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Visual Basic Quickstart Guide

By : Aspen Olmsted
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Visual Basic Quickstart Guide

By: Aspen Olmsted

Overview of this book

Whether you’re an absolute beginner or an experienced developer looking to learn the Visual Basic language, this book takes a hands-on approach to guide you through the process. From the very first chapters, you'll delve into writing programs, exploring core concepts such as data types, decision branching, and iteration. Additionally, you’ll get to grips with working with data structures, file I/O, and essential object-oriented principles like inheritance and polymorphism. This book goes beyond the basics to equip you with the skills to read and write code across the entire VB family, spanning VB Script, VBA, VB Classic, and VB.NET, enabling you to handle legacy code maintenance with ease. With clear explanations, practical examples, and hands-on exercises, this book empowers you to tackle real-world software development tasks, whether you're enhancing existing projects or embarking on new ones. It addresses common challenges like distinguishing between the variations of the VB programming language to help you choose the right one for your projects. Don't let VB's extensive legacy daunt you; embrace it with this comprehensive guide that equips you with practical, up-to-date coding skills to overcome the challenges presented by Visual Basic's rich history of over two decades.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1:Visual Basic Programming and Scripting
9
Part 2:Visual Basic Files and Data Structures
14
Part 3:Object-Oriented Visual Basic
20
Part 4:Server-Side Development

Iteration

In programming, iteration refers to the process of repeating a sequence of instructions multiple times. A programming language that supports iteration provides a way to execute a block of code repeatedly, either a fixed number of times or until a specific condition is met.

Most programming languages provide some form of iteration control structure, such as a for loop, while loop, do-while loop, or foreach loop, that allows programmers to perform iterations in a structured way.

VB is a programming language that supports various forms of iteration, including For loops, While loops, and Do loops. These loops allow you to repeat a block of code a specific number of times or until a particular condition is met. VB also supports statements to change the loop flow while inside the iteration.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • For loops
  • While loops
  • Do loops
  • Exit and Continue statements
  • Type safety differences in...