Common Tasks in Visual Basic .NET

Chapter 6

Common Tasks in Visual Basic .NET

In the previous chapter, we walked through how to upgrade an application. If you re new to Visual Basic .NET, some parts of the integrated development environment (IDE) may seem a little foreign. The purpose of this chapter is to familiarize you with some of the basics of working with applications in Visual Basic .NET. We ll start by building a simple Visual Basic .NET application from scratch. We ll use this application to introduce the new IDE and explain how to create new Visual Basic projects, and then we ll follow with a discussion of troubleshooting and debugging techniques and tactics. If you re already familiar with Visual Studio .NET, you might want to skip to the section on problem solving later in this chapter.