CHAPTER 3

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Essential VB Language Features

Visual Basic is a feature-rich language; however, not all programmers are familiar with all the features that we will discuss in this book. In this chapter, we are going to explain the Visual Basic language features that a good Web Forms programmer needs to know.

Creating the Example Project

To demonstrate the language features in this part of the book, we have created a new Visual Studio ASP.NET Empty Web Application project called LanguageFeatures. The language features we describe are not specific to Web Forms, but Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web doesn’t support creating projects that can write to ...

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