Hi
I've always coded in notepad or ed sharp. I'm trying to find out if I
can make some programs using visual basic which I'm relatively familiar
with syntax-wise, and windows forms. I made a hello world based on this
tutorial:
Tutorial: Create a Windows Forms app with Visual Basic - Visual Studio
(Windows) | Microsoft Learn
<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/create-a-visual-basic-winform-in-visual-studio?view=vs-2022>
So I've done everything except the following step.
3.
In the Form1.vb [Design] window, double-click the Click this button to
open the Form1.vb window.
Another option is to expand Form1.vb in Solution Explorer, and then
select Form1.
4.
In the Form1.vb window, between the Private Sub and End Sub lines, enter
lblHelloWorld.Text = "Hello World!" as shown in the following screenshot:
I can't figure out enough how to use visual studio yet to gain the
context awareness. I can get something like that to appear sometimes,
but it's called form1 not button1. Don't I need button1 for that
command? Because the idea is to have the hello world appear in the label
if the button is clicked.
For reference, my button is called button1 and my label is label1. The
form they're added to is called form1. I can find these items in the
solution explorer. But when I arrow my way in the tree of solution
explorer to button 1 and hit enter, I'm placed in the code in a
situation that is unlike that tutorial suggests. It's not just an empty
sub. Sometimes I can get the empty sub by hitting shift+f7 or was it
ctrl+f7 or something like that while I was just in the designer view,
but there's no context to know what I'm editing.
I'm still learning how to get started. I think this is kind of making
sense I just have a ways to go. What's the best way to be able to edit
the code for a specific control. I think it has something to do with
navigating to it in solution explorer but could use some hand holding.
If there's literature about this from a screen reader user standpoint
that may help. I assume that if I could have just double clicked on the
button as in this tutorial I'd be better able to follow. User guides and
tutorials work well for me as long as they don't go all linuxy and start
spouting meaningless terms with no context or get too visually specific,
of course.
Btw, I can't actually browse the controls at all unless I run it. Would
have thought that I could kind of navigate them in the designer view.
It's silent. NVDA's object nav will see them but I can't emulate clicks
on them at least not so far as I can tell.
Also putting the cart way far in front of the horse I know but are vb
programs these days just going to have a bunch of stuff to go with the
final .exe like I'm getting? or is there a way to turn it all into one
nifty little .exe file. I tried moving my hello world.exe to the desktop
by itself and it won't run. It seems the 4 other items in the release or
debug directories has to go with it. I'm mostly trying to find the
answer to that this soon because I want to know whether what my eventual
goal is as my final program is actually possible.
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Cheers:
Aaron Spears, AKA Valiant8086 General Partner at Valiant Galaxy Associates "we make
(VERY GOOD AUDIOGAMES) for the blind comunity" http://valiantGalaxy.com
