Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Working with .NET Fundamental Types

There are special types that you will often work with, such as strings, date and time, and arrays. Although you will often work with collections, too (see Chapter 16, “Working with Collections”), understanding how such objects work is an important objective. The .NET Framework 4.0 simplifies your developer life because objects provide methods to perform the most common operations on the data.

Note on Extension Methods

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