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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
Sams
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Understanding Semantics

Syntax trees describe all the declarations and logic in the source code, and they help you understand the syntactic and lexical structure of a code file. However, there is more to a program than just syntax. The semantics of a program—that is, the way the language rules are applied to produce meaningful results—are necessary to get a complete picture. For example, depending on the context, it is possible that exactly the same textual representation could reference a method or property of an object returned by a local variable, field, or property; invoke shared members; or qualify a type or namespace.

The .NET Compiler Platform includes the Compilation, Symbol, and Semantic model types.

Compilation

A compilation is an ...

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