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Asked: 2026-05-11T03:10:15+00:00

Is there a way to have a statement across multiple lines without the underscore

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Is there a way to have a statement across multiple lines without the underscore character?

It is really annoying in multi-line strings such as SQL statements, and especially LINQ queries.

Beside from the ugliness and difficulty when changing a line (nothing lines up anymore), you can’t use comments in the middle of the multi-line statement.

Examples of my daily personal hell.

dim results = from a in articles _               where a.articleID = 4 _ ' articleID     - Nope, can't do this               select a.articleName   dim createArticle as string = _     'Create table article ' & _     '    (articleID int ' & _     '    ,articleName varchar(50) ' & _     '    )'
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  1. No, you have to use the underscore, but I believe that VB.NET 10 will allow multiple lines w/o the underscore, only requiring if it can’t figure out where the end should be.

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