Microsoft Visual Basic 2013 Step by Step

Chapter 11. Mastering data types, operators, and string processing

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

• Strategies for declaring variables and constants

• Explicit variable declaration

• Data types and the ListBox control

• Operators and formulas

• Converting data types

• Processing strings with the String class

Throughout this book, you’ve used data types and variables to store information in a program. For example, in Chapter 5 you learned how to store the content of a TextBox control in a string variable and manipulate it using Visual Basic code. In Chapter 10 you also managed random number calculations with numeric variables that are helpful in mathematical games.

In this chapter, you’ll go much farther with data types, mathematical operators, ...