, this will be the address bar where the user can enter the URL. Lastly, place a command button beside the text box and label it as Go and change its name to Go as well. The design interface is shown below:

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The code for the web browser is surprisingly simple, it is only a single line code! Double click on the Go button and key in the following code: Public Class Form1 Private Sub Go_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click MyWebBrowser.Navigate(TextBox1.Text) End Sub End Class Now run the the program , type in any URL and click the Go button. You will be able to browse any web page you want. Figure 19.2: The Runtime Interface

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satu0king says:
November 20, 2012 at 10:26 pm

well i made a browser using this tutorials and a few others that i found. you may download it from http://www.browser.tk

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farooq says:
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it doesnt work. reference to a non-shared member requires an object reference error

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Lennard says:
December 30, 2012 at 12:14 pm

It doesnt work cause the code was wrong.. instead of mywebbrowser.navigate.. you should use your webbrowser control.. for example.. name your webbrowser control as Web1, then double click the button and write at the code. Web1.Navigate(yourtextboxname.text) try it..
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[Lesson 19] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 21] 20.1 Introduction Error handling is an essential procedure in Visual Basic 2010 programming because it helps make a program error-free. An error-free program can run smoothly and efficiently, and the user does not have to face all sorts of problems such as program crashes or system hangs. Errors often occur due to incorrect input from the user. For example, the user might make the mistake of attempting to enter text (string) to a box that is designed to handle only numeric values such as the weight of a person, the computer will not be able to perform arithmetic calculation for text therefore will create an error. These errors are known as synchronous errors. Therefore a good programmer should be more alert to the parts of program that could trigger errors and should write errors handling code to help the user in managing the errors. Writing errors handling code is a good practice for Visual Basic programmers, so do not try to finish a program fast by omitting the errors handling code. However, there should not be too many errors handling code in the program as it create problems for the programmer to maintain and troubleshoot the program later. VB2010 has improved a lot in its built-in errors handling capabilities compared to Visual Basic 6. For example, when the user attempts to divide a number by zero, Vb2010 will not return an error message but gives the

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infinity as the answer (although this is mathematically incorrect, because it should be undefined) 20.2 Using On Error GoTo Syantax Visual Basic 2010 still supports the VB6 errors handling syntax, that is the On Error GoTo program_label structure. Although it has a more advanced error handling method, we shall deal with that later.We shall now learn how to write errors handling code in VB2010. The syntax for errors handling is On Error GoTo program_label where program_label is the section of code that is designed by the programmer to handle the error committed by the user. Once an error is detected, the program will jump to the program_label section for error handling. Example 20.1: Division by Zero In this example, we will deal with the error of entering non-numeric data into the textboxes that suppose to hold numeric values. The program_label here is error_hanldler. when the user enter a non-numeric values into the textboxes, the error message will display the textOne of the entries is not a number! Try again!. If no error occurs, it will display the correct answer. Try it out yourself. The Code Public Class Form1 Private Sub CmdCalculate_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CmdCalculate.Click Lbl_ErrorMsg.Visible = False

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Dim firstNum, secondNum As Double On Error GoTo error_handler firstNum = Txt_FirstNumber.Text secondNum = Txt_SecondNumber.Text Lbl_Answer.Text = firstNum / secondNum Exit Sub To prevent error handling even the inputs are valid error_handler: Lbl_Answer.Text = Error Lbl_ErrorMsg.Visible = True Lbl_ErrorMsg.Text = One of the entries is not a number! Try again! End Sub End Class The Output

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20.3 Errors Handling using Try..Catch.End Try Structure VB2010 has adopted a new approach in handling errors, or rather exceptions handling. It is supposed to be more efficient than the old On Error Goto method, where it can handles various types of errors within the TryCatchEnd Try structure. The structure looks like this Try statements Catch exception_variable as Exception statements to deal with exceptions End Try Example 20.2 This is a modification of Example 20.1. Instead of using On Error GoTo method, we use the TryCatchEnd Try method. In this example, the

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Catch statement will catch the exception when the user enters a non-numeric data and return the error message. If there is no exception, there will not any action from the Catch statement and the program returns the correct answer. The code Public Class Form1 Private Sub CmdCalculate_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal eAs System.EventArgs) Handles CmdCalculate.Click Lbl_ErrorMsg.Visible = False Dim firstNum, secondNum, answer As Double Try firstNum = Txt_FirstNumber.Text secondNum = Txt_SecondNumber.Text answer = firstNum / secondNum Lbl_Answer.Text = answer Catch ex As Exception Lbl_Answer.Text = Error Lbl_ErrorMsg.Visible = True Lbl_ErrorMsg.Text = One of the entries is not a number! Try again! End Try End Sub

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[Lesson 20] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 22] 21.1 Introduction to Graphics in Visual Basic 2010 Though Managing graphics in earlier versions of Visual Basic seem easier as they have built-in drawing tools, Visual Basic 2010 is much more versatile in handling graphics. For example, In Visual Basic 6, the drawing tools are included in the toolbox where the programmer just need to drag the shape controls into the form to create rectangle, square, ellipse,circle and more. However, its simplicity has the shortcomings, you dont have much choices in creating customized drawings. Since Visual Basic evolved into a fully OOP language under the VB.net framework, shape controls are no longer available. Now the programmer needs to write code to create various shapes and drawings. Even though the learning curve is steeper, the programmer can write powerful code to create all kinds of graphics. You can even design your own controls Visual Basic 2010 offers various graphics capabilities that enable programmers to write code that can draw all kinds of shapes and even fonts. In this lesson,you will learn how to write code to draw lines and shapes on the VB interface.

21.1 Creating the Graphics Object

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Before you can draw anything on a form, you need to create the Graphics object in vb2010. A graphics object is created using a CreateGraphics() method. You can create a graphics object that draw to the form itself or a control. For example, if you wish to draw to the form, you can use the following statement: Dim myGraphics As Graphics =me.CreateGraphics *Always use Dim to define the object. Using me instead of Form1 because it is not allowed in Visual Basic 2010. Or if you want the graphics object to draw to a picturebox, you can write the following statement: Dim myGraphics As Graphics = PictureBox1.CreateGraphics You can also use the text box as a drawing surface, the statement is: Dim myGraphics As Graphics = TextBox1.CreateGraphics The Graphics object that is created does not draw anything on the screen until you call the methods of the Graphics object. In addition,you need to create the Pen object as the drawing tool. We will examine the code that can create a pen in the following section. 21.2 Creating a Pen A Pen can be created using the following code: myPen = New Pen(Brushes.DarkMagenta, 10) where myPen is a Pen variable. You can use any variable name instead of myPen. The first argument of the pen object define the color of the drawing line and the second argument define the width of the drawing line. You can also create a Pen using the following statement:

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Dim myPen As Pen myPen = New Pen(Drawing.Color.Blue, 5) Where the first argument define the color(here is blue, you can change that to red or whatever color you want) and the second argument is the width of the drawing line. Having created the Graphics and the Pen objects, you are now ready to draw graphics on the screen which we will show you in the following section.s 21.3 Drawing a Line In this section, we will show you how to draw a straight line on the Form. First of all, launch Visual basic 2010 Express. In the startup page, drag a button into the form. Double click on the button and key in the following code. Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim myGraphics As Graphics = me.CreateGraphics Dim myPen As Pen myPen = New Pen(Brushes.DarkMagenta, 10) myGraphics.DrawLine(myPen, 10, 10, 100, 10) End Sub The second created the Graphics object and the third and fourth line create the Pen object. The fifth draw a line on the Form using the DrawLine method. The first argument use the Pen object created by you, the second argument and the third arguments define the coordinate the starting point
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of the line, the fourth and the last arguments define the ending coordinate of the line. The general syntax of the Drawline argument is object.DrawLine(Pen, x1, y1, x2, y2) The output of the program is shown below:

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[Lesson 21] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 23] We have learned how to create the Graphics and the Pen objects to draw straight lines in Visual Basic 2010. Now we shall learn how to draw various shapes such as rectangle, square,ellipse and circle. 22.1 Creating Rectangles To draw a rectangle on the screen in Visual Basic 2010, there are two ways: (i)The first way is to draw a rectangle directly using the DrawRectangle method by specifying its upper-left corners coordinate and it width and height. You also need to create a Graphics and a Pen object to handle the actual drawing. The method to draw the rectangle is DrawRectangle . The syntax is: myGrapphics.DrawRectangle(myPen, X, Y, width, height) Where myGraphics is the variable name of the Graphics object and myPen is the variable name of the Pen object created by you. You can use any valid and meaningful variable names. X, Y is the coordinate of the upper left corner of the rectangle while width and height are self-explanatory, i.e, the width and height of the rectangle. The sample code is shown below:

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Dim myPen As Pen myPen = New Pen(Drawing.Color.Blue, 5) Dim myGraphics As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics myGraphics.DrawRectangle(myPen, 0, 0, 100, 50)

(ii) The second way is to create a rectangle object first and then draw this triangle using the DrawRectangle method. The syntax is as shown below: myGraphics.DrawRectangle(myPen,myRectangle) where myRectangle is the rectangle object created by you, the user. The code to create a rectangtle object is as shown below: Dim myRectangle As New Rectangle myRect.X = 10 myRect.Y = 10 myRect.Width = 100 myRect.Height = 50 You can also create a rectangle object using a one-line code as follows: Dim myRectangle As New Rectangle(X,Y,width, height) and the code to draw the above rectange is myGraphics.DrawRectangle(myPen, myRectangle) The sample code is shown below:

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22.2 Customizing Line Style of the Pen Object The shape we draw so far are drawn with solid line, we can actually customize the line style of the Pen object so that we have dotted line, line consisting of dashes and more. For example, the syntax to draw with dotted line is shown below: myPen.DashStyle=Drawing.Drawing2D.DashStyle.Dot Where the last argument Dot specifies a particular line DashStyle value, a line that makes up of dots here. The following code draws a rectangle with red dotted line. Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim myPen As Pen myPen = New Pen(Drawing.Color.Red, 5) Dim myGraphics As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics myPen.DashStyle = Drawing.Drawing2D.DashStyle.Dot myGraphics.DrawRectangle(myPen, 10, 10, 100, 50) End Sub The output image is shown below:

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The possible values of the line DashStyle of the Pen are listed in the table below:

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[Lesson 22] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 24] We have learned how to draw rectangles with various line styles in Visual Basic 2010. Now we shall learn how to draw ellipse and circle. 23.1 Drawing Ellipse First of all we need to understand the principle behind drawing an ellipse in Visual Basic 2010. The basic structure of most shapes is a rectangle, ellipse is no exception. Ellipse is an oval shape that is bounded by a rectangle, as shown below:

Therefore, you need to create a Rectangle object before you can draw an ellipse. This rectangle serves as a bounding rectangle for the ellipse. On the other hand, you still draw an ellipse with the DrawEllipse method without first creating a rectangle. We will show you both ways.

In the first method, let say you have created a rectangle object known as myRectangle and a pen object as myPen, then you can draw an ellipse using the following statement:
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myGraphics.DrawEllipse(myPen, myRectangle) * Assume you have also already created the Graphics object myGraphics. The following is an example of the full code: Example 23.1(a) Dim myPen As Pen myPen = New Pen(Drawing.Color.Blue, 5) Dim myGraphics As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics Dim myRectangle As New Rectangle myRectangle.X = 10 myRectangle.Y = 10 myRectangle.Width = 200 myRectangle.Height = 100 myGraphics.DrawEllipse(myPen, myRectangle) The output image is shown in the following diagram:

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The second method is using the DrawEllipse method without creating a rectangle object. Offcourse you still have to create the Graphics and the Pen objects. The syntax is: myGraphics.DrawEllipse(myPen, X,Y,Width, Height) Where (X,Y) are the coordinates of the upper left corner of the bounding rectangle, width is the width of the ellipse and height is the height of the ellipse. The following is an example of the full code: Example 23.1(b) Dim myPen As Pen myPen = New Pen(Drawing.Color.Blue, 5) Dim myGraphics As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics myGraphics.DrawEllipse(myPen, 10, 10, 200, 100) 23.2 Drawing a Circle After you have learned how to draw an ellipse, drawing a circle becomes very simple. We use exactly the same methods used in the preceding section but modify the width and height so that they are of the same values. The following examples draw the same circle. Example 23.2(a) Dim myPen As Pen

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myPen = New Pen(Drawing.Color.Blue, 5) Dim myGraphics As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics Dim myRectangle As New Rectangle myRectangle.X = 10 myRectangle.Y = 10 myRectangle.Width = 100 myRectangle.Height = 100 myGraphics.DrawEllipse(myPen, myRectangle) Example 23.2(b) Dim myPen As Pen myPen = New Pen(Drawing.Color.Blue, 5) Dim myGraphics As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics myGraphics.DrawEllipse(myPen, 10, 10, 100, 100) The output image is show below:

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[Lesson 23] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 25] We have learned how to draw rectangle, ellipse and circle in Visual Basic 2010 in the preceding chapters, now lets learn how to draw text on the screen. Yes, instead of using the Print command, you can also draw text on the screen. 24.1 Drawing Text In order to draw text on the screen, we can use the DrawString method. The syntax is as follows: myGraphics.DrawString(myText, myFont, mybrush, X , Y) Where myGraphics is the Graphics object, myText is the text you wish to display on the screen, myFont is the font object created by you, myBrush is the brush style created by you and X, Y are the coordinates of upper left corner of the Text. You can create the Font object in Visual Basic 2010 using the following statement: myFont = New System.Drawing.Font(Verdana, 20) Where the first argument of the font is the font typeface, and the second argument is the font size. You can add a third argument as font style, either

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bold, italic, underline. Here are the examples: myFont = New System.Drawing.Font(Verdana, 20, FontStyle.Bold) myFont = New System.Drawing.Font(Verdana, 20, FontStyle.Underline) myFont = New System.Drawing.Font(Verdana, 20, FontStyle.Italic) myFont = New System.Drawing.Font(Verdana, 20, FontStyle.Regular) To create your Brush object, you can use the following statement: Dim myBrush As Brush myBrush = New Drawing.SolidBrush(Color.BrushColor)

Besides the seven colors, some of the common Brush Colors are AliceBlue, AquaMarine Beige, DarkMagenta, DrarkOliveGreen, SkyBlue and more. You dont have to remember the names of all the colors, the intelliSense will let you browse through the colors in a drop-down menu once you type the dot after the word Color. Now we shall proceed to draw the font using the sample code below: Example 24.1 Dim myGraphics As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics Dim myFont As Font

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Dim myBrush As Brush myBrush = New Drawing.SolidBrush(Color.DarkOrchid) myFont = New System.Drawing.Font(Verdana, 20, FontStyle.Underline) myGraphics.DrawString(Visual Basic 2010, myFont, myBrush, 10, 10) Run the program above and you can see the following output:

The preceding can be modified if you dont want to create the Font and the Brush objects. You can use the font of an existing object such as the Form and the System Colors. Replace the last line in the preceding example with this line(you need to delete the lines that create the Brush and the Font objects as well) myGraphics.DrawString(Visual Basic 2010, me.Font, System.Drawing.Brushes.DarkOrchid, 10, 10) You can also add a InputBox which let the user enter his or her message then display the message on the screen. This is shown in Example 24.2

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Example 24.2 Dim myGraphics As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics Dim myFont As Font Dim myBrush As Brush Dim userMsg As String userMsg = InputBox(What is your message?, Message Entry Form, Enter your message here, 100, 200) myBrush = New Drawing.SolidBrush(Color.DarkOrchid) myFont = New System.Drawing.Font(Verdana, 20, FontStyle.Underline) myGraphics.DrawString(userMsg, myFont, myBrush, 10, 10)

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[Lesson 24] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 26] We have learned how to draw rectangle, ellipse ,circle and text in Visual Basic 2010 in the preceding chapters, now lets learn how to draw polygons on the screen. Besides that, we shall also learn how to draw pie. 25.1: Drawing a Polygon Polygon is a closed plane figure bounded by three or more straight sides. In order to draw a polygon on the screen, we need to define the coordinates of all the points (also known as vertices) that joined up to form the polygon. The syntax to defines the points of a polygon with vertices A1,A2,A3,A4.An is as follows; Dim A1 As New Point(X1,Y1) Dim A2 As New Point(X2,Y2) Dim A3 As New Point(X3,Y3) Dim A4 As New Point(X4,Y4) . .

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Dim An as New Point(Xn,Yn)

After declaring the points, we need to define a point structure that group all the points together using the following syntax: Dim myPoints As Point() = {A1, A2, A3,.,An} .Finally, create the graphics object and use the DrawPolygon method to draw the polygon using the following syntax: Dim myGraphics As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics myGraphics.DrawPolygon(myPen, myPoints) where myPen is the Pen object created using the following syntax: myPen = New Pen(Drawing.Color.Blue, 5) Example 25.1: Drawing a Triangle A triangle is a polygon with three vertices. Here is the sample code: Dim myPen As Pen Dim A As New Point(10, 10) Dim B As New Point(100, 50) Dim C As New Point(60, 150) Dim myPoints As Point() = {A, B, C} myPen = New Pen(Drawing.Color.Blue, 5) Dim myGraphics As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics myGraphics.DrawPolygon(myPen, myPoints)

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Running the program produces the image below:

Example 25.2: Drawing a Quadrilateral A quadrilateral is a polygon consists of four sides,so you need to define four vertices. The following is the code: Dim myPen As Pen Dim A As New Point(10, 10) Dim B As New Point(100, 50) Dim C As New Point(120, 150) Dim D As New Point(60, 200) Dim myPoints As Point() = {A, B, C, D} myPen = New Pen(Drawing.Color.Blue, 5) Dim myGraphics As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics myGraphics.DrawPolygon(myPen, myPoints)

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The output image is as shown below:

25.2: Drawing Pie In order to draw a pie, you can use the DrawPie method of the graphics object. As usual, you need to create the Graphics and the Pen objects. The syntax for drawing a pie is: myGraphics.DrawPie(myPen, X, Y, width,height, StartAngle, SweepAngle) Where X and Y are the coordinates the bounding rectangle, other arguments are self-explanatory. Both StartAngle and SweepAngle are measured in degree. SweepAngle can take possible or negative values. If the value is positive, it sweep through clockwise direction while negative means it sweep through anticlockwise direction. Example 25.3: Drawing a pie that starts with 0 degree and sweep clockwise through 60 degree. Dim myPen As Pen myPen = New Pen(Drawing.Color.Blue, 5) Dim myGraphics As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics

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myGraphics.DrawPie(myPen, 50,50, 150,150,0,60) The output image is as shown below:

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[Lesson 25] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 27] In previous lessons, we have learned how to draw rectangle, ellipse ,circle ,polygon and pie with outlines only. In this lesson, we will show you how to fill the shapes with color, or simply solid shapes. Three methods that are used to fill shapes are FillRectangle, FillEllipse , FillPolygon and FillPie. In order to fill the above shapes with color, we need to create the Brush object using the following syntax: myBrush = New SolidBrush(Color.myColor) Where myColor can be any color such as red,blue, yellow and more. You dont have to worry about the names of the colors because the intellisense will display the colors and enter the period after the Color key word. 26.1 Drawing and Filling a Rectangle The syntax to fill a rectangle with the color defined by the brush object is: myGraphics.FillRectangle (myBrush, 0, 0, 150, 150) The complete code is shown in the example below: Example 26.1 Dim myPen As Pen

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Dim myBrush As Brush Dim myGraphics As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics myPen = New Pen(Drawing.Color.Blue, 5) myBrush = New SolidBrush(Color.Coral) myGraphics.DrawRectangle(myPen, 0, 0, 150, 150) myGraphics.FillRectangle(myBrush, 0, 0, 150, 150) The Output is shown below:

26.2 Drawing and Filling an Ellipse The syntax to fill a ellipse with the color defined by the brush object is: myGraphics.FillEllipse (myBrush, 0, 0, 150, 150) The complete code is shown in the example below: Example 26.2 Dim myPen As Pen
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Dim myBrush As Brush Dim myGraphics As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics myPen = New Pen(Drawing.Color.Blue, 5) myBrush = New SolidBrush(Color.Coral) myGraphics.DrawEllipse(myPen, 0, 0, 150, 150) myGraphics.Ellipse(myBrush, 0, 0, 150, 150) The output is shown below:

26.3 Drawing and Filling a Polygon The syntax to fill a polygon with the color defined by the brush object is: myGraphics.FillPolygon(myBrush, myPoints) The complete code is shown in the example below: Dim myPen As Pen Dim myBrush As Brush
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Dim A As New Point(10, 10) Dim B As New Point(100, 50) Dim C As New Point(120, 150) Dim D As New Point(60, 200) Dim myPoints As Point() = {A, B, C, D} myPen = New Pen(Drawing.Color.Blue, 5) myBrush = New SolidBrush(Color.Coral) Dim myGraphics As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics myGraphics.DrawPolygon(myPen, myPoints) myGraphics.FillPolygon(myBrush, myPoints) Running the code produces the image below:

26.4 Drawing and Filling a Pie The syntax to fill a pie with the color defined by the brush object is:

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myGraphics.FillPie(myBrush, X, Y, width, height, StartAngle, SweepAngle) The complete code is shown in the example below: Dim myPen As Pen Dim myBrush As Brush myPen = New Pen(Drawing.Color.Blue, 5) myBrush = New SolidBrush(Color.Coral) Dim myGraphics As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics myGraphics.DrawPie(myPen, 30, 40, 150, 150, 0, 60) myGraphics.FillPie(myBrush, 30, 40, 150, 150, 0, 60) The output is shown below:

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[Lesson 26] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 28] In this lesson, we shall show you how to use timer in Visual Basic 2010. Timer is used to control and manage events that are time related. For example, you need timer to create a clock, a stop watch, a dice, animation and more. 27.1 Creating a Clock In order to create a clock, you need to use the Timer control that comes with Visual Basic 2010 . The Timer control is a control object that is only used by the developer, it is invisible during runtime and it does not allow the user to interact with it. To create the clock, first of all start a new project in Visual Basic 2010 and select a new Windows Application. You can give the project any name you wish, but we will name it MyClock. Change the caption of the Form1 to MyClock in the properties window. Now add the Timer control to the form by dragging it from the ToolBox. Next, insert a label control into the form. Change the Font size of the label to 14 or any size you wish, and set the Font alignment to be middle center. Before we forget, you shall also set the Interval property of the Timer control to 1000, which reflects a one second interval(1 unit is 1 millisecond). Now, you are ready for the coding. Actually you would be surprise that what you need to create a clock is only a one-line code, that is:

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Label1.Text = TimeOfDay To actually create the clock, click on the Timer control and insert the code above ,as shown below: Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick Label1.Text = TimeOfDay End Sub The Clock is shown below:

27.2 Creating a Stopwatch We can create a simple stopwatch using the Timer control. Start a new project and name it stopwatch. Change the Form1 caption to Stopwatch. Insert the Timer control into the form and set its interval to 1000 which is equal to one second. Also set the timer Enabled property to False so that it will not start ticking when the program is started. Insert three command buttons and change their names to StartBtn, StopBtn and ResetBtn respectively. Change their text to Start, Stop and Reset accordingly. Now,key in the code as follows: Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick To increase one unit per second
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Label1.Text = Val(Label1.Text) + 1 End Sub Private Sub StopBtn_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles StopBtn.Click To stop the Timer Timer1.Enabled = False End Sub Private Sub StartBtn_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles StartBtn.Click To start the Timer Timer1.Enabled = True End Sub Private Sub ResetBtn_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ResetBtn.Click To reset the Timer to 0 Label1.Text = 0 End Sub The Interface of the Stopwatch is as shown below:

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27.3 Creating a Digital Dice We can create a digital dice easily using the Timer Control. To create a dice, you need to generate random numbers using the Rnd function. Rnd generates numbers between 0 and 1. The statement n = Int(1 + Rnd() * 6) generates integers from 1 to 6 randomly. In the code, we introduce the variable m to control the length of time of the rolling process. If m is more than 1000, then the rolling process will stop by setting the timer enabled property to False. The compete is shown below: Public Class Form1 Dim n, m As Integer Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick m = m + 10 If m < 1000 Then n = Int(1 + Rnd() * 6)

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LblDice.Text = n Else Timer1.Enabled = False m=0 End If End Sub Private Sub RollDiceBtn_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles RollDiceBtn.Click Timer1.Enabled = True End Sub End Class Running the program produces a dice with fast changing numbers which stop at a certain number. The interface is shown below:

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[Lesson 27] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 29] Although Visual Basic 2010 is generally a programming language designed for creating business and other industrial applications and not for creating animation, it can be used to create animation. In this lesson, we will show you just that. 28.1 Moving an object In this section, we will show you how to move an object by pressing a command button. You need to make use of the Top and Left properties of an object to create animation. The Top property defines the distance of the object from the top most border of the screen while the Left property defines the distance of the object from leftmost border of the screen. By adding or subtracting the distance of the object we can create the animated effect of moving an object. Start a new project and name it as Movable Object, or any name you wish. Now insert a PictureBox and in its Image property import a picture from your hard drive or other sources. Next, insert four command buttons, change their captions to Move Up, Move Down, Move Left and Move Right. Name them as MoveUpBtn, MoveDowbBtn, MoveLeftBtn and MoveRightBtn. Now, click on the buttons and key in the following code: Private Sub MoveDownBtn_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MoveDownBtn.Click

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PictureBox1.Top = PictureBox1.Top + 10 End Sub Private Sub MoveLeftBtn_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MoveLeftBtn.Click PictureBox1.Left = PictureBox1.Left 10 End Sub Private Sub MoveRightBtn_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MoveRightBtn.Click PictureBox1.Left = PictureBox1.Left + 10 End Sub Explanation: Each time the user clicks on the Move Down button, the distance of the PictureBox increases by 10 pixels from the top border, creating a downward motion. On the other hand, each time the user clicks on the Move Up button, the distance of the PictureBox decreases by 10 pixels from the top borders, thus creating an upward motion. In addition, each time the user clicks on the Move Left button, the distance of the PictureBox decreases by 10 pixels from the left border, thus creating a leftward motion. Lastly, each time the user clicks on the Move Right button, the distance of the PictureBox increases by 10 pixels from the left border, thus creating an rightward motion. The interface is shown below:

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28.2 Creating Animation using Timer We can create continuous animation using timer without the need to manually clicking a command button. We can create left to right or top to bottom motion by writing the necessary code. First of all, insert a PictureBox into the form. In the PictureBox properties window,select the image property and click to import an image file from your external sources such as your hard drive, your Pendrive or DVD. We have inserted an image of a bunch of grapes.Next, insert a Timer control into the form set its interval property to 100, which is equivalent to 0.1 second. Finally, add two command button to the form, name one of them as AnimateBtn and the other one as StopBtn, and change to caption to Animate and Stop respectively. We make use of the Left property of the PictureBox to create the motion. PictureBox.Left means the distance of the PictureBox from the left border of the Form . Now click on the Timer control and type in the following code: Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick If PictureBox1.Left < Me.Width Then PictureBox1.Left = PictureBox1.Left + 10 Else
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PictureBox1.Left = 0 End If End Sub In the code above, Me.Width represents the width of the Form. If the distance of the PictureBox from the left is less than the width of the Form, a value of 10 is added to the distance of the PictureBox from the left border each time the Timer tick, or every 0.1 second in this example. When the distance of the PictureBox from the left border is equal to the width of the form, the distance from the left border is set to 0, which move the PictureBox object to the left border and then move left again, thus creates an oscillating motion from left to right. We need to insert a button to stop motion. The code is: Timer1.Enabled = False To animate the PictureBox object, we insert a command button and key in the following code: Timer1.Enabled = True The Image of the Animation program is shown below:

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29.1 Introduction to Database in Visual Basic 2010

In our daily life, we deal with many types of information or data such as names, addresses, money, date, stock quotes, statistics and more. If you are in business or working as a professional, you have to handle even more data. For example, a doctor need to keep track of patients personal and medical information such as names, addresses, phone numbers as well as blood pressure readings, blood sugar readings,surgical history, medicines prescribed in the past and more. On the other hand, businesses usually have to manage large amount of data pertaining to products and customers. All these data need to be organized into a database for the ease of data management. In the past , people usually deal with data manually like using cards and folders. However, in present day fast pace global environment and Information age, it is no longer feasible to manage data manually. Most data are now managed using computer-based database management systems. Computer-based Database management systems can handle data much faster and more efficient than human beings do. With the advent of the network and the Internet technologies, data can now be managed locally and remotely. Companies usually invest heavily in database management systems in order to run the organizations efficiently and effectively. Database management systems are usually used in running payroll system, inventory system, accounting system, payment system,

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order handling system, customer relationship management system(CRM) and more. Some of the commercial database management system(DBMS) are Oracle, Microsoft SQL server and Microsoft Access

29.2 Creating a Database Application in Visual Basic 2010

A database management system typically deals with storing, modifying, and extracting information from a database. It can also add, edit and delete records from the database. However, a DBMS can be very difficult to handle by ordinary people or business men who have no technological backgrounds. Fortunately, we can create user friendly database applications to handle the aforementioned jobs with the DBMS running in the background. One of the best programs that can create such database application is none other than Visual Basic 2010. Visual Basic 2010 uses ADO.NET to handle databases. ADO.NET is Microsofts latest database technology which can works with many other advanced database management system such as Microsoft SQL server. In this lesson, we will develop codes that make use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, therefore you need to have Microsoft SQL Server 2008 installed in your PC, otherwise you can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download /details.aspx?id=1695. Besides, you might want to download Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express, the SQL database management system that allows you to create and manage databases. To begin building the database project in Visual Basic 2010, launch Visual Basic 2010. You can name your project as Database Project 1 or what ever name you wish to call it. Next, change the default forms Text property to Contacts as we will be building a database of contact list. There are a few objects in ADO.NET that are required to build the database. There are:
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SqlConnection- to connect to a data source in SQL Server DataTable -to store data for navigation and manipulation DataAdapter- to populate a DataReader
The aforementioned objects belongs to the System.Data and the System.Xml namespace. Therefore, we need to reference them in the beginning before we can work with them. To reference the ADO.NET object, choose project from the menu then select Database Project 1 properties to display the project properties. Next click the References tab to show the active references for the project, as shown in Figure 29.1

Under imported namespaces, make sure system.data, System.Data.Sqlclient are selected, otherwise check them. Having done that you need to click the Save All button on the toolbar and then return to the Visual Basic 2010 IDE. We shall proceed to create connection to the database source file in the next lesson. [Lesson 28] << [CONTENTS] >> [Lesson 30]

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30.1 Creating Connection to a Database using ADO.NET

In Visual Basic 2010, we need to create connection to a database before we can access its data. Before we begin, lets create a new database. Since we are using SQL Server 2008 as the database engine, we will use Microsoft Studio Management Express to create a database with the mdf extension. We shall name this database file as test.mdf. After creating the database, build a table called Contacts and create two fields and name them ContactName and State respectively. Enter a few data in the table and click Save All to save the data. Now we are ready to connect to this new database. ADO.NET offers a number of connection objects such as OleDbConnection, SqlConnection and more. OleDbConnection is used to access OLEDB data such as Microsoft Access whilst SqlCOnnection is used to access data provided by Microsoft SQL server. Since we will work with SQL database in our example, we will use the SqlConnection object. To initialize the variable to a new SqlConnection object, we use the following syntax: Private MyCn As New SqlConnection Having created the instance of the SqlConnecton object, the next step is to establish a connection to the data source using the SQL ConnectionString property. The syntax is:

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MyCn.ConnectionString = Data Source=lenovo4903350b\mssmlbiz; AttachDbFilename=C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data\Test.mdf; & _ User Instance=True;Integrated Security=SSPI * You need to change the reference to the SQL server (lenovo4903350b\mssmlbiz) as well as the path to database file Test.mdf . After establishing connection to the database, you can open the database using the following syntax: MyCn.Open()

30.2 Populating Data in ADO.NET

Establishing connection to a database in Visual Basic 2010 using SqlConnection alone will not present anything tangible things to the user to manipulate the data until we add more relevant objects and write relevant codes to the project. The next step is to create an instance of the SqlDataAdpater in our code so that we can populate the DataTable with data from the data source. Besides, you also need to create an instance of the DataTable. Other than that, you should also create an instance of the SqlCommandBuilder which is used to manipulate data such as updating and deleting data in the Datatable and send the changes back to the data source. The statements are: Private MyDatAdp As New SqlDataAdapter Private MyCmdBld As New SqlCommandBuilder Private MyDataTbl As New DataTable Having created the above of objects, you need to include the following statements in the Sub Form_Load event to start filling the DataTable with

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data from the data source. The statements are as follows: MyDatAdp = New SqlDataAdapter(Select* from Contacts, MyCn) MyCmdBld = New SqlCommandBuilder(MyDatAdp) MyDatAdp.Fill(MyDataTbl) After filling up the DataTable , we need to write code to access the data. To access data in the DataTable means that we need to access the rows in the table. We can achieve this by using the DataRow object. For example, we can write the following to access the first row of the table and present the data via two text boxes with the name txtName and txtState respectively: Dim MyDataRow As DataRow = MyDataTbl.Rows(0) Dim strName As String Dim strState As String strName = MyDataRow(ContactName) strState = MyDataRow(State) txtName.Text = strName.ToString txtState.Text = strState.ToStringMe.showRecords() * The two fields being referenced here are ContactName and State. Note Index 0 means first row. showRecords() is a sub procedure created to show data in the text boxes. The code is as follows: Private Sub showRecords() If MyDataTbl.Rows.Count = 0 Then txtName.Text = txtState.Text = Exit Sub End If

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txtName.Text = MyDataTbl.Rows(MyRowPosition) (ContactName).ToString txtState.Text = MyDataTbl.Rows(MyRowPosition)(State).ToString End Sub Take a look at the output interface:

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[Lesson 30] << [CONTENTS] In previous lessons, you have learned how to connect to a database as well as filling up the table with data in Visual Basic 2010, now you shall learn how to manipulate data in the database. Manipulating data means adding news records, editing records, deleting records, browsing records and more.

31.1 Browsing Records

In previous lesson, we have learned how to display the first record using the showRecords sub procedure. In this lesson, we will create command buttons and write relevant codes to allow the user to browse the records forward and backward as well as fast forward to the last record and back to the first record. The first button we need to create is for the user to browse the first record. We can use buttons text << to indicate to the user that it is the button to move to the first record and buttons text >> to move to the last record. Besides we can use buttons text < for moving to previous record and buttons text > for moving to next record.

The code for moving to the first record is: MyRowPosition = 0 Me.showRecords()
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The code for moving to previous record is: If MyRowPosition > 0 Then MyRowPosition = MyRowPosition 1 Me.showRecords() End If The code for moving to next record is: If MyRowPosition < (MyDataTbl.Rows.Count 1) Then MyRowPosition = MyRowPosition + 1 Me.showRecords() End If The code for moving to last record is: If MyDataTbl.Rows.Count > 0 Then MyRowPosition = MyDataTbl.Rows.Count 1 Me.showRecords() End If

31.2 Editing, Saving, Adding and Deleting Records

You can edit any record by navigating to the record and change the data values. However, you need to save the data after editing them. You need to use the update method of the SqlDataAdapter to save the data. The code is: If MyDataTbl.Rows.Count <> 0 Then MyDataTbl.Rows(MyRowPosition)(ContactName) = txtName.Text MyDataTbl.Rows(MyRowPosition)(state) = txtState.Text

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MyDatAdp.Update(MyDataTbl) End If You can also add new record or new row to the table using the following code : Dim MyNewRow As DataRow = MyDataTbl.NewRow() MyDataTbl.Rows.Add(MyNewRow) MyRowPosition = MyDataTbl.Rows.Count 1 Me.showRecords() The code above will present a new record with blank fields for the user to enter the new data. After entering the data, he or she can then click the save button to save the data. Lastly, the user might want to delete the data. The code to delete the data is: If MyDataTbl.Rows.Count <> 0 Then MyDataTbl.Rows(MyRowPosition).Delete() MyDatAdp.Update(MyDataTbl) MyRowPosition = 0 Me.showRecords() End If [Lesson 30] << [CONTENTS]

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