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Microsoft Visual Basic 6 Professional (step by step)

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Confused by all this resizing? Don’t sweat it. You’re working with two windows here: the Project Container window and the Form window (which fits inside the Project Container window). The troublesome part is that you resize each window by using the resizing pointer in the lower-right corner of the frame, and these two corners tend to overlap a bit. To get more real estate to design your projects, you may want to run Windows in 800 x 600 mode, which you can do by clicking the Windows desktop with the right mouse button, clicking Properties, clicking the Settings tab, and then moving the Desktop Area slider to 800 x 600.

Click the CommandButton control in the toolbox, and then place the mouse pointer over the form.

CommandButton control

The CommandButton control is selected, and the mouse pointer changes to crosshairs when it rests on the form. The crosshairs are designed to help you draw the rectangular shape of a command button. When you hold down the left mouse button and drag, the command button object takes shape and snaps to the grid formed by the intersection of dots on the form.

Try creating your first command button now.

Move the mouse pointer close to the upper-left corner of the form, hold down the left mouse button, and then drag down and to the right. Stop dragging and release the mouse button when you have a command button similar to the one shown here:

The name of the command button is Command1.

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