Visual Basic

Welcome to this series of lessons about the Visual Basic programming language. Bob Tabor from LearnVisualStudio.NET introduces the topic, sets expectations and tips on how to get the most out of this series, instructs you on where you can download the software you'll need to get started and offers…

In this lesson you'll create a simple application twice -- the first time using Windows Notepad and the Visual Basic Command Line Compiler, then then second time using Visual Studio or Visual Basic Express Edition. The point of this video is to demonstrate how much easier your work becomes by…

Bob Tabor from www.LearnVisualStudio.net has created several beginner series for aspiring developers to learn programming languages in Visual Basic, C#, HTML5 & CSS3, JavaScript and how to build apps for Windows Phone 7. Each series come with different concepts that are broken into their own…

This lesson picks up from the previous one by discussing at length each action and line of code you wrote. It discusses the relationship between the Visual Basic code you write, the Visual Basic compiler, the .NET Framework and more. The lesson discusses the concept of code blocks at a high level…

In this lesson we start adding Visual Basic syntax to your vocabulary by talking about one of the fundamental building blocks: data types and variables. Beyond the basics topics such as naming conventions and explicit versus implicit data type conversions are discussed. Download the source code for…

This lesson demonstrates some of the common features -- the various windows, debugging features, code window features, customizations, etc. -- of the Visual Studio IDE found in Visual Basic Express Edition. A more complete discussion of features is found in the Visual Basic Express Edition…

Since the launch of this series Microsoft has released Windows 8 along with new editions of Visual Studio. In this short update video, Bob Tabor explains which versions of Visual Studio 2012 Express you should download and explains the difference between Visual Studio for Windows 8…

Branching allows us to add logic to our applications. In this lesson you're introduced to the If Decision statement (in its various forms) as well as the IIf conditional function. We also discuss how to refactor our code to make it more compact and less likely to produce errors by eliminating…

In this lesson we talk about arrays, which are multi-part variables … a "bucket" containing other "buckets", if you will. We'll demonstrate how to declare and utilize arrays, setting and retrieving their values, initializing their values, attempting to access values outside of…

In this lesson we discuss how to create a properly formed statement in Visual Basic. As you'll learn, just as there are "parts of speech" in a properly formed sentence in the English language, there's a "right way" and a "wrong way" to write "complete…