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Multiline strings in VB.NET

In c#, you can be all like:

string s = @"hello
there
mister";

Does VB.NET have something similar that doesn’t involve string concatenation? I’d like to be able to paste multi-line text in between two double quotes. Somehow, I don’t believe VB.NET supports this.

Answer 1

EDIT: VS2015 ONWARDS

YOU CAN NOW HAVE MULTILINE STRINGS IN VS2015 BY WRITING THEM LIKE SO:

Dim text as String = "
This
Is
Multiline
Text!"

There is no multi-line string literal in VB .NET – the closest thing you can get (without using LINQ) is a multi-line statement with concatenation.

Prior to VS2010:

Dim x = "some string" & vbCrlf & _
        "the rest of the string"

Post 2010:

Dim x = "some string" & vbCrlf &
        "the rest of the string"

The XML/LINQ trick is:

Imports System.Core
Imports System.XML
Imports System.XML.Linq

Dim x As String = <a>Some code
and stuff</a>.Value

But this limits what characters you can place inside the <a></a> block because of XML semantics. If you need to use special characters wrap the text in a standard CDATA block:

Dim x As String = <a><![CDATA[Some code
& stuff]]></a>.Value