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Visual Basic 2005 Express Reserved Words or keywords

By Stephen Bucaro

Reserved words or keywords are words that are part of the language and therefore have special meaning in Visual Basic. In fact, one of the most common and confounding causes of troubleshooting in Visual Basic (or any language) is the inadvertent use of a keyword as a variable or function name. The reserved words, listed below, cannot be used as names for your programming elements such as variables, functions, subroutines or procedures.

AddHandler	AddressOf	Alias	And
AndAlso	As	Boolean	ByRef
Byte	ByVal	Call	Case
Catch	CBool	CByte	CChar
CDate	CDec	CDbl	Char
CInt	Class	CLng	CObj
Const	Continue	CSByte	CShort
CSng	CStr	CType	CUInt
CULng	CUShort	Date	Decimal
Declare	Default	Delegate	Dim
DirectCast	Do	Double	Each
Else	ElseIf	End	EndIf
Enum	Erase	Error	Event
Exit	False	Finally	For
Friend	Function	Get	GetType
Global	GoSub	GoTo	Handles
If	Implements	Imports	In
Inherits	Integer	Interface	Is
IsNot	Let	Lib	Like
Long	Loop	Me	Mod
Module	MustInherit	MustOverride	MyBase
MyClass	Namespace	Narrowing	New
Next	Not	Nothing	NotInheritable
NotOverridable	Object	Of	On
Operator	Option	Optional	Or
OrElse	Overloads	Overridable	Overrides
ParamArray	Partial	Private	Property
Protected	Public	RaiseEvent	ReadOnly
ReDim	REM	RemoveHandler	Resume
Return	SByte	Select	Set
Shadows	Shared	Short	Single
Static	Step	Stop	String
Structure	Sub	SyncLock	Then
Throw	To	True	Try
TryCast	TypeOf	Variant	Wend
UInteger	ULong	UShort	Using
When	While	Widening	With
WithEvents	WriteOnly	Xor	#Const
#Else	#ElseIf	#End	#If
-	&	&=	*
*=	/	/=	\
\=	^	^=	+
+=	=	-=

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