Chapter 5. Operators

Information is not extremely useful if you can't do anything with it. Operators perform actions on values, producing a result. For example, the addition operator ( + ) takes two numbers and adds them together. An operator acts on values that are called the operands. An operator that acts on one operand is called a unary operator, while an operator that acts on two operands is called a binary operator. (A binary operator is called "binary" because it operates on two values.) This chapter discusses the operators defined in Visual Basic .NET.