Visual Basic 6, Start your Project!

When you want to use Visual Basic, you'll follow these basic steps:

1. Start Visual Basic.
2. Create a new application or load an existing application. When you create a new application, you might want to use Visual Basic's VB Application Wizard to write your program's initial shell, as you'll do in the next hour. New Term: A bug is a program error that you must correct (debug) before your program executes properly.
3. Test your application with the debugging tools Visual Basic supplies. The debugging tools help you locate and eliminate program errors (called bugs) that can appear despite your best efforts to keep them out.
4. Compile your program into a final application.
5. Quit Visual Basic.
6. Distribute the application to your users.

Rarely will you perform all these steps sequentially in one sitting. The six steps are not sequential steps, but stages that you go through and return to before completing your application.