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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (26) Where To Go From Here

In this final video, Bob talks about approaches to solving common issues that arise for new software developers, where to turn for help, how to search for answers to technical questions, how to ask for...

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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (25) Getting Familiar with...

This video demonstrates the use of the My Namespace in Visual Basic which provides a short-cut to often used classes in the .NET Framework Class Library.  We demonstrate how to use the My Namespace to...

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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (24) Understanding Event...

In this lesson we demonstrate how events are utilized in the .NET Framework Class Library specific to Silverlight, WPF and ASP.NET Web Forms applications. In all three examples, we see how Visual Basic...

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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (23) Filtering and Managing...

Building on the work from the previous lesson with generic collections, in this lesson we start by talking about how Structured Query Language provides a means of working with sets (collections,...

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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (22) Working with Collections

Collections are a more powerful form of arrays. In this lesson we demonstrate an "old style" collection (pointing out their limitations) as well as several of the newer, strongly typed generic...

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Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (21) Gracefully Handling...

Exceptions occur when an application experiences some unexpected problem at run time. This lesson discusses how to use the try catch finally block to anticipate potential problems and attempt to shield...

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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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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: (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: (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: (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: (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: (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: (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: (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: (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: (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: (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: (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: (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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