How do you declare a variable in visual basic. net?

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You declare it by this: Dim var as integer or Public var as integer You can use other types instead of integer like long, double, string, byte etc. Using Public is for making a variable accessible...

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Variable or var mean a value eg:Integers Floats Double Boolean RECE