Microsoft Visual
Basic 6.0
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this lesson, student should be able to:
1. State the features of the programming tools.
2. Identify the Visual Development Environment of programming tools:
Toolbar
Toolbox
Introduction
Visual Basic is a tool that allows user to develop Windows (Graphic User Interface-
GUI) applications.
The basis of Visual Basic is an earlier programming language called BASIC
(Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code).
Get started
•Click on this tab to
create new programs.
•For student, you need
to choose Standard EXE
icon as shown in the
picture.
•To open existing
program, you just
choose this tab.
•This tab used to open
recently project and list
of previous project.
Visual Basic Environment
ToolBar
Menu Bar
Project
Explorer
Form
Toolbox
Properties
Window
Main Component in Visual Basic 6.0
Menu Bar – a list of command use to control VB environment.
Form Window – central to developing Visual Basic application
Toolbox – the selection menu for
controls used in your application.
Toolbar – a collections of button that provides shortcuts or easy access to the different
command on the Menu Bar.
Properties Window –
used to establish initial
property values for
objects.
Project Explorer Window – a tree structured view of all files that
inserted in the application.
Main Function in Toolbox
That’s all for today lesson. Any information or questions, please
ask teacher.