[ΔDemon]

First up:

Enough of shit beginner tutorials, I was a beginner once too.

~ Demon

After we click new project on the main screen, we get:

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1. Pick Windows Forms Application.
2. Name it whatever next to Name: where I put project name.
3. Press OK.

^.^ Now we're greeted by:

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The Key:

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1. The Form, where we drag and drop controls onto, this is the "GUI" which is what the users who use your application will see.

2. The toolbox, this has the controls we drag onto the form (1) which is what the user will see. Controls are used to let users interact with your application through "Events." An event is like, the user will click a button that you dragged on and you'll take the click event and put code there.

So in short:

I click button > Code is activated, as the click event was raised.

3. Solution Explorer this allows us to explore things in our project, in our case form 1. We don't need to go into great detail right now.

4. Warnings, warnings tell us if code is wrong and will fail. For example, instead of:

Code

Msgbox("Hello")

I put:

Code

Massagebox("Hello")

It would give me an error as it doesn't know the command.

5. Properties, when we click something on the form, like we dragged over a button and we click there it'll give us properties like text, which chooses what the button will say and we can choose the lightning bolt for events, which is mentioned before.

In circled we have debug and build, debug is to test, build is to give it to other people.

Now let's start our first project. Take a "Button" from the toolbox and put it on the form. It'll look something like:

[img]http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/1473/cacb965306b245a9a53f187.png[/img]

Click it once, or keep it like that with the circles around it and go to the properties. In the properties, change the text to Hello World. So from:

http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/3859/...3ffb2f.png

To

[img]http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/4057/a2f30dee266946eea29d009.png[/img]

So the button looks like:

[img]http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/5599/0e9cd77df8cf4aa586e3475.png[/img]

Now we click the button again, look at the properties and click the lightning bolt instead of the page.

[img]http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2840/26a0ea59d38244eb842466a.png[/img]

From the lightning bolt's properties we pick the Click event and double click the textbox next to click. Which will take us to a code window:

The Click to double click:

[img]http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/9799/12b8ca0e0e794c39be2393a.png[/img]

The code window:

[img]http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/4610/9bc01b5788cc426f90c853a.png[/img]

Where it says Button 1 click, that's the click event. That's where when the user clicks that code is raised. So let's make it show a message saying Hello World, as most coders do their first time.

So in the middle of the click event, where the code is to be executed, let's put:

Code

Msgbox("Hello World")

So it looks like:

[img]http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/954/28ee7f69662e4021994a9d6.png[/img]

Now let's test it:

Debug > Start Debugging

[img]http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/6941/97304f2ec8ff451686e8f87.png[/img]

Now click the button that opens, and it'll show a message saying: "Hello World."

[img]http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/4794/96cee42358e54490b8a062c.png[/img]

Hope you enjoyed your VB.Net Hello World.

Any Questions, please ask.

[BreastMilk]

Haha, Nice Tut You Have There! I Rather Like It :)

[ΔDemon]

I'm glad you like it. ^.^ I hope it helps people.

[BreastMilk]

Yea, I'm Sure It Will, It Actually Gave Me The Idea To Release A Tutorial On How To Code A Rather Easy Program That Everyone Loves. :)

[ΔDemon]

Awesome, possibly people will make new programs now instead of copy-pasting Email Bombers. Maybe we'll end VB.Net copy-paste on HF for a while for a few users. ^.^

[ΔDemon]

Thank you and no problem, not sure what tutorial I'll post next. =P