Visual Basic® Style Guide, The

Summary

While a summary of this chapter would be almost as big as the chapter itself, there are several guidelines that appeared throughout the keyword entries in this chapter.

• Several functions and statements access information that resides outside of the control of the Visual Basic application. Therefore, you must always use proper error handling in any procedure that uses these features. This includes access to file system objects, the Windows registry, databases, network connections, printers, and shared resources. Make use of the On Error statement to capture any errors, and take the appropriate corrective action.

• Visual Basic has several data types that represent floating point values. While some data types (such as Double and Single) can ...