Chapter 7. Working with ASP.NET and VB .NET

OBJECTIVES

  • Learn event-handling basics

  • Learn Visual Basic .NET data types

  • Learn to create procedures and classes

  • Use the StringBuilder class

When you start coding using the .NET Framework, you will find yourself faced with many new concepts. Even if you are moving to .NET from the Visual Basic 6 programming environment, you will find that many familiar features now behave slightly differently, and these differences all have enough of a twist to them that you will need to take some time to learn how the new and modified features work.

Of course, one of the most important programming concepts in Visual Basic is that of events. You need to learn about how events happen, as well as what the parameters that ...

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