Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2010 Developer’s Handbook

Chapter 1. Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

In this chapter:
Starting Visual Studio for the First Time
Console Applications
Anatomy of a (Visual Basic) Program
Starting Up with the Main Method
Methods with and Without Return Values
Declaring Variables
Expressions and Definitions of Variables
Comparing Objects and Data Types
Properties
Type Literal for Determining Constant Types
Type Safety
Arrays and Collections
Executing Program Code Conditionally
Loops
Simplified Access to Object Properties and Methods Using With ... End With
The Scope of Variables
The += and –= Operators and Their Relatives
Error Handling in Code

Looking at the chapter title, you’re probably thinking, “What a strange name for a chapter!” Why this name? Well, ...