SOFTWARE

ENVIRONMENT
Visual Basic is used as front end.

HISTORY OF VISUAL BASIC

Visual Basic evolved from BASIC (Beginners All-Purposes
Symbols Instruction Code. Basic was developed in the
mid-1960 by Professor John Kemeny and Thomas Kurth of
Dartmouth College as a language for writing simple
programs.
The wide spread use of Basic with various type computer
and led to many enhancement to the language. With
developments of the Microsoft Graphical User
Interface(GUI) in the late of 1980s and early 1990s the
natural evaluation of BASIC was VISUAL BASIC, which was
created by Microsoft Corporation in 1991.

Advantages & Features of Visual Basic.

Visual Basic is a high level programming language.
By going through Visual Basic Program, one can
easily understand the logic of the program and
various steps involved in solving the define problem.
Visual Basic supports Object Oriented Programming
through which a programme operation can be
logically separated from each other.

 Visual Basic Programs are easily readable and

understandable because their statements are almost
similar to the English Language statements.
Visual Basic Programs are created in an Integrated
Development Environment (IDE).
The IDE allows the program to create run and debug
Visual Basic Program conveniently.
Visual Basic is the worlds most widely used Rapid
Application Development (RAD).
It has indexing, table handling, multiple page report
and other special features, which are general
requirements of any programming environment.
Visual Basic Programs can be complied to run as a
stand-alone package.

VISUAL BASIC is one of the easiest programming tools to

master. With some basic guidance within a short time, age
is not the limit. However do not ever think that Visual
Basic can only build simple programs, you could actually
develop very advance and powerful application. Indeed,
Visual Basic 6.0 even allows developing web applications.

What is a VISUAL BASIC?

Microsoft released Visual Basic in 1991. It was the first
visual development tool from MS, and it was to compute
with C, C++, PASCAL and other well-known programming
languages. From the start, VB wasnt a hit. It wasnt until
release 3.0 it had become the fastest-growing power
programming language in the market.
The most important aspect of VBs success is found in the
group comp.lang.basic.visual.3dparty. This is the place

where you can learn of the Visual Basic Extension or VBX

for short. VBXs are add-ons that make VB do things it
doesnt normally do. If you want to make a phone-dialer
from VB, you use a VBX that can handle modem dialogs.
Today, there are millions of third party add-ons to Visual
Basic, some free and shareware, some commercial. If you
want to do a special task, you can always count on a VBX
to be out there somewhere.
VB complied programs are small. The reason is
VBRUN###.DLL, that ships with every VISUAL BASIC
Application. Even if a system dont have VB there is a
copy of VBRUN###.DLL on hard disk somewhere.
Another thing adding to this thought is VBs pseudo-code.
VB executables arent real executables like those of
PASCAL and C. They contain special codes that only are
VBRUN###.DLL can interpret and pass on as real
commands. For this reason, VB is called an interpreted
language. This is also the reason why VB programs usually
are slow compared to PASCAL and C. What gain in size, is
usually eaten by loss in speed.

Creating, Opening and Saving Projects

File menu
New Project

: Closes current applications, prompting

you to save any

Changed files. Creates a new (blank)
project.

Open Project

: Closes current application if there is one,

prompting
You to save any Changed files. Presents file
dialog
Box from which existing projects can be
selected.
Add Project

: Opens or creates a new project. Useful

Controls: one
Projects contain the new control being
built, and a
Seconds standard project I used to hold
the new
Control and test it.
Remove Project: Closes the current project.

Save Project

: Saves all forms and modules associated

with the
Current project. When saving a new project
for
The first time you will be promoted to save
each
Standard module (.BAS), form module
(.FRM) and the
Visual Basic project itself (.VBP). Read
carefully the
Save dialog box titles so that you know
exactly which
Parts of a project are being saved to which
files.

Save Project As: Prompts you to save a project under a

different name.
Unfortunately if you try to use this to save
a project to
Different location VB will Not prompt to
save form and
Module files. Thus, your project (.VBP) will
be saved
Where you want but with none of its other
dependent.

INTRODUCTION TO MS-ACCESS
MS-ACCESS is an RDBMS developed by leading software
giant, Microsoft corp. Packaged as a no. of MS-OFFICE
suite productivity tools.
ACCESS is an improvised version of earlier access. There
improvisation come as boon to user who is looking for a
quick and easy way to enter data and start extracting
useful information from intakes also readily allow the
development of application for large organization with
relative each. The very fact that a serious application can
be built without writing any code at al says a lot about
access. In addition all this come bundled with familiarity
of the Windows-9x environment.
In our application MS-ACCESS used as a BACK END.