commenting VB code

How to comment multiple lines of code/block of code in VB?

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• VB doesn't have such a construct at the language level. It has single line comments using apostrophe character:

  ' hello world
  ' this is a comment
  Rem this is also a comment
  

  However, Visual Studio has a functionality to automate this task. Select the lines you want and press Ctrl-K, Ctrl-C for commenting and Ctrl-K, Ctrl-U for uncommenting (General Development Settings shortcuts, look at the "Edit -> Advanced" menu while selecting some code to see the shortcuts).

  From Mehrdad Afshari

• The other answers explain how to comment/uncomment automatically in VB.NET. Just for completeness, in VB6 use these toolbar buttons: . More details here.

  From MarkJ

• In the vb++ you can comment the blocks of the comment with:

  CommentStart==>Type your comment and on many of the lines<==CommentEnd+/inc.

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