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  1. Mar 21st, 2006, 07:28 PM #1
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    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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  2. Mar 21st, 2006, 07:41 PM #2
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    Re: What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)

    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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  3. Mar 21st, 2006, 08:25 PM #3
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    Re: What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)

    It's OO.
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    Re: What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)

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    Re: What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)

    Quote Originally Posted by jmcilhinney
    It's OO.
    Yeah howdy! That's a biggun'

    You left out this operator, though:

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  7. Mar 22nd, 2006, 08:03 PM #6
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    Re: What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)

    I appreciate the stringbuilder and arraylist classes.
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    Re: What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)

    Quote Originally Posted by eyeRmonkey
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    Re: What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)

    I love the integration of C#, Vb, J#.
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  11. Mar 24th, 2006, 03:14 AM #9
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    Re: What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)

    • Attributes
    • Serialisation
    • databinding that actually works
    • Overloaded constructors
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    Re: What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)

    I like VB.NET because it is "VENT B." Jumbled....
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  13. Mar 24th, 2006, 04:23 AM #11
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    Re: What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)

    Definitely Object Oriented and Cross Language Interoperability.

    Same IDE for multiple languages.
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    Re: What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)

    it pays my bills
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    Re: What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)

    Quote Originally Posted by DirtyHowi
    it pays my bills
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    Re: What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)

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    Re: What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)

    Yes, #Region and the collapsable editor in the IDE.
    User Controls are much more easy to create and more advanced.
    The Property Grid control
    Visual Styles
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    Overloadding and Overridding
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    Re: What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)

    Delegation
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    I love my userbar that I made



    But .NET is pretty fancy. I am having a hard time migrating to it though.
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    Re: What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)

    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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    Re: What I Like About VB .NET (Add your comments)

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