Classroom and Lab Computing

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003

Creating Projects

All programs written in .NET require you to create projects.

To create a new project, click File > New > Project. A window resembling the
following appears:

Select a Project Type (Basic, C++, etc.) and a Template from the right hand pane.

Give the project a name and verify that the location to be in your My Documents folder - V:\My Documents\Visual Studio Project.

Click the OK button.

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Your Visual Studio .NET Folder

The first time you create a project, Visual Studio .NET select to install it in the folder Visual Studio Project in your My Documents folder.  This allow each of your projects to be a folder within C:\My Document\Visual Studio Projects when you create a new project.

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Internet Explorer Program in Visual Basic

• To create a new project, click File > New > Project.
• Select a Project Type as Visual Basic and  Template as Windows Application.
• Give the project name as MyExplorer in your default Visual Studio Project folder.
• Edit the Form1 that appears as follows:

1. Add a button, and a picturebox. (use the “toolbox” on the left side of the screen to add these).

2. Change the text on the button to “ON”

3. Put an image in the picturebox (something like a turned on light bulb)

4. Add the following code to the button so that the light bulb picture will appear and disappear when you click on the button.

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

PictureBox1.Visible = Not PictureBox1.Visible

End Sub

5. Your mission is to make the text on the button change to “ON” when the picture is visible and “OFF” when the picture is not visible.

Change the code in the Button1_Click Sub to do this.

Print out and turn in your source code and a screenshot of the running application with the light off and with the light on.