Programming Visual Basic .NET

Keywords

Keywords are words with special meaning in a programming language. In Visual Basic .NET, keywords are reserved; that is, they cannot be used as tokens for such purposes as naming variables and subroutines. The keywords in Visual Basic .NET are shown in Table 2-1.

Table 2-1. Visual Basic .NET keywords

Keyword	Description
AddHandler	Visual Basic .NET Statement
AddressOf	Visual Basic .NET Statement
Alias	Used in the Declare statement
And	Boolean operator
AndAlso	Boolean operator
Ansi	Used in the Declare statement
Append	Used as a symbolic constant in the FileOpen function
As	Used in variable declaration (Dim, Friend, etc.)
Assembly	Assembly-level attribute specifier
Auto	Used in the Declare statement
Binary	Used in the Option Compare statement
Boolean	Used in variable declaration (intrinsic data type)
ByRef	Used in argument lists
Byte	Used in variable declaration (intrinsic data type)
ByVal	Used in argument lists
Call	Visual Basic .NET statement
Case	Used in the Select Case construct
Catch	Visual Basic .NET statement
CBool	Data-conversion function
CByte	Data-conversion function
CChar	Data-conversion function
CDate	Data-conversion function
CDec	Data-conversion function
CDbl	Data-conversion function
Char	Used in variable declaration (intrinsic data type)
CInt	Data-conversion function
Class	Visual Basic .NET statement
CLng	Data-conversion function
CObj