Console Application Namespaces

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	Visual Basic .NET Unleashed By Paul Kimmel
	Table of Contents
	Chapter 13.  Creating a Console Application

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Console Application Namespaces

When you create a new console application, the Console Application template includes the System, System.Data, and System.XML namespaces by default. You do not get System.Window.Forms, precluding access to classes that allow you to define a GUI and the Application class.

System.Data includes classes in the ADO.NET architecture, allowing you to access data. System.XML offers classes for processing XML, and the System namespace is a core namespace in the CLR and includes access to classes like the Console class used throughout this chapter.

Note

To clearly show where some capabilities came from, Listing 13.7 uses the complete path at a couple of locations. Line 120 uses the complete path to the shared methods Exists. We could have skipped the System.IO portion of the namespace because we imported that namespace at the top of the module. Line 156 uses the complete System.Collections.IComparer.Compare path to indicate that StringComparer implements the Compare interface.

Tip

Other languages in .NET do not support including a class or interface name in an Imports statement. C# (C-sharp) requires that an Imports statement only include namespaces.

If you need additional capabilities, you can add an Imports statement at the top of the module that needs a particular namespace or add the namespace on the Imports page of the Property Pages dialog box. Listing 13.7 imports the System.IO namespace.

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