1. Explain three (3) differentiate between Qbasic and visual basic.

Q BASIC VISUAL BASIC

• QBASIC runs mainly on DOS, though • Later versions of Visual Basic did not
there was a short-lived version for Mac OS. include DOS versions as Microsoft wanted
developers to concentrate on Windows
applications.

• It is loosely based on GW-BASIC and like • It have matured to a RAD (Rapid

gwbasic we had to have an interpeter to run Application Development) language. VB is
the program, they were not standalone like eventdriven. That means that we dont have
visual basic programs. Since we can to create loops to wait on input from users.
declare local variables and use subroutines When a user for example presses a mouse
it was more stable than gwbasic. button, a specific piece of code is executed.

• Usually as part of an introduction to • Overall we would class Visual Basic as a

programming, though is fast becoming Graphics User Interface (GUI). Because as
replaced by more popular compilers. It also we draw, we write for the program.
has an unofficial community of hobby
programmers represented by websites such
as qbasicnews.
• QBasic, which is a different system is an • Visual Basic (VB) is a third-generation
Integrated Development Environment (or event-driven programming language and
IDE) and Compiler for the BASIC associated development environment (IDE)
programming language that was developed from Microsoft for its COM programming
by Microsoft. model.
• Qbasic is much easier than visual basic but • Visual Basic is far more complex than
it is limited as it lacks a few functions than qbasic and gwbasic, but in the same time
GW-Basic. it's much easier to use when developing
complex desktop application programs.
1. What are the advantages of using Visual Basic ? Explain about it.

• The structure of the Basic programming language is very simple, particularly as to the
executable code.

• VB is not only a language but primarily an integrated, interactive development

environment (IDE).

• The VB-IDE has been highly optimized to support rapid application development
(RAD). It is particularly easy to develop graphical user interfaces and to connect them
to handler functions provided by the application.

• The graphical user interface of the VB-IDE provides intuitively appealing views for
the management of the program structure in the large and the various types of entities
(classes, modules, procedures, forms).

• VB provides a comprehensive interactive and context-sensitive online help system.

• When editing program texts the "IntelliSense" technology informs you in a little
popup window about the types of constructs that may be entered at the current cursor
location.

• VB is a component integration language which is attuned to Microsoft's Component

Object Model (COM).

• COM components can be written in different languages and then inegrated using VB.

• Interfaces of COM components can be easily called remotely via Distributed COM
(DCOM), which makes it easy to construct distributed applications.

• COM components can be embedded in / linked to your application's user interface

and also in / to stored documents (Object Linking and Embedding OLE, "Compound
Documents").

• There is a wealth of readily available COM components for many different purposes.

1. Explain the differences between structured and event-driven programming.

 STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING EVENT-DRIVEN PROGRAMMING
• In stuctured programming, you might • Event-driven is a type of programming
check where the mouse is, and if it's over which relies on user actions or events.
the textbox and the user clicks, set focus to • When your mouse rolls over an icon and
the textbox, and start blinking the cursor. something else happens - it happens as a
• If we are in that state, then if the user result of the mouse-over event firing in
presses keys we add that text to the your code.
textbox. • When your mouse rolls over an icon and
• Same with the button, check if the mouse is something else happens - it happens as a
over it, and if they click perform some result of the mouse-over event firing in
action. your code.
• Structured programming (e.g. C) can just • Event driven programming was the
as effectively have event driven precursor to Object Oriented Programming.
programming. • Anything is an event. From a keystroke, to
• Structured Programming is just that - one a mouse-right-click, anything. Code can be
stack set of code. written so that when these events happen,
your program takes a different course of
action.

1. Describe the various files that make up a Visual Basic project :

a) Project files
• The .vbp file, called the project file, is a small text file that holds the names of the
other files in the project, as well as some information about the VB environment.

a) Form files
• A form file holds a description of all objects and their properties for the form as
well as the Basic Code you have written to respond to the event. Each form in
your project is saved in a file with a .frm extension.

a) Multiform project/standart code modules files

• A standart code module is a Basic file with the extension .bas, which is added to
the project. These files hold Basic statements that can be accessed from any form.
Standart code modules do not contain a form, only code.

a) Class module files

• The Module files are a simple listing of the code with only a simple property, the
Name.
• Class modules can contain more than one type of procedure: sub, function, or
property. You can choose the procedure type and its scope when you insert a
procedure. Inserting a procedure is like creating a code template into which you
enter code.

a) User created control files

• The user controls are the ActiveX controls created by the developers. Their file
format is very similar to the form file.
• User Controls are the controls which are created by the user and they are based on
the class System Windows Forms UserControl. Like standard controls, user
controls support properties, methods and events. Once a user control is created it
can be added to any form or any number of forms like all other controls.

a) ActiveX document form files

• A large selection of ActiveX controls are available to solve many problems. You
can purchase controls to display various type of gauges and indicators, display
data in grids, send and receive faxes, display video, scan bar codes, display
calendars and appointments and perform many other functions.
• The file for ActiveX controls have extension of .ocx or .vbx.