this document about interactive material for distance education.

1. Sultan Qaboos University
College of Education
Instructional and learning technologies
Visual studio
Done by:
Ibtisam Al Farsi (90865)
Anwaar Al Hinaai (89555)
Course:
Distance Education

2. Introduction:
Visual studio consist of tools that you use to build Visual basic
applications. The first step in Visual Basic is learning about these
tools.
Visual basic is a programming language.
Objectives:
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
1-Identify Visual Basic interface.
2-Open the program.
3-Create form and add some controls.
Objective 1:
Students will be able to identify Visual Basic interface.
Process:
 Identify the part of the program window
 Name the main elements of title bar
 Name the main elements of menu bar
 Identify the importance of standard toolbar
 Name the main elements of toolbox.
Content:
The visual studio window has toolbars and menus that help users
and designers to create and develop applications.
These are:
 Title bar: the title bar indicate the name of the project
you are currently working on.
 The menu bar: below the title bar is the menu bar,
from which you access menus by building an
application.

3.  The standard toolbar: below the menu bar is the
standard toolbar. The standard toolbar contains buttons
that execute frequently used commands.
All commands executed by the toolbar may also
executed from a menu, but the standard toolbar gives
you quicker access to them. The standard toolbar
buttons open windows with single click.
Below is a table show some examples of visual studio toolbar
buttons.
Toolbar button Description
New project Start a new project
New website Create a new website
Open file Open an existing file
Save filename Save the file named by filename
Save all Saves all of the files in the current
project
Start debugging Start running your program
Break all Pause execution of your program
Stop debugging Stop running your program
Title bar
Menu bar
Standard tool bar
 The toolbox: toolbox contains buttons and icons
that let you build rich visual interfaces in
Windows desktop applications. The toolbox is

4. divided into sections, which are accessible by
clicking on named tabs. The most used section
is Common Controls tab. The controls in this
group include buttons, labels, textboxes, and
other common controls. Not all of the toolbox
items can be displayed at ones, so scroll arrows
are provided.
toolbox
Activities:
 T or F
the menu bar is indicate the name of the project you are working
on()
 Complete the sentence
the button you use to save all of the files in current project
is…………….
 Answer the question
What is the importance of standard toolbar?

5. Feedback:
Q1: false
Q2:save all
Q3: standard toolbar give the user quicker access to
buttons.
Objective 2:
Open the program.
Process:
 Click start button.
 Click all program.
 Choose visual studio 2008
 Double click on the program icon.
 From menu bar click file then new project.
 Provide your project with a name
 Now the form will appear to you , you can add different
controls.
1
Click file << new project

6. 2
New project window
3
You can name your project
4
Click ok
5
The form will appear, now you
can add different controls

7. Activities:
Create new project in visual studio and name it "my
first project"?
Feedback:
Student will
- open "visual studio"
- click file from menu bar.
- select new project.
- the new project window will appear.
- student will provide the project with the name "my
first project"
- click ok
Objective 3:
Create form and add some controls.
Process:
You learn in previous activity how you can create new project. Now
will learn how to drag some controls in the form you have.
To add controls to your form , from toolbox:
- Double click on the control (button, label, textbox…)
- Or move the control by the mouse and place it in the form.
Content:
1. Create a new project with one form
2. Drag the following controls on the form:
a. Textbox
b. Button
c. Label
The form should be as follows:

8. The form
Text box
label button
How the user can change the text of the control:
By change the text property of the control
You can change text
from text property
Activities:
- True or False
You can change the text of controls using name
property.()
- Create new project, include the form textbox and two
buttons. Change the text of the buttons to (ok) and
(cancel).

9. Feedback:
Q1 : false, you can change the text by using text
property.
Q2: the form will contain textbox and tow buttons.
The student will use text property to change text of
controls. The form will look as below.