Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Visual Basic 2015 Reserved Keywords

When writing code, you often define types or declare variables. Types and variables are recognizable via identifiers. An identifier is essentially the name of a type or of a variable and not necessarily a word that makes sense, although it is a good practice to assign human-readable identifiers. For example, an identifier such as DoSomething is much better than DoSmt. There are some words in the Visual Basic lexical grammar that you cannot use as identifiers for your variables because they are reserved for the language.

Naming Conventions for Identifiers

.NET programming principles establish some rules that identifiers must abide by when you’re writing code. For example, the Common Language Specification ...