Friday, June 15, 2012

Programming in Visual Basic 2010 Bradley / Millspaugh

Programming has got me interested.  The beginning Computer Science course I took only did about 50% of the first three chapters of the book.

I am continuing on my own from the beginning.  I have read to about Chapter 2 and then skipped to Chapter 9 about programming for the web since I already know the basics of the first three chapters.

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One of my first problems was after opening a ASP.NET Empty Web Application, and opening a new Web Form, the page appeared all in code.

The solution was to switch to Design view with a right-click.  Luckily, Microsoft products are very similar, but it would seem Design View should be the default view.

Besides that, the book has been very clear.  Now that I look back in the book, I see it explained about the different tabs.  But, I needed it spelled out for me the first time to tell me to, "Make sure the Design Tab is selected."

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Also, I got a message that said the term "bgcolor" is outdated, but the Microsoft Help doesn't even say what I should use.

I looked it up and got http://www.doheth.co.uk/codelair/html-css/deprecated#bg

Not really sure what it means.  Do I have to switch to CSS?  I am trying to learn Visual Basic, not HTML / CSS, so I will ignore it.  The program still runs.

But, I thought I would mention it here.

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Ok, Ch09Hello works fine.  Time to move on.

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