Modules (Visual Basic)

Visual Basic provides several modules that enable you to simplify common tasks in your code, including manipulating strings, performing mathematical calculations, getting system information, performing file and directory operations, and so on. The following table lists the modules provided by Visual Basic.

Constants

Contains miscellaneous constants. These constants can be used anywhere in your code.

ControlChars

Contains constant control characters for printing and displaying text.

Conversion

Contains members that convert decimal numbers to other bases, numbers to strings, strings to numbers, and one data type to another.

DateAndTime

Contains members that get the current date or time, perform date calculations, return a date or time, set the date or time, or time the duration of a process.

ErrObject

Contains information about run-time errors and methods to raise or clear an error.

FileSystem

Contains members that perform file, directory or folder, and system operations.

Financial

Contains procedures that are used to perform financial calculations.

Globals

Contains information about the current scripting engine version.

Information

Contains the members that return, test for, or verify information such as array size, type names, and so on.

Interaction

Contains members interact with objects, applications, and systems.

Strings

Contains members that perform string operations such as reformatting strings, searching a string, getting the length of a string, and so on.

VBMath

Contains members perform mathematical operations.

See Also

Other Resources

Visual Basic Language Reference

Visual Basic