Visual Basic

Full Visual Basic course — 55 topics from the basics to advanced use.

Lessons

• Lambda Expressions and Closures
• Extension Methods
• LINQ
• XML Literals and XML Axis Properties
• Iterators and Yield
• Asynchronous Programming
• Multithreading and Parallel Programming
• Reflection, Attributes and Late Binding
• The My Namespace
• File I/O and Streams
• JSON, XML and Serialization
• Databases with ADO.NET
• Entity Framework Core and Dapper
• Networking and Web APIs
• Interop
• Introduction to Visual Basic
• Installation, Tools and First Program
• Syntax Basics and Compiler Options
• Variables, Data Types and Constants
• Operators and Expressions
• Control Flow: Decisions
• Control Flow: Loops
• Procedures: Subs and Functions
• Strings and Text Processing
• Dates, Times and Math
• Console Applications
• Windows Forms
• WPF
• Web Development with VB
• Windows Services and Worker Services
• Debugging and Diagnostics
• Unit Testing
• NuGet, Packaging and Deployment
• Performance and Memory
• Security Best Practices
• Coding Standards and Best Practices
• VBA: Office Automation
• Classic VB6 and Migration
• VB and C# Interoperability and the Future of VB
• Appendices: Projects, Review Questions, Cheat Sheet & Resources
• Arrays
• Collections and Generic Collections
• Enumerations, Structures and Tuples
• Nullable Types and Nothing
• Error Handling and Exceptions
• Modules, Namespaces and Project Organization
• Classes and Objects
• Properties, Constructors and Shared Members
• Inheritance and Polymorphism
• Interfaces and Abstract Classes
• Operator Overloading and Conversions
• Events and Delegates
• Generics
• Object Lifetime
• Course Overview