Welcome to Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Welcome to Mastering Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition ! We think that you’ll find Visual Basic to be an easy-to-learn yet powerful programming language, and Visual Basic Express is an excellent tool for creating Windows applications. This book provides comprehensive instruction in both the Visual Basic Express development environment and the Visual Basic programming language itself. In Part 1, we’ll discuss how to get started creating applications with Visual Basic Express, we’ll show the fundamentals of Windows application development, and finally we’ll demonstrate how to create Windows forms. In Part 2, we’ll discuss the Visual Basic programming language and describe how to create the functions, procedures, and events that will contain the bulk of your programming code. In addition, we’ll also discuss how to control the execution of your programs, how to use arrays and collections, and finally how to debug and handle errors within your application.