Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2010 in 24 Hours Complete Starter Kit

Hour 10. Creating and Calling Code Procedures

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Creating Visual Basic code modules

• Creating code procedures

• Calling procedures

• Passing parameters

• Exiting procedures

• Avoiding recursive procedures

You’ve now spent about nine hours building the basic skills necessary to navigate Visual Basic and to create an application interface. Creating a good interface is important, but it’s only one of many steps toward creating a Windows program. After you’ve created the basic interface of an application, you need to enable the program to do something. The program might perform an action all on its own, or it might perform actions based on a user interacting with the GUI. Either way, you write Visual Basic code ...