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 |
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| 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 |
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