Visual Basic® .NET by Example

Chapter 6. Fundamental Data Types

We will start this chapter by defining data types and then looking at the fundamental data types used by Visual Basic. You will write a few examples to illustrate the concepts that you learn. Specific topics are

• Numeric data types

• Boolean data type

• String and Char data types

• Date data type

• Other data types

As you have seen, a computer program is a series of instructions that tell the computer how to operate on some input data to produce output data. You have also seen that the data (both input and output) is usually represented in the working memory of the computer. This memory is organized in bytes. You could use bytes and memory addresses of these bytes to represent any form of data that you need, and indeed that ...