Whenever you face a situation in programming to repeat a task for several times (more than one times ) or you have to repeat a task till you reach a condition, in these situations you can use loop statements to achieve your desired results.
FOR NEXT Loop, FOR EACH Loop , WHILE Loop and DO WHILE Loop are the Commonly used loops in Visual Basic.NET 2005 ( VB.NET 2005) .
While ..End While
While .. End While Loop execute the code body (the source code within While and End while statements ) until it meets the specified condition.
While [condition]
[loop body]
End While
Condition : The condition set by the user
1. counter = 1
2. While (counter <= 10)
3. Message
4. counter = counter + 1
5. End While
Line 1: Counter start from 1
Line 2: While loop checking the counter if it is less than or equal to 10
Line 3: Each time the Loop execute the message and show
Line 4: Counter increment the value of 1 each time the loop execute
Line 5: End of the While End While Loop body
VB.NET Source Code
When you execute the program 10 times the message shows with counter and exit from the While .. End While loop.