Raises a value by a specified power.  For example “x ^ 3” cubes the value of x.  Powers have to be integer numbers if the number being operated on is negative.  Otherwise, powers can have fractional parts.

This is a negative sign in front of a variable or constant that does not indicate a subtraction operation.  For example, 2 * -4 is valid and produces a value of –8.

This indicates the standard multiplication and division operations.  For division, even if the divisor and the dividend are integer values, the result is computed as a real number with a fractional part.

This indicates an integer division operation.  Independent of the data type for the divisor and dividend, the result is truncated to an integer number.  For example, “2.3 \ 2” yields a value of 1.

Computes the modulus of two numbers.  For “x Mod y”, this is equivalent to dividing x by y and returning the remainder.  For example, “13.3 Mod 2” is equal to 1.3.

Standard addition and subtraction operations.  Automatically converts integer values to floating point and computes the result in floating point.  If the value is stored into an integer variable type, the resulting answer is converted to integer before storage.

Either of the two symbols can be used to indicate string concatenation. However, the use of "&" is preferred in place of "+" to clearly specify a string concatenation operation instead of numerical addition.

These are arithmetic shift operations and not bit rotations or logical shifts.  For left shifts, a 0 is always shifted into the low-order bit.  For right shifts, for positive numbers a 0 is shifted into the high-order bit and a 1 is shifted in for negative numbers. 

The first six relational operator symbols represent “equal to”, “not equal to”, “less than”, “greater than”, “less than or equal to”, and “greater than or equal to”. The operands to the left and right of these relational operators can either both be numerical or string values.  The Is operator determines if two object references refer to the same object. For example "object1 Is Nothing".

Converts a False (=0) value to True (-1) and any True (<>0) value to False (0).

Performs a logical AND operation unless either of the operands is not a Boolean value, in which case, a bitwise operation is performed.  All operands of And are always evaluated even if an earlier operand has already decided the result.  AndAlso prematurely stops evaluation if the result is already False.  The following illustrates the logical AND operation:

True And True -> True
True And False -> False
False And True -> False
False And False -> False

Performs a logical OR operation unless either of the operands is not a Boolean value, in which case, a bitwise operation is performed.  All operands of Or are always evaluated even if an earlier operand has already decided the result.  OrElse prematurely stops evaluation if the result is already True.  The following illustrates the logical OR operation:

True Or True -> True
True Or False -> True
False Or True -> True
False Or False -> False