When you pass arguments to a subroutine or function, you absolutely must know whether the type is a value type or a reference type. Only then can you determine which keyword to use to pass the data.

Learn to provide flexibility in the ways your public method can be called by using Visual Basic .NET's three different approaches for specifying optional parameters.

Learn how to use a simple factory in a VB.NET application that accepts user input and uses it to create a new employee object.

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Are you new to Visual Basic .NET? Best-selling Dummies author Bill Hatfield teaches you the basics of Visual Basic .NET.

For those new to Visual Basic, here is your chance to learn about the topic of looping and how to get your program to execute several lines of code again and again.

Continue your learning of Visual Basic .NET by discovering the syntax for adding logical decisions into your programs.

A lot of functionality it already done for you. Learn how to use built-in functionality in Visual Basic .NET. with this installment of Developer.com's Visual Basic .NET tutorials.

Nearly every program needs to keep track of things. Discover how to with Visual Basic .NET in this installment of Developer.com's Visual Basic .NET tutorials.

There is no need to put off learning Visual Basic .NET any longer. With this tutorial you will be on your way!

Creating well-designing Visual Basic applications in an object-oriented world is a not a simple matter. But the first step is to gain a firm grasp of classes, inheritance and interfaces.