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How to create a basic Calculator in Visual Basics #1
Today I am going to show all you newbies to the coding world how to make a Calculator in Visual Basics, to do this tutorial I will be using Visual Studio 2013.
Alright lets get started on this. I have done what I can to make this easy to follow.

Step One
You will want to create a new project and title it what ever you want, for this I have called it "Calculator".
You will also want to make sure on Visual Studio that both Common Controls (appears on left) and Properties (appears on right) show up on the screen.
Once you start a new project this will appear in your Form (middle)

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Step Two
We will now add button's, textbox's and a label to the program so people know what the program is for.
Here is an example of what it should look like.

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Remember to title all of your labels, textboxes and buttons.
To name them you simply Click the thing you want to name > Go to properties > Design > (Name)
to change the display text from "label" to anything simply Click the thing you want to name > Go to properties > Apperance > Text

lbl - Label
btn - Button
txt - TextBox

Here is what I called all of mine,
Spoiler:
Calculator - Label
Name: lblTitle

Enter First Number - Label
Name: lblFirst

Enter Second Number - Label
Name: lblSecond

To the right of Enter First Number
TextBox
Name: txtNum1

To the right of Enter Second Number
TextBox
Name: txtNum2

Add - Button
Name: btnAdd

Subtract - Button
Name: btnSubtract

Multiply - Button
Name: btnMultiply

Divide - Button
Name: btnDivide

Squareroot - Button
Name: btnSquareroot

The Answer Is - Label
Name: lblTotal

To the right of The Answer Is
TextBox
Name: txtAnswer

Clear - Button
Name: btnClear

Step Three

Now here we go onto the code, start by double Clicking on the button Add Then jump up to "Public Class Form1" and press enter to go onto a new line and add the following
Code:
Dim number1 As Integer
    Dim number2 As Integer
    Dim answer As Integer

Now go back to the part that should be named "Private Sub btnAdd_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnAdd.Click" and add the following code.
Always make sure you code is between "Private Sub" after all that text click enter and when done the code make sure "End Sub" is after your code.

Add

Code:
number1 = txtNum1.Text
  number2 = txtNum2.Text
  answer = number1 + number2
  txtAnswer.Text = answer

Once that is done you just change the + Simble on each button (subtract etc) but make sure you go back to the design (program display) and double click on each button to add it.

Subtract

Code:
number1 = txtNum1.Text
  number2 = txtNum2.Text
  answer = number1 - number2
  txtAnswer.Text = answer

Multiply

Code:
number1 = txtNum1.Text
  number2 = txtNum2.Text
  answer = number1 * number2
  txtAnswer.Text = answer

Divide

Code:
number1 = txtNum1.Text
  number2 = txtNum2.Text
  answer = number1 / number2
  txtAnswer.Text = answer

Squareroot is not as easy as the others, you can look on the web for the code but here it is anyways.

Squareroot

Code:
number1 = txtNum1.Text
  answer = Math.Sqrt(number1)
  txtAnswer.Text = answer

Here is the code for the clear button, really simpe and easy to follow, double click the button and add the following.

Code:
txtNum1.Clear()
  txtNum2.Clear()
  txtAnswer.Clear()

Step Four
If you are lazy and simply want to add the buttons and name them exactly as I did then here is the full code!

Code:
Public Class Form1
    Dim number1 As Integer
    Dim number2 As Integer
    Dim answer As Integer

    Private Sub btnAdd_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnAdd.Click
  number1 = txtNum1.Text
  number2 = txtNum2.Text
  answer = number1 + number2
  txtAnswer.Text = answer
    End Sub

    Private Sub btnSubtract_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnSubtract.Click
  number1 = txtNum1.Text
  number2 = txtNum2.Text
  answer = number1 - number2
  txtAnswer.Text = answer
    End Sub

    Private Sub btnMutiply_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnMutiply.Click
  number1 = txtNum1.Text
  number2 = txtNum2.Text
  answer = number1 * number2
  txtAnswer.Text = answer
    End Sub

    Private Sub btnDivide_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnDivide.Click
  number1 = txtNum1.Text
  number2 = txtNum2.Text
  answer = number1 / number2
  txtAnswer.Text = answer
    End Sub

    Private Sub btnClear_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnClear.Click
  txtNum1.Clear()
  txtNum2.Clear()
  txtAnswer.Clear()

    End Sub

    Private Sub btnSquareroot_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnSquareroot.Click
  number1 = txtNum1.Text
  answer = Math.Sqrt(number1)
  txtAnswer.Text = answer
    End Sub

Step Five
Time to test the program to make sure there is no errors, here is a video I made of me testing it.



This program is nowhere near complete nor tested for bugs etc.
It is made to show people how easy it can be to make these programs.








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