The key to writing Visual Basic programs is to understand the ideas of objects, events and properties. We have a step-by-step introduction to all of them in the second chapter of our beginner's series, Mastering Visual Basic 2010.

Events are what make a program do something. In this part of our introduction to Visual Basic 2010 we take a closer look at how events are used together to create a simple drawing application.

There are lots of different controls that you can use to create a user interface and if you want to master Visual Basic you need to know what tools are in your toolbox. Continuing our introduction to Visual Basic 2010.

Visual Basic makes it very easy to load and display images that have been prepared earlier and stored on disk or on a web server. Not only does VB make this easy, with the addition of the Timer control making things move is very easy indeed.

Scrollbars and Trackbars are two of the most basic controls you can add to a form. In this installment of Mastering Visual Basic 2010 we take a look at how to use and how to avoid using them.