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VB.NET Language in a Nutshell, Second Edition
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VB.NET Language in a Nutshell, Second Edition

by Steven Roman PhD, Ron Petrusha, Paul Lomax
April 2002
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
19h 51m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

GoTo Statement

Syntax

GoTo label
label (required)

Type: String literal

A subroutine name

Description

Passes execution to a specified line within a procedure

Rules at a Glance

label must be a line label

Programming Tips and Gotchas

  • GoTo can branch only to lines within the procedure where it appears.

  • It is not permitted to branch from outside a Try...Catch...Finally block to a point inside the Catch or Finally block.

  • It is also not permitted to branch from within the Catch or Finally block to a label outside the block.

  • The GoTo statement is most commonly used with the On Error statement to direct control to an error-handling routine.

  • GoTo is frequently used to control program flow within a procedure, a technique that often produces highly unreadable “spaghetti code.” Accordingly, great care should be taken when using the GoTo statement.

VB.NET/VB 6 Differences

In VB 6, label could be either a line number or a label. In VB.NET, label can be only a label.

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