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VB 2008 is the one of the latest versions of Visual Basic produced by Microsoft Inc., it is powerful yet easy and fun to learn. This tutorial shows you how to create VB2008 programs instantly! This tutorial can also be used to learn VB2010.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

	Introduction
	Working With Controls
	Working With Control Properties
	Object Oriented Programming
	Writing the Code
	Managing VB2008 Data
	Mathematical Operations
	String Manipulation
	Controlling Program Flow using If....Then......Else
	Select Case Control Structure
	Looping
	Functions-Part I
	Functions-Part II
	Functions-Part III (Math Functions)
	Functions-Part IV (Formatting Functions)
	Functions Part V- Formatting Date and Time
	Using Check Boxes
	Using Radio Buttons
	Creating a Simple Web Browser
	Errors Handling
	Reading and Writing Text File

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About Visual Basic

Visual basic evolved from BASIC(Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). The BASIC language was created by Professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz of Dartmouth College in the mid 1960s(Deitel&Deitel, 1999) . It is a carefully constructed English-Like language basically used by the programmers to write simple computer programs. It served the purpose of educating laymen like we all the basic concepts of programming. From then on many versions of BASIC were developed to accommodate different computer platforms. Some of the versions are Microsoft QBASIC, QUICKBASIC, GWBASIC ,IBM BASICA, Apple BASIC and etc. Apple BASIC was developed by Steve Wozniak, a former employee of Hewlett-Packard and a good friend of steve Jobs(the founded of Apple Inc.). Steve Jobs had worked with Wozniak in the past (together they designed the arcade game "Breakout" for Atari). They pooled their financial resources together to have PC boards made, and on April 1st, 1976 they officially formed the Apple Computer Company.

The popularity and widespread use of BASIC with different types of computers brought further enhancements of the language, and eventually led to the GUI-based Visual Basic in tandem with the development of Microsoft Windows. Visual Basic made programming even easier for beginners and season programmers alike as it save considerable programming time by providing many ready-made components. Since then, Visual Basic has also evolved into many versions, until recently, Visual Basic 2008 and the latest Visual Basic 2010. VB2008 and VB2010 are so far the most powerful versions of Visual Basic. They are also a fully Object Oriented programming language. Best of all, Microsoft is offering VB2008 Express edition and Visual Basic 2010 for free ! You can download both versions from http://www.microsoft.com/express/vb/. VB2008 and VB2010 are basically the same, if you can program in VB2008, you can program in VB2010.

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The purpose of this tutorial is to provide basic guideline for people interested in Visual Basic programming. Although every effort and care has been taken to make the information as accurate as possible, the webmaster shall not be liable for any error, harm or damage arising from using the instructions given in this tutorial.

This site and the products and services offered on this site are not associated, affiliated, endorsed, or sponsored by Microsoft, nor have they been reviewed tested or certified by Microsoft.

About the author

The creator and webmaster of this online tutorial, Dr.Liew Voon Kiong , holds a Bachelor Degree in Mathematics, a Master Degree in Management and a Doctoral Degree in Business Administration. He obtained the DBA degree from University of South Australia.

He has been involved in programming for more than 15 years. He created the popular online Visual Basic Tutorial in 1996 and since then the web site has attracted millions of visitors .It is the top ranked Visual Basic tutorial website in many search engines including Google. He has also written a few Visual Basic related books. One of the books, Visual Basic 6 Made Easy was published by creativespace.com, an Amazon.com publisher. The rest are ebooks. Learn more about the author at helium.com

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