VB.NET Language Pocket Reference

VB.NET Language Pocket Reference

by Steven Roman PhD, Ron Petrusha, Paul Lomax
Released December 2002
Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ISBN: 9780596004286

Read it now on the O’Reilly learning platform with a 10-day free trial.

O’Reilly members get unlimited access to books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Buy on Amazon Buy on ebooks.com
Start your free trial

Book description

Visual Basic .NET is a radically new version of Microsoft Visual Basic, the world's most widely used rapid application development (RAD) package. Whether you are just beginning application development with Visual Basic .NET or are already deep in code, you will appreciate just how easy and valuable the VB.NET Language Pocket Reference is.VB.NET Language Pocket Reference contains a concise description of all language elements by category. These include language elements implemented by the Visual Basic compiler, as well as all procedures and functions implemented in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace. Use it anytime you want to look up those pesky details of Visual Basic syntax or usage. With concise detail and no fluff, you'll want to take this book everywhere.

Publisher resources

View/Submit Errata

Table of contents

  1. 1. Visual Basic .NET Language Pocket Reference
    1. 1.1. Introduction
    2. 1.2. Font Conventions
    3. 1.3. Visual Basic Conventions
    4. 1.4. Data Types
    5. 1.5. Variables
    6. 1.6. Operators and Precedence
    7. 1.7. Constants
      1. 1.7.1. Call Type Constants
      2. 1.7.2. Comparison Constants
      3. 1.7.3. Date and Time Constants
      4. 1.7.4. Date Format Constants
      5. 1.7.5. Error Constant
      6. 1.7.6. File Attributes
      7. 1.7.7. Logical and Tristate Constants
      8. 1.7.8. Message Box Constants
        1. 1.7.8.1. Buttons constants
        2. 1.7.8.2. Default button constants
        3. 1.7.8.3. Icon constants
        4. 1.7.8.4. Modality constants
        5. 1.7.8.5. Return value constants
        6. 1.7.8.6. Miscellaneous constants
      9. 1.7.9. Special Character Constants
      10. 1.7.10. Variable Subtype Constants
      11. 1.7.11. Window Style Constants
    8. 1.8. Enumerations
      1. 1.8.1. AppWinStyle Enumeration
      2. 1.8.2. CallType Enumeration
      3. 1.8.3. CompareMethod Enumeration
      4. 1.8.4. ControlChars Class
      5. 1.8.5. DateFormat Enumeration
      6. 1.8.6. DateInterval Enumeration
      7. 1.8.7. DueDate Enumeration
      8. 1.8.8. FileAttribute Enumeration
      9. 1.8.9. FirstDayOfWeek Enumeration
      10. 1.8.10. FirstWeekOfYear Enumeration
      11. 1.8.11. MsgBoxResult Enumeration
      12. 1.8.12. MsgBoxStyle Enumeration
      13. 1.8.13. OpenAccess Enumeration
      14. 1.8.14. OpenMode Enumeration
      15. 1.8.15. OpenShare Enumeration
      16. 1.8.16. TriState Enumeration
      17. 1.8.17. VariantType Enumeration
      18. 1.8.18. VbStrConv Enumeration
    9. 1.9. Object Programming
      1. 1.9.1. .NET Framework Class Library
      2. 1.9.2. Custom Types and Classes
      3. 1.9.3. Fields, Properties, and Methods
    10. 1.10. Program Structure
    11. 1.11. Array Handling
    12. 1.12. Collection Objects
    13. 1.13. Conditional Compilation
    14. 1.14. Other Conversion
    15. 1.15. Date and Time
    16. 1.16. Declaration
    17. 1.17. Error Handling
    18. 1.18. Filesystem
    19. 1.19. Financial
    20. 1.20. Information
    21. 1.21. Input/Output
    22. 1.22. IDE
    23. 1.23. Interaction
    24. 1.24. Mathematics
    25. 1.25. Program Structure and Flow
    26. 1.26. Programming
    27. 1.27. Registry
    28. 1.28. String Manipulation
  2. About the Authors
  3. Copyright

Product information

  • Title: VB.NET Language Pocket Reference
  • Author(s): Steven Roman PhD, Ron Petrusha, Paul Lomax
  • Release date: December 2002
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9780596004286