Tutorial for Visual Basic 6

[speedlemon]

can you just tell me? theres a lot of vb books at my library. i dont read them or anything. my brother did. and he also got a bunch of cheap used books from amazon.

[wizardlife]

can you just tell me? theres a lot of vb books at my library. i dont read them or anything. my brother did. and he also got a bunch of cheap used books from amazon.

1. Start a new project
2. Drag a text box onto the form
3. Drag a button onto the form
4. Double-click the button
5. In the Private Sub that is created, type

Code:

text1.text = "Hello World"

Run it. Click the button. Observe. Now, any property like 'text' can be set either at run-time as above, or at design-time using the properties panel on the right side of the screen.

Now, once you're tired of mucking around with that, use the app-wizard to create some basic projects. You can check out the generated code for ideas how to do stuff. Also, the help system in VB is an excellent resource. In addition, there's actually the entire VB Programmer's Guide included in the Books Online program (which came with my Learning Edition VB). It has a number of vary good tutorials on encapsulation and collections and other stuff.

So.... yeah.


Basically the best advice I can give is to not bother unless you have an actual goal/program you're working on. VB is one of those things where you'll have zero motivation without something you're really trying to make.

[speedlemon]

i never said i wanted to learn vb. or maybe you acidentally quoted me or something. i still wanna know what rtfm is.

[adosorken]

I already told you what r.t.f.m. is...it's an acronym for Read The F*cking Manual.

[speedlemon]

o. :oops: i thought you meant read the manual to find out what it meant.

[whitetiger0990]

hehe anyway. more people (in my oppinion) should use http://dictionary.com

it tells you what it is

[speedlemon]

my connection is too slow and life is too short to go there every time i wanna look up something. wait, did it just take 3 days to find out what r.t.f.m. was? woah. o well.

[Deranged]

err sorry i've not checked board in a while. i've made a few programs already with VB i'm kinda getting the hang of it.
i'm not making complicated things yet. i've made a program with 4 buttons each with the name of a color and when u press it it changes the background color. and i also went on to add a nifty enabled = false text box that displayed the color as a string. nothing useful in any way, but it was just to see if i could. took about 5 minutes after setting all the properties and things. my friend is gonna go buy a book, and i'll just look off his. i always prefer the hard copy. something i can take to school and read there or something.


**ANYWHO**

rtfm means read the freakin manual for those who havent gotten it yet. i know enough about it that all the questions i ask should mostly be about syntax of code.

but my original question stands, does anyone want me to put an .iso of Visual Studio 6 Enterprise(VB6, Visual C++ 6.0, Visual Foxpro 6, Visual InterDev6)?? it's a great webhost with downloads of ~300-400 kilobytes/s (from my comcast cable line).

and i will put up a new topic about my new VB Project that is currently underway.

[wizardlife]

hehe anyway. more people (in my oppinion) should use http://dictionary.com

And if you REALLY want to know what it is: www.urbandictionary.com

[na_th_an]

but my original question stands, does anyone want me to put an .iso of Visual Studio 6 Enterprise(VB6, Visual C++ 6.0, Visual Foxpro 6, Visual InterDev6)?? it's a great webhost with downloads of ~300-400 kilobytes/s (from my comcast cable line).

If you wanna enter in the amazing world of piracy, you better use a p2p program. More secure.