Chapter 2. The Visual Basic Language

Before you can create an ASP.NET application, you need to choose a .NET language in which to program it. If you're an ASP or VB developer, the natural choice is VB 2010. If you're a longtime Java programmer or old-hand C coder, C# will suit you best.

This chapter presents an overview of the VB language. You'll learn about the data types you can use, the operations you can perform, and the code you'll need to define functions, loops, and conditional logic. This chapter assumes you've programmed before and you're already familiar with most of these concepts—you just need to see how they're implemented in VB.

If you've programmed with a pre-.NET version of Visual Basic, you might find that the most beneficial way ...

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