How To: Create your first Visual Basic program in five steps

The best way to learn Visual Basic programming is to actually create a program. A good first program is a Web browsing application that can display Web pages. This video programming tutorial shows you how to how to create a project in Visual Basic, put the user interface together, add a line of Visual Basic code, and then test your program.

Step 1: Create a Project in Visual Basic. In this lesson you will learn how to create a project for your program.

Step 2: Create a User Interface. In this lesson you'll learn how to create a user interface for your application by adding controls to the form you created in Step 1.

Step 3: Customize Looks and Behavior. In this lesson, you'll learn how to set properties of the controls to change their appearance.

Step 4: Add Visual Basic Code. In this lesson, you'll learn how to add some instructions to determine the behavior of the program.

Step 5: Run and Test Your Program. In this lesson, you'll see how to run and test your first Visual Basic program.