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10. The program window will appear and if you click the Say Hello World button, the
label’s text changes to Hello world! Exactly as we have programmed.

Each time you test your program by clicking the Start Debugging button, an

application executable file is created in ...\Projects\[project name]\[project name]\
bin\Debug. For example, for the First VB Form project, the .exe file can be found

under ...\Projects\HelloWorldApplication\HelloWorldApplication\bin\Debug\
HelloWorldApplication.exe.

4.5. Basic GUI Controls in Visual Basic

Button

It is used as a standard Windows Button. In most cases, the Button Control is used to

generate a click event,
A Label

It is used to display some informative text on the GUI which is not changed during

runtime.

Radio Button

Radio Button is one of the popular ways of limiting the user to pick just one option.

Checkbox

Checkboxes are similar to radio buttons in the way that they are also used in groups,
however, a user can select more than one item in the group.

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