Here's official documentation for the Visual Basic® .NET language, including descriptions of all language elements from A to Z. This LANGUAGE REFERENCE is taken from the electronic product documentation for Visual Basic .NET. In its printed form, this material is portable, easy to use, and easy to browse—a comprehensive alternative to the substantial online help system in Visual Basic .NET Standard software.

Get the details you need on language and run-time elements, including:

• Attributes
• Constants and enumerations
• Data types
• Directives
• Functions
• Keywords
• Methods
• Objects
• Operators
• Properties
• Statements

Contents

Before You Begin vii

A–Z Reference 45

APPENDIX A Operators 451
APPENDIX B Summary Lists 459
APPENDIX C Member Lists 471
APPENDIX D Conversion Functions 477
APPENDIX E Visual Basic Compiler Options