Start Here! Learn Microsoft Visual Basic 2012
Michael Halvorson
Language: English
Pages: 366
ISBN: 0735672989
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Ready to learn Microsoft Visual Basic? Start Here!
Learn the fundamentals of modern programming with Visual Basic 2012—and begin building your first Windows 8 apps for the desktop. If you have absolutely no previous experience with Visual Basic, no problem—simply start here! This book introduces must-know concepts and techniques through easy-to-follow explanations, examples, and exercises.
Here’s where you start learning Visual Basic
- Learn the fundamentals of programming with Visual Basic
- Discover how to to bind controls to data
- Design and interact with user interfaces built with XAML
- Build and debug complete applications
- Learn the basics of Windows 8 application design
- Find out how to deliver your applications to the Windows Store
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is that the fundamental Visual Basic programming skills that you will explore here remain the same from platform to platform, and there are numerous tools and techniques that help you to port work easily between them. This book provides a solid introduction to many of the core skills that you will use; you can then learn specific programming techniques related to any particular platform when you are ready. Obtaining, Installing, and Starting Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 Before you
clutter. These mechanisms include features such as docking, autohiding, floating, and a few other window states that I’ll describe later. Visual Studio 2012 also hides rarely used IDE features until you begin to use them, which has also helped to clean up the IDE workspace. If you’re just starting out with Visual Studio, the best way to deal with feature overload is to hide the tools that you don’t plan to use often to make room for the important ones. The crucial tools for beginning Visual Basic
video media into your application with the MediaElement control. Visual Studio 2012 makes adding audio and video as easy as it has ever been for programmers. However, you do need to think carefully about how you will capture, edit, and distribute your audio and video files if you choose to publish your applications. In Chapter 4, “Designing Windows 8 Applications with Blend for Visual Studio,” you’ll learn much more about creating effective user interfaces in Windows 8 applications. You’ll get
video media into your application with the MediaElement control. Visual Studio 2012 makes adding audio and video as easy as it has ever been for programmers. However, you do need to think carefully about how you will capture, edit, and distribute your audio and video files if you choose to publish your applications. In Chapter 4, “Designing Windows 8 Applications with Blend for Visual Studio,” you’ll learn much more about creating effective user interfaces in Windows 8 applications. You’ll get
IsChecked=“True”. The IsChecked property is a Boolean value that will determine whether the toggle button is checked (true) or not checked (false). (You need to type this property with the exact combination of uppercase and lowercase letters shown here.) You’ll start the program with a value of True so that it displays an image in your program, which you’ll specify in a moment. 5. Move the mouse pointer to the right edge of the Code Editor until the mouse pointer be- comes a resizing pointer,