Console app without the Imports statement

[Sathyaish]

I am practicing VB.NET and am still a neophyte in the order, though I've done VB from version 4 to 6 for many years now. I was wondering how in one of my programs (a console app) I forgot to include the Imports statement and the compiler did not complain.

For instance,

Option Strict On


Class zzz


'Properties
Dim j as integer
Shared dim k as integer



Shared Sub Main()


dim a,b as zzz
a = new zzz(10)
a.abc(100)
b = new zzz(20)
b.abc(200)

End Sub		'End of Main



Sub New(i as integer)

System.Console.WriteLine("in new {0} {1} {2}", i , j , k)
j = i
k = i
System.Console.WriteLine("in new {0} {1} {2}", i , j , k)

End Sub		'End of constructor for the zzz class




Sub abc(p as integer)

System.Console.WriteLine("in abc {0} {1}",  j , k)
k = p
j = p

End Sub		'End of sub procedure abc



End Class		'End of class zzz







' Guessed Output

'10 0 0
'10 10 10
'10 10
'20 0 100
'20 20 20
'20 20


'Conclusion
'Since the class member k is shared, it is the same accross all instances of the class zzz.

Why is it that the compiler did not complain on not finding the Imports statement where I should have written Imports System since the Console class is a member of the System namespace. Besides, I was writing this in Notepad, so if at all the VS.NET IDE adds namespaces on its own, there was no such possibility in the Notepad environment I was writing code in. What's the secret?

[Memnoch1207]

It didn't complain because you completely declared the Namespace, Class, Method like this

System.Console.WriteLine

However, if you had just written this line of code

Console.WriteLine

It would have yelled, because you can't use the Console class without Importing (using in C#) the System namespace.

It can be done either way

'Complete declaration
System.Console.WriteLine
 
'Or Importing the namespace
Imports System
 
Console.WriteLine

[Sathyaish]

Silly me, that was common sense, but I was being careless. I did not write the code but I pasted it from somewhere and guessed the output (I only wrote the footnote to guess the output and the conclusion). So I did not look at the WriteLine function call to see it already had a fully qualified namespace prefixed.

Thanks very much.