Introduction

In the previous chapter, we developed an application from scratch. In this chapter, we will explain you how the components of a Visual Basic program go together, especially about the controls and their associated properties, methods, and events.

The toolbox holds the controls that you use in your application. The following toolbar shows the standard controls loaded when you create a new application. These controls are intrinsic controls. You can also add external ActiveX controls to the toolbox window.

Figure 5.1

The collection of controls on the toolbox varies depending on your application requirements.

The ActiveX controls, with the .OCX extension are external controls that you can add to the Toolbox.