Introduction to Object Oriented Basic - Creating you first application

         Before you start with this tutorial you should have checked the Previous Tutorial On Object Oriented Basic              
The Integrated Development Environment when you launch VB2010 Express is shown in the diagram below. The IDE Start Page consists of a few sections, namely:
•The New Project/Open Project section.
•The Recent Projects section that shows a list of projects that have been created by you recently.
•The Getting Started Pane- It provides some helpful tips to quickly develop your applications.
•The Latest News section- It provides latest online news about Visual Basic 2010 Express. It will announce new releases and updates
•The Properties section

                To start creating your first application you will need to click on New Project. The following VB 2010 New project dialog box will appear

                 The dialog box offers you five types of projects that you can create. As we are going to learn to create windows Applications, we will select Windows Forms Application.
             At the bottom of this dialog box, you can change the default project name WindowsApplication1 to some other name you like, for example, myFirstProgram. After you have renamed the project, click OK to continue. It consists of an empty form, the toolbox tab and the properties. The layout is slightly different from vb2008 as the Toolbox is not shown until you click on the Toolbox tab. When you click on the Toolbox tab, the common controls Toolbox will appear.

• Now drag the button control into the form, and change its default Text Button1 to OK in the properties window, the word OK will appear on the button in the form.
• Now click on the OK button and the code window appears. Enter the code as follows:

                  MsgBox ("WELCOME TO VISUAL BASIC 2010")
When you run the program and click on the OK button, a dialog box will appear and display the "WELCOME TO VISUAL BASIC 2010" message, as shown below:

Congratulations, you have created your first VB2010 program.