Visual Basic or VB.NET exercises and solutions

Visual Basic or VB.NET variables exercises

Exercise 1: Write VB.NET code to declare a variable to store the age of a person.

You are 20 years old.

Solution:

Module Module1

Sub Main()

Dim age As Integer = 20 'declaring variable and assign 20 to it.
Console.WriteLine("You are " & age & " years old.")

Console.ReadLine()

End Sub

End Module

Exercise 2:Write VB.NET code to display the asterisk pattern as shown below:

*****

*****

*****

*****

*****

Solution:

Module Module1

Sub Main()

Console.WriteLine("*****")
Console.WriteLine("*****")
Console.WriteLine("*****")
Console.WriteLine("*****")
Console.WriteLine("*****")
Console.ReadLine()


End Sub

End Module

Exercise 3: Write VB.NET code to declare two integer variables, one float variable, and one string variable and assign 10, 12.5, and "VB.NET programming" to them respectively.

Solution:

Module Module1

Sub Main()

Dim x As Integer
Dim y As Single
Dim s As String
x = 10
y = 12.5F
s = "I like VB programming."
Console.WriteLine(x)
Console.WriteLine(y)
Console.WriteLine(s)
Console.ReadLine()

End Sub

End Module

Exercise 4: Write VB.NET code to prompt a user to input his/her name and then the output will be shown as an example below:

Hello John!

Solution:

Module Module1

Sub Main()

Dim name As String
Console.Write("Please enter your name:")
name = Console.ReadLine()
Console.WriteLine("Hello {0}!", name)
Console.ReadLine()

End Sub

End Module