Visual FoxPro to Visual Basic® .NET

Chapter 1. Differences Between Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic .NET

IN THIS CHAPTER

• The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

• The Visual Basic .NET Solution Explorer

• Command Syntax

• Flow of Control

• Variables, Enums, Arrays, Collections, and Fields

• Functions and Subroutines (Procedures)

• Classes, Namespaces, Properties, and Forms

• Events

• Compiler Directives

• Data

• Data Binding

• Error Handling and Debugging

A Whole New World

When I first began to look at Visual Basic .NET a couple of years ago, it reminded me of the movie Alien. Nothing looked familiar!

Where's the command window? And when you find it, what is it for? In Visual FoxPro, you can practically dispense with the menu and just type commands in order to do your work. For example, instead of selecting File, ...