In an expression using the logical operator ____, as soon as one of the compound conditions is found to be false, no further conditions are tested and the expression evaluates to false.

In visual basic.net programming language, the AndAlso logical operator is a shortcircuiting operator, this means that it by-passes the evaluation of one expression depending on the result of the other. It means that once the condition on the left hand side is false, it will not border evaluating the condition on the right hand side.

Generally the AndAlso operator behaves in the following manner:

Returns False when the condition on the left hand side is False
Else, it returns True when the conditions of the left and right are True
Otherwise, it returns False