Newbie Question, how to open a downloaded source code files?

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Hi guys, im very very beginer in programing, recently i searched a few source code to learn it, i have visual studio 2013, but i dont know how to open the downloaded code files :(
on the cashier folder i've downloaded it has 19 item with:
.frm ; .frx ; PDM FILE ; VBP FILE ; VBW FILE file extension
i open it all on my visual studio, but the program wont run the program from the source code i downloaded
any ideas?

sorry for bad english

Posted 11-Mar-15 2:32am

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Updated 11-Mar-15 2:49am

Richard MacCutchan

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[no name] 11-Mar-15 8:38am

What you downloaded is most probably not a .Net-Solution. Sounds like a VB6 project.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Mar-15 8:41am

Probably. If so, the advice would be: never open those files! :-)
—SA

[no name] 11-Mar-15 8:44am

Yep. And use gloves before touching the mouse to drag the Zip-File onto the trash bin ;-)

[no name] 11-Mar-15 10:05am

OriginalGriff provided you some good suggestions. I would add: Choose C# as the language to learn. Visual Basic *might* look a bit "friendlier" than C# for someone who's just starting to learn programming but once you're a bit more experienced you'll notice that it's mostly the same stuff. But there are SO MUCH MORE examples, tutorials, Open-Source-Projects and people able to help with C# than with VB.

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-11T03:49:00

If you are learning VB for the .NET framework, then you should only be interested in downloads that contain a ".SLN" file: that is the file that "tells" Visual Studio how the program source is organised.
If your existing download contains one, then unzip all the files into a folder and double click the SLN file - VS will know what to do with it.
If it doesn't, then ignore it and look for a different download - there are different "flavours" of VB and they aren't all compatible with what you are / will be learning.

But please, don't try to learn by looking at code: get a course, or a book, and work through that from the start to the end. Trying to learn by looking at code is like trying to learn to fly by watching a pilot on TV...you might get an idea what to do, but not why, or what to do when it goes wrong.