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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (01) Series Introduction
Welcome to this series of lessons about the Visual Basic programming language. Bob Tabor from LearnVisualStudio.NET introduces the topic, sets expectations and tips on how to get the most out of this...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (02) Installing Visual...
If you're not sure which edition/version of Visual Studio to install or how to go about it, this video will guide you in the right direction. You may skip this lesson if you already have Visual Studio...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (03) Creating Your First...
In this lesson you'll create a simple application twice -- the first time using Windows Notepad and the Visual Basic Command Line Compiler, then then second time using Visual Studio or Visual Basic...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (04) Dissecting the First...
This lesson picks up from the previous one by discussing at length each action and line of code you wrote. It discusses the relationship between the Visual Basic code you write, the Visual Basic...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (05) Quick Overview of the...
This lesson demonstrates some of the common features -- the various windows, debugging features, code window features, customizations, etc. -- of the Visual Studio IDE found in Visual Basic Express...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (06) Declaring Variables...
In this lesson we start adding Visual Basic syntax to your vocabulary by talking about one of the fundamental building blocks: data types and variables. Beyond the basics topics such as naming...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (07) Branching with the...
Branching allows us to add logic to our applications. In this lesson you're introduced to the If Decision statement (in its various forms) as well as the IIf conditional function. We also discuss how...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (08) Operators, Expressions...
In this lesson we discuss how to create a properly formed statement in Visual Basic. As you'll learn, just as there are "parts of speech" in a properly formed sentence in the English language, there's...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (09) For..Next Iterations
Iterations allow our applications to loop through a block of code until a condition is satisfied. We'll cover several different types of iteration statements throughout this series, but we'll start...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (10) Creating Arrays of Values
In this lesson we talk about arrays, which are multi-part variables a "bucket" containing other "buckets", if you will. We'll demonstrate how to declare and utilize arrays, setting and retrieving their...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (11) Creating and Calling...
In this video we begin wading into the topic of methods by creating a helper method to break out code we may need to use in multiple places within our code. We'll create and call our methods to...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (12) While Iterations and...
In this lesson we'll both learn a new type of iteration statement (While) and will learn how to utilize the StreamReader class to stream data from a file to the Console window. Additionally, we'll...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (13) Working with Strings
Since often times in our applications we'll want to work with string data, this lesson will approach a number of different string manipulations, whether changing the manner in which it is displayed to...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (14) Working with Dates
Dates and times are represented using special types (just like strings are) and deserve some attention. In this lesson we learn how to work with Date and Time data, how to create new instances of Date,...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (15) Understanding and...
Now that you have a good sampling of basic Visual Basic syntax under your belt, it's time to tackle some of the more challenging topics. Classes are integral to the .NET Framework, particularly the...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (16) More about Classes and...
In this lesson we dig into more details about Classes - what exactly happens when you create a new instance of a class? What exactly is a reference to an instance of a class? How is it affected when...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (17) Working with Classes...
We've been looking at working with classes in the two previous lessons. The hope is that, by better understanding how classes work, you'll gain an appreciation for how classes are utilized in the .NET...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (18) Understanding...
We've avoided any talk about Namespaces, however they serve an important role in the .NET Framework Class Library as well as in our custom class libraries we may choose to create. We explain how...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (19) Understanding Modules,...
This lesson begins by discussing the scope of variables within code blocks, and progresses to explain how accessibility modifiers such as Public, Private and Protected are used by the .NET Framework...
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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (20) Enumerations and the...
Classes can contain many different types of information, not just Properties and Methods. We begin demonstrating the use of Enumerations because often in the .NET Framework Class Library, properties...
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