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Kumar Vishal, Lovely Professional University Unit 1: The Integrated Development Environment

Unit 1: The Integrated Development Environment

CONTENTS

Objectives
Introduction
1.1 Visual Basic
1.2 Features of Visual Basic
1.2.1 Structure of a Visual Basic Application
1.3 Application of VB
1.4 The Integrated Development Environment
1.4.1 The Menu Bar
1.4.2 The Toolbar
1.5 Summary
1.6 Keywords
1.7 Self Assessment Questions
1.8 Review Questions
1.9 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Understand visual basic
• Explain feature of visual basic
• Discuss application of visual basic
• Understand integrated development environment.

Introduction

An integrated development environment (IDE) (also known as integrated design environment
or integrated debugging environment) is a software application that provides comprehensive
facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of:
• a source code editor
• a compiler and/or an interpreter
• build automation tools
• a debugger

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