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Visual Basic Language Specification

Version 11

(This document is also available for download: vb.pdf and vb.docx)

• Introduction
  • Grammar Notation
  • Compatibility
• Lexical Grammar
  • Characters and Lines
  • Identifiers
  • Keywords
  • Literals
  • Separators
  • Operator Characters
• Preprocessing Directives
  • Conditional Compilation
  • External Source Directives
  • Region Directives
  • External Checksum Directives
• General Concepts
  • Declarations
  • Scope
  • Inheritance
  • Implementation
  • Polymorphism
  • Accessibility
  • Type and Namespace Names
  • Variables
  • Generic Types and Methods
• Attributes
  • Attribute Classes
  • Attribute Blocks
• Source Files and Namespaces
  • Program Startup and Termination
  • Compilation Options
  • Imports Statement
  • Namespaces
• Types
  • Value Types and Reference Types
  • Interface Implementation
  • Primitive Types
  • Enumerations
  • Classes
  • Structures
  • Standard Modules
  • Interfaces
  • Arrays
  • Delegates
  • Partial types
  • Constructed Types
  • Special Types
• Conversions
  • Implicit and Explicit Conversions
  • Boolean Conversions
  • Numeric Conversions
  • Reference Conversions
  • Array Conversions
  • Value Type Conversions
  • String Conversions
  • Widening Conversions
  • Narrowing Conversions
  • Type Parameter Conversions
  • User-Defined Conversions
  • Native Conversions
  • Dominant Type
• Type Members
  • Interface Method Implementation
  • Methods
  • Constructors
  • Events
  • Constants
  • Instance and Shared Variables
  • Properties
  • Operators
• Statements
  • Control Flow
  • Local Declaration Statements
  • With Statement
  • SyncLock Statement
  • Event Statements
  • Assignment Statements
  • Invocation Statements
  • Conditional Statements
  • Loop Statements
  • Exception-Handling Statements
  • Branch Statements
  • Array-Handling Statements
  • Using statement
  • Await Statement
  • Yield Statement
• Expressions
  • Expression Classifications
  • Constant Expressions
  • Late-Bound Expressions
  • Simple Expressions
  • Type Expressions
  • Member Access Expressions
  • Dictionary Member Access Expressions
  • Invocation Expressions
  • Overload Resolution
    • Specificity of members/types given an argument list
    • Genericity
    • Applicability to Argument List
    • Passing Arguments, and Picking Arguments for Optional Parameters
    • Conditional Methods
    • Type Argument Inference
  • Index Expressions
  • New Expressions
  • Cast Expressions
  • Operator Expressions
  • Arithmetic Operators
  • Relational Operators
  • Like Operator
  • Concatenation Operator
  • Logical Operators
  • Shift Operators
  • Boolean Expressions
  • Lambda Expressions
  • Query Expressions
  • Conditional Expressions
  • XML Literal Expressions
  • XML Member Access Expressions
  • Await Operator
• Documentation Comments
  • Documentation Comment Format
  • Recommended tags
  • ID Strings
  • Documentation comments example
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