Author: Liew Voon Kiong

Microsoft has already launched Visual Studio 2017 RC(Release Candidate ) with a gap of one year after launching Visual Studio 2015 RC. Microsoft assures that Visual Studio RC let’s you develop any app on any platform easily.

Visual Studio 2017 RC is equipped with enhancements to code navigation, IntelliSense, refactoring, code fixes, and debugging. It will saves you time and effort on everyday tasks regardless of language or platform.

As we are keen in developing Visual Basic 2017 desktop app, we will focus on .NET desktop development component of Visual Studio 2017. Of course , you are free to explore and try our other development tools of VS 2017 RC.

The .NET Desktop application development in Visual Studio 2017 is designed for building WPF, Windows Forms and console apps using .NET Framework.  With shorter solution load time, improved IntelliSense, code navigation, and refactoring  save you time and effort on everyday tasks, you can build desktop apps with great UI and better performance.

Please refer to the Youtube link below to view the introduction to VS2017RC  .NET desktop development.

You can download the free version of Visual Studio 2017 RC from the link below:

https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/

After downloading the file, run the VS2017RC community  installer file

vs_community__695901156.1467100807 (7).exe.

If you receive a User Account Control notice, click Yes.  Next, it will ask you to acknowledge the Microsoft License Terms and the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Click Install to continue.

You’ll see several status screens that show the progress of the installation. After the installer is finished installing, it’s time to pick the feature set that you want. Since we are keen in developing Visual Basic 2017 desktop app, we will select the .NET desktop development component. After making your selection, click install.

Upon completion of the installation, you are now ready to launch Visual Studio 2017 RC and start programming in Visual Basic 2017. I will show you how to write your first program in Visual Basic 2017 in my next post

 

 

 

 

After creating a database in Visual Basic 6. we can write code to allow the user to  to search for a certain information using SQL query. SQL stands for Structures Query Language. Using SQL keywords, we are able to select specific information to be displayed based on certain criteria. The syntax of a SQL is as follows:

SELECT fieldname1,fieldname2,…..,fieldnameN  FROM  TableName

SELECT  * FROM  TableNam

Learn more about SQL from the link below:

http://www.vbtutor.net/lesson27.html

If you have a mini library at home or you are in charged of building a database for a library, you can build a simple library system using Visual Basic 6. This library allows the user to search for a book using filters like authors. Follow the link below to learn more about the program.

http://www.vbtutor.net/VB_Sample/dbase4.html

You can create a prime number tester in VB6 easily. This program can test whether a number entered by the user is a prime number or not.

A prime number is a number that cannot be divided by other numbers other than by itself. Examples are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13,17,19, 23,29, 31, 37 and more. – See more at: http://www.vbtutor.net/VB_Sample/Prime.htm#sthash.AmIybwCv.dpuf

You can create many practical Visual Basic applications in solving secondary school mathematics. Among them is simultaneous equations. You can create Visual Basic applications to solve linear simultaneous equations and non-linear simultaneous equations. Simultaneous equations are equations that involves two or more unknown variables. There must be as many equations as the number of unknown variables in order for us to solve the problem.

We have written two simultaneous equations solver using Visual Basic 6, one is linear and the other one is non-linear. learn more by following the links below:

http://www.vbtutor.net/VB_Sample/simuleq.htm
http://www.vbtutor.net/VB_Sample/simuleq2.htm