The structured exception-handling system used by .NET is a highly efficient and powerful way to detect and handle errors. But if you've never dealt with exceptions before—like most Visual Basic ...
When you call Windows API functions, they don't throw managed exceptions. Instead, you need to check their return values for any indication of an error, and take the appropriate actions, which might ...
VB.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET memory allocation forces ...