1.What is visual basic . Explain its features.

Visual Basic is a third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated

development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its Component Object Model (COM)
programming model first released in 1991 and declared legacy during 2008. Microsoft intended
Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn and use. Visual Basic was derived from BASIC, a user-
friendly programming language designed for beginners, and it enables the rapid application
development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using
Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX
controls and objects.
A programmer can create an application using the components provided by the Visual Basic
program itself. Over time the community of programmers developed third-party components.
Programs written in Visual Basic can also use the Windows API, which requires external function
declarations.
 Assemblies: An EXE or a DLL file that forms the basis of deployment,
version control, reuse, and security permissions of an application.
 Namespaces: The components of assemblies, namespaces primarily
organize the objects present in the assemblies. An assembly can
contain more than one namespace.
 Adding references: You need to add a reference to the external
object that you want to use in your current application.
 Attributes: The tags that are used to provide additional information
about the elements defined in a Visual Basic .NET program. Some of
the most common uses of attributes are
o To explain COM properties for classes, interfaces, and methods
o To explain assemblies
o To specify security requirements of methods
o To specify features required to enforce security
 Inheritance: Enables you to create classes that are derived from
some other classes known as base classes. Inheritance provides you
the advantage of defining a class only once. You can then reuse this
functionality by deriving new classes from this class.
 Windows Forms: With a new forms package called Windows Forms,
Visual Basic .NET allows the developers to inherit a form from an
existing form.
 Structured exception handling: Enables you to create more
efficient and robust error handlers by using structured exception
handling, which allows you to detect and remove errors at runtime.
 Multithreading: Enables your applications to handle multiple tasks
simultaneously.
2. Draw all the tools on the form
3. Write atleast 10 properties of textbox and explain it.
Ans. The text box has following ten properties:
(a) The Hide Selection property is true by default and it signifies that
the user-highlighted contents of the Textbox will not remain
highlighted when focus shifts to another object. If you want the
highlighted contents to remain highlighted, just set Hide Selection
to False.

(b) The property of Max Length property determines the maximum

number of characters that the user can enter into the Text property
of the Text Box. If you set Max Length to 0, there is no limit on the
number of characters that the user can enter.

(c) The Locked property allows the Textbox to reject user changes but
still allows the user to set focus to the Textbox. Therefore, the user
can scroll through the contents of a Textbox without accidentally
changing anything. Contrast this to the Enabled property which
doesn't allow the user to set focus to the Textbox.

(d) The Multiline property is only writable at design time, although you
can find out its value at runtime. Multiline is False by default,
meaning that everything in the Textbox control will appear on a
single line. If Multiline is set to True, the Textbox will perform word-
wrapping and also break a typed line after a hard return.

(e) The Password Char property defines a character that will appear on
the screen in place of the actual characters in the Text property. The
underlying value of the Text property still contains the actual
characters typed by the user, but for each character typed, only the
password character will appear. Typically programmers set this
property to an asterisk (*) for Textbox controls that represent the
password on login screens. If you want to eliminate the Password
Char property for a Textbox, be careful to erase its old value with
your keyboard's Delete key instead of simply overwriting it with the
spacebar.

(f) The Scrollbars property is only writable at design time, although you
can check its value at runtime. The default value is none, but you
can also choose Horizontal, Vertical, or both. Scrollbars enable the
 user to scroll vertically through the contents of a multiple line
Textbox or horizontally through wide contents of Textboxes.

(g) The SelText property assigns or returns the contents of the currently
selected text in a Textbox. If you assign a string to SelText property
in your code, you'll replace the currently highlighted text with the
contents of the new string and deselect whatever had been selected
before.

(h) The SelStart property is an integer value that gives you the position
of the first highlighted character in the Textbox. It's zero-based. If
there's no text currently selected, SelStart will represent the current
position of the text cursor within the Textbox control. If you change
the SelStart property in your code, you'll deselect whatever text was
highlighted and move the text cursor to the position given by
SelStart.

(i) The SelLength property is an integer that indicates the number of

selected characters in the TextBox. You can change SelLength in
your code in order to change the number of selected characters.
You can also deselect any highlighted characters by setting
SelLength to 0.

(j) The Text property is the Textbox control's default property. You can
set it at design time or runtime, and you can also read it at runtime.
The Text property represents the current visible, editable (not
necessarily visible or editable, depending on the value of the Visible
property, Enabled and/or Locked) contents of the Textbox.
4. Show the working of message box.
5. Show the working of check box.
6. Show the working of option button.
7.Show the working of list box.
8. Show the working of combo box.
9.Show working of picture and image box.

10.Show the working of shape box.

11. Design a student registration form using vb tools.
12.Working of timer control.
13.Working of input box.
14.Design menu bar with the help of menu editor.

15.Create MDI form that work like parent form.