Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Command Window

The Command window enables evaluating expressions or running functions without running the application or continuing the debug. It also allows you to execute menu commands and commands that do not appear in any menu. Figure 5.11 shows the Command window evaluating an Integer.Parse statement and an invocation to our Test method.

FIGURE 5.11 The Command window enables evaluating expressions and functions.

This can be useful because you do not need to run our application to see whether a method works, and you could also evaluate complex expressions before writing code. Just remember that only functions are allowed; procedures are ...