Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Project-Level Default Imports

By default, Visual Studio 2015 adds some auto-generated Imports directives each time you create a new Visual Basic project, so you do not need to manually add such statements. Default Imports are specific to the project type, so if you create a Console application, there will be Imports related to these kinds of applications. If you create a web application, there will be Imports related to the most common namespaces for web applications and so on. You can easily add project-level namespaces via the My Project window. In the References tab, you can find a group box named Imported namespaces, as shown in Figure 9.2.

FIGURE 9.2 Setting project-level namespaces.

You can click the check box corresponding to each ...