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Mastering Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008
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Mastering Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008

by Evangelos Petroutsos
March 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
1152 pages
33h 45m
English
Sybex
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Chapter 3. Programming Fundamentals

The one thing you should have learned about programming in Visual Basic so far is that an application is made up of small, self-contained segments. The code you write isn't a monolithic listing; it's made up of small segments called procedures, and you work on one procedure at a time.

The two types of procedures supported by Visual Basic are the topics we'll explore in this chapter: subroutines and functions — the building blocks of your applications. We'll discuss them in detail: how to call them with arguments and how to retrieve the results returned by the functions. You'll learn how to use the built-in functions that come with the language, as well as how to write your own subroutines and functions.

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