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| Application | A program which makes the computer a useful tool. |
| Assignment Statement | Uses the equal sign to give the object property on the left of the equal sign the value on the right of the equals sign. |
| Body | The statements in a procedure. |
| Click event procedure | A procedure that executes in response to a mouse Click event. |
| Code window | The part of the IDE tha displays the Form1 module window where program statements are entered. |
| Comment | Text that explains and clarifies program code for other programmers. Comments are preceded by a single quotation mark. |
| Compiler | Converts a program to a language that the computer understands. |
| Control | Used to create a control class object that the user can interact with. |
| Design window | Displays the appliaction interface and allows control class objects to be added, deleted, and sized. |
| Event | occurs when the user interacts with an object |
| Event-driven application | Executes code in response to events. |
| Event handler | See event procedure. |
| Form | A control class object that is an application interface. Contains a title bar, system menu, and Minimize, Maximize, and Close buttons. |
| IDE (Integrated Development Environment) | Used to create or modify a Visual Basic .NET. application. |
| Interface | What appears on the screen when an application is running. |
| Menu bar | The part of the IDE that contains the names of menusthat contain commands. Can also be added to an application with a MainMenu control. |
| Numeric expression | Formed with arithmetic operators |
| Operator precedence | The order in which operations are evaluated in a numeric expression. |
| Procedure | A block of codewritten to person specific tasks. |
| Program code | A set of instructions in an application. |
| Project | The set of files that make up a Visual Basic .NET application. |
| Properties Explorer window | The part of the IDE that lists the files in the current project. |
| Properties window | The part of the IDE that lists the properties values of an object. |
| Property | The part of a control object that defines its appearance, behavior, position, and other attributes. |
| Select | Clicking an object, which displays handles. |
| Statement | A line of code. |
| Solution Explorer window | used to switch between the Design and Code windows. |
| Toobox | The part of the IDE that contains controls that are used to add objects to a form. |
| Visual Basic .NET | Object-oriented programming language used to create Windows, Web, and command-line (console) applications. |
