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VB .NET Language in a Nutshell
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VB .NET Language in a Nutshell

by Steven Roman PhD, Ron Petrusha, Paul Lomax
August 2001
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
18h 5m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Element

Description

Application.CompanyName property

Returns the name of the company that created the application

Application.ExecutablePath property

Returns the executable path to the application

Application.ProductName property

Returns the application’s product name

Application.ProductVersion property

Returns the application’s version number

Erl function

Indicates the line number at which an error occurred

IsArray function

Indicates whether a variable is an array

IsDate function

Indicates whether an argument is—or can be converted to—a date

IsDBNull function

Determines whether an expression evaluates to DbNull

IsError function

Determines whether an object is an exception type

IsNothing function

Determines if an object reference evaluates to Nothing

IsNumeric function

Determines if an expression is a number or can be converted to a number

IsReference function

Determines if an expression is a reference type rather than a value type

RGB function

Returns a system color code that can be assigned to object color properties

Rem statement

Indicates a remark or comment placed within the code

ScriptEngine function

Returns the name of the programming language

ScriptEngineBuildVersion function

Returns the build number

ScriptEngineMajorVersion function

Returns the major version

ScriptEngineMinorVersion function

Returns the minor version

SystemTypeName function

Returns the name of the CTS ...

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