November 2008 - Posts

• End of line continuation characters in 2010

  Another change announced at PDC 2008, and a seriously great improvement, to Visual Basic in the next version is the end of the requirement of the line continuation character.  You all know the one that I mean.  The underscore character ( _ ) that we have used for years to put our long lines of code on multiple lines.      Public Sub DoIt(ByVal opt1 As String, ByVal opt2 As String, _                     ByVal opt3 As Integer, ByVal opt4 As Double, _                     ByVal opt5 As String)         ' code here       End Sub  VB will now have implicit line continuation characters.  Which means that code over multiple lines will now look like:     Public Sub DoIt(ByVal opt1 As String, ByVal opt2 As String,                     ByVal opt3 As Integer, ByVal opt4 As Double,                     ByVal opt5 As String)         ' code here       End Sub   Posted Nov 09 2008, 02:56 PM by CanOz with no comments Filed under: VB, Visual Basic.NET, VB.NET, VB 2010

• New to Visual Basic 2010

  So just what is coming to Visual Basic with the next version? The short answer is Lots! Announced at PDC 2008, one aspect that is coming, and one that I am looking forward to, is auto-implemented properties. Just what is that?  Gone are the days where you have to hard code in a getter and setter for custom properties in Classes. As it stands now you would have: Private m_someField As String       Public Property someField() As String         Get             Return m_someField         End Get         Set(ByVal value As String)             m_someField = value         End Set     End Property  Look familier? Well now you can have it all in one line of code. Public Property someField As String  It even gets better.  You can also add a default value for your property on the same line too. Public Property someField() As String = ""  This will make coding custom Classes so much easier and faster.   Posted Nov 07 2008, 10:52 PM by CanOz with no comments Filed under: VB, Visual Basic.NET, VB.NET, VB 2010