Introduction to VB 6 Visual Basic is a third-generation event-driven user-friendly designed for beginners programming language by Microsoft enables anyone to develop GUI window applications easily BASIC means B eginners' A ll-purpose S ymbolic I nstruction C ode. Final version was Visual Basic 6.0 before the released of Visual Basic.NET
Visual Basic 6 I ntegrated D evelopment E nvironment ( IDE ) After installing the vb6 compiler, the icon will appear on your desktop or in your programs menu. Click on the icon to launch the VB6 compiler. On start up , Visual Basic 6.0 will display the following dialog box
To start visual basic, the steps are CLICK ON START PROGRAMS MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC STUDIO 6.0 MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC 6.0 THE NEW PROJECT WINDOW APPEARS (FIG.1.1) THE NEW PROJECT WINDOW HAS THREE TABS:- NEW :TO START A NEW PROJECT. EXISTING :TO SELECT FROM A LIST OF EXISTING PROJECTS. RECENT :TO SELECT FROM THE LIST OF RECENTLY OPENED PROJECTS.IN THE NEW TAB SELECT STANDARD.EXE APPLICATION . THIS OPENS THE MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC WINDOW.
COMPONENTS Menu Bar Tool Bar Form Designer Tool Box Project Explorer Properties Window