SUMMARY
The following language features are available in Visual Basic 5.0 and 6.0, but are not available in Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic (VBCE) or eMbedded Visual Basic (eVB).
Category Omitted Feature/Keyword and Notes
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Array Handling Option Base,
Declaring arrays with lower bound <> 0
Collection Add,
Count,
Item,
Remove,
Access to collections using ! character
(for example, MyCollection!Item)
Conditional
Compilation #Const,
#If...Then...#Else,
Most uses of the # character, including file access using
#filenum (#date# is okay)
Control Flow DoEvents,
GoSub...Return,
GoTo,
On Error GoTo,
On...GoSub,
On...GoTo,
line numbers,
Line labels,
With...End With,
End,
Stop
NOTE: Use App.End to end your program.
On Error Resume Next is provided for error handling.
Conversion CVar,
CVDate,
Str,
Val
Data Types All intrinsic data types except Variant,
Type...End Type,
As keyword
NOTE: (VBCE and eVB allow the use of Dim ... As ... only for Intellisense help in the design environment.)
Date/Time Date statement,
Time statement,
Timer
DDE All DDE Functions
Debugging Debug.Assert,
Debug.Print,
End,
Stop
Declaration Declare,
New,
Optional,
ParamArray,
Property Get,
Property Let,
Property Set,
Static
Error Handling Erl,
Error,
On Error...Resume,
Resume
File
Input/Output All traditional Basic file I/O (use Windows CE ActiveX
controls for file I/O)
Financial All financial functions (use Windows CE ActiveX controls
for financial functions)
Object
Manipulation TypeOf
Operators Like
Options Deftype,
Option Base,
Option Compare,
Option Private Module
Select Case Expressions containing Is keyword or any comparison
operators,
Expressions containing a range of values using the To
keyword
Statements Beep
Statements with
a $ Character Chr$,
Command$,
Date$,
Environ$,
Error$,
Format$,
InputBox$,
Lcase$,
Left$,
Ltrim$,
Mid$,
Right$,
Rtrim$,
Space$,
Str$,
String$,
Time$,
Trim$,
case$
Strings Fixed-length strings,
LSet,
RSet,
Mid Statement,
StrConv
Using Objects Collection access using !