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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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...
View ArticleVisual 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...
View ArticleVisual 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...
View ArticleVisual 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...
View ArticleVisual 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...
View ArticleVisual 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...
View ArticleVisual 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...
View ArticleVisual 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,...
View ArticleVisual 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...
View ArticleVisual 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...
View ArticleVisual 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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