Visual Basic: The “Hello World” Program

Posted: January 31st, 2012 | Author: Brian Martin (BlinkBrian) | Filed under: Visual Basic Tutorial (Series) | No Comments »

31 January 2012

In the last tutorial, we looked at the Visual Basic: Programming Environment

All tutorials start off with “Hello World” so why break a habit of a life time! The end result will be the program outputs “Hello World” but also teaches you some of the basics to!

Type in to your text editor;

Console.WriteLine (“Hello World”)
Console.Readline()

The lines need to go after the “Sub Main” and before “End Sub” as shown below.

Sub Main()

Console.WriteLine(“Hello World”)
Console.ReadLine()

End Sub

Debug

• Press F5 to test your program. What do you see?

Did you see this?

 

 

 

Note how the text around the brackets will be displayed on the screen. “Hello World”

Output Operators – Summary
Purpose	To Display Text to the user
Code:	Console.Writeline(“text”) or Console.Write(“text”)
Example:	Console.Writeline(“Hello World”)

 

 

 

Remember: Literal text must be enclosed by double quotes.

In the next tutorial, Visual Basic: Input Operators & Variables

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