Q184650: INFO: What Language Features does VB have that VBCE/eVB Do Not

Article: Q184650
Product(s): Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows
Version(s): 3.0,5.0,6.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbToolkit kbVBp500 kbVBp600 kbOSWinCE100 kbGrpDSVB
Last Modified: 16-NOV-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition for Windows, versions 5.0, 6.0 
- Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows, versions 5.0, 6.0 
- Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.0 
- Microsoft eMbedded Visual Basic, version 3.0 
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SUMMARY
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The following language features are available in Visual Basic 5.0 and 6.0, but
are not available in Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic (VBCE) or eMbedded
Visual Basic (eVB).

Category         Omitted Feature/Keyword and Notes
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Array Handling   Option Base,
                Declaring arrays with lower bound <> 0

Collection       Add,
                Count,
                Item,
                Remove,
                Access to collections using ! character
                (for example, MyCollection!Item)

Conditional
Compilation      #Const,
                #If...Then...#Else,
                Most uses of the # character, including file access using
                #filenum (#date# is okay)

Control Flow     DoEvents,
                GoSub...Return,
                GoTo,
                On Error GoTo,
                On...GoSub,
                On...GoTo,
                line numbers,
                Line labels,
                With...End With,
                End,
                Stop
                NOTE: Use App.End to end your program.
                On Error Resume Next is provided for error handling.

Conversion       CVar,
                CVDate,
                Str,
                Val

Data Types       All intrinsic data types except Variant, 
                Type...End Type,
                As keyword
                NOTE: (VBCE and eVB allow the use of Dim ... As ... only for Intellisense help in the design environment.)

Date/Time        Date statement,
                Time statement,
                Timer

DDE              All DDE Functions

Debugging        Debug.Assert,
                Debug.Print,
                End,
                Stop

Declaration      Declare,
                New,
                Optional,
                ParamArray,
                Property Get,
                Property Let,
                Property Set,
                Static

Error Handling   Erl,
                Error,
                On Error...Resume,
                Resume

File
Input/Output     All traditional Basic file I/O (use Windows CE ActiveX
                controls for file I/O)

Financial        All financial functions (use Windows CE ActiveX controls
                for financial functions)

Object
Manipulation     TypeOf

Operators        Like

Options          Deftype,
                Option Base,
                Option Compare,
                Option Private Module

Select Case      Expressions containing Is keyword or any comparison
                operators,
                Expressions containing a range of values using the To
                keyword

Statements       Beep

Statements with
a $ Character    Chr$,
                Command$,
                Date$,
                Environ$,
                Error$,
                Format$,
                InputBox$,
                Lcase$,
                Left$,
                Ltrim$,
                Mid$,
                Right$,
                Rtrim$,
                Space$,
                Str$,
                String$,
                Time$,
                Trim$,
                case$

Strings          Fixed-length strings,
                LSet,
                RSet,
                Mid Statement,
                StrConv

Using Objects    Collection access using !

REFERENCES
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Windows CE Toolkit Help for Visual Basic 6.0

eMbedded Visual Basic Online Help

Additional query words: vbce vbce6 wince evb

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Keywords          : kbToolkit kbVBp500 kbVBp600 kbOSWinCE100 kbGrpDSVB 
Technology        : kbVBSearch kbAudDeveloper kbZNotKeyword6 kbZNotKeyword2 kbVB500Search kbVB600Search kbVB500 kbVB600 kbVBeMbSearch kbWinCETKVBSearch kbWinCESearch kbVBeMb300
Version           : :3.0,5.0,6.0
Issue type        : kbinfo

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