Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

A New Feature: Implicit Line Continuation

Visual Basic 2010 introduces an important new feature when writing code (which is a historical change in the language) known as implicit line continuation. Back in older versions, if you needed to split a long line of code into more brief and readable lines of code in the editor, you needed to add an underscore ( _ ) character. With Visual Basic 2010 this is no longer necessary, with a few exceptions. You can simply press Enter when you need to split a line of code, and the compiler will automatically recognize a line continuation, depending on what kind of code you are writing.

Tip

Implicit line continuation is not mandatory. If you prefer adding underscores for line continuation, of course you are ...