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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Sams
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Implicit Line Continuation

In older versions of Visual Basic, if you needed to split a long line of code into more brief and readable lines of code in the editor, you had to add an underscore (_) character. Starting with Visual Basic 2010, this is no longer necessary due to a feature called implicit line continuation, which makes the underscore unnecessary. You can press Enter when you need to split a line of code, and the compiler will automatically recognize a line continuation, depending on the type of code you are writing.

In some situations, implicit line continuation is not allowed. It is allowed in the following situations:

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