Using Edit and Continue Behavior
Visual Basic .NET offers some support for edit and continue behavior; however, by default edit and continue behavior is disabled for Visual Basic .NET. This is one feature of Visual Studio .NET that is a bit misleading. If you enable edit and continue behavior (Tools|Options|Debugger|Edit and Continue) for Visual Basic .NET, you will be able to modify your code while debugging, but the most common response is that the changes are ignored until you restart. This can be helpful if it will prevent you from losing the changes you desire, but it may make debugging confusing since the line numbers in the code may not coincide with the references in the debug file.
The Visual Studio .NET help documentation under Edit ...
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