8 TryParse and error handling
Channel: PatParslow
Date: 2013-06-24

The 8th in a series of relatively informal videos for people new to Visual Basic, programming, Visual Studio (etc).  Presented in a warts'n'all style, to help emphasise that it is OK to be experimenting and finding out new stuff.

Far from a bullet proof user input scenario, but introducing the student to the use of the parse and tryparse methods for the numeric classes in VB, and introducing the basics of the Try...Catch error handling