Learn Programming in Visual Basic 6.0

By Sergey Skudaev

Install Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition, or any edition you have. Insert CD in your CD drive and follow the instruction. Select Custom Installation and mark Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Tools, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Tools, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. Or you can install everything, if your hard drive is large enough. When installation completed, restart your PC. Go to start, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Microsoft Visual studio 6.0 Enterprise tools. You will see the following menu items. Hover mouse over a thumbnail to see a large image.

Open Window Explorer. Select File, New, Folder (See picture below)

NewFolder folder is created. Right click on new folder and select rename from drop down menu.

Type VB for folder name. Double click VB folder to open it.

Again select File, New Folder and create new folder inside VB folder. Rename it to start_vb.

Select Start, Programs, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Basic 6.0. Visual Basic development environment displays. On New Project window select Standard EXE

Default visual basic form displays.

Select Tools, Options from main menu. On Editor tab mark Require variable Declaration Check box.

On Environment tab mark "Prompt for project". "Prompt To Save Changes"

Click OK
Select Form properties window and type frmMain for form name

Select form Caption and type Hello World

The form caption will be changed from Form1 to Hello World.

Select Command Button Control from the tools box and drag it to form.

Select Command button and on Command button properties window type name cmdShow and caption Show Message.

Select Command button and on Command button properties window type name cmdShow and caption Show Message.

Select label control from the tools box and drag it to the form. Draw it above the button

Select label control on the form and on the label properties window type control name lblMessage, Select Alignment Center. Delete Caption

Select background color from color palette

Select Font Color from color palette

Select font size and style and click OK.

Font Properties setup

C o n t i n u e >>>

Application output.