Visual Basic .NET Tutorial

In this tutorial I will teach you on how to create a Windows Application using Visual Basic .NET 2008. For the sake of this tutorial I will be using Library System as the system model.

I came up with this idea in the hope to help beginner who wish to learn Visual Basic .NET the EASY WAY. I know there are a lot of tutorials out there but they focus on different things. Unlike this tutorial I will create an actual application which will guide you up to the end of this article.

In my tutorial “How to Pass Value from One Form to another Form” I discussed how the other form received a value by using a Public Variable.

There are so many discussions on the Internet that argues whether Public Variable is a good programming practice compare to Property. Well, IMHO public variable is an option for simplicity. You do not need to waste line of code just to get the same result.

If you are new to VB.NET most likely you encounter a problem with events like TextChanged or ValueChanged events.

In VB 6.0, change event is not fired when changing a value programmatically. However, in the .NET version this has been changed.

In order to avoid this problem you need to call a RemoveHandler Statement.

The following code is an example of this.

I feel it would be necessary to create a tutorial on how I program the ComboBox in DataGridView.

In this tutorial I will teach you on how to display related record based on the selection value from a ComboBox.

The example displays a student’s subject in a DataGridView after a SelectedIndexChanged event of a ComboBox.

This tutorial assumes that you already know how to add a DataSet in your project.

The following are important steps in order to understand how I made this simple program.

1. Bind a ComboBox

[inline:ComboBox_Data_Binding.jpg=Bind a ComboBox]

2. Add a query in the Course Table under DataSet designer

Today I want to share with you what I have discovered in setting a text or value in databound textbox in Visual Basic .NET. I almost spend a day figuring out how to do this.

I think it’s time again to teach you on the features that can be found on my program like Hotel Reservation System (VB.NET).

A while ago I received a comment on how to pass value from one form to another form. Although I have already done this in almost all of my program but I know that some of you miss the opportunity to analyze it due to the complexity of the program.