Long strings in Visual Basic 2008
I suspect everyone already knew this – but for me it was shiny and new :-) XML Literals do not require line continuation characters, hence rather than this:
1: Dim msg1 As String = "this is a " & _
2: "really, " & _
3: "really " & _
4: "long string"
you can create a really long string using an XML Literal:
1: Dim msg1 = <s>This is a
2: really,
3: really
4: long string</s>.Value
Note: the whitespace is maintained.
