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Compilation of Lectures and Laboratory Exercises in ITC23 using VISUAL BASIC.NET 2010

Introduction to Visual Basic 2010
A Brief Description of Visual Basic 2010
 Visual Basic 2010 is the latest version of Visual Basic launched by Microsoft in 2010. It is almost similar to Visual Basic 2008 but it has added many new features. Visual Basic has gone through many phases of development since the days of BASIC that was built for
DOS. BASIC stands for Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. The program code in Visual Basic resembles the English language. Different software companies had produced many different versions of BASIC for DOS, such as Microsoft QBASIC,
QUICKBASIC, GWBASIC, and IBM BASICA and more.
 Then, Microsoft launched the first graphical BASIC, Visual Basic Version 1 in 1991. It is
GUI based and especially developed for MS window. Since then Microsoft slowly phased out the DOS versions of BASIC and completely replaced them by Visual Basic.
Visual Basic was initially a functional or procedural programming language until the popular Visual Basic 6. Then, Microsoft transformed Visual Basic into a more powerful object oriented programming language by launching Visual Basic.Net, Visual Basic
2005, Visual Basic 2008 and the latest Visual Basic 2010. Visual Basic 2010 is a fullfledged Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Language; it has caught up with other
OOP languages such as C++, Java, C# and others. However, you do not have to know
OOP to learn VB2010. In fact, if you are familiar with Visual Basic 6, you can learn
VB2010 effortlessly because the syntax and interface are almost similar. Visual Basic
2010 Express Edition is available for free download from the Microsoft site as shown below: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express

Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET)
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Is an object-oriented computer programming language that can be viewed as an evolution
Basic (VB) which