Visual Basic 2010 : Implicit Line Continuation

The new Visual Basic 2010 or Visual Basic 10 already supports implicit line continuation which no longer use the underscore character (_). For a more details on this new feature, you can watch the video of the interview with Doug Rothaus, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team. Elimination of those pesky underscore is a good thing to VB programmers because it makes our code more readable especially when writing multi-line LINQ queries.





So from using underscore (_)

Dim sMyString As String = "This is " & _
" a " & _
" test "
 
Console.WriteLine(sMyString)

Now you, don't need it anymore

Dim sMyString As String = "This is " & 
" a " &
" test "

Console.WriteLine(sMyString)

How about Multiple statements in a single line?

Dim sMyString As String = "This is " & " a " & " test " : Console.WriteLine(sMyString)

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