Learning Programming Language

Add another button to your form, and set the following properties for it in the Properties Window:

Double click your new button to get at the code. Add the following three lines to your button code:

Your coding window should now look like this:

Run your programme and click your new button. You should see this:

You also need to be careful of precision when using double variable types. The double type can hold up to 16 digits.

Halt your programme and return to the coding window. Change this line:

to this:

Run your programme and click your double button. The message box correctly displays the number. Add another number on the end, though, and C# will again round up or down. The moral is, if you want accuracy, careful of rounding!

In the next part, you'll see how to add up in C#.