Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2008 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit

Chapter 14. Looping for Efficiency

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What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

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Looping a specific number of times using For...Next

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Looping based on a condition using Do...Loop

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You will often encounter situations in which you need to execute the same code statement or group of statements repeatedly. You will need to execute some of these statements a specific number of times, whereas others might need to be executed as long as a certain condition persists (an expression is True) or until a condition occurs (an expression becomes True). Visual Basic includes constructs that enable you to easily define and execute these repetitive code routines: loops. This hour shows you how to ...