Use this to check your Visual Basic syntax.
| SQA Reference Language | VB.Net |
|---|---|
| RECEIVE something FROM KEYBOARD | something = InputBox("Please enter something")or, put a TextBox on your form and call it txtInput then use something = txtInput.Textor, if you're getting a number from a TextBox use something = Val(txtInput.Text |
| SEND "something" TO DISPLAY | MsgBox("something")or, put a Label on your form and call it lblOutput then use lblOutput.Text = "Something"or, put a ListBox on your form and call it lstOutput then use lstOutput.Items.Add ("Something")or, put a TextBox on your form and call it txtOutput then use txtOutput.Text = "Something" |
| SET something TO whatever | Make sure you have declared a variable called something (Dim something As someDataType) then usesomething = whatever |
| FOR counter FROM something TO somethingElse | For counter = something To somethingElse |
| END FOR | Next |
| REPEAT | Do |
| DO LOOP UNTIL something | Loop Until something |
| WHILE something DO | Do While something |
| END WHILE | Loop |
| IF something THEN | If something Then |
| ELSE | Else |
| END IF | End If |
| LENGTH(something) | Len(something) |
| ROUND(something, numberOfDecimalPlaces) | Math.Round(something, numberOfDecimalPlaces) |
| RANDOM(integer in the range min to max) | Randomize() |
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Updated 22 January 2019