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.

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...)

It's OO.

Moved to General Developer

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Originally Posted by jmcilhinney

It's OO.

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Yeah howdy! That's a biggun'

You left out this operator, though:

&=

I appreciate the stringbuilder and arraylist classes.

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Originally Posted by eyeRmonkey

your favorite .NET things

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• CSharp (C#)

I love the integration of C#, Vb, J#.

• Attributes
• Serialisation
• databinding that actually works
• Overloaded constructors

I like VB.NET because it is "VENT B." Jumbled....

Definitely Object Oriented and Cross Language Interoperability. :thumb:

Same IDE for multiple languages.

it pays my bills :)

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Originally Posted by DirtyHowi

it pays my bills :)

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Amen to that!

#Region

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

Delegation :)

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.

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.

I like VB.NET because I dont have to feed it....