This article, we will be dealing with ways to have your program perform the same task a number (not necessarily known at the time you start programming) of times.
For… Next…
Using the For.. Next statement, you can set code to run a predefined number of times. As an example, let’s build a small application that asks […]

This week’s article will deal with decision making in Visual Basic.
As you all know, computers are great for calculations. We already saw the possibility to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers. That’s all very nice, but at times we need to compare numbers with another (is b bigger than c?), string with one another (did […]

Welcome back to our exploration of the wonderful world that’s called Visual Basic. Last time, we looked at arrays, and as promised, this week we’ll check out functions and sub procedures. First of all, let’s take a look at sub procedures.
Sub procedures
The definition of a sub procedures is a set of instructions that can be […]

Welcome back to our series of articles about Visual Basic programming. Last article explained the basics of using variables and constants, which were (as we saw) little areas of memory in which we could store values, in order to quickly perform alterations on the values, or just temporarily maintain values, in order to make sure […]

In the last article, we took a look at what the term ‘event-driven’ means. We saw that Visual Basic will only process code after a certain event takes place, and we saw a few tips that can make your programming-life easier. We also started off with a very basic calculator program.
This article, I’ll explain what […]

Last week we took a look at some of the standard controls that come with Visual Basic. We saw that we can change the way a control looks, by fiddling around with it’s properties.
This week, we will look at some other possibilities of controls; events. We will build a very basic program, and I’ll offer […]

ADO is Microsoft’s latest way of making it easier for us developers to retrieve and work with databases. Don’t worry, you don’t have to be a SQL-guru to use ADO; however, some basics would be nice.
SQL Basics
SQL (Structured Query Language) is a ‘programming’ language used for querying data within Relational Databases. The most basic command […]

Hello, and welcome back to our weekly series where we explore Visual Basic. Last week we looked at the environment in which we will be working. This week, we will discuss a few of the common controls that are installed automatically when you install Visual Basic. These include, but are not limited to the controls […]

Welcome to the third Article in our Visual Basic section. Last week we installed Visual Basic. This week we will be looking at the environment that you are presented with when you start Visual Basic, and set a few options that will prepare Visual Basic to meet our demands.
Let’s run Visual Basic for the very […]

Hi again, and welcome to the second article in our Visual Basic section. Last week we looked at why you would want to use Visual Basic, what you could do with it, and we discovered a little about VB’s history.
This week, we will be comparing different versions of Visual Basic and then installing and configuring […]