Chapter One
Wading into Visual Basic
In This Chapter
* Seeing where VB fits in with .NET
* Writing your first Visual Basic 2005 program
* Exploiting the newfound power of VB
To get started with Visual Basic 2005, I recommend that you jump right in
and write software! And to help you with such an assertive approach, this
chapter gives you just what you need to test the waters of the Visual Basic pool
and get comfortable with its place in the larger Visual Studio environment.
Then, you can really get your feet wet as you build
Hello World your first
VB 2005 Windows Forms application right here in the first few pages! You
find out how to launch Visual Studio 2005 (the development tool for your VB
applications), how to start a new project, and how to build a form visually
and make it work with code.
Also in this chapter, I give y ...
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