Thread: Visual Basic

Is there anybody in the southern side of Brisbane that knows about Visual Basic. I am trying to get my mind around it and having some what heaps of problems. If you could help I would really appreciate it.

Oztruckdriver

WASN'T ME OFFICER, I WAS GOING THE OTHER WAY

Are you talking about using the old 'Visual Basic' or are you talking about using VB.Net under 'Visual Studio 2010' or maybe 'Visual Studio 2012'.

If your talking about the old 'Visual Basic' then I probably can't help but if your taking about VB.Net under Visual Studio then there are two things I can think of first up.

1)The tool box and properties windows must be opened to view them. To open the 'tool box' go Menu > View and choose 'ToolBox'. You can then close, or hide it as needed. To open the 'properties' window right click on any object in the 'Solution Explorer' and chose 'Properties'

2) Regardless of 1 above - you won't see any 'tools' in the 'tool box' window unless you are viewing a form's designer.

In 'Solution Explorer' look for a form (I assume you have created one in one of your tutorials) and right click on it. You should see a drop down menu that lists 'View Designer' and 'View Code'.

If you view the designer your tool box window will be populated with tools. If you choose to view the code your tool box window will be empty because there are no valid tools you can use when viewing the form's code.

Maybe that helps.