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Microsoft ® Small Basic

Microsoft ® Small Basic. Graduating to the Microsoft Visual Basic ® development environment. Estimated time to complete this lesson : 1 hour. Graduating to Visual Basic. In this lesson, you will learn how to:. Download a free version of Visual Basic.

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Microsoft ® Small Basic

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  1. Microsoft® Small Basic Graduating to the Microsoft Visual Basic® development environment Estimated time to complete this lesson: 1 hour

  2. Graduating to Visual Basic In this lesson, you will learn how to: • Download a free version of Visual Basic. • Export Small Basic programs to Visual Basic. • Run your programs from Visual Basic.

  3. Introduction to Visual Basic Now that you’re a master of Small Basic, let’s see what else is out there for you to continue your fun with programming. This lesson introduces you to a new and more powerful programming environment that is called Visual Basic.

  4. Downloading and Installing Visual Basic Just like Small Basic, you can get Visual Basic Express Edition for free. You can download the most recent version from the following page: http://www.microsoft.com/express/Windows • The installation should take about 10-15 minutes.

  5. Exporting programs from Small Basic After you write a program in Small Basic, you can easily export that code to run from Visual Basic. If you click Graduate on the toolbar, Small Basic will launch a wizard that will walk you through the export process.

  6. The Graduate Wizard The wizard will translate your Small Basic program into Visual Basic and then automatically launch the Visual Basic environment for you. Specify where you want to save your new Visual Basic program, and then click Continue.

  7. Running the program from Visual Basic After you export your program, a new programming environment appears. If you click Playon the toolbar, your program should run just the same way as it ran from Small Basic. Your new environment should resemble this window.

  8. Learning more about Visual Basic Visual Basic is a very powerful language and environment that you can use to further your programming fun. You can find lots of resources on the Internet for learning about Visual Basic. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ is a good place to start to learn about Visual Basic.

  9. Let’s Summarize… Congratulations! Now you know how to: • Download and install Visual Basic. • Export your Small Basic program to Visual Basic. • Run the exported program from Visual Basic.

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