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Summary
Creating programs using Visual Basic 2005 Express is an immensely rewarding process. When you need
to write only a couple of lines of code to achieve a feature-rich solution, it frees you to think of more
complex solutions and helps you harness the power of Windows in ways that previously would be too
difficult to contemplate.
In this chapter, you learned to do the following:
❑ Install Visual Basic Express, SQL Server Express, and the associated documentation
❑ Create a simple application that says “Hello World,” and another that can browse a website
In the next chapter, you’ll find out about starter kits and wizards—more features of Visual Basic Express
that make your programming life easier. Along with these wizards, you’ll learn about some core pro-
gramming concepts such as controls, classes, methods, and properties that are essential to programming
in any language.
Exercises
1. Installing Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition: To create applications that run on the
Internet, you can still use Visual Basic 2005 as a language, but you will need to install Visual
Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. The method for installing Web Developer Express is
exactly the same as what has been outlined here, but it will install Web Developer instead of
Visual Basic. If you have already installed Visual Basic Express, you’ll find that the Web
Developer installation process does not include options for MSDN or SQL Server, as it automati-
cally detects that they are already present on your system.
2. Customizing the Browser Application: Extend your web browser program so you can both go
back to the previous web page you visited and navigate to the default home page of Internet
Explorer. You’ll need to use two more methods of the
WebBrowser control—GoHome and
GoBack.
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