Visual Basic Language Walkthroughs

Illustrates how events are declared and raised in Visual Basic.

Shows how to handle events using either the standard WithEvents keyword or the new AddHandler/RemoveHandler keywords.

Describes how to declare a class and its fields, properties, methods, and events.

Explains how to use Declare statements and call Windows APIs. Includes information about using attributes to control marshaling for the API call and how to expose an API call as a method of a class.

Shows how interfaces are declared and implemented in Visual Basic.

Shows how to create a multithreaded application that searches a text file for occurrences of a word.

Demonstrates how to create and maintain programs with comprehensive error handling, and how to use Try...Catch...Finally.

Demonstrates how to create COM objects in Visual Basic, both with and without the COM class template.

Demonstrates how to use Visual Basic 6.0 to create a COM object containing a class, and then use it as a base class in Visual Basic.

Demonstrates how to use Visual Basic functions to determine information about a file, search for a string in a file, and write to a file.

Demonstrates how to use .NET Framework methods to determine information about a file, search for a string in a file, and write to a file.

Provides links to Visual Basic walkthroughs covering distributed applications, data, Web services, Windows Forms, Web Forms, component and control authoring, Framework Services, upgrading, internationalization, and accessibility.