What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)
I just started learning VB .NET (as you may already know), but as I was learning it, I made a list of all the things I liked and found cool. I thought I would share them and maybe you guys could chime in with your favorite .NET things. I knew VB6 before moving to .NET, so most of my favorites come from things that were missing in VB6.
- AndAlso, OrElse
- Is keyword (Select Case MyInt : Case 1 to 20 : Case Is > 20 : End Select)
- *=, /=, +=, -= operators. I love these and always missed them in VB6.
- Assignment and declaration can occur on the same line. (Dim MyInt As Integer = 20)
- Making a comment like 'TODO automatically adds a line to your task list saying whatever you put on that comment line.
- All the IDE changes
- Bigger arrays. They can now hold 2^64 instead of 2^32.
- Arrays with properties.
- XP Styles are very easy to do. There a few bugs still, but those can be fixed with Skybound.
- Menus are easy to make!
Feel free to share your favorite features of the IDE/language/whatever.
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No more stupid Set for object assignment :)
The Is keyword was also in VB6 I think?
Edit: Threading support (although that comes with the framework...)
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Moved to General Developer
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Originally Posted by jmcilhinney
It's OO.
Yeah howdy! That's a biggun'
You left out this operator, though:
&=
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I appreciate the stringbuilder and arraylist classes.
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Originally Posted by eyeRmonkey
your favorite .NET things
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I love the integration of C#, Vb, J#.
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- Attributes
- Serialisation
- databinding that actually works
- Overloaded constructors
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I like VB.NET because it is "VENT B." Jumbled....
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Definitely Object Oriented and Cross Language Interoperability. :thumb:
Same IDE for multiple languages.
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Originally Posted by DirtyHowi
it pays my bills :)
Amen to that!
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Yes, #Region and the collapsable editor in the IDE.
User Controls are much more easy to create and more advanced.
The Property Grid control :thumb:
Visual Styles
GDI+
Overloadding and Overridding
and OOP
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I love my userbar that I made :)
http://www.userbars.co.uk/ubs/Microsoft.NET Lover20.png
But .NET is pretty fancy. I am having a hard time migrating to it though.
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I like Ctrl+Alt+Enter. It makes your code window full screen. I feel like much less cluttered when I use it. It is refreshing.
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I like VB.NET because I dont have to feed it....