July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Iterations in Visual Basic 2015 are performed via the For..Next and For Each loops. Let’s analyze them more in detail.
A For..Next loop enables you to repeat the same action (or group of actions) a finite number of times. The following code shows an example in which the same action (writing to the Console window) is performed 10 times:
For i As Integer = 1 To 10 Console.WriteLine("This action has been repeated {0} times", i)Next
In such loops, you need to define a variable of a numeric type (i in the preceding example) that acts as a counter.
Tip
You can also assign the variable with another variable of the same type instead of assigning a numeric value.
The previous code produces the ...