Programming input and output with Visual Basic Classic

VB Classic does not have a method to develop console applications. Visual Basic Classic was designed to build applications that run only on Windows. For simple input and output, we can use two functions:

• InputBox: Displays a string passed into the method, draws a box for the user to enter their response to the prompt, and returns the value entered
• MsgBox: Displays a message box with the string passed in

Simple interaction in Visual Basic Classic

Here is the code for a simple interaction between the user and the program in Visual Basic Classic:

Private Sub Form_Load()
  Dim name As String
  name = InputBox("What is your name?")
  MsgBox ("It is nice to meet you " + name)
End Sub

The first line in the code declares a variable named Name to store the value returned from the keyboard. The second line utilizes the InputBox method to draw an input box for the...