Chapter 1 An Introduction History of Visual Basic:

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Chapter 1 An IntroductionHistory of Visual Basic

• BASIC stands for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic
  Instruction Code.
• Developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in
  mid-1960s.
• Visual Basic was developed in mid-1991 by the
  Microsoft Corporation.

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Introduction to Visual Basic

• Language used to create windows application.
• Provides a Graphical User Interface or GUI.
• The sequence of instructions executed in the
  program is controlled by events.

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Terminology used in Visual Basic

• Forms
• Controls
• Objects
• Properties
• Events

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Steps to Design a Visual Basic Application

• Decide on the Interface for the user.
• (Forms Controls)
• Determine which events the objects on the window
  should recognize.
• Write the events procedures for those events.