Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2008 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit

Chapter 13. Making Decisions in Visual Basic Code

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What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

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Making decisions using If...Then

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Expanding the capability of If...Then using Else and ElseIf

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Evaluating an expression for multiple values using Select Case

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Redirecting code flow using GoTo

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In Hour 10, “Creating and Calling Code Procedures,” you learned to separate code into multiple procedures so that they can be called in any order required. This goes a long way in organizing code, but you still need a way to selectively execute code procedures or groups of statements within a procedure. You use decision-making techniques to accomplish this. ...