Visual Basic 2010 Tutorial 
        Table of Contents 
         
        Lesson 1- Introduction .................................................................................................................... 2 
        Lesson 2-Working with Controls ..................................................................................................... 5 
        Lesson 3-Working with Control Properties ..................................................................................... 8 
        Lesson 4 -Object Oriented Programming ..................................................................................... 11 
        Lesson 5-Writing the Code ............................................................................................................ 14 
        Lesson 6- Managing Data .............................................................................................................. 18 
        Lesson 7- Mathematical Operations ............................................................................................. 22 
        Lesson 8- String Manipulation ...................................................................................................... 24 
        Lesson 9- Using If….Then….Else .................................................................................................... 28 
        Lesson 10- Using Select Case ........................................................................................................ 32 
        Lesson 11- Looping........................................................................................................................ 35 
        Lesson 12- Functions Part 1 .......................................................................................................... 37 
        Lesson 13- Function Part II ............................................................................................................ 41 
        Lesson 14- Functions Part III- Math Functions.............................................................................. 45 
        Lesson 15 – Functions Part IV- Formatting Functions .................................................................. 47 
        Lesson 16 – Functions Part V- Formatting Date and Time ........................................................... 50 
        Lesson 17 – Using Check Box ........................................................................................................ 53 
        Lesson 18 – Using Radio Button.................................................................................................... 57 
        Lesson 19 – Creating A Simple Web Browser ............................................................................... 59 
        Lesson 20 – Errors Handling .......................................................................................................... 61 
        Lesson 21- Managing Graphics 1-Basic Concepts ......................................................................... 65 
        Lesson 22 – Managing Graphics -Drawing Rectangle ................................................................... 67 
        Lesson 23 – Managing Graphics -Drawing Ellipse and Circle ........................................................ 69 
        Lesson 24 – Managing Graphics -Drawing Text ............................................................................ 72 
        Lesson 25 – Managing Graphics -Drawing Polygon and Pie ......................................................... 75 
        Lesson 26 – Managing Graphics-Filling Shapes with Color ........................................................... 78 
        Lesson 27 – Using Timer ............................................................................................................... 81 
        Lesson 28 – Creating Animation ................................................................................................... 85 
        Lesson 29 Working with Databases Part 1.................................................................................... 88 
        Lesson 30- Working with Databases Part 2 .................................................................................. 90 
        Lesson 31: Working with Databases Part 3 .................................................................................. 93 
          
         
         
        Lesson 1- Introduction 
        Visual Basic 2010 is the latest version of Visual Basic launched by Microsoft in 2010. Visual Basic 
        2010 is a full fledged Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Language, so it has caught up with 
        other OOP languages such as C++, Java,C# and others. 
        However, you don’t have to know OOP to learn VB2010. Visual Basic 2010 Express Edition is 
        available free for download from the Microsoft site. Go to the link 
        http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-basic-express 
         The Integrated Development Environment when you launch VB2010 Express is shown in the 
         diagram below. The IDE Start Page consists of a few sections, namely: 
            The New Project/Open Project section. 
            The Recent Projects section that shows a list of projects that have been created by you 
            recently. 
            The  Getting  Started  Pane-  It  provides  some  helpful  tips  to  quickly  develop  your 
            applications. 
            The  Latest  News  section-  It  provides  latest  online  news  about  Visual  Basic  2010 
            Express. It will announce new releases and updates 
        The Properties section-let you defines the properties of each control 
                                                      
        To start creating your first application, you need to click on New Project. The following VB2010 New 
        Project dialog box will appear. 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                      The dialog box offers you five types of projects that you can create. As we are going to learn to 
                                                                                                                                                      create windows Applications, we will select Windows Forms Application. 
                                                                                                                                                      At the bottom of this dialog box, you can change the default project name WindowsApplication1 to 
                                                                                                                                                      some other name you like, for exampe, myFirstProgram. After you have renamed the project, click 
                                                                                                                                                      OK to continue. The following IDE Windows will appear, it is almost similar to Visual Basic 6. It 
                                                                                                                                                      consists of an empty form, the toolbox tab and the properties. The layout is slightly different from 
                                                                                                                                                      vb2008 as the Toolbox is not shown until you click on the Toolbox tab. When you click on the 
                                                                                                                                                      Toolbox tab, the common controls Toolbox will appear. 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
       Now drag the button control into the form, and change its default Text Button1 to OK in the 
       properties window, the word OK will appear on the button in the form, as shown below: 
       Now click on the OK button and the code window appears. Enter the code as follows: