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 Designing Forms
 
 ■ With Visual Basic, you can easily create form-based applications:
   • Forms are created in the Form Designer (FD.EXE), a separate utility used
     to build the user interface (forms and controls) for your application.
   • Forms contain controls that allow users to provide information to and
     interact with an application in a variety of ways.
     See: ◄Form►  ◄Controls Summary►
 
 ■ To create a form:
 
   • From the File menu, choose New Form
 
 ■ You can also start the Form Designer from the MS-DOS command line.
   See: ◄FD Command-Line Options►
 
 ■ Dialog boxes are an integral part of form-based applications. Use the
   BorderStyle property settings to identify a form as either a window or a
   dialog box. See: ◄Creating a Dialog Box►
 
 ■ Menus are also commonly used in form-based applications. To emulate a
   Multiple Document Interface (MDI) application, for example, you create an
   MDI form that contains a menu bar.
   See: ◄Creating a Menu►  ◄MDI Applications►
 
 See: ◄Form Design Keys►
      ◄Tutorial: Designing Forms►
      ◄Tutorial: Adding Menus To Your Forms►