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.
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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
VB Demo@YouTube
We have created a couple of Visual Basic video clips based on our Visual Basic sample codes. Now they are available for viewing on YouTube, we hope that you will like them.
Creating Database Applications in Visual Basic 2012
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 2012.
We have written three lessons on creating database applications in Visual Basic 2012, they are
- http://www.vbtutor.net/index.php/visual-basic-2012-lesson-29-working-with-databases-part-1/
- http://www.vbtutor.net/index.php/visual-basic-2012-lesson-30-working-with-databases-part-2/
- http://www.vbtutor.net/index.php/visual-basic-2012-lesson-31-working-with-databases-part-3/
Is Visual Basic 2013 Available?
Visual Studio 2012 was launched last year and now we are already into the second half of 2013, so you might be wondering whether Microsoft is ready to launch Visual Studio 2013? Yes, Microsoft is nearly prepared to launched the newest version of Visual Studio. I used the word nearly is because Microsoft has only launched the preview versions of Visual Studio 2013, which you can download the various editions and test them out and give feedback to Microsoft if there are bugs.
The link to download the Visual Studio 2013 Preview versions is