Lessons Summary

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET is a programming environment used to create graphical applications for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. This site provides various lessons and examples on how to use it.

The lessons on this site assume that you are familiar with the VBasic language but you don't need any background in GUI application development.

Tutorials

General

File Processing

GDI+

Collections

XML

ADO.NET

ADO.NET

SQL With SQL Server

OLE DB With MS Access

ODBC With Paradox

How-To

General

Windows Controls

Databases

This section contains small examples that illustrate how to use a certain Windows control.

This example illustrates two things: how to use your own structure in a program and how to use a managed array of a structure (or a class) as a member variable of another structure or class.

This example uses three track bars. When the user slides one of the track bars, the panel display an RGB color that is a combination of the value of each track bar.

This is Windows Control 101 that simply shows how to retrieve values of text boxes and involve them in a calculation

This is an application for a CD publishing company. It calculates the price of an order based on the quantity ordered.

Example that uses radio buttons to select an operation to perform such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division.

An application that allows you to know how long the computer and/or an application has been ON.

Displaying time using (horizontal) progress bars

In this introduction to charts, we use a series of rectangles to draw a column chart.

Continuing with our introduction to charts, this time, we create a 2-column chart

This section contains application that apply various controls to create an application

This is an example of serializing an array or items. This example uses binary serialization.

This application simulates order processing for a dry cleaning store. To implement the necessary functionality, we use a combination of date time picker controls. The application also features some bitmap buttons.

This is a review of the various techniques you can use to build or provide help in your Visual Basic .NET application

This application calculates overtime from an employee's time sheet in a payroll simulation

This application uses three synchronized numeric up down controls to calculate the percentage of money allocated to each of three institutions.

This application creates a format for the HTML's body tag.

Processing orders for a pizza store.

In this exercise, we create an application that can be used by a car repair business. An employee creates a work order that includes the parts used to fix the car and the types of jobs performed. When the repair is complete, the user can save it to an XML file.

This application applies the concepts reviewed for the DataSet class, the data tables, and the columns. To do this, it simulates a musical instrument store that sells items and saves them as XML.

This is an application used to create an inventory and process orders for an auto parts store. The inventory and the orders are saved in XML files.