Although the .NET Framework provides many standard exceptions, you also can create, throw, and catch your own custom exceptions. In fact, custom exception types are a powerful feature of the VB .NET language.

Explore the IntelliSense code snippet format, and then learn how to build your own snippets and package them for distribution.

Displaying RSS feeds or channels is very easy using Visual Basic 2005. In no time, you can build a simple RSS viewer that takes a user-entered RSS feed URL and retrieves the title, description, and link for that channel.