I've noticed, through many examples in the book, that some methods are declared with methodname(). When entering these, intellisense can often insert the name for you, but never seems to include the parentheses. I've tried a few both ways and it doesn't seem to make any difference.

My question is, are there situations where you must enter the parentheses (obviously function calls I guess)? How do you know when it's optional and when it's not?

Thanks..

The compiler gives you an error when they are required ;-)

I do a lot of C# where they are always required, so I always type them in VB. I think they are at least optional when calling a parameterless method. E.g.:

MethodName

instead of

MethodName()

Cheers,

Imar

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