The book is designed to learn programming and create applications for Windows in the language Misrosoft Visual Basic 2013. This language is fully object-oriented and embedded in the Visual Studio package, which represents integrated visual design tools on the platform . NET. Framework. The presentation of the material is constructed in such a way as to make available its study both to those who have only initial ideas about programming, and to those who have experience in writing programs. For this purpose, a laboratory workshop on key topics in the programming language Visual Basic 2013. is presented after the theoretical findings. For each topic, tasks and their detailed solutions are given. The technology of working with a graphical interface . is also considered. Conforms to the current requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard of Secondary Vocational Education and Professional Requirements . For students of educational institutions secondary nrofessionL1i. About education, technical and economic directions and all those who develop nriments for Windows in the language Visial Basic 201.