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NET Data Types


The new version of Visual Basic, VB7 (or VB.NET), is a big jump from VB6. With
VB7 you can use the type library in the .NET Framework, and your applications
run on the Microsoft .NET Framework Common Language Runtime (CLR).

There are also a number of changes from the previous versions. VB7 now
supports inheritance and has a new error-handling mechanism. As part of the
.NET Framework, VB7 needs to update the data types for interoperability with
other programming languages such as C# and C++, and with the .NET
Framework and Runtime. Data types in VB7 now represent the .NET data types,
which are structures in the System namespace of the .NET Framework. However,
you can still use the old programming style when working with data types,
because in VB7 the data types are wrappers of those .NET data types. This
article shows you how you could adapt yourself to these data types.

Bad news for VB6 experts: their expertise is not really relevant in VB.NET.
Expertise in VB6 was often measured by skill in programming Windows API from
inside the language. This is no longer true with VB7; VB7 programmers are now
required to know the numerous types in the .NET Framework. To become an
expert in VB.NET, you have to start all over again.

First, of course, you need to master the many classes, interfaces and structures
that are part of the .NET Framework, not to mention the many changes in the
new version of the language. But you need to start somewhere, right?
Understanding the new set of data types is a good place to start.

VB7 Data Types and Equivalent .NET Framework Type Structures

VB7 value data types are wrappers for the corresponding .NET Framework type
structure. These structures derive from the class System.Object. In fact,
System.Object is the root of all types in the .NET Framework. The following table
lists the data types in VB7 and the corresponding .NET data types. Note that
there are new data types that were not available in VB6, and that some of the
data types in VB6 are no longer supported. The changes from VB6's integers,
currencies, and variants will be explained below.

Visual .NET Runtime structur Value range


Basic type e
type Storage
size
Boolean System.Boolean 4 bytes True or False
Byte System.Byte 1 byte 0 to 255 (unsigned)
Char System.Char 2 bytes 0 to 65535 (unsigned)
Date System.DateTime 8 bytes January 1, 1 CE to December 31, 9999
Decimal System.Decimal 12 bytes +/-
79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,33
5 with no decimal point; +/-
7.9228162514264337593543950335
with 28 places to the right of the
decimal; smallest non-zero number is
+/-0.0000000000000000000000000001
Double System.Double 8 bytes -1.79769313486231E308 to -
4.94065645841247E-324 for negative
values; 4.94065645841247E-324 to
1.79769313486232E308 for positive
values
Integer System.Int32 4 bytes -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647
Long System.Int64 8 bytes -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to
9,223,372,036,854,775,807
Object System.Object 4 bytes Any type can be stored in a variable of
(class) type Object
Short System.Int16 2 bytes -32,768 to 32,767
Single System.Single 4 bytes -3.402823E38 to -1.401298E-45 for
negative values; 1.401298E-45 to
3.402823E38 for positive values
String System.String 10 bytes 0 to approximately two billion Unicode
(class) + (2 * characters
string
length)
User- (inherits from Sum of Each member of the structure has a
Defined System.ValueType the sizes range determined by its data type and
Type ) of its independent of the ranges of the other
(structure members members
)

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