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Managing Your Records: Using Data in Your Program

Most programs use data in one way or another. For example, in an earlier lesson, you entered data in the form of numbers; that data was then used in a calculation with the result returned in a message box.

In very simple programs, data is represented as fields in the program itself. However, for more complex programs, data is stored in a structure separate from the program called a database.

In this set of lessons, you will learn how to create a database and use it to display and update data in your programs.

In This Section

  • Visual Basic Guided Tour
    The Visual Basic Guided Tour is a series of sequential lessons that will introduce you to the basics of programming in Visual Basic.

  • Using LINQ in Visual Basic Express
    Provides an overview of Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) and provides links to topics that describe how to use LINQ to query data.