This course provides a rigorous introduction to the basic and advanced concepts found in Visual Basic programming. It introduces the language and demonstrates the process of setting up on the web or Windows machine. The course covers basic concepts like adding comments, console input and output, creating variables, subs, Enums, functions, loops, arrays, exception handling and much more. In addition, the topics demonstrate the use of classes, handling documents and setting up a GUI project.

The second half of the course begins with tutorials on functional GUI components like forms, text boxes, labels, buttons, checkboxes, picture boxes and progress bars. This section also explains more useful concepts like events and tab control and more components like the tree view, list view and web browser components. Finally, it concludes with lessons on using various dialog types, menus, anchoring and docking, regular expressions and parsing an XML file.

Knowledge of programming with Visual Basic is advantageous in any developer's arsenal, new or experienced. The language quickly creates functional programs while being easy to use. This course will benefit individuals new to programming, experienced programmers looking to add Visual Basic to their stack and any developer searching for reference material. Start now and learn to create programs using Visual Basic in only three hours.