What does every Visual Basic developer need to know?
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What are the .NET Framework and Visual Basic .NET features that every VB developer
should know? I suggest the following as a starting list (in no particular order):
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Object-oriented features: classes, objects, constructors, inheritance, interfaces,
polymorphism, methods, overloading
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Shared (static) Classes and Methods
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Converting data types and casting objects
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Manipulating strings and using StringBuilder
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Basic File I/O (open, read, write)
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ADO.NET: DataSet, *DataAdapter, *Command, and *DataReader classes
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Basic XML processing (opening a file/stream and finding an element)
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Exception handling / Try-Catch blocks
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Difference between late binding and early binding (and the existence of Option Strict
On)
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Assemblies, referencing DLLs, and importing namespaces
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Basic collections (lists, dictionaries, arrays)
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Security fundamentals (CAS, authentication vs. authorization, validating input)
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Basics of threading
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Basics of garbage collection
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Spitting out data and getting data back (varies with type of application of course)
Comment away! Please don't just say C# (or Ruby)... I'm not looking for
yet another VB vs. C# debate.
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