While ignoring pressure from peer developers, I have chosen to stick with VB.NET as my development platform.  Almost everything I work on can be done with VB.NET, including converting those really handy C# code bits into VB.NET.  That being said, the other day I ran across a hand tip that will definitely make my life easier when writing code.  When writing a for loop statement I can nest the declaration in the For Next syntax.

For example, in the past I would write out a For Next statement like this:

Dim item as Object = Nothing 

For Each item in myObject 

...do something.. 

Next 

Now I would write it like this:

For Each item As Object In myObject 

    ...do something... 

Next 

I knew that C# can do this, but for some reason I never knew that VB.NET could also handle this syntax.