Special Edition Using Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET

Chapter 7. Controlling the Flow of Your Program

In this chapter

Understanding If Statements

Using Select Case

Structuring Your Code Logically

Working with Loops

Exercise: The Pop-Up Eliminator

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Two of the fundamental strengths of computers are their capabilities to execute instructions quickly and to make decisions precisely. In this chapter, you will learn how to take advantage of these capabilities in two very important ways: through the use of decision-making techniques and the use of loops, which allow portions of code to run a controlled number of times.

In the last chapter, you learned about a class of code statements known as assignment statements, which are used to set and modify the values of variables. Another group of statements ...