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Visual Basic Essential Training

Visual Basic Essential Training

with David Gassner

 


Visual Basic is one of the Microsoft core languages for building desktop, mobile, and web applications. Get started programming with VB using Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Desktop and these tutorials from David Gassner. The course jump-starts with Hello World projects for three common application architectures (console, desktop, and Windows Store apps), and shows how to program with VB in both Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation. The course then outlines the language fundamentals such as data types, strings, operators, conditional code, and looping constructs. Plus, discover how to package reusable code in functions and subroutines, and explore the object-oriented nature of Visual Basic through custom classes.
Topics include:
  • What is Visual Basic?
  • Learning Visual Basic syntax
  • Declaring variables and data types
  • Working with numbers, Boolean values, and dates
  • Using strings, words, and characters
  • Repeating blocks of code with loops
  • Evaluating conditions with if, then, and else
  • Debugging and handling exceptions
  • Managing ordered data with arrays
  • Managing application logic with modules
  • Defining custom classes
  • Storing data with instance fields

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author
David Gassner
subject
Developer, Mobile Apps, Desktop Apps
software
Visual Studio 2012, Visual Basic 2012
level
Beginner
duration
3h 55m
released
Jun 14, 2013

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David Gassner

David Gassner

David Gassner is a senior staff author for lynda.com. He was formerly the president and founder of Bardo Technical Services, an Adobe Solutions Network Training Provider. As an Adobe Certified Expert, he has written courseware and delivered extensive training in Flex, AIR, ColdFusion, Dreamweaver, and Flash. He works with many programming languages, including Java, C#, PHP, and SQL, has been a regular conference speaker, and was the author of Wiley’s Flex 3 Bible and Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 Bible.
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