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VB.NET (Visual Basic .NET)

VB.NET is an object-oriented computer programming language which is implemented on the .NET Framework. The language’s features include inheritance, method overloading, structured exception handling, and more. These capabilities make it easier than ever to create .NET applications, including Windows applications, web services, and web applications Microsoft currently supplies two major implementations of Visual Basic: Microsoft Visual Studio, which …

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XDA

XDA is a consolidated development environment that allows programs to be created for Windows, XBoxes, and more.

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Windows Form

Windows Form ( also called WinForms) is a .NET Framework object that allows the development of “traditional” Windows desktop applications.

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Visual Studio

This development tool contains a rich set of productivity and debugging features. The Visual Studio setup CDs (or DVD) include the complete .NET Framework, so you won’t need to download it separately.

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CLR (Common Language Runtime)
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Variable

Variable is a typed storage location in memory. The type of the variable determines what kind of data it can store. Examples of variables include local variables, array elements, parameters, instance fields and static fields.

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Value types

Value types is a variable that stores actual data rather than a reference to data, which is stored elsewhere in memory. Simple value types include the integer, floating point number, decimal, character, and boolean types. Value types have the minimal memory overhead and are the fastest to access

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Unmanaged data

Unmanaged data is data (i.e. memory) that is allocated outside of the control of the CLR. Unmanaged data can be access by both managed and unmanaged code.

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Unmanaged code

Unmanaged (also called unsafe) code is any code that executes outside of the control of the .NET CLR. Unmanaged code may perform unsafe operations, such as declare and operate on pointers, take the address of a variable, and perform conversions between pointers and integral types. Uses of unmanaged code include calling operating system APIs, interfacing to COM components, …

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Unmanaged

In .NET, any objects or resources not allocated and controlled by the CLR are considered unmanaged (e.g., Windows handles and calls to the Win32 API).

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Unboxing

Unboxing is a conversion of a reference type object (i.e. System.Object) to its value type instance. Unboxing must be explicitly performed in code, usually in the form of a cast operation.

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