101 Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET Applications

Language Changes

Compared to the sweeping changes to the Visual Basic language brought about by the first release of the .NET Framework, the changes to version 1.1, although beneficial, are minor. There are two changes: an easier way to declare a loop variable, and the use of BitShift operators.

Loop Variable Declaration

In Visual Basic .NET, you can now easily declare a loop variable as part of a For or For Each loop. This makes coding For Each loops much easier, as you don’t have to declare the variable before entering the For Each loop. Here’s an example:

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