Need to make sense of the many changes to Visual Basic for the new .NET platform? VB .NET Language in a Nutshell introduces the important aspects of the language and explains the .NET framework. An alphabetical reference covers the functions, statements, directives, objects, and object members that make up the VB .NET language. To ease the transition, each language element includes a "VB .NET/VB 6 Differences" section. | LANGUAGE LX A NUTSHELL REiir . mj VB .NET Language in a Nutshell Steven Roman Ron Petrusha Paul Lomax Publisher O Reilly First Edition August 2001 ISBN 0-596-00092-8 654 pages Need to make sense of the many changes to Visual Basic for the new .NET platform VB .NET Language in a Nutshell introduces the important aspects of the language and explains the .NET framework. An alphabetical reference covers the functions statements directives objects and object members that make up the VB .NET language. To ease the transition each language element includes a VB .NET VB 6 Differences section. 1 Why Another VB Book .26 Who This Book Is Readers New to Visual VB and VBScript Developers New to VB . Existing VB .NET How This Book Is The Format of the Language Conventions Used in This How to Contact Part I The Chapter 1. Why VB .NET .34 What Is VB .NET .37 Object A Common Type Access to System Services The Framework Class A Common Runtime What Can You Do with VB .NET .42 Chapter 2. Variables and Data Variable Variable Declaring Variables and Data Value and Reference VB Data Types A Simple Data Types in Visual Data Type Definition of Dimension of an Size of an Arrays in VB . Object Variables and Their Late Binding Versus Early The Collection Parameters and Passing Passing Optional Chapter 3. Introduction to Object-Oriented Why Learn Object-Oriented Techniques .75 2 Principles of .
