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In Visual Basic 2017, you can build console application besides Windows Form Applications. To start creating a console application, start Visual Basic 2017 and choose Console Application in the new project window, as shown in Figure 37.1 below: Figure 37.1: Console Application. Retain the name as ConsoleApp or change it to the name of your choice. Creating a real console application in Visual Basic Some development tools, like Visual C and Delphi, allows the developer to easily create console applications. These tools provides specific methods and functions for writing to the console screen and their compiler also provides special option for creating console executable.

I'm making a console app for Computer Science that displays a message if two numbers are the same, and a different message if they're different.

Here's my code so far:

This runs fine, but the problem is if you enter two numbers the same, it says you've entered the same numbers, but when you press enter, it displays the other message saying you've entered two different numbers.

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Does anyone know how I can make it only do one or the other?

Thank you,

Jake

psubsee2003

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In Visual Basic 2017, you can build console application besides Windows Form Applications. To start creating a console application, start Visual Basic 2017 and choose Console Application in the new project window, as shown in Figure 37.1 below:

Retain the name as ConsoleApp or change it to the name of your choice.

Now, click on Console Application to bring up the code window, as shown in Figure 37.2 below:

The console code window comprises modules, where the main module is module 1. You an add other modules by clicking on Project on the menu bar and click Add Module, as shown in Figure 37.3 below:

To start writing code for the console application, type your code in between Sub Main() and End Sub, as shown below:

Example 37.1: Displaying a Message

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The following program will display a message ' Welcome to Visual Basic 2017 Console Programming'.

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The function to display a message box is MsgBox(). Enter the code as follows:

Run the program and the output is as shown in Figure 37.5 below:

Example 37.2: A Looping Program

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You can write a looping program using the Do Until....Loop structure, as shown below:

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The output is