Getting Started:

1. How do I start Visual Basic Program?

Start à Programs à Visual Basic 2008 or 2003 depending which version is in your computer.

Select the option with the colored (red, green, yellow) infinity icon.

2. How do I create applications?

File à New Project à Visual Basic Projects, Application, and notice your path:

Mine is C:\Documents and Settings\sminer\My Documents\Visual Studio Projects. Visual Studio. This is time to give a name to your project. If you do it later, your subfolders might get corrupted. Projects will not exist until you save all. Save All is important to save correctly.

3. We will be working with forms first. Select View Code, Designer, Toolbox. If they are not visible this will make them visible.

4. From your toolbox you can drag buttons and labels.

5. Note: if you are going to use code from the cd, copy and paste it into your computer. If you execute or work from the cd, the code will not work.

6. Book Website: http://www.aw-bc.com/gaddisvb/ if you follow the link to companion website ->student, you will get the website for your book: http://wps.aw.com/aw_gaddis_vb2008_4/82/21176/5421292.cw/index.html

7. You can download all the programs and unzip them or download one program at a time

8. You can click on WinZip at the lab, select classic or use evaluation. This activates WinZip. Then right-click the zipped folders with your mouse and select extract here. Also, right-click, deselect Read-Only.

9. Look inside the bin folder and click .exe file that shows output.

10. Look inside the .vb files of type Form with WordPad(Start

->AccessoriesàWordPad)