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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
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Understanding Syntax

The Compiler APIs layer exposes the lexical and syntactic structure of source code through syntax trees. These are very important because they allow tools, such as Visual Studio, to process the syntactic structure of the source code in a project; in addition, they allow you to rearrange the code in a managed way without working against pure text. They serve as the basis for compilation, code analysis, refactoring, and code generation, and they constitute the main entry point to identify and categorize the many structural elements of a language. Syntax trees represent everything the compiler finds in the source code—including lexical constructs, white spaces, comments, and syntax tokens—exactly as typed. This also means a ...

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