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

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.
Export Small Basic programs to Visual Basic.
Run your programs from Visual Basic.
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.
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.
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.
The Graduate Wizard
Specify where you want to save your new
Visual Basic program, and then click
Continue.
The wizard will translate your Small
Basic program into Visual Basic and
then automatically launch the Visual
Basic environment for you.
Running the program from Visual Basic
After you export your program, a new programming environment appears.
Your new environment
should resemble this
window.
If you click Play on the toolbar, your program
should run just the same way as it ran from
Small Basic.
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.
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.