Ooble

You're declaring your variable inside the function. Every time you call the function, the variable intNumber is created, incremented and destroyed. You can work around this in one of two ways: you can use a global variable, which is created when the application starts and destroyed on exit, and declared outside of any function (usually at the top of Form or Module code), or you can declare the variable as static, which will tell it to retain its value even after the function finishes:

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Psychosis

So like:

Dim intNumber As Integer

Private Sub btnClick_Click()
intNumber = intNumber + 1

lblCount.Caption = "Count: " & intNumber

End Sub

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YES!! It works!!

Well it's the end of the night for me, I'll be back soon!! Thanks!!

Ghost

12 Post for something that counts when you press a button....only in VB

Psychosis

Okay, lost again. I posted this in the online course bullitin too, but it seems you guys respond faster.

Kilo

If I may comment, why in the **** would any school waste there time teaching people how to program in visual basic? It did nothing but mess my mind up, back in the day that is . Could someone explain the purpose(please don't say well there are a lot of visual basic programmers needed). Its pathetic to use visual basic to write any program in my OPINION.(not refering to .NET)

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Mjordan2nd

They probably use it since it seems to be a bit easier to learn than a lot of other languages, and also since it offers near-immediate results that kids can be proud of. How many kids, aside from enthusiasts, would be proud of making a program that can run on a CLI? Making a GUI would probably be a lot more exciting for them.

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Kilo

Yes that would be a reason to teach 'Visual Basic', but not school. Teaching languages in school is for knowledge of languages used in everyday programming jobs. Teaching a friend visual basic, i would have to agree with you. But as far as teaching them it, to send them out into the real world thinking they know something in my OPINION is messed up.

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titaniumdecoy

I don't know about Visual Basic, but at my school they start off teaching Scheme (a form of Lisp) with a custom API designed by the authors of the book they use. This is a good language choice because it teaches not only class abstraction (like Java) but also functional and syntactic abstraction (for example, you can pass a method as a parameter to another method, or redefine the + symbol). In my opinion, abstraction may be the most important thing to understand for any form of programming, so this is a good choice. Of course, it is not really useful for anything but understanding concepts.

lectricpharaoh

i know you said 'not .NET', but my only VB experience is VB.NET. That said, I feel having basic (pun intended) knowledge is certainly worthwhile.

As a prototyping tool, VB is one of the languages of choice, if not the language. It's just so damn easy and quick to slap something together that would otherwise take a good deal longer. When you sit down with a client, and start whipping up UIs for them, and adding a bit of code to connect to their database so they can see what's happening, they want to see results right away. Having these skills lets you give them that.

Then there's also the fact that many (mainly trivial) applications are not processor intensive. When your program spends 99.99% of its time waiting for the user to press a key or move the mouse, performance really isn't an issue. Size still is, but all the .NET languages compile down fairly small, thanks to the .NET framework.

I agree wholeheartedly that many larger real-world applications cannot be written in VB and expected to meet performance requirements. I also agree that VB allows for lazy coding practices, what with the autoformatting and 'intellisense' thing going on. Still, I believe it's a language that definitely has its place in the industry, and as a teaching tool, what Mjordan2nd said is hard to overstress. Seeing immediate or short-term success is a strong motivating factor in learning (or any endeavor, for that matter). Why do you think one of the major factors of project success is having small milestones/early deliverables? It keeps the team motivated.

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Kilo

@lectricpharaoh: I would agree with you now that we are not referring to .NET lol. If you are that into VB .NET (for RAD and Simplicity) I highly recommend (in opinion) you drop VB and take up C#.

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