[Year 12 SofDev] Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition experience

[Donald Hew]

Colleagues

At the start of the year when I updated the image for the new computers, I installed the free VB2008EE from Microsoft. I have found it to be very similar and almost identical to VB2005EE. Good news so far.

However, using Graeme Summer's text "Programming With Visual Basic", I found that the following helpful:

- use the VB command "close()" instead of "end" or "close.me()"
- using timer control would trigger a security dialog box when running any project saved on a networked environment (I believe this does not affect projects saved on local drive like c: on your laptop for example)

This can solved by installing Microsoft's .NET Framework 2.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=FE6F2099-B7B4-4F47-A244-C96D69C35DEC&displaylang=en> Please be aware that this is ahuge 354Mb download!!!

.NetFramework 3.5 (which is v2.0SP1 and v3.0 combined) does not include the .NetFramework 2.0 Configuration utility anymore. Running the utility from Control Panel | Administrative Tools and choose

Configure Code Access Security Policy
Adjust Zone Security
Make changes to this computer
Local Intranet = Full Trust

to increase the security level for everyone on your computer with a limited user account but save work onto your network. Hope you find these 2 things useful.

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Donald Hew 
Director of ICT & Webmaster
Vermont Secondary College
P O Box 138 Morack Road
Vermont VIC 3133 Australia
tel: (+61) 3 9873 1077     (+61) 3 8872 6345
fax: (+61) 3 9874 4368


--
Donald Hew 
Director of ICT & Webmaster
Vermont Secondary College
P O Box 138 Morack Road
Vermont VIC 3133 Australia
tel: (+61) 3 9873 1077     (+61) 3 8872 6345
fax: (+61) 3 9874 4368