3.4. Displaying a Single Line of Text with Multiple Statements

The message Welcome to Visual Basic! can be displayed using multiple statements. Fig. 3.15 uses two method calls to produce the same output as the program in Fig. 3.1.

Figure 3.15. Displaying a line of text with multiple statements.
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					' Fig. 3.15: Welcome2.vb
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					' Displaying a line of text with multiple statements.
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					Module SecondWelcome
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					Sub Main()
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					Console.Write("Welcome to  ")      
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					Console.WriteLine("Visual  Basic!")
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					End Sub
					' Main
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					End Module
					' SecondWelcome
				
Welcome to Visual Basic!

Lines 8–9 of Fig. 3.15 display only one line of text in the Console window. The first statement calls Console method Write to display a string. Unlike WriteLine, Write does not position ...

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