Specifying Optional Arguments with default values in Procedures in VB.net
By: Steven Holzner
You also can make arguments optional in VB .NET procedures if you use the Optional keyword when declaring those arguments. Note that if you make one argument optional, all the following arguments must also be optional, and you have to specify a default value for each optional argument (although you can set them to the keyword Nothing if you wish). You specify a default value with = default_value in the procedure's argument list. Here's an example where I'm making the string argument you pass to a Sub procedure named DisplayMessage optional, and giving that argument the default value "Hello from Visual Basic":
Module Module1 Sub Main() DisplayMessage() End Sub Sub DisplayMessage(Optional ByVal strText As String = _ "Hello from Visual Basic") System.Console.WriteLine(strText) End Sub End Module
Now when I call DisplayMessage with no arguments, as in the code above, the default value is used and this code displays:
Hello from Visual Basic
Tip |
VB6 had a function named IsMissing that would test if an optional argument had been given a value or not, but now that all optional arguments have default values, IsMissing has been removed. You can, however, use the IsNothing function to check if an argument has been set to Nothing. |
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