>>> Of course the argument most often put forward by the VB camp for WITH....ENDWITH is that it reduces the amount of typing required.
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>>Some time ago I finally switched from VB.NET to C#. As silly as it sounds, one of my reasons was the necessity to use underscores in VB multi-line statements.
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>>I agree that ending statements with the semicolon is also questionable. But for me the underscores were much worse.
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>As Craig pointed out you can (mostly) rely on implicit line continuation in VS2010. But I just do not like the general verbosity of VB. eg

static string X(out string s, int[] i) { }
>becomes:
>Private Shared Function X(ByRef s As String, i As Integer()) As String
>End Function

So VB requires twice as many characters :-}

Someones gotta say it , VB sucks !!! Lol