Exam 6: Where Can I Store This Variables and Constants

Specifying the number of decimal places and the special characters to display in a number is called ____.

The format specifier ____ does not include a dollar sign, and negative values are preceded by a minus sign.

Because control names typically are more concise than variable names, using control names in an expression makes the expression much shorter and easier to understand.

You can format a number using the syntax ____.

In addition to reserving (or declaring) variables in a program, you also can declare named constants.

To declare a variable in an event procedure, where most variables are declared, you use the Visual Basic ____ statement.

The formatString argument in the ToString method must take the form "xAA", where AA is the format specifier and x is the precision specifier.

You create a named constant using the ____ statement.

The ____ memory of a computer is composed of memory locations.

When a named constant's value needs to be changed, the programmer must change its value in its declaration statement.

The desk-check table for a program will contain two columns for each variable.

Every numeric data type in Visual Basic has a TryText method that can be used to convert text to that numeric data type.

Programmers refer to the length of time a variable remains in memory as its ____.

The TryParse method parses the text, which means it looks at each character in the text, to determine whether the text can be converted to a number of the specified data type.

A ____ is a memory location whose value cannot change while the application is running.

A ____ is text that is enclosed in double quotation marks.

You use a problem's solution-in other words, its output, processing, and input information and its algorithm-to determine the variables to use when coding an application.

To distinguish the named constants from the variables in a program, many programmers use a modified form of Hungarian notation for the named constant names.

Memory locations are called ____ because their contents can change (vary) as the program is running.

When formatting characters, you can use either an uppercase letter or a lowercase letter as the format specifier.