VB Integrated Development Environment (IDE——Integrated Developing Environment) is composed of the following elements:
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The title bar is
used to display the name of the project being developed or debugged and the working status of the system (design status, running status, suspension status). -
The menu bar is
used to display the Visual Basic commands used. -
Toolbar
is used to quickly access frequently used commands in the programming environment. By default, the "standard" toolbar is displayed after starting VB, and additional toolbars for editing, form design and debugging can be moved in or out from the "Toolbar" command on the "View" menu. -
Form designer is
used to design the interface of the application. After starting VB, a blank form named Form1 will automatically appear in the form designer. You can add controls, graphics, and pictures to the form to create the desired appearance. After the appearance of the form is designed, click the menu Select "File" → "Save Form" → give an appropriate file name in the save dialog box (note the extension), and select the desired save location → OK. When you need to design another form, click the "Add Form" button on the toolbar. -
Control (tool) box is
composed of a group of control buttons, which are used to place controls in the form during design. In addition to the default toolbox layout, you can also create a custom layout by selecting "Add Tab" from the context menu and adding controls to the results tab. -
Pop-up (context) menu
Click the right mouse button on the object to be used to open the shortcut menu. Frequently performed operations related to the current object will appear on it to speed up the operation. -
The project manager window is
used to browse the forms and modules contained in the project, and you can also view the code and view objects from it. -
Property window
is a more complicated window in VB, which lists the property setting values of selected forms and controls. In VB, it is through changing the attributes to change the characteristics of the object, such as size, title or color. -
Object Browser
lists the valid objects in the project and provides a quick way to navigate through the coding. You can use the "Object Browser" to browse the objects and other applications in VB, view the effective methods and properties of those objects, and paste the code process into your own application. -
Object Browser
Right-click the object in the form, and click the "View Code" button from the project manager. -
The
Form Layout window allows the use of small images that represent the screen to lay out the positions of the forms in the application. -
Additional windows such as immediate, local and watch windows are provided for debugging applications, and they are only effective when running the application in the IDE.