Visual Basic .NET Toolbox Knowledge Base Ashutosh Mukherjee ashutosh@desdevpro.com http://www.desdevpro.com 11 Aug 2009 Visual Basic VB.NET Tutorial Series Welcome to Visual Basic 2008, the most mature version yet of the most popular programming language for building Windows and web applications. I will help you build your concepts bit-by-bit in this tutorial series. Think of this as an e-Classroom. If you have any comments/questions, you can use the comments box on the right, or you can contact me through e-mail. Adding Controls 003_img1.jpg Things like buttons, textboxes, and labels are all things that you can add to your Forms. They are known as Controls, and are kept in the Toolbox for ease of use. The Toolbox can be found on the left of the screen or it may be on the left side too as shown in the previous tutorial. In the picture you can see the toolbox icon next to Form1: The Toolbox To display all the tools, move your mouse over the toolbox icon. You'll see the toolbox automatically appear: 003_img2.jpg ToolBox Categories There are seven categories of tools available. The toolbox you'll be working with first is the Common Controls toolbox. To see the tools, click on the (+) symbol next to Common Controls. You'll see a long list of tools: 003_img3.jpg As you can see, there are lot of tools to choose from! For this first section, we'll only be using the Button, the TextBox and the Label. If you want to keep the toolbox displayed, click the Pin icon next to the X. To close the toolbox, simply move your mouse away. In the next part, we'll see how to add a textbox to the form. To be continued...