Long strings in Visual Basic 2008

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I suspect everyone already knew this – but for me it was shiny and new :-) XML Literals do not require line continuation characters, hence rather than this:

    1: Dim msg1 As String = "this is a " & _

    2:                     "really, " & _

    3:                     "really " & _

    4:                     "long string"

you can create a really long string using an XML Literal:

    1: Dim msg1 = <s>This is a

    2:                 really,

    3:                 really

    4:                 long string</s>.Value

Note: the whitespace is maintained.