In Brief

This chapter has provided a whirlwind tour of the key language changes in Visual Basic .NET including:

  • The new Option statements

  • Changes in how variables and arrays are declared

  • New operators, loops, and conditionals

  • Changes to the basic data types between Visual Basic .NET and previous versions

  • Changes in how procedures, parameters, and classes are declared and executed

  • How imports, references, and namespaces work

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