CS 115 Lab 1: Walking through Visual Studio 2017 for creating a Program in

Visual Basic

Student Name: Section: Instructor: Jinhui Liu

 Purpose
The purpose of this activity is to help students learn how to use the Visual Studio IDE.
Integrated development environment (IDE) consists of a text editor, compiler, debugger,
and other utilities in a package with a single set of menu. In other words, the Visual
Studio IDE consists of a number of windows (Designer window, Code window which is
a text-editing window, Solution Explorer window, Properties window, Toolbox window,
and so on) that you will use on a regular basis.

 Lab Requirement
 Read and practice the handout material: CS115 Visual Basic Lab Steps
 Textbook: Section 1.5, Sections 2.1 – 2.3

 Required Source Information and Tools

 Microsoft Visual Studio 2017
 Removable USB flash drive

 Deliverables
Your instructor may check your work at your station. For Lab 1, please just focus on how
to use Visual Studio to create Visual Basic applications. You are required to submit your
Visual Basic applications and their outputs electronically to Canvas.