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Using Decision Structures

Now that you have an understanding of the common data types and common operators, you can dig into using decision structures. Decision structures are program elements that control the flow of your application based on decisions made about the value of variables or events fired by the user.

Table 8.5 lists the decision structures by group in Visual Basic .NET and C# and gives the keywords that you'll use when implementing decision structures in your code.

Table 8.5. Summary of Decision Structures in Visual Basic .NET and C#

Type	Visual Basic .NET	C#
Selection	Select Case	switch
Decision	If...Then	if...else
Looping	While	Do
	Do Do Until Loop While Loop Until	While
Looping structure or collections	For For Each	for foreach

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