Author: Liew Voon Kiong

Visual Basic Express 2012 is the latest version of Visual Basic launched by Microsoft in 2012. Visual Basic Express 2012 is almost similar to Visual Basic Express 2010  but it has added many new features. The most distinct difference is that Visual Basic Express 2012 no more comes as a stand alone program, it is now integrated with other Microsoft Programming languages C# and C++ in a package called Visual Studio 2012. Further, Visual Studio Express 2012 now come in five editions, they are:

Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Express 2012
Right now we shall concentrate on learning Visual Basic 2012 Express for Windows Desktop since most of you are using old versions of windows, so you will need to download the free software from Microsoft site below:
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads#d-2012-editions

Start learning Visual Basic 2012 now.

We can create a password cracking program using Visual Basic. This Visual Basic 6 passwords cracker created by us can generate passwords and compare each of them with the actual password; and if the generated password found to be equal to the actual password, login will be successful. In this program, a timer is inserted into the form and it is used to do a repetitive job of generating the passwords.

To view the full code, read on by following the link below:

http://www.vbtutor.net/VB_Sample/passcrack1.htm

Error handling is an essential procedure in Visual Basic 2012 programming because it helps make a program error-free. Error-free code not only enables the programs to run smoothly and efficiently, it can also prevent all sorts of problems from happening like program crashes or system hangs.

Errors often occur due to incorrect input from the user. For example, the user might make the mistake of attempting to enter text (string) to a box that is designed to handle only numeric values such as the weight of a person, the computer will not be able to perform arithmetic calculation for text therefore will create an error. These errors are known as synchronous errors.

Read more about error handling in Visual Basic 2012 at:

http://www.vbtutor.net/index.php/visual-basic-2012-lesson-20/

In lesson 29 and lesson 30 of Visual Basic 2010 Tutorial, you have learned how to connect to a database as well as filling up the table with data in Visual Basic 2010, now you shall learn how to manipulate data in the database. Manipulating data means adding news records, editing records, deleting records, browsing records and more. Learn how to do these jobs in our newest Visual Basic 2010 lesson on database management:

http://www.vbtutor.net/index.php/visual-basic-2010-lesson-31/

A database management system typically deals with storing, modifying, and extracting information from a database. It can also add, edit and delete records from the database. However, a DBMS can be very difficult to handle by ordinary people or business men who have no technological backgrounds. Fortunately, we can create user friendly database applications to handle the aforementioned jobs with the DBMS running in the background. One of the best programs that can create such database application is none other than Visual Basic 2010.

Visual Basic 2010 uses ADO.NET to handle databases. ADO.NET is Microsoft’s latest database technology which can works with many other advanced database management system such as Microsoft SQL server.

Read more about database management in our two new lessons in Visual Basic 2010 Tutorial:

http://www.vbtutor.net/index.php/visual-basic-2010-lesson-29/

and

http://www.vbtutor.net/index.php/visual-basic-2010-lesson-30/