Tutorials and samples regarding complicated subjects can not always be simplified. However, we will make every attempt to stay true to the "basic essentials"

This is not just a links website, but we would like to make reference to a good tutorials site for various languages including Java www.learnjavaonline.org, C++www.learn-cpp.org, PHP www.learn-php.org and many others.

visualBasic

Tutorial

Fairly straight forward entry level VB referance with samples by Sam Allen. (Also many other languages)

www.dotnetperls.com

QuickStrat

Screen shots on creating a new "Windows Forms Application" in Visual Studio 2012

basic-00-VisualBasic.png
basic-01-newVBApplication.png
basic-02-centerApplication.png
basic-03-renameFormFilename.png
basic-04-renameFormItems.png
basic-05-addExitButton.png
basic-06-addClass.png
The Visual Studio project that were used for the screen shots, Download Clips.zip