Skip to Main Content
Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET
book

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
Content preview from Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET

Programming with Events

Because .NET events are built on top of delegates, their underlying plumbing details differ dramatically from the way things used to work in previous versions of Visual Basic. Nevertheless, the designers of Visual Basic .NET did a good job in keeping the syntax for programming events consistent with earlier versions of Visual Basic. In many cases, programming events involves the same familiar Visual Basic syntax that you used in the past. For example, keywords such as Event, RaiseEvent, and WithEvents behave almost identically to the way their counterparts behaved in previous versions of Visual Basic.

Defining an Event

Let's start by creating a simple callback design based on an event. First, we need to define an event ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Visual Basic® .NET Power Coding

Visual Basic® .NET Power Coding

Paul Kimmel
Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Alessandro Del Sole
Programming in the .NET Environment

Programming in the .NET Environment

Damien Watkins, Mark Hammond, Brad Abrams

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0201734958Purchase book