Visual Basic® .NET Unleashed

Chapter 3. Basic Programming in Visual Basic .NET

In This Chapter

• Declaring and Initializing Variables

• Working with Block-Level Scope

• Static Variables

• Using Static Variables

• Using Arrays

• Working with New Abstract Data Types

• Shadow Variables

• Functions and Subroutines

• Defining Structures

• Using Objects

• Exception Handling

• Summary

In this chapter, you'll get your first chance to write Visual Basic .NET code unencumbered with the coding practices and idioms of yesterday. We will use Visual Basic .NET code and only Visual Basic .NET code. Chapter 3 provides you with an opportunity to experiment and explore the basic programming concepts that are the molecules of every program.

This chapter looks at variable declaration and initialization, block scope, static variables, ...