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Chapter 1
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property in the Appearance section of the Properties window and change its value to Hello from
Visual Basic .NET and press Enter. Notice that the form’s title has been updated to reflect the
change (see Figure 1-13).
If you have trouble finding properties, click the little AZ button on the toolbar toward the top of the
Properties window. This changes the property listing from being ordered by category to being ordered by name.
5. You are now finished with the procedure. Click on the Start button on the Visual Studio .NET
toolbar (the blue triangle) to run the application. As you work through the book, whenever we
say “run the project” or “start the project,” just click on the Start button. An empty window with
the title Hello from Visual Basic .NET is displayed.
Notice how the grid patterns of dots have disappeared. These are displayed at design time to help place
controls such as boxes, labels, and radio buttons onto your form. They’re not needed (or even particularly
desirable) at run time, so they’re not shown.
That was simple, but your little application isn’t doing much at the moment. Let us make it a little more
interactive. To do this you are going to add some controls—a label, textbox, and two buttons to the form.
This will let you see how the Toolbox makes adding functionality quite simple. You may be wondering at
this point when you will actually look at some code. Soon! The great thing about Visual Basic .NET is that
you can develop a fair amount of your application without writing any code. Sure, the code is still there,
behind the scenes, but as you will see, Visual Basic .NET writes a lot of it for you.
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