Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Comments

Describing what a piece of code does is an important programming practice. It helps other developers understand your code, and it also helps you when go back to work on your own code sometime later. You can comment a piece of code by typing the comment symbol ' and then writing your comments. The compiler simply ignores comments, so they do not affect performances at all. You can write comments on multiple lines, each starting with the comment symbol. The following code provides an example:

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'The following code writes something'to the Console windowSub DoSomething()    Console.WriteLine("Doing something")End Sub

Different Types of Comments

You can use the REM keyword for commenting code, instead of the ...