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One of the processes that you should learn as a newbie to Visual Basic is adding a timer. The timer can be useful when creating a game, quiz, or if you want to limit the time you can view a certain page. Here are a few easy steps that will guide you through how to add a timer to your Visual Basic application. Please note - you can change and adapt this process to suit all your needs. We will only use numbers and layouts as an example.

Steps

1. 1 Add a label to your form. It will contain the number that you want to associate with the timer.
2. 2 Add a button to the form. It will start the timer.
3. 3 Add a timer to the form. You can find the timer function in the toolbar -> components -> timer.
4. 4 Modify the properties of the Timer1 components. Under Behavior, change Enabled to False and set Interval to 1000.
5. 5 Double click on the "Timer1" component and add the correct encoding.
6. 6 Double click the button you used to start the timer and add the correct encoding.
7. 7 Start the timer. Check your timer to make sure it is working correctly and stops at "0".

Tips

• Try to keep your coding neat.
• Always add comments to your code so that you don't forget what a particular function is doing.
• Feel free to experiment, just remember to save your work before trying to add a new feature.

What do you need

• Microsoft Visual Basic