Modules (Visual Basic)

Visual Basic provides several modules that enable you to simplify common tasks in your code, including manipulating strings, performing mathematical calculations, getting system information, performing file and directory operations, and so on. The following table lists the modules provided by Visual Basic.

Module	Description
Constants	Contains miscellaneous constants. These constants can be used anywhere in your code.
ControlChars	Contains constant control characters for printing and displaying text.
Conversion	Contains members that convert decimal numbers to other bases, numbers to strings, strings to numbers, and one data type to another.
DateAndTime	Contains members that get the current date or time, perform date calculations, return a date or time, set the date or time, or time the duration of a process.
ErrObject	Contains information about run-time errors and methods to raise or clear an error.
FileSystem	Contains members that perform file, directory or folder, and system operations.
Financial	Contains procedures that are used to perform financial calculations.
Globals	Contains information about the current scripting engine version.
Information	Contains the members that return, test for, or verify information such as array size, type names, and so on.
Interaction	Contains members interact with objects, applications, and systems.
Strings	Contains members that perform string operations such as reformatting strings, searching a string, getting the length of a string, and so on.
VBMath	Contains members perform mathematical operations.

See also

• Visual Basic Language Reference