Author: Liew Voon Kiong

How to create a polling system in Visual Basic ?

Survey and polling tools are often used in marketing or politics to assess ratings for certain services or products. Polling tools can take many forms, some might just use a simple dichotomous scale of Yes and No, while others prefer to use a more complex Likert Scale that consists of three or more choices. You can create Polling tool in Visual Basic easily by using the option buttons. In our program, the users are given five choices, Excellent, Very Good, Good, Satisfactory and Bad.The results are presented in frequency and percentage respectively.

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Manipulating Check Boxes in Visual Basic 2008

Check box is a very useful control in Visual Basic 2008. It allows the user to select one or more items by checking the checkbox/checkboxes concerned. For example, in the Font dialog box of any Microsoft Text editor like FrontPage, there are many checkboxes under the Effects section such as that shown in the diagram below. The user can choose underline, subscript, small caps, superscript, blink and etc. In Visual Basic, you may create a shopping cart where the user can click on checkboxes that correspond to the items they intend to buy, and the total payment can be computed at the same time.

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Visual Basic 2008 Lesson 17

Why Visual Basic 6 Still Popular?

Though Visual Basic has evolved into a full fledged OOP language, Visual Basic 6 is still surviving and vastly popular. Due to its vast popularity among the VB programmers, Microsoft is till supporting this particularly version of programming language by extended “It Just Works” compatibility for Visual Basic 6 in Windows 8. Our analytic too noticed that many of our visitors preferred browsing our Visual Basic 6 tutorial. I think some of the reasons are its ease of usage, gentle learning curve, less time consuming and more. Here are some reasons offered by David Platt, interesting read. We would also like to hear from you whether you prefer Visual Basic 6 or not and why? Please offer your opinions for this post, thanks.

Managing Graphics in Visual Basic 2012

Managing graphics is easy in earlier versions of Visual Basic as they have built-in drawing tools. For example, In Visual Basic 6, the drawing tools are included in the toolbox where the programmer just need to drag the shape controls into the form to create rectangle, square, ellipse,circle and more. However, its simplicity has the shortcomings, you don’t have much choices in creating customized drawings.

Since Visual Basic evolved into a fully OOP language under the VB.net framework, shape controls are no longer available. Now the programmer needs to write code to create various shapes and drawings. Even though the learning curve is steeper, the programmer can write powerful code to create all kinds of graphics. You can even design your own controls

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