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        VB.NET Variables
 Usage
 Assigning Values
 Variables and Properties
 See also
 
        Source/Reference

VB.NET Variables

You often have to store values when you perform calculations with Visual Basic. For example, you might want to calculate several values, compare them, and perform different operations on them, depending on the result of the comparison. You have to retain the values if you want to compare them.

Usage

Visual Basic, just like most programming languages, uses variables for storing values. A variable has a name (the word that you use to refer to the value that the variable contains). A variable also has a data type (which determines the kind of data that the variable can store). A variable can represent an array if it has to store an indexed set of closely related data items.

Local type inference enables you to declare variables without explicitly stating a data type. Instead, the compiler infers the type of the variable from the type of the initialization expression. For more information, see Local Type Inference and Option Infer Statement.

Assigning Values

You use assignment statements to perform calculations and assign the result to a variable, as the following example shows.

' The following statement assigns the value 10 to the variable.
applesSold = 10
' The following statement increments the variable.
applesSold = applesSold + 1
' The variable now holds the value 11.

Note

The equal sign (=) in this example is an assignment operator, not an equality operator. The value is being assigned to the variable applesSold.

For more information, see How to: Move Data Into and Out of a Variable.

Variables and Properties

Like a variable, a property represents a value that you can access. However, it is more complex than a variable. A property uses code blocks that control how to set and retrieve its value. For more information, see Differences Between Properties and Variables in Visual Basic.

Source/Reference

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/programming-guide/language-features/variables/

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