"Hari" <harixseshadri@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:GbGdnc45su5ZloDcRVn-vA@adelphia.com...
> I just started programming in Visual Basic.NET about a month ago, so I am
> completely oblivious as to which libraries to look in. However, I have
good
> experience with Java and C. Below are ten extremely simple questions which
I
> couldn't seem to find the answers to after looking in some text and
> searching through the libraries:
>
> I looked many places for the library that parses Strings into different
> number formats, but couldn't find one.
> Ex:
> Dim str As String = "8.93"
> Dim num As Double
> num = ???
> If I want num to be set to 8.93, which method of the String class should I
> use?
>
>
> When I implement the Try... Catch... Finally set, I can't quite get the
> clause to function the way I want it to. Take the following piece of code:
> ____ 'Start
> Dim slots(3) As Integer
> Try
> slots(4) = 3
> Catch Except As IndexOutOfBounds 'or something
> 'catch code here
> Catch Except As Exception
> 'other catch code here
> ___ 'End
> if I want to have a certain exception handled one way and any other
> exception all handled in one general way, what do I need to do. If I type
in
> the above code, I always get the the general code executed, even if the
> IndexOutOfBounds exception was thrown.
>
>
>

> I just started programming in Visual Basic.NET about a month ago, so I am
> completely oblivious as to which libraries to look in. However, I have
good
> experience with Java and C.

> [snip]
> Dim str As String = "8.93"
> Dim num As Double
> num = ???
> If I want num to be set to 8.93, which method of the String class should I
> use?

> When I implement the Try... Catch... Finally set, I can't quite get the
> clause to function the way I want it to. Take the following piece of code:
> ____ 'Start
> Dim slots(3) As Integer
> Try
> slots(4) = 3
> Catch Except As IndexOutOfBounds 'or something
> 'catch code here
> Catch Except As Exception
> 'other catch code here
> ___ 'End
> [snip]