This simple tutorial will walk you through the basic steps of creating a program.


Create a new windows forms project File/New and name helloworld, you should see a blank form in front of you, double click on it and you will see the code for the form. You will need to add the following code below where it says public class form1:

Dim displayfont As Font

And then under Form1_load, add the following:

displayfont = New Font("Georgia", 24, FontStyle.Bold, GraphicsUnit.Pixel)

And finally add the following outsie of the form1_load sub:

Private Sub Form1_Paint(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles Me.Paint
e.Graphics.DrawString("Hello World", displayfont, Brushes.Blue, 32, 96)
End Sub

Now run the application (f5) and you should see the form with Hello World written across it in blue text.