Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Working with .NET Fundamental Types

You will often work with some special objects, such as strings, dates and times, and arrays. Although you will often work with collections, too (see Chapter 16, “Working with Collections and Iterators”), understanding how such objects work is an important objective. The .NET Framework 4.6 simplifies your developer life because objects provide methods to perform the most common operations on data.

Extension Methods

This section describes built-in methods from value and reference types. Because of the .NET infrastructure, all types provide the ability to invoke extension methods that could potentially be used for accomplishing some of the tasks proposed in this section. They are not described here because the ...