VB.NET Language Pocket Reference

Enumerations

The Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace also defines a number of enumerations. Many of their members are functionally identical to almost identically named constants listed in the aforementioned Section 1.7.

AppWinStyle Enumeration

Determines the appearance and behavior of the window opened by the Shell function.

Hide	MinimizedNoFocus
MaximizedFocus	NormalFocus
MinimizedFocus	NormalNoFocus

CallType Enumeration

Defines the type of procedure invoked by the CallByName function.

Get	Set
Method

CompareMethod Enumeration

Used with a variety of string comparison methods (such as InStr, StrComp, and Replace) to determine whether the comparison is case sensitive or insensitive.

Binary

Text

ControlChars Class

Values representing a number of control characters are available as static read-only fields of the ControlChars class. They can be referenced just as enumerated members; for example:

Addr = "123 West St. & ControlChars.CrLf & _
       "Apt. 12C"

Back	NewLine
Cr	NullChar
CrLf	Quote
FormFeed	Tab
Lf	VerticalTab

DateFormat Enumeration

Defines the format of the date returned by the FormatDateTime function.

GeneralDate	ShortDate
LongDate	ShortTime
LongTime

DateInterval Enumeration

Defines the date interval for date/time functions, such as DateDiff, DatePart, and DateAdd.

Day	Quarter
DayOfYear	Second
Hour	Weekday
Minute	WeekOfYear
Month	Year

DueDate Enumeration

Used with the FV, IPmt, NPer, Pmt, PPmt, PV, and Rate functions to define whether a payment is due ...