Developing Applications with Visual Basic

This section covers conceptual documentation for the Visual Basic language.

In This Section

• Using the Visual Basic Development Environment
  Contains Help on features of the Visual Basic editor, such as Intellisense Code Snippets, Project Properties, and creating XML documentation for Visual Basic.

• Programming in Visual Basic
  Covers a variety of programming subjects.

• Development with My (Visual Basic)
  Discusses a new feature called My, which provides access to information and default object instances that are related to an application and its run-time environment.

• Accessing Data in Visual Basic Applications
  Contains Help on accessing data in Visual Basic.

• Debugging Your Visual Basic Application
  Provides pointers to documentation for the debugging features built into Visual Studio.

• Exception and Error Handling in Visual Basic
  Contains Help on structured and unstructured exception handling, warning configuration, and types of errors.

• Deploying An Application (Visual Basic)
  Gives an overview of deployment features in the .NET Framework and Visual Studio.

• Creating and Using Components in Visual Basic
  Defines the term component and discusses how and when to create components.

• Printing and Reporting (Visual Basic)
  Provides overviews and links to the relevant documentation related to printing and reporting.

• Going Further with Visual Basic
  Provides overviews of various subject areas, such as forms, network operations, and Web services.

• Customizing Projects and Extending My with Visual Basic
  Describes how you can customize project templates to provide additional My objects.

Related Sections

• Visual Basic Programming Guide
  Walks through the essential elements of programming with Visual Basic.

• Visual Basic Language Reference
  Contains reference documentation for the Visual Basic language.

• Programming Visual Basic 2008
  Introduces a book, Programming in Visual Basic 2008, and provides links to chapters on Functional Programming, Overloads and Extensions, Generics, LINQ, and how to create a User Interface.