sir what is the importans of imports in vb.net

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I don't know about Imports in vb.net.

Why do we used import like Imports System.data?

Please guide me, is there any free site for downloading ebooks for vb.net?

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harshit

Posted 25-Oct-11 20:31pm

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Updated 25-Oct-11 21:45pm

Dalek Dave

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Sander Rossel · Answer 1 · 2011-10-25T20:38:00

Using the Imports key word at the top of your document enables you to not have to fully type out the namespace everytime you use it. It's the same in C#, except VB has some namespaces imported for you as a standard, whereas C# always needs everything you need imported (using C#)
So this code:

VB

Public Class Test

   Public Sub New
      Dim cmb As New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand
   End Sub

End Class

Could be a lot shorter like this:

VB

Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Public Class Test

   Public Sub New
      ' Namespace is imported so we don't have to fully type the namespace!
      Dim cmb As New SqlCommand
   End Sub

End Class

You always have to Import the entire namespace.
So this won't work:

VB

Imports System
Imports Data.SqlClient ' This still needs to be System.Data.EntityClient

You can also define aliases for namespace, like so:

VB

Imports MyAlias = System.Data.SqlClient

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Have a look at below link for information on "Imports".
Imports Statement

Have a look at below link to start with VB.Net.
Visual Basic .NET Programming for Beginners

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Posted 25-Oct-11 20:50pm

RaisKazi

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Abhinav S 26-Oct-11 3:25am

5!

RaisKazi 26-Oct-11 3:32am

Thank you Abhinav. :)

Manoj Kishor Bhoir · Answer 4 · 2011-10-25T21:01:00

An Import Statement is mainly used to link with the external dynamic link libraries i.e(Dll's)
or the dll's provided by the .Net Framework so we can
access the additional functionalities defined in the dll's in our project.
Dll contains the classes.we can use the subrutins and functions define in
class by creating object of that class

For Example :
To perform Database operations we have to import

VB

Imports System.Data

or
To perform different operations on file we have to import

VB

Imports System.Io

To Create object of class :

VB

Dim Obj as New ClassName

To Use Functions or Methods/Subrutines

VB

Obj.[Function/Method]

PIR FAHIM SHAH · Answer 5 · 2011-10-26T00:47:00

"import.system.anything" is very important for importing something from the FCL library of .net...as we know that FCL is library where all the class are present
and thus we can use its method,properties etc,,,
Forexample if we want to use the image in a progran then we should import the image class....etc
But addrefernce is also necessay with import if we are doing program in console.while in form programing only import works all....

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