Visual Studio Visual Basic NET

Answer 1

Learning a computer language is a big undertaking and cannot be explained in only one Answers.com answer, but I can post links on where to find resources to begin programing. First off Google-ing tutorials is how I learned a lot of my knowledge and another website that is very helpful is: stackoverflow.com It is a Q & A site for developers. Also, Microsoft MSDN has some VERY GOOD tutorials built right into visual studio. Just open Visual Studio 2010 and then click the "Guidance and Resources" Tab.

A few helpful starter pieces of code that I had a VERY HARD time finding:

To show a new form already in your project:

1. Insert the following code into a Button Click Property

2. The code: Form2.Show()

3. Replace Form2 with the name of the form you want to show

To close a form:

Repeat Step 1

2. The Code: Me.Close()

To End a program:

The Code: End

Also, you should organize your code by regions using:

#Region "Region Title Goes Here"

All your Code

#End Region

This is like putting your code into groups... but it just makes it easier to deal with if you have a lot.

GOOD LUCK!

Answer 2

You can download a FREE trial copy of Visual Studio Express 2010 from here...

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-web-developer-express

...which allows you to create programs using Visual BASIC.NET.

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Visual BASIC.NET has both offline/online Help files; where you are given plenty of example codes to go and test out/run.

Enjoy...; and, I sure hope you do have loads of FUN. :-)