1. Learning VB2005 language (basics)
Lecture 06
Chapter 2
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2. Variables and Data Types
This example shows one other ingredient in VB programming: comments.
Comments are descriptive text that is ignored by the compiler.
VB comments always start with an apostrophe (') and continue for the entire line.
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4. Assignment and Initializes
Visual Basic is kind enough to let you use simple data types without initializing them.
Numbers are automatically initialized to 0 and strings are initialized to an empty string (""). That means the following code will succeed in VB:
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5. Question..??
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6. Variable Operations
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7. Shorthand assignment operators
When dealing with strings, you can use the concatenation operator (&), which joins together two strings.
Shorthand assignment operators
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8. Line Termination
Sometimes, code statements are too long to efficiently fit on a single line. In Visual Basic, you can break a code statement over multiple lines by adding (an underscore) (after Space)
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9. Advanced Math
To use the math operations, you invoke the methods of the Math class. These methods are shared, which means they are always available and ready to use
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10. Type Conversions
Converting information from one data type to another is a fairly common task. For example, you might retrieve text input for a user that contains the number you want to use for a calculation. Or, you might need to take a calculated value and transform it into text you can display in a web page.
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12. The problem with conversion
Conversions are of two types:
Widening.
convert a number into a string, or a 16-bit integer into a 32-bit integer
Narrowing.
may or may not succeed (converting a 32-bit integer to a 16-bit integer)
Widening conversions always succeed
A failed narrowing conversion will lead to an unexpected runtime error.
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13. The problem with conversion (Solved)
Adding an Option Strict instruction to the beginning of your code files.
In this case, VB will not allow automatic or implicit data type conversions if they could cause an error or lose data. Instead, you’ll need to explicitly indicate that you want to perform a conversion.
To perform an explicit data type conversion in VB, you use the CType() function. This function takes two arguments. The first specifies the variable you want to convert, and the second specifies the data type you’re converting it to.
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15. Question..??
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16. Object-Based Manipulation
Every type in the .NET class library includes a ToString() method
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17. The String Type
The following code snippet “small piece” shows several ways to manipulate a string using the methods in the String type:
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18. Table 2-3 lists some useful members of the String class. P.36
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19. The DateTime and TimeSpan Types
Performs three useful tasks:
Extract a part of a DateTime (for example, just the year) or convert a TimeSpan to a specific representation (such as the total number of days or total number of minutes).
Easily perform date and time calculations.
Determine the current date and time and other information (such as the day of the week or whether the date occurs in a leap “jump” year).
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20. For example, the following block of code creates a DateTime object, sets it to the current date and time.
Adds a number of days. It then creates a string that indicates the year that the new date falls in (for example, 2006).
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21. The next example shows how you can use a TimeSpan object to find the total number of minutes between two DateTime objects.
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22. Next … To-Do list P.39 - 44 Conditional Structures Loop Structures
The If ... End If Block
The Select Case Block
Loop Structures
The For ...Next Block
The For Each Block
The Do ... Loop Block
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23. Thanks
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