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Chapter 3: Introduction to .NET and Visual Basic Concepts

This chapter is designed to help you rapidly get the basics of the IL, compilers, and much of the terms and logic behind .NET languages and, more specifically, Visual Basic.

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1Tabs, Docking and Getting Comfortable With the Visual Studio IDE Download
2Templates - Project Templates and Item Templates Download
3VB Basics - Using Comments Download
4VB Basics - Expressions: What They Are and How to Use Them Download
5Pt. 1 - Writing If Statements and Boolean Tests Download
6Pt. 2 - Using the Logical And, Or, and Not Operators, Parentheses, and Else If Download
7Pt. 3 - More Expansive If Statements Using C# Generics and Select Case Download
8Tips for Writing Effecient If, Switch, and Select Case Statements Download
9Pt. 1 - How to Write to the Windows Application Event Log Download
10Pt. 2 - How to Create and Use a Custom Event Log Download
11Pt. 1 - An Introduction to Operators: Unary, Binary, Ternary, and More Download
12Pt. 2 - An Introduction to Operators: Unary, Binary, Ternary, and More Download
13Pt. 3 - Visual Basic Unary Operators Download
14Pt. 4 - Visual Basic Binary Operators: Arithmetic, Relational, Assignment, and Logical Download
15Pt. 5 - Logical Operators in VB.NET: And, Or, Xor, AndAlso, OrElse Download
16Pt. 1 - Namespaces: An Introduction to Namespaces in .NET Download
17Pt. 2 - Comparing C# and Visual Basic Namespaces: Default and Root namespaces Download
18Pt. 3 - Comparing C# and Visual Basic Namespaces: Default and Root namespaces Download
19Pt. 4 - Nesting Namespaces and Organizing Your Classes and Code Download
20Pt. 5 - .NET Namespace Best Practices and Do's and Don'ts Download
21Pt. 1 - An Introduction to CAPTCHAs and the Various Options Download
22Pt. 2 - Using reCAPTCHA to Block Spam and Protect Content Download
23Pt. 3 - How to Configure reCAPTCHA for Use in Your Websites Download
24Pt. 4 - Using the ASP.NET Captcha Control Download
25Part 1 - What is .NET? Download
26Part 2 - What is .NET? Download
27Part 1 - Primitive Types in Visual Basic Download
28Part 2 - Primitive Types in Visual Basic Download
29Part 3 - Primitive Types in Visual Basic Download
30Part 4 - Primitive Types in Visual Basic Download
31Part 5 - Primitive Types in Visual Basic Download
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