"Erik" wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am interested in discerning the difference from my textbook and the
> actual behavior of the MS Dev IDE 2003.
>
> My textbook specifies:
>
> objOleDbCommand = New OleDbCommand()
>
> I type that in the VB Editor. However when I end the line and start
> typing the next code line, the editor automatically removes the closing
> parentheses () from end of the line so that it leaves this:
>
> objOleDbCommand = New OleDbCommand
>
> Any idea why this is? I wonder if this is something new in the MS Dev
> Environment for version 2003.
>
> Any time I put an arg in the the parens, then the IDE does not delete
> them.
>
> Thanks,
> Erik
>
>

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" wrote:

> "rmacias" <rmacias@newsgroup.nospam> schrieb:
> > In VB.NET when instantiating a new object via its parameterless
> > constructor
> > does not need the empty parethesis "()".  However, using a constructor
> > with
> > parameter does require them.
> >
> > It's an IDE feature to remove them.  I don't know the reason for that, but
> > they mean the same thing.
>
> The intention for automatically removing the '()' on constructor calls was
> to visually disambiguish constructor calls from array declarations:
>
> \\\
> Dim a As New Object() {}
> Dim b As New Object
> ///
>
> --
>  M S   Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P  <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
>  V B   <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>
>
>

> Hi all,
>
> I am interested in discerning the difference from my textbook and the
> actual behavior of the MS Dev IDE 2003.
>
> My textbook specifies:
>
> objOleDbCommand = New OleDbCommand()
>
> I type that in the VB Editor. However when I end the line and start
> typing the next code line, the editor automatically removes the
> closing parentheses () from end of the line so that it leaves this:
>
> objOleDbCommand = New OleDbCommand
>
> Any idea why this is? I wonder if this is something new in the MS Dev
> Environment for version 2003.
>
> Any time I put an arg in the the parens, then the IDE does not delete
> them.

> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am interested in discerning the difference from my textbook and the
> > actual behavior of the MS Dev IDE 2003.
> >
> > My textbook specifies:
> >
> > objOleDbCommand = New OleDbCommand()
> >
> > I type that in the VB Editor. However when I end the line and start
> > typing the next code line, the editor automatically removes the
> > closing parentheses () from end of the line so that it leaves this:
> >
> > objOleDbCommand = New OleDbCommand
> >
> > Any idea why this is? I wonder if this is something new in the MS Dev
> > Environment for version 2003.
> >
> > Any time I put an arg in the the parens, then the IDE does not delete
> > them.
>
> I don't have a copy with me to test, but I believe either the 2002 version
> or one of it's beta versions required the (). Most likely the textbook was
> written with one of these early versions and not updated when the more recent
> versions were released. The reason for removing the () from the constructor
> is to dis-ambiguate the type from the array version of the type.
>
> Jim Wooley
> http://devauthority.com/blogs/jwooley/default.aspx