When both a parent class and a derived class have both a shared and an instance CTOR, in what order do they fire when creating an instance of the derived class like this: Dim MyObject as New DerivedClass?

Tuples are value types as opposed to reference types.

In order to allow assembly (a) to see methods declared as friend in assembly (b), what attribute can you use?

What is the value of DateTime.MinValue.Year?

A public method declared inside of a public module is accessible from another assembly.

The following array declaration is valid: Dim X(-1) As Integer.