Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET Step by Step

Author Michael Halvorson Pages 656 Disk 1 Companion CD(s) Level Beg/Int Published 01/23/2002 ISBN 9780735613744 ISBN-10 0-7356-1374-5 Price(USD) $39.99 To see this book's discounted price, select a reseller below.	More Information About the Book Table of Contents Sample Chapter Index Related Series Related Books About the Author Support: Book & CD Rate this book

Chapter 3: Working with Toolbox Controls

• The Basic Use of Controls: The "Hello World" Program
• Using the DateTimePicker Control
• The Birthday Program
• Controls for Gathering Input
• The Input Controls Demo
• Looking at the Input Controls Program Code
• Using the LinkLabel Control
• One Step Further: Installing ActiveX Controls
• The Microsoft Chart Control

Chapter 3   Working with Toolbox Controls

• Use TextBox and Button controls to create a "Hello World" program.
• Use the DateTimePicker control to display your birth date.
• Use CheckBox, RadioButton, ListBox, and ComboBox controls to process user input.
• Use a LinkLabel control to display a Web page on the Internet.
• Install ActiveX controls.

As you learned in Chapters 1 and 2, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET controls are the graphical tools you use to build the user interface of a Visual Basic program. Controls are located in the Toolbox in the development environment, and you use them to create objects on a form with a simple series of mouse clicks and dragging motions. Windows Forms controls are specifically designed for building Windows applications, and you'll find them organized on the Windows Forms tab of the Toolbox. (You used a few of these controls in the previous chapter.) You'll learn about other controls, including the tools you use to build Web Forms and database applications, later in the book.

In this chapter, you'll learn how to display information in a text box, work with date and time information on your system, process user input, and display a Web page within a Visual Basic .NET program. The exercises in this chapter will help you design your own Visual Basic applications and will teach you more about objects, properties, and program code. You'll also learn how to add older ActiveX controls to the Toolbox so that you can extend the functionality of Visual Basic.

Last Updated: January 12, 2002

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