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Visual Basic Tutorial: Part 5 - Primitive Types in Visual Basic

   Chapter: Introduction to .NET and Visual Basic Concepts
Download! Skill Level: 200 (Beginner - Intermediate)
Duration: 12:30
Size: 9.5MB
Versions/Editions Covered: Visual Basic
Added/Updated: Jun 16, 2008

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In this fifth and final video Scott will introduce you to a class to time your executions (Stopwatch) and a tool to help you to spot memory leakage (CLR Profiler). With these tools we will be conducting a performance comparison between string and StringBuilder.

Highlights from this video:
  • Using the Stopwatch instance
    • Tracking elapsed loop time in specified applications
  • About the CLR Profiler
    • Downloading and installing the CLR Profiler
    • Specifying the application to profile
and much more
Tags for this video: begin built-in clr profiler datatype introduction predefined primitive step by step stopwatch string stringbuilder type  
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This video is part of the following video series: "Primitive Types in Visual Basic"
Types in Visual Basic are the fundamentals of the language and its very important that you have a great grasp as to what types are and why they're important. In this essential 5-part video series, Scott will provide you with the essential introduction to types and how to begin using them.

Highlights from this series:
  • What are the various predefined datatypes in VB?
    • Boolean
    • Byte
    • Char
    • Integer, etc.
  •  About the integral datatypes and byte boundaries
  • Decimal types and Floating Point/Fixed
  • Working with the Boolean type and the Date type
  • Char, String, and StringBuilder
  • Performance comparison between String and StringBuilder
To view all videos in this series, click here

About the Instructor:
Scott Whigham Scott Whigham is the founder of LearnItFirst.com, one of the web's most extensive video training libraries focusing on technical training. Scott is also an experienced consultant, trainer, and author with more than a decade of hands-on experience working with SQL Server databases, writing and debugging applications using Visual Studio, and performance tuning. Scott designed the architecture (websites, class libraries, and database) for the LearnItFirst.com websites and, most re... (Scott Whigham's full bio can be found on the About the Author page)

   
 
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