PROGRAMMING
BASICS
With most programming
languages you must write countless lines of code into an editor before anything
happens. Some of this code might be written to control the operation of the
program, but probably most of it will control the screen display and the
interface with the final user of the program.
DESIGN MODE
With visual Basic,
you do not need to write code to set the program interface, you will design
this graphically on the screen in ‘design mode’. All of the control features
you are used to in Windows, such as menu bars,list boxes, control buttons,etc,
can be almost instantly placed on ‘forms’ at design time. When you are happy
and pleased with the interface, you can then enter the code to control how its
components interact with each other, and with the final user. Even this
operation is made easy in visual Basic, which names and controls your input
procedures almost automatically.
RUN MODE
When you finally run
the program (or project) that you have created, the Forms you designed become
the program windows in ‘run mode’. This means that visual Basic gives you the
power to use most of windows’ built-in facilities, like window manipulation,
file opening and saving, etc without having to write much program code at all. You
can get really professional output with the minimum amount of effort, and that
is always a good reason programming in Visual Basic!
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