Multiline strings in VB.NET

VB.Net has no such feature and it will not be coming in Visual Studio 2010. The feature that jirwin is refering is called implicit line continuation. It has to do with removing the _ from a multi-line statement or expression. This does remove the need to terminate a multiline string with _ but there is still no mult-line string literal in VB.

Example for multiline string

Visual Studio 2008

Dim x = "line1" & vbCrlf & _
        "line2"

Visual Studio 2010

Dim x = "line1" & vbCrlf & 
        "line2"

You can also use System.Text.StringBuilder class in this way:

Dim sValue As New System.Text.StringBuilder
sValue.AppendLine("1st Line")
sValue.AppendLine("2nd Line")
sValue.AppendLine("3rd Line")

Then you get the multiline string using:

sValue.ToString()

No, VB.NET does not yet have such a feature. It will be available in the next iteration of VB (visual basic 10) however (link)

if it's like C# (I don't have VB.Net installed) you can prefix a string with @

foo = @"Multiline
String"

this is also useful for things like @"C:\Windows\System32\" - it essentially turns off escaping and turns on multiline.