Visual Basic Question

[ghosstt]

i dloaded visual basic 2005 express from the microsoft site. its completely free forever right? and is VB easy?

[Harshboy]

Yes, and Yes

[HotDog-Cart]

Visual Basic is simple. Think of it as: BASIC but with an interface.

[Skyone]

Think of it as: BASIC but with an interface.

What? That may be true for the first version of Visual Basic (for DOS), but it hardly holds that way for anything past it.

[HotDog-Cart]

You know what I mean. Like, I'm telling him to not get psyched out about its sexyness.

[bicostp]

Yes, it's completely free forever.

You know what I mean. Like, I'm telling him to not get psyched out about its sexyness.

Why not? It's a relatively easy to use development environment that can be used to make just about anything. Once it compiles the program it's the same quality as any .NET program.

[ghosstt]

help.. i have this..

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Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Label1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Label1.Click

    End Sub

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Product = Val(TextBox1) * Val(TextBox2)
        Label3 = Product
    End Sub

    Private Sub Label3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Label3.Click

    End Sub

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

    End Sub

End Class

its supposed to be a program to calculate the area of a square. when i debug to run, it says that Product isnt declared.. how do i do that

[bicostp]

It's been a few months, but I think you have to add something like this to the code:

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 dim Product as integer 

Look up "declaring variables" in the help system.

[Kurt_]

Type "Dim [any name except reserved names like 'and' or 'dim'] as " and you'll get a list of things to choose from. Single is any number (decimals included) from 1 to a whole lots. Double is a whole lot more, Integer is only whole numbers, String is not a number (text, etc.) and I forget the rest.