Visual Basic

Visual Basic .
net
Mr. Jose Marie M. Pacia
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Visual Studio .net
• Microsoft’s Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for

creating running and debugging programs (called applications)
written in variety of programming languages

Why move from VB6 to .Net?
• World of applications is changing

• Has a number of unique features

Overview of Visual Studio .net
• Start Page – contains list of helpful links

• There are two buttons on the page:
– Open Project
– New Project
• To create a new project click new project

Open Existing Project
Create New Project

Up close…
• Variety of languages
– Visual Basic Projects
– Visual C# Projects
– Visual C++ Projects
– Setup and Deployment Projects
– Visual Studio Solutions

Visual Basic Projects
• Windows application – a program that executes inside a windows

OS.
– Include customized software that programmers create,
example Microsoft Word, IE6 ect.

Create
Applications
Project Name

Project Name
Path

Console Programming
• Console application – applications contain only text output

• Visual Basic console applications consist of pieces called module

Changing the default Module
• Click on Project > Console Properties

• On the startup object change the startup object to your startup
module

To run a program
• On the menu bar press Debug

• Click start without debugging (F5 for shortcut key)

Console Programming
• Printing a text
– Consolse.Write(“String”)
– Console.WriteLine(“The text goes here!”)
• Writeline position the text in the beginning of the next line

Example 1
• VB.net\LaboratoryExercise\PrintingText

Variables
• Stores data or information during program execution

• How to declare
– Dim variable_Name as Data_Type
– To insert a value:
• Dim variable_Name as Data_Type = Value

Note
• Before VB can use an object variable, it must determine its type

and perform the necessary conversions, if any.

Data Types
• Types of Variables
– Numeric – Store Numbers

Arithmetic Operators
• Addition - +
• Subtraction - -
• Multiplication - *
• Division - /
• Division (Integer) \
• Modulus - Mod
• Exponentiation - ^

Example 2
• \VB.net\LaboratoryExercise\ConsoleCalculator\ConsoleCalC

Character Variables
• You can initialize a character variable by assigning either a

character or a string to it. In the latter case, only the first
character of the string is assigned to the variable.
– Dim string_varialble as string
– Dim string_varialble as string = “Value”

Concatenation
• Joining of two or more strings

• Example
• Dim string1 as string = “a”
• Dim string 2 as string = “b”
– String1 & string2
• ab

Example 3
• VB.net\LaboratoryExercise\StringManipulation\StringManipulation

Equality Operators
• = - Equals
• <> - Not Equal
• > - Greater Than
• < - Less Than
• >= - Greater Than Equal
• <= - Less than equal

If then
If studentGrade>=60 then
Console.WriteLine(“Passed”)
End If

Decision Making
• If/then
– Allows a program to make a decision based on the truth or
falsity of some expression
– It is a condition

Module Condition
Sub Main()
Dim lagyu As String
Dim num1 As Integer
Dim num2 As Integer
Console.WriteLine("Enter first number: ")
num1 = Console.ReadLine()
Console.WriteLine("Enter second number: ")
num2 = Console.ReadLine()
If num1 > num2 Then
Console.WriteLine("Number 1 is greater than number 2")
Else
Console.WriteLine("Number 2 is greater than number 3")
End If
End Sub
End Module

If else/ elseif / else
If num1 > num2 Then
Console.WriteLine("Number 1 is greater than number
2!")
ElseIf (num2 > num1) Then
Console.WriteLine("Number 1 is greater than number
2!")
Else
Console.WriteLine("Number are equal!")
End If

Example 4
• VB.net\LaboratoryExercise\IFCondition\ifCondition

While Repetition Structure
• A repetition structure allows the programmer to specify that an

action should be repeated depending on the value of the condition

Do while/Loop
Module WhileLoop
Dim ctr As Integer
Sub Main()
ctr = 1
While ctr <= 10
ctr = ctr + 1
Console.WriteLine(ctr)
End While
End Sub
End Module

Do Until/Loop Repetition
• Test a condition for falsity for repetition to continue. Statements in

the body of a are executed repeatedly as long as the loop-
continuation test evaluates to false

Module DoWhileLoop
Dim ctr As Integer
Sub Main()
ctr = 10
Do Until ctr < 1
Console.WriteLine(ctr)
ctr = ctr - 1
Loop
End Sub
End Module

Assignment Operators
+= C=+7 C = c +7
-= C-=7 C=c-7
*= C*=7 C=c*7
/= c/=7 C = c /7
\= c\=7 C=c\7
^= C^=7 C=c^7
&= D &= “llo” D= D & “llo”

Module Module1
Sub Main()
Dim a As Integer
Dim var1 As Integer
Dim sum As Integer
a=1
sum = 0
While a <= 10
Console.WriteLine("Enter Number " & a & ":")
var1 = Console.ReadLine()
a += 1
sum = var1 + sum
End While
Console.WriteLine("The sum is " & sum)
End Sub
End Module

For/Next Repetition
• Repetition structure handles the details of counter-controlled

repetition.

Module ForLoop
Sub Main()
Dim counter As Integer
For counter = 1 To 10
Console.WriteLine(counter)
Next
End Sub
End Module
Using Dialog to Display Message
• On the solution explorer, right click on the reference and add

System.windows.forms

Message box
• MessageBox.Show("Text", "Title Bar caption",

MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Hand,
MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1,
MessageBoxOptions.RightAlign)

Work Space
• Form – Gray rectangle which represents the Windows Applications

that the programmer is creating
• The form which is the visual part of the program which the user
interact

Introduction to Windows
Application Program
• Messagebox
Title Bar Text
MesageboxIcon.I Message Text

nformation
MessageBox.OK

• MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation – Excalmation Point
• MessageBoxIcon.Information – Icon Containing the letter I
• MessageBoxIcon.Question – Icon Containing question mark
• MessageBoxIcon.Error – Icon containing the red x circle

• MessageBoxButtons.OK – OK button
• MessageBoxButtons.OKCancel – OK and Cancel
buttons
• MessageBoxButtons.YesNo – Yes and No Buttons
• MessageBoxButtons.YesNoCancel – Yes, no and
cancel buttons
• MessageBoxButtons.RetryCancel – Retry and
Cancel Button

Select Case Multiple-Selection
Structure
Select Case variable
Case <decision 1>
Code
Case <decision 2>
Code
Case Else
Code
End Select
Module SelectCaseModule
Sub Main()
Dim choys As Integer
Console.WriteLine("Enter Choice")
choys = Console.ReadLine
Select Case choys

Case 1
Console.WriteLine(1)
Case 2
Console.WriteLine(2)
Case Else
Console.WriteLine("Default")
End Select
End Sub
End Module

Exit Keyword in a Repetition
• Exit Do, Exit While, Exit For statements alter the flow of control by
causing immediate exit from a repetition structure

• Exit Do – Exit a do while repetition
• Exit for – Exit a for loop
• Exit While – Exit a while repetition

Logical Operators
• Visual Basic provides logical operators that can be used to form

complex conditions by combining simple ones

• AndAlso
• And
• OrElse
• Or
• Xor
• Not

AndAlso
• False + False = False

• False + True = False
• True + False = False
• True + True = True

OrElse

• False + True = True
• True + False = True
• True + True = True

Not
• True = False
• True = False

Xor

• False + True = True
• True + False = True
• True + True = False

Sub Procedures
Module SubProc
Sub Main()
Dim choys As Integer
Console.WriteLine("Enter Choice")
choys = Console.ReadLine
Select Case choys

Case 1
proc1("jpacs")
End Select
End Sub
Sub proc1(ByVal name As String)

Console.WriteLine(name)
End Sub
End Module

Procedure
• Similar to sub procedure except that function procedures return a

value
Function procedure-name(parameter list) as return type
Declarations and Statement
End Function

Maximum
• Get the maximum value of two number

– Math.Max(val1, val2)

Public Class frmMax
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Dim val1, val2, val3 As Double
Private Sub cmdMax_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As

System.EventArgs) Handles cmdMax.Click
val1 = txtFirst.Text
val2 = txtSecond.Text
val3 = txtThird.Text
lblTotal.Text = Math.Max(Math.Max(val1, val2), val3)
End Sub
End Class

More Math Functions
• Abs(x) – returns absolute value of x

• Ceiling(x) – rounds x to the smallest integer
• Cos(x) returns the trigonometric cosine

• Exp(x) – returns the exponential ex
• Floor(x) – rounds x to the largest integer
not greater than x
• Log(x) – returns the natural logarithm of x
(base e)
• Max(x,y) – returns the larger value of x
and y
• Min(x,y) – returns the smallest value of x
and y
• Pow(x,y) – Calculates x reaised to power y(xy)
• Sin(x) – returns the trigonometric sine of x(x in radians)
• Sqrt(x) – returns the square root of x
• Tan(x) – returns the trigonometric tangent of x (x in radians)

• Random
– Dim randomObject as Random = New Random()
– Dim randomNumber as Integer = randomObject.Next()

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e
As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim randomObject As Random = New Random
Dim randomNumber As Integer
randomNumber = randomObject.Next(1, 10)

lblRandom.Text = randomNumber
End Sub

Modules
• Programmers use modules to group related procedures so that

they can be reused in other projects

How to add modules
• Goto File > Add new item

• On the template select module

Module Module1
Function reuse(ByVal lbl As Label)
lbl.Text = "jpacs"
End Function
End Module

Convert
• Use to convert variables or value on a desired data type

• Example
– Convert.ToString (val2)
– Convert.ToChar(1)

Array
• Can store information and has indexes or memory address
• Array have the same name and same type
• The first element of an array is 0th Element
• The position on the array is called index

Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Dim numarray(10) As Integer
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As

System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
numarray(0) = 1
Label1.Text = numarray(0)
End Sub
End Class

GUI
• Label – An area in which icons or un editable text is

displayed
• Textbox – An area in which the user inputs data
from the keyboard. This can also display
information
• Button – An area that triggers an event when
clicked
• CheckBox – A component that is either selected on
unselected
• ComboBox – A drop-down list of items from which the user can
make a selection either by clicking an item in the list or by typing
into a box
• ListBox – An area in which a list of items is displayed. The user can
make a selection from the list by clicking on any item. Multiple
elements can be selected.

• Panel – A container in which components can be placed
• Scrollbar – A component that allows the user to access a range of
elements that normally cannot fit in the control’s container

Toolbox
• Contains all the windows forms and components

• To add a component on a form, select the component on the
toolbox and drag it on the form

Unload a form
• Application.exit

Form Properties and Events
• AcceptButton – Button that is clicked when Enter is
pressed
• AutoScroll – Boolean value that allows or disallows
scrollbars to appear when needed
• CancelButton – Button that is clicked when the Escape
key is pressed
• FormBorderStyle – Border style for the form (e.g.,
none, single, 3d)

• Font – font of text displayed on the form, and the default font of
controls added to the form
• Text – Text in the form’s title bar

Common Methods
• Close – Closes a form and releases all resources. A closed form

cannot be open.
• Hide – Hides form
• Show – Display hidden forms

Code
• formName.ActiveForm.Close()

Textbox
• Passing a value:
– txtEmpNoOut.Text = txtEmpNo.Text
– txtEmpNameOut.Text = txtLastName.Text & " " &
txtFirstName.Text

Mathematical Operator on Text
Box
• txtPhilhealth.Text = Val(txtSalaryMain.Text) *
0.05
• txtTax.Text = Val(txtSalaryMain.Text) * 0.04
• txtSSS.Text = Val(txtSalaryMain.Text) * 0.03

Combo Box
• Adding Items on runtime

– ComboBox1.Items.Add("ABC")
• Clearing Items on runtime
– ComboBox1.Items.Clear()

Properties of a combo box
• DropDownStyle – Dropdownlist, Dropdown, Simple

• Items - use to insert all the choices on your combo box

Adding Items on Combo on
runtime
• cmbChoice.Items.Add("ABC")
Clearing the items on the combo box

• cmbChoice.Items.Clear()

Getting the items on a combo
• cmbChoice.Items.Item (index number)

Radio Button
• Allows a user to choose a options

• Properties
– Check = combo box is selected (True = Selected, False = Un
Selected)
– Text = Text displayed on option Button

Example GUI 1
• Calculator
• Payroll System

Picture Boxes
• A picture box displays an image. The image, set by an object of

class Image, can be a bitmap, a GIF, JPEG, icon or metafile format.

Picture Box Properties
• Image – sets the image to display in the Picture Box

• SizeMode – Enumeration that controls image sizing and
positioning. StretchImage, AutoSize and Center Image)

• Normal places the image in top-left corner of
picture box
• CenterImage puts the image in middle (both
truncate image if it is too large)
• StretchImage resizes image to fit in
PictureBox.
• AutoSize resizes PictureBox to hold image
Loading Picture on Runtime
• picOne.Image =
Image.FromFile("D:\VB.net\LaboratoryExercise\Picture
Swapper\Pictures\Pic2.jpg")

Selecting the Current directory
or Path
• .fromfile (directory.GetCurrentDirectory)

Example GUI 2
• Picture Swapper

List Box
• Allows the user to view and select from multiple items in a list

List Box Properties
• Items – Collection of an item in a listbox

• SelectedIndex – Returns the index of the selected item. If selected
multiple items, the property returns arbitrary returns one of the
selected indeces. If no items are selected, the property returns to
-1

• SelectedIndeces – Returns a collection containing
the indeces for all selected items
• SelectedItem – Returns a reference to the
selected item (If multiple items are selected, it
returns the items with the lowest number of
index)
• SelectedItems – Returns a collection of selected
items

• SelectionMode – Determines the number of items that can be
selected
– Values(None, One, Multiple)
• Sorted – Indicates whether items are sorted alphabetically

Adding of Item
• listOrder.Items.Add(“Item to Add”)

Removing of items
• listOrder.Items.Clear()
• Counting of items on a list

– listOrder.Items.Count

CheckedListBoxes
• Control derives from Listbox but contains checkbox before each

item

Properties
• CheckedItems – Contains the collection of

items that are checked
• CheckedIndeces – Returns all indexes for
checked items
• SelectionMode – Determines how many
items can be checked. One(Multiple) and
None(Does not allow)
To get checked item
tmp = listOrder.GetItemChecked(ctr - 1)
If tmp = True Then
listOrder.Items.RemoveAt(ctr - 1)
End If

Remove item
• listOrder.Items.RemoveAt(ctr - 1)

Example GUI 3
• Font Browser
• POS

Creating Shapes
• Import System.Drawing on your program

Imports System.Drawing
Public Class frmShapes
Dim mygraphics As Graphics = MyBase.CreateGraphics
Dim mypen As New Pen(Color.DarkRed)
Private Sub cmbShapes_SelectedIndexChanged_1(ByVal

sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Handles cmbShapes.SelectedIndexChanged
If cmbShapes.Text = "Ellipse" Then
mygraphics.Clear(Color.White)
mygraphics.DrawEllipse(mypen, 100, 100, 100, 10)
End If
End Sub
End Class

Ellipse
• mygraphics.DrawEllipse(color of pen, x, y, height, width)

Tree View
• Displays nodes hierarchically in a tree.
• Nodes are objects that contain values and can refer to other nodes
• Parent node can contain child nodes
• A child node can be a parent node to other nodes

• First node on the tree is the root node
• Two child nodes are called siblings node

Properties of Tree View
• Checkboxes – Indicates whether a checkboxes appear next to

node
• ImageList – Specifies ImageList containing the node icon
• Nodes – List the collection of TreeNode, in the control

Methods on Treeview.Node
• Add (Adds a tree node object)

• Clear (Clears the entire collection of tree node)
• Remove (Delete a specific node)

Code
Public Class frmTree
Private Sub btnAdd_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e
As System.EventArgs) Handles btnAdd.Click
Dim StudName As String
StudName = txtLName.Text + ", " + txtFName.Text + " " +
txtMI.Text
If cmbCourse.Text = "ACT" Then
treeStudents.Nodes(0).Nodes(0).Nodes.Add(StudName)
End If
End Sub
End Class

Font Properties
• New Font(Font,Size,Font Style)

Code
• Label1.Font = New Font("Comic Sans Serif", 14, FontStyle.Italic,

GraphicsUnit.Pixel)

Checked box
• Small white square that either is blank or contains a checkmark.

When a checkbox is selected, a blank checkmark appears in the
box.

Properties of a checkbox
• Checked – Indicates whether the checkbox is checked or marked

• CheckState – Indicates whether the checkbox is checked or
unchecked
• Text – Specifies the text displayed to the right of the Checkbox
called label

Code
If chkBold.CheckState = CheckState.Checked Then
txtOutput.Font = New Font(cmbFonts.Text, 12,
FontStyle.Bold)
Else
txtOutput.Font = New Font(cmbFonts.Text, 12,
FontStyle.Regular)
End If

Common Dialog Box
• A rather tedious, but quite common, task in nearly every

application is to prompt the user for filenames, font names and
sizes, or colors to be used by the application

OpenFileDialog
• OpenFileDialog Lets users select a file to open. It also

allows the selection of multiple files, for applications that
must process many files at once (change the format of the
selected files, for example).

Files and Streams
• Create Directory contains information about a directory

– AppendText – Returns a StreamWriter that appends to an
existing file or creates a file if one does not exist

Database Programming using ADO.net
• Ado.net object model provides an API for accessing database

systems programmatically.
• Was created for the .NET framework and is the next generation of
ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), which was designed to interact with
Microsoft’s Components Object Model (COM) framework

ADO.net
• simplify the code you write

• allow you to bind graphical controls to DataSets

Primary Library of ADO.net
• System.data
• System.data.OleDb
• System.Data.SqlClient
• System.Data.Dataset

Data Set
• uses the DataSet to store disconnected data

Adding OledbAdapter
• Click on Tools > Choose Toolbox Items

• Click on .Net Framework Componets
• Select OledbAdapter and Click OK

oleDbConnection
• The oleDbConnection object uses OLE DB to connect to a data

source. ADO.NET
• also includes a new type of connection: SQLConnection

• Dim connString As String = _
• “Provider= SQLOLEDB.1;Data Source=localhost;” & _
• “uid=sa;pwd=;Initial Catalog=northwind;”
• Dim myConn As New oleDbConnection()
• myConn.ConnectionString = connString
• myConn.Open()

Example Database
• Dbase Application

• The End!!!!

Data Adapter Wizard
• New Connection
– Data Source – Database Connection
– Database File Name – File Name of the database
• Change the Datasource
– Microsoft Access Database File
– Click Ok
– Find the Access File
– Test the connection

Continuation
• Click OK
• Choose Use SQL Statements
• Insert your SQL
• Click Finish

More…
• You will be returned at the design tab

• There are two components that has been added:
– oleDbDataAdapter1
– oleDbConnection1

• The oleDbConnection1 control describes the database connection;
• The oleDbDataAdapter1 control describes your actual query
• In VB.NET, the object you use to store data is called a DataSet.

Data Set
• Click once on the form.

• Notice that on the menu bar, a new menu item has appeared:
DataSet
• Drag the DataSet on the form
• Select untype data sets

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• Microsoft’s Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for

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• World of applications is changing

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• Start Page – contains list of helpful links

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Create New Project

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• Windows application – a program that executes inside a windows

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• Console application – applications contain only text output

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• Click on Project > Console Properties

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• On the menu bar press Debug

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• Stores data or information during program execution

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• Before VB can use an object variable, it must determine its type

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• You can initialize a character variable by assigning either a

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• Joining of two or more strings

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• A repetition structure allows the programmer to specify that an

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• Test a condition for falsity for repetition to continue. Statements in

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• Repetition structure handles the details of counter-controlled

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• On the solution explorer, right click on the reference and add

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• MessageBox.Show("Text", "Title Bar caption",

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• Form – Gray rectangle which represents the Windows Applications

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Title Bar Text

MesageboxIcon.I Message Text

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