Visual Basic Form

• Form is window style screen that Visual Basic program displays.
• It is where controls and codes are added.
• Acts as containers for controls
• It is where controls are drawn and viewed.
• The layout of the form on a screen be previewed through the Form Layout Window command on the View menu
• Has a Maximize, Minimize, and close buttons.

Form Properties

• Name
• An object’s Name property must start with a letter and can be a maximum of 40 characters
• It can include numbers and underline(_) characters but can’t include punctuation or spaces
• Appearance
• Specifies the paint style of controls on a MDIForm or Form object at design time.
• Caption
• Determines the text displayed in the Form or MDIForm object’s title bar
• Except for the label control, form and all other controls that have captions, the limit is 255 characters
• Long caption for the form’s title bar is clipped
• Enabled
• Determines whether a form or control can respond to user-generated events.
• Control Box
• Indicates whether a Control-menu box is displayed on a form at run time.
• MaxButton
• Specifies a value indicating whether a form has a Maximize button.
• MinButton
• Specifies a value indicating whether a form has a Minimize button
• Movable
• Specifies if the object can be moved or not.
• Visible
• Specifies a value indicating whether an object is visible or hidden
• WindowState
• Specifies a value indicating the visual state of a form window at run times.

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