Data types and modules

Data Types

Visual Basic supports different types of data types according to the needs of program or application

You can say that attribute of a variable that determines what kind of data it can hold is known as Datatype.

By Default Visual Basic supports the variant data type.Declaring a variable variant indicates that it can support all types of data types.Mainly Visual Basic supports the following datatypes:

Table of Data Types

Data Types Storage (in bytes) Prefix Example Byte 8 Byt bytVar Boolean 1 Bln blnNum Integer 2 int intCount Long; 4 lng lngNumbers Single 4 sng sngAverage Double 8 dbl dblMarks Date 8 dte dteNext Object 4 obj ObjMywork Avgs String According to the length of string str strNames Variant 16 vnt vntTotal