Visual Basic™ Framework

Software Engineering: Simple Payroll Program

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Background Information

 

This documentation uses the following notation:

ALERT

Alerts you to things that could cause problems and your attention is needed to perform an action. 

NOTE

Offers a note of further information. 

TIP

Offers a handy tip.

[Outside link] 

Indicates a link out of this tutorial -- you may follow this link if you want to, but use the "back" button to return. 

Italic link 

Indicates a link into the glossary. 


These web pages teach you how to get started writing Visual Basic applications.

 

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How does this work?

If you are unfamiliar with Visual Basic, please read the Visual Basic Tutorial [Outside link] first. If you have not yet installed Visual Basic on your machine, download and install it[Outside link] Play around with it to get used to its GUI. (See the Visual Basic User's guide[Outside link])

These pages are designed so that you can flip from one to another as you learn Visual Basic. However, most people will probably want to start with the Quick Start Example.

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What next?

After that, I suggest you work through all the basic topics with the running example.

If you have trouble getting your hablet to run correctly, see if you made a common error.


Each pattern usually has these sections:

The orienting question

Tells you when you want to use this pattern.

Background Information

Explains information you need to know before using this pattern.

How does this work?

Explains how to use the information in this pattern.

What next?

Provides suggested web pages to read next. (This part is not always present.)


 

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Last revised: 03 January 2004        21:00

 

If you spot an error, please contact sbho@mmu.edu.my   In addition, please contact me if you find some aspects of this task is not explained clearly so that I can improve this documentation.