Monday, 10 September 2007

Using Visual Basic 2005 Express IDE

On Friday a selection of you were shown how to use the VB 2005 Express IDE.

We created a simple web browser program.

Today we will go over the main concepts involved and build up our browser:

Your Webbrowser should contain:
- A Main Form (Form1.vb)
- A Label (Change the label's TEXT property. Experiment with how it looks...)
- A TextBox Control (for entering the web address)
- A Button to load the webpage (contains the relevant code)
- Webbrowser control
- MenuStrip (Should have File > Exit options, and some navigation features e.g. Home, Back, Forward...)
- Tool Strip (graphical representations of the common navigation features)
- A Statusbar control that contains the name of the current webpage
- A Image control with the logo for your browser (designed yourself)

Using the GIMP graphics package, take screenshots (acquire > screenshot > window) of the different features you added in your project, explaining them to a Y13 AS Computing student via your blog.

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