Visual Basic
Visual Basic, originally called Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented programming language, implemented on .NET, Mono, and the .NET Framework. Microsoft launched VB.NET in 2002 as the successor to its original Visual Basic language, the last version of which was Visual Basic 6.0. Although the ".NET" portion of the name was dropped in 2005, "Visual Basic [.NET]" is often used to refer to all Visual Basic languages released since 2002, in order to distinguish between them and the classic Visual Basic.
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Comment blocks
In Visual Studio you can use the keyboard shortcuts that will comment/uncomment the selected lines for you:
Ctrl + K + C
to commentCtrl + K + U
to uncomment
Reset settings
For Visual Studio 2013, to reset the settings for Visual Studio go to Windows > Programs > Visual Studio 2013 > Visual Studio Tools.
In the File Explorer window that opens, choose Developer Command Prompt for VS2013.
Then enter the following at the command prompt and hit enter:
devenv /resetuserdata
Although the one below may not work, you may need to also need to enter:
devenv /resetallsettings
If devenv /resetallsettings does not work, it is not necessary to reset Visual Studio.
Write text to file
There are different methods to do this.
WriteAllText is great when you have a single string that you want to write to a file. But if you have a whole lot of strings to write, it's easier to write to a StreamWriter rather than build up a single string and then write that using WriteAllText.
FileStream gives you a little more control over writing files, which can be beneficial in certain cases. It also allows you to keep the file handle open and continuously write data without relinquishing control.
WriteAllText
Microsoft How to: Write Text to Files in Visual Basic
For Each foundFile As String In
My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles("C:\Documents and Settings")
foundFile = foundFile & vbCrLf
My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText(
"C:\Documents and Settings\FileList.txt", foundFile, True)
Next
StreamWriter
MIcrosoft How to: Write Text to Files with a StreamWriter in Visual Basic
Dim file As System.IO.StreamWriter
file = My.Computer.FileSystem.OpenTextFileWriter("c:\test.txt", True)
file.WriteLine("Here is the first string.")
file.Close()