Introduction:
This tutorial is on how to create a simple clock in Visual Basic.

Design:
For this, we simply need a new Windows Form, with one label - call it; 'clockLbl'. You may center the label to the middle of the form in both x and y axis' and give it a large font size.

We also need a timer, name this timer1. Set it's interval to 1000ms/1second and it's enabled state to 'True'.

Form Load:
On form load, we want to initiate the label with the current computer time. So first we get the current time and store it in to a new 'time' string variable...

1. Private
   
   Sub
   
   Form1_Load(sender As
   
   Object
   
   , e As
   
   EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
   
2. Dim
   
   time As
   
   String
   
   = DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString().ToString()
   
3. End
   
   Sub
   

Next we set the label text to the time variable's value...

1. Private
   
   Sub
   
   Form1_Load(sender As
   
   Object
   
   , e As
   
   EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
   
2. Dim
   
   time As
   
   String
   
   = DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString().ToString()
   
3. ClockLbl.Text = time
   
4. End
   
   Sub
   

And finally we start our timer1...

1. Private
   
   Sub
   
   Form1_Load(sender As
   
   Object
   
   , e As
   
   EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
   
2. Dim
   
   time As
   
   String
   
   = DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString().ToString()
   
3. ClockLbl.Text = time
   
4. timer1.start()
   
5. End
   
   Sub
   

Timer 1 Tick:
The final thing we need to do is code our timer 1 tick event. This will simply re-set the text of the label to the now current time of the PC...

1. Private
   
   Sub
   
   Timer1_Tick(sender As
   
   Object
   
   , e As
   
   EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
   
2. Dim
   
   time As
   
   String
   
   = DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString().ToString()
   
3. ClockLbl.Text = time
   
4. End
   
   Sub
   

Finished!: