tailieunhanh - Learn Financial Modeling Markets Using Visual Basic NET_2

Tham khảo tài liệu 'learn financial modeling markets using visual basic net_2', công nghệ thông tin, hệ điều hành phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | CHAPTER 3 Getting Started with In this chapter you will learn how to maneuver around the Visual integrated development environment IDE and how to customize it to your liking for efficient development. While we will only be writing a smidgen of code we will be creating a professional-looking program and learning a few simple techniques that are big time-savers. DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF VISUAL BASIC There are different versions of Visual Basic. This book presents the latest version Visual . If you are using Visual Basic we suggest you upgrade your software to take full advantage of the .NET environment. Since many readers are probably already familiar with VBA Visual Basic for Applications which is very similar to VB this book will be particularly valuable in converting spreadsheets and VBA macros into professional standalone software. While does support some backward compatibility we have in all cases used .NET constructs and have left COM to the scrap bin. INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT Visual enables you to program visually dragging and dropping controls like buttons and text boxes into place rather 33 Copyright 2004 by The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Click here for terms of use. 34 Introduction to than creating them in code. In this way visual programming greatly increases programmer productivity. Visual also includes several advanced tools for writing and debugging your program code. Let s jump right in. Step 1 Before you open Visual you will need to create a separate folder on your hard drive to hold all the files for all the projects in this book so create a folder called C ModelingFM. Step 2 Now go ahead and open Visual . Step 3 When the Start Page opens click New Project. Step 4 Give the project the name Test and the location of the ModelingFM folder. Also we will be using Visual for the projects in this book and so leave Visual Basic Projects .