This course provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to develop applications in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET for the Microsoft .NET platform. The course focuses on user interfaces, program structure, language syntax, and implementation details.
This is the first course in the Visual Basic .NET curriculum and will serve as the entry point for other .NET courses.

This course is intended for both novice and experienced programmers who have a minimum of three months programming experience and have basic Microsoft Windows navigation skills.

The powerful Microsoft .NET platform lets developers create Windows based, or, web applications using a unifrom syntax and object model. With an extensive library of features and easy integration into Windows based systems, learning a .NET language is important for any programmer. Whether you are learning your first programming language, or, you are working with Microsoft .NET technologies for the first time, you'll find Visual Basic Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners course helpful to you.

LearnVisualStudio.NET and Microsoft bring you this 8 hour, 24 lesson course for FREE. Featured originally on Channel9 and viewed tens of thousands of times, these lessons demonstrate everything an absolute beginner needs to know to get started with Microsoft Visual Basic, .NET, Object Oriented Programming, and more!

This course is perfect for anyone who is interested in the new .NET Framework 4.5 and the Visual Basic language. Whether you are moving to .NET for the first time or are already writing applications using previous Microsoft .NET versions, this course will provide you with a comprehensive grounding in the new technology and serve as a complete reference throughout your coding career.

This series contains over 8 hours of Visual Basic training across 25 individual videos. We begin with the basics of the language and quickly progress to Object Oriented Programming, exception handling, generics, lambdas and LINQ. I’ve had so much positive feedback on this series by people who are coming from other programming languages as well as those just getting started.Visual Basic

Here are a few of the topics you'll learn:
- Series Introduction - 01
- Creating Your First Visual Basic Program - 02
- Dissecting the First Visual Basic Program You Created - 03
- Quick Overview of the Visual Basic Express Edition IDE - 04
- Declaring Variables and Assigning Values - 05
- If . . . Then . . . Else Decision Statement - 06
- Operators, Expressions and Statements - 07
- For... Next Iterations - 08
- Creating Arrays of Values - 09
- Creating and Calling Simple Overloaded Helper Methods - 10
- While Iterations and Reading Data from a Text File - 11
- Working with Strings - 12
- Working with Dates - 13
- Understanding and Creating Classes - 14
- More about Classes and Methods - 15
- Working with Classes and Inheritances - 16
- Understanding Namespaces and Adding References to Assemblies - 17
- Understanding Modules, Scope and Utilizing Accessibility Modifiers - 18
- Enumerations and the switch Decision Statement - 19
- Gracefully Handling Exceptions - 20
- Working with Collections - 21
- Filtering and Managing Data in Collections using LINQ - 22
- Understanding Event Driven Programming - 23
- Getting Familiar with the My Namespace - 24
- Concluding Thoughts - 25

So what are you waiting for? Learn Microsoft .Net programming with "Visual Basic Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners" and you'll be creating Windows based and Web based applications in no time!