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| Application Design | How an application's interface will look and how the program code will be written. |
| Application Deployment | Packages an application so that it can be distributed to other computer systems. |
| Break mode | The point at which an application has stopped executing and the Visual Basic IDE is displayed with a Watch window. |
| Breakpoint | A statement that has been marked as a stopping point. |
| Coding | Creating the interface and writing the program code. |
| Constant | A name for a memory location that stores a value that cannot be changed from its initial assignment. |
| Debugging | The process of getting an application to work correctly. |
| Declaration statement | A statement used to create a variable or constant. |
| Exception | See Run time error. |
| Floating point | The Double data type that can represent values with numbers after the decimal point. |
| Function | A procedure that performs a task and then returns a value. |
| Global declaration | A declaration outside the procedures of a program. Also called module level declaration. |
| Initialized | Giving a variable a value in the declaration statement. |
| Integer division | Division performed with the / operator4 to return only the whole portion of the quotient. |
| Keyword | Identifier reserved by Visual Basic. |
| Literal | An actual value. |
| Local declaration | A declaration at the beginning of a procedure. |
| Logic error | An error caused by syntactically correct statements that produce unexpected results. Also called semantic error. |
| Module level declaration | Also called global declaration. |
| Modulus division | Division performed with the Mod operator to return only the remainder portion of the division operation. |
| Prompt | A label placed near a text box describing the expected input from the user. |
| Run time error | A syntax or logic error that halts a program at run time. Also called an exception. |
| Scope | The set of statements that can be accessed by a declared variable or constant. |
| Semantic error | See Logic error. |
| Spec | See Specification. |
| Specification | Definition of what an application should do. |
| String | A set of characters. |
| Syntax error | An error caused by a statement that violates the rules of Visual Basic. |
| Testing | The process of running an application and entering data to test different possibilities to reveal any bugs. |
| TextBox | An objec t that allows the user to enter a value. |
| Variable | A named memory location that stores a value. |
| Watch window | The part of the IDE that can be used to examine values. |
| \ | Arithmetic operator used to perform integer division. |
| Boolean | A data type used to represent True or False. |
| Build command | Creates an executable file. Found in the Build menu. |
| Char | A data type representing a single character. |
| Comment out the selected lines button | Clicked to turn selected code into comment statements. Found on the toolbar. |
| Const | Keyword used in a statement to declare a constant. |
| Date | A data type representing dates and times. |
| Decimal | A data type representing very large positive or negative real numbers. Best used for representing currency values. |
| Dim | Keyword used in a statement to declare a variable. |
| Double | A data type representing very large positive or negtive real numbers. |
| False | One of two possible Boolean values. |
| Integer | A data type representing positive or negative whole numbers. |
| Mod | Arithmetic operator used to perform modulus division. |
| Nothing | Keyword that can be used in place of an empty string for clearing labels, and so forth. |
| Publish command | Publishes an application to a website, FTP server, or file path. Found in the Build menu. |
| Step Into button | Clicked to step through a program in break mode. Found on the Debug toolbar. |
| String | A data type representing a string. |
| TextBox control | Used to add a TextBox control class objuect to a form. Properties include (Name), Text, and TextAlign. Events include TextChanged. |
| True | One of two possible Boolean values. |
| Uncomment the selected lines button | Clicked to remove the quotation mark (') from the beginning of the selected lines of code. Found on the toolbar. |
| Val() | A function that takes a string and returns a number corresponding to the numeric characters. |
