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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
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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

While loops

In computer programming, a loop with a pre-condition is a control flow structure that repeats a set of statements while a specific condition is true before executing the loop body. This loop type is called a While loop because the condition is checked before running the loop body. Since the loop may never execute, we say a pre-condition loop will always execute zero or more times.

While loops with pre-conditions are helpful when you want to repeat a block of code until a specific condition is no longer true. While loops are often used in situations where the number of times you need to repeat the loop is not known in advance. Usually, this is because the code is dependent on receiving specific input.

The basic syntax for a While loop in VB is as follows:

While test_condition
    'code to run
End While

Here, test_condition is the Boolean expression evaluated before each loop iteration. The loop will continue executing the code block if...