Chapter 2. Programming with Visual Basic

The Visual Basic 2005 IDE is a powerful RAD tool, but as you saw in Chapter 1, sooner or later you have to roll up your sleeves and write some code, whether it's to handle a simple button event or perform a complex series of calculations on stored data. In this chapter, you'll take a look at the syntax of the VB 2005 language itself. While VB 2005 is a member in good standing of the .NET family of languages, it retains much of the flavor of its VB 6 lineage. This chapter will get you quickly up to speed with VB 2005 language and along the way will show you how some of its features have changed from those of VB 6.