Part III: Appendixes

Part III contains eight appendixes that supplement the core reference material provided in Parts I and II. These include:

• Appendix A, Language Elements by Category, which lists each entry from Chapter 12, grouped into several different categories. You can use this Appendix to locate a particular language element by usage and, having obtained its name, look it up in Chapter 12.

• Appendix B, Namespace Hierarchy, which lists the My namespace entries from Chapter 13 in their original hierarchical arrangement. Also included is a hierarchical listing of many of the namespaces included in the .NET Framework Class Library.

• Appendix C, Constants and Enumerations, which lists VB intrinsic constants, as well as .NET enumerations that are specific to VB.

• Appendix D, What's New and Different in Visual Basic .NET 2002, which surveys the extensive changes the language experienced with the original release of Visual Basic for the .NET platform.

• Appendix E, What's New and Different in Visual Basic .NET 2003, which extends Appendix D by documenting changes introduced with Visual Basic .NET 2003 and Version 1.1 of the .NET Framework.

• Appendix F, What's New and Different in Visual Basic 2005, which further extends Appendixes D and E by documenting changes introduced with Visual Basic 2005 and Version 2.0 of the .NET Framework.

• Appendix G, VB6 Language Elements No Longer Supported, which lists the elements that have dropped out of the Visual Basic language as a result of its transition to the .NET Framework.

• Appendix H, The Visual Basic Command-Line Compiler, which documents the operation and options of the Visual Basic command-line compiler.