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Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET
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Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET

by Ted Pattison, Dr. Joe Hummel
October 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
592 pages
13h 42m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Fundamental CTS Concepts

A managed type is the smallest unit of code that can be independently compiled, and it contains members such as fields, methods, and properties. As a Visual Basic .NET developer, you will be both a consumer and a producer of managed types. You will be consuming managed types from the assemblies referenced by your project. You will be producing a managed type each time you create a class, module, interface, enumeration, structure, or delegate.

Visual Basic .NET differs from earlier versions of Visual Basic in that all code must reside within the scope of a type definition. In previous versions of Visual Basic, you could write code at the global level using .bas modules. In Visual Basic .NET, attempting to declare a variable ...

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