Visual Basic uses building blocks such as Variables, Data Types, Procedures, Functions and Control Structures in its programming environment. This section concentrates on the programming fundamentals of Visual Basic with the blocks specified.
Modules
Modules
Code in Visual Basic is stored in the form of modules. The three kind of modules are Form Modules, Standard Modules and Class Modules.
A simple application may contain a single Form, and the code resides in that Form module itself. As the application grows, additional Forms are added and there may be a common code to be executed in several Forms. To avoid the duplication of code, a separate module containing a procedure is created that implements the common code. This is a standard Module.Class module (.CLS filename extension) are the foundation of the object oriented programming in Visual Basic. New objects can be created by writing code in class modules. Each module can contain:Declarations : May include constant, type, variable and DLL procedure declarations.Procedures : A sub function, or property procedure that contain pieces of code that can be executed as a unit.These are the rules to follow when naming elements in VB - variables, constants, controls, procedures, and so on:1. A name must begin with a letter.2. May be as much as 255 characters long (but don't forget that somebody has to type the stuff!).3. Must not contain a space or an embedded period or type-declaration characters used to specify a data type; these are ! # % $ & @4. Must not be a reserved word (that is part of the code, like Option, for example)5. The dash, although legal, should be avoided because it may be confused with the minus sign. Instead of First-name use First_name or FirstNameData types in VB 6
A simple application may contain a single Form, and the code resides in that Form module itself. As the application grows, additional Forms are added and there may be a common code to be executed in several Forms. To avoid the duplication of code, a separate module containing a procedure is created that implements the common code. This is a standard Module.Class module (.CLS filename extension) are the foundation of the object oriented programming in Visual Basic. New objects can be created by writing code in class modules. Each module can contain:Declarations : May include constant, type, variable and DLL procedure declarations.Procedures : A sub function, or property procedure that contain pieces of code that can be executed as a unit.These are the rules to follow when naming elements in VB - variables, constants, controls, procedures, and so on:1. A name must begin with a letter.2. May be as much as 255 characters long (but don't forget that somebody has to type the stuff!).3. Must not contain a space or an embedded period or type-declaration characters used to specify a data type; these are ! # % $ & @4. Must not be a reserved word (that is part of the code, like Option, for example)5. The dash, although legal, should be avoided because it may be confused with the minus sign. Instead of First-name use First_name or FirstNameData types in VB 6
1. Numeric
2. String
Use to store alphanumeric values. A variable length string can store approximately 4 billion characters
3. Date
Use to store date and time values. A variable declared as date type can store both date and time values and it can store date values 01/01/0100 up to 12/31/9999
4. Boolean
Boolean data types hold either a true or false value. These are not stored as numeric values and cannot be used as such. Values are internally stored as -1 (True) and 0 (False) and any non-zero value is considered as true.
5. Variant
Stores any type of data and is the default Visual Basic data type. In Visual Basic if we declare a variable without any data type by default the data type is assigned as default.
Operators in Visual Basic
Operators in Visual Basic
Arithmetical Operators
Relational Operators
Logical Operators
Operators
OR
AND
Description
Operation will be true if either of the operands is true
Operation will be true only if both the operands are true
