Miscellaneous Changes
For the most part, Visual Basic 6.0's operators and statements have made it into Visual Basic .NET without any changes, but a few have been altered or removed completely. A brief list of the removed language elements includes Imp, Eqv, GoSub, LSet, VarPtr, ObjPtr, StrPtr, AscB, ChrB, and MidB. If none of those elements sounds familiar, it is not surprising as they are all infrequently used. In addition to those elements that have been removed, several new language features have been added including new shortcut operators, new loop syntax, new bit shift operators and new short-circuiting versions of the standard And/Or Boolean operators.
A few other changes have occurred in the syntax for defining classes, calling procedures, ...
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