The Visual Basic 6 Integrated Development Environment

Before you can program in VB 6, you need to install Visual Basic 6 in your computer.
On start up, Visual Basic 6.0 will display the following dialog box as shown in figure 1.1. You can choose to
start a new project, open an existing project or select a list of recently opened programs. A project is a collection
of files that make up your application. There are various types of applications that we could create; however, we
shall concentrate on creating Standard EXE programs (EXE means executable program). Now, click on the
Standard EXE icon to go into the actual Visual Basic 6 programming environment.
You can choose to start a new project, open an existing project or select a list of recently opened programs. A
project is a collection of files that make up your application. There are various types of applications that we
could create; however, we shall concentrate on creating Standard EXE programs (EXE means executable
program). Now, click on the Standard EXE icon to go into the actual Visual Basic 6 programming
environment.
In this section, we will not go into the technical aspects of Visual Basic programming yet, what you need to do
is just try out the examples below to see how does in VB program look like.