Question

So I made this and someone has submitted a new VB.NET hello world example:

Module m1
Sub Main()
 Console.out.writeline("Hello World")
End Sub
End Module

Is this valid VB.NET? I don’t know the language, so wanted to check it.

The example that is currently on the website is:

Console.WriteLine ("Hello, World!")

What I’m mainly questioning is the Console.out.writeline – is this right?

Thanks in advance. 🙂

Answer 1

Yes, this is correct. Console.WriteLine and Console.Out.WriteLine are equivalent.

The documentation for Console.WriteLine says: “Writes the specified string value, followed by the current line terminator, to the standard output stream.“

The documentation for Console.Out says: “Gets the standard output stream.“

Console.Out is a TextWriter which is used for outputting text to a stream. The documentation for TextWriter.WriteLine says: “Writes a string followed by a line terminator to the text string or stream.“

Console.WriteLine is basically just a shortcut for Console.Out.WriteLine.