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The Menu Bar
If you want your application to provide a set of commands to users, menus offer a convenient and consistent way to group commands and an easy way for users to access them.The standard menus availabale in VB are
The Menu Bar
If you want your application to provide a set of commands to users, menus offer a convenient and consistent way to group commands and an easy way for users to access them.The standard menus availabale in VB are
- File contains the commands for opening and saving projects and creating executable files and a list of recent projects
- Edit contains editing commands(e.g,Undo,Copy,Paste)plaus a number of commands for formatting and editing your code(e.g, Find,Replace)
- View contains commands for showing or hiding components of the IDE
- Project contains commands that add components to the current project, references to windows objects and new tools to the Toolbox
- Format contains commands for aligning the controls on the Form
- Debug contains the usual debugging commands
- Run contains the commands that start, break, and end execution of the current application
- Query contains commands that simplifies the design of SQL queries. this menu is available when building database applications.
- Diagram contains commands for editing database diagrams.this menu is available when building database applications.
- Tools contains tools you need in building ActiveX Components and ActiveX controls.
- Add-Ins contains add-ins that you can add and remove as needed. By default, only the Visual Data Manager Add-in is installed in this menu.
- Window is the standard Window menu of an application that contains commands to arrange windows on the screen.
- Help contains information to help you as you work
