VB.NET Language in a Nutshell, Second Edition

Appendix B. Language Elements by Category

This appendix lists by category all the directives, statements, functions, procedures, and classes available within the VB.NET language. We have also included those Foundation Class Library members that are documented in this book. The categories are:

Array Handling

Clipboard

Collection Objects

Common Dialogs

Conditional Compilation

Conversion: Data Type Conversion and Other Conversion

Date and Time

Error Handling

Filesystem

Financial

IDataObject Interface

Information

Input/Output

Interaction

Mathematics

Programming: Object Programming and Miscellaneous Programming

Program Structure and Flow

Registry

String Manipulation

Variable and Constant Declaration

Where necessary, individual keywords may appear in more than one category.

Array Handling

Element	Description
Array class	Represents an array
Array.BinarySearch method	Searches for a value in a sorted one-dimensional array
Array.Copy method	Copies all or part of an array
Array.IndexOf method	Searches for the first occurrence of a value in an unsorted one-dimensional array
Array.LastIndexOf method	Searches for the last occurrence of a value in an unsorted one-dimensional array
Erase statement	Resets an array to its uninitialized state
IsArray function	Indicates whether a variable is an array
Join function	Concatenates an array of values into a delimited string
LBound function	Returns the lower boundary of an array
ReDim statement	Redimensions an arrayxs
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