Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Visual Basic 2010 Reserved Keywords

When writing code, you often define types or declare variables. Types and variables are recognizable via identifiers. An identifier is essentially the name of a type or of a variable and not necessarily a word that makes sense, although it is a good practice to assign human readable identifiers. For example, an identifier such as DoSomething is much better than DoSmt. For this, there are some words in the Visual Basic lexical grammar that you cannot use as identifiers for your variables because they are reserved for the language.

Identifiers Naming Conventions

.NET programming principles establish that identifiers must match some rules when writing code, including identifiers. Such naming conventions are ...