Imports Directives
It often happens that you need to invoke types defined within long-named, nested namespaces. To invoke types, you need to write the full name of the type, which includes the identifier of the namespace that defines a particular type, as in the following code:
Dim aFile As New System.IO.FileStream("C:\test.txt", System.IO.FileMode.Open)Dim onePerson As New ImportsDirectives.People.Work.Customer
Although IntelliSense has been highly improved from previous versions and it helps in writing code, it can result quite annoyingly in typing long-named namespaces. To help developers write code faster, Visual Basic enables the usage of Imports directives. Such directives enable developers ...
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