VB.NET Various Properties

THE CURSOR PROPERTY

THE ENABLED PROPERTY

The Enabled property decides whether the object should be in enabled or disabled state.
It is an enumerated type property and it has two possible values: True and False.
Default value is True.
Choose Debug/Start the program runs and the form pops on the screen.
Click the EXIT button nothing happens this is because it is disabled.
Click Close-window-button in the form and the execution of the program terminates.

THE ICON PROPERTY

It is a dialog box type property.
Always default control-menu-icon is shown.
To replace it, click the icon property an ellipse button appears, it indicates the presence of a dialog box.
Select the respective icon-file in it.
To delete the icon, Click the Icon property in the right column and the keyboard-cursor starts blinking in the right column.
Strike the Delete key and the current icon is replaced by the default Windows From icon.

THE MAXIMIZEBOX PROPERTY

The maximizeBox property decides whether the form should be equipped with the maximize-window-button or not.
It is an enumerated type property: Takes values as True or False.
Default value is True. Double-click this property in the left or right column and its value changes to False.
Maximize-window-button in the control box of the form looks dim, indicating that it is disabled.

THE OPACITY PROPERTY

IT is a text type property.
It decides the opacity(or transparency) of the form.
The default value is 100%.
With is default value, the form is 100% opaque(or 0% transparent).
The possible range of values is 0% to 100%.
Double-click the opacity property in the left or right column and the text column gets selected.
Choose Debug/Start the program runs and the form pops on the screen.
Click the EXIT button and the execution of the program terminates.

THE STARTPOSITION PROPERTY

It decides where the form should appear on the screen when the program executes.
IT is an enumerated type property and its default values is WindowDefaultLocation.
With this default value, the form appears in the top left region of the screen.
Other possible values are Manual, CenterScreen,
WindowDefaultLocation and CenterParent.

THE SHOWINTASKBAR PROPERTY

This property decides whether the form icon should appear on the taskbar during the execution of the program.
It is an enumerated type has values as True and False.
Default value is true so form icon appears on the taskbar when the program starts to execute .
IF it is set to false then no form icon appears on the taskbar, when the program is executed.

THE WINDOWSTATE PROPERTY

It decides in which the form should appear on the screen when the program executes.
It is an enumerated type property and its default value is Normal.
Normalised state is also called as restored state.
Other possible values are Normal,Minimized and Maximized.

VARIOUS PROPERTIES OF LABEL

THE DOCK PROPERTY

Dock property is an enumerated type property.
Possible values of dock property are : Top, Left, Fill, Right, Bottom and None.
It is available for text-box control also.
IF fill option is selected, the control occupies all the available area on form.

THE FONT PROPERTY

Font property is a dialog-box type property.
IT is used to set the font, font size, and various font styles of text on the label.
The default unit of font size is Point and one inch equals 72 points.
Click the + symbol preceded by the property name Font in the left column.
Click the button cancel and the dialog-box font disappears from the screen.

THE BACKCOLOR AND FORECOLOR PROPERTS

Both these properties are enumerated type properties.
If you click on the drop-down-button in the right column, then the color palette appears.
Backcolor refers to the color of the label.
Forecolor property refers to the color of the text on the label

THE TEXTALIGN PROEPRTY

It is an enumerated type property.
The possible values are TopLeft, TopCenter, TopRight, MiddleLeft, MiddleCenter, MiddleRight,BottomLeft,BottomCenter and BottomRight.
Click desired option and set the property.
Choose File/Exit Microsoft Visual Basic. Net shuts down.