Hour 5. Visual Basic .NET Variables and Operators

ASP.NET Web pages are composed of two portions: an HTML portion, which contains HTML markup and Web controls, and a source code portion, which contains the ASP.NET Web page's server-side source code. Using the Web Matrix Project, this source code section can be written in one of two programming languages: Visual Basic .NET (often abbreviated as VB.NET) and C#.

Most beginning developers find Visual Basic .NET a much easier language to pick up than C#, mainly because Visual Basic .NET's syntax and structure is much closer to everyday English than C#'s. Therefore, all of the source code portions of ASP.NET Web pages discussed throughout this book use Visual Basic .NET as the programming language. ...

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