Creating More Complex Applications

Normal applications generally have a number of common elements. Among these are toolbars and status bars. Putting together an application that has these features is a fairly trivial task in Visual Basic .NET.

In this section, you build an application that allows you to make changes to the text entered into a text box, such as changing its color and making it all uppercase or lowercase.

Chapter 6.3.1: The Text Manipulation Project

Chapter 6.3.2: Creating the Toolbar

Chapter 6.3.3: Creating the Status Bar

Chapter 6.3.4: Creating an Edit Box

Chapter 6.3.5: Clearing the Edit Box

Chapter 6.3.6: Responding to Toolbar Buttons

Chapter 6.3.7: Understanding Focus