Datasheet

For other Visual Basic community resources, see the “community support” topic in the MSDN help or
visit the Web page http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vxoriAdditionalResources
ForVisualStudioDevelopers.asp. Also see the Visual Studio 2005 Home Page at http://msdn.microsoft
.com/vs2005/default.aspx. Microsoft may move these pages but you should be able to find them if
you search Microsoft’s Web site for “Additional Resources for Visual Studio Developers” and “Visual
Studio 2005.”
Help
The Help menu shown in Figure 1-50 displays the usual assortment of help commands. You should be
familiar with most of these from previous experience.
Figure 1-50: The Help menu contains commands that give you help.
One new item in the Help menu is the How Do I command. This command opens the help system and
displays a page full of links to common programming topics. These topics lead to a hierarchical series
of categorized tutorials on various programming topics. For example, the Visual Basic > Language >
Basics > Data Types > Data Type Summary topic describes the Visual Basic data types, their storage
requirements, and their ranges of allowed values.
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