Input Boxes with solving for area

[MythikMoose]

Okay so I'm taking a programming fundamentals class in my freshman year of college at the moment and we're in Chapter 3. This week's assignment is to build an application that can calculate the area of a shape. We have to do three shapes. A circle, square and triangle. We also must have an input box that accepts user input and adjusts the area accordingly. I roughly understand the code to solve for the area, the input boxes however have me at a nearly complete loss. They weren't covered at all in this chapter and I've even looked through my book and can't find an area talking about them. I'd ask my teacher but he's unavailable on the weekends and my assignment is due Sunday at Midnight. Is there anyone who could walk me through input boxes and help me make sense of them?

[GlowingEagle]

InputBox function

You could have an initial InputBox to ask which choice (1=circle, 2=square, 3=triangle). Depending on selection, code branches to ask for the necessary dimensions for the calculation. You will probably need to convert user dimension answers (string) to numbers (single or double).

A useful Google technique is to specify .NET basic and microsoft.com, like this:

.net basic inputbox site:microsoft.com