Part III contains eight appendixes that supplement the core reference material provided in Parts I and II. These include:
Appendix A, Language Elements by Category, which lists each entry from Chapter 12, grouped into several different categories. You can use this Appendix to locate a particular language element by usage and, having obtained its name, look it up in Chapter 12.
Appendix B, Namespace Hierarchy, which lists the My namespace entries from Chapter 13 in their original hierarchical arrangement. Also included is a hierarchical listing of many of the namespaces included in the .NET Framework Class Library.
Appendix C, Constants and Enumerations, which lists VB intrinsic constants, as well as .NET enumerations that are specific to VB.
Appendix D, What's New and Different in Visual Basic .NET 2002, which surveys the extensive changes the language experienced with the original release of Visual Basic for the .NET platform.
Appendix E, What's New and Different in Visual Basic .NET 2003, which extends Appendix D by documenting changes introduced with Visual Basic .NET 2003 and Version 1.1 of the .NET Framework.
Appendix F, What's New and Different in Visual Basic 2005, which further extends Appendixes D and E by documenting changes introduced with Visual Basic 2005 and Version 2.0 of the .NET Framework.
Appendix G, VB6 Language Elements No Longer Supported, which lists the elements that have dropped out of the Visual Basic language as a result of its transition to the .NET Framework.
Appendix H, The Visual Basic Command-Line Compiler, which documents the operation and options of the Visual Basic command-line compiler.