PLACING THE CONTROLS ON A FORM

• Click the control on the toolbar.
• Now the control looks like a pressed push button.
• Place the mouse-cursor on the form at a suitable location and click.
• Now the control appears on the form as shown below.

SELECTING A FORM AND THE CONTROLS

• To select an object simply click the control.
• Another way to select the control is by using the drop-down-list on the properties window as shown below.

• It is possible to select one,more,or all the controls on the form. by pressing the shift key and selecting the controls.
• To select all the controls on a form, choose
• EDIT-:>SELECT ALL
• Use the Ctrl+A.

RESIZING A FORM AND CONTROLS

DRAG  THE  HANDLES

USE  THE  PROPERTIES WINDOW:

Set  the  values of the properties -  height and width values it desires the place of the control.

USE THE ARROW KEYS:

• Up arrow key-decrease the height of control.
• Down arrow key-increase the height of the control.
• Left arrow key-decrease the width of the control.
• Right arrow key-decrease the width of the control.

USE   THE  EVENT   PROCEDURE:

It is a code used  for  resizing at run-time

RELOCATING THE CONTROLS

DRAG THE CONTROLS USING THE MOUSE:
USE THE PROPERTIES WINDOW:

• Set the values of  the location property.
• It consist of x and y values to locate the
• control.
• X measures the left edge of the form and control.
• Y measures the top edge of the form and control.

USING THE PROPERTY WINDOW

• To open the property window follow the below steps
  View-:>Properties Window.
  The short cut to open the window
  Function Key-F4.
  The  property window usually appears in the right coner
  of the window.
  The Property Window consist of two tabs:

• Alphabetic
• Categorized

Invalid value in the right side of the box will lead to error message as shown below


Give ok and change the value in the properties window

USING THE SOLUTION EXPLORER

The Project Explorer in Visual Basic is called as Solution Explorer in VisualBasic.Net,but it has many functions then in Visual Basic

There are four functions

• view code
• view designer
• refresh
• show all files
• properties

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