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Summary
Hopefully, you are beginning to see that developing basic applications with Visual Basic 2005 is not
that difficult. You have taken a look at the IDE and saw how it can help you put together software very
quickly. The Toolbox enables you to add controls to your form and design a user interface very quickly
and easily. The Properties window makes configuring those controls a snap, while the Solution Explorer
gives you a bird’s eye view of the files that make up your project. You even wrote a little code.
In the coming chapters, you will go into even more detail and get comfortable writing code. Before you
go too far into Visual Basic 2005 itself, the next chapter will give you an introduction to the Microsoft
.NET Framework. This Framework is what gives all of the .NET languages their ease of use, ease of
interoperability, and simplicity in learning.
To summarize, you should now be familiar with:
❑ The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
❑ Adding controls to your form in the Designer
❑ Setting the properties of your controls
❑ Adding code to your form in the code window
Exercise
Create a Windows Application with a Textbox and Button control that will display whatever is typed in
the text box when the user clicks on the button.
The answers for this exercise and those at the end of all the other chapters can be found in Appendix D.
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