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Visual Basic Run-Time Support in Silverlight

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Microsoft Silverlight comes with full Visual Basic language support including recently added features such as LINQ, XML Literals, and XML Axis properties. However, some run-time features of Visual Basic are not supported in Microsoft Silverlight. Features that are not supported include the My Namespace, financial functions, and file system functions. This topic lists which run-time features are not supported in Microsoft Silverlight.

Visual Basic Namespaces Not Supported in Silverlight

  • Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices

  • Microsoft.VisualBasic.Devices

  • Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO

  • Microsoft.VisualBasic.Logging

  • Microsoft.VisualBasic.MyServices

  • Microsoft.VisualBasic.MyServices.Internal

NoteNote:

The Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices namespace supports the .NET Framework infrastructure. There are differences between the Microsoft Silverlight version of The Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices namespace and the .NET Framework and Visual Studio version. These differences are not listed in this topic because The Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices namespace is not intended to be used directly from your code.

Visual Basic Run-Time Members Not Supported in Silverlight

The following attributes, classes, enumerations, and members from the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace are not supported in Microsoft.Silverlight.

  • AppWinStyle enumeration

  • AudioPlayMode enumeration

  • ComClassAttribute attribute

  • Conversion.Oct method

  • DueDate enumeration

  • ErrObject.HelpContext property

  • ErrObject.HelpFile property

  • ErrObject.LastDLLError property

  • ErrObject.Source property

  • FileSystem class

  • FileAttribute enumeration

  • Financial class

  • Information.QBColor method

  • Information.RGB method

  • Information.SystemTypeName method

  • Information.TypeName method

  • Information.VbTypeName method

  • Information.IsNumeric method

  • Interaction.AppActivate method

  • Interaction.Beep method

  • Interaction.CallByName method

  • Interaction.Command method

  • Interaction.CreateObject method

  • Interaction.DeleteSetting method

  • Interaction.Environ method

  • Interaction.GetAllSettings method

  • Interaction.GetObject method

  • Interaction.GetSetting method

  • Interaction.InputBox method

  • Interaction.MsgBox method

  • Interaction.SaveSetting method

  • Interaction.Shell method

  • MsgBoxResult enumeration

  • MsgBoxStyle enumeration

  • OpenAccess enumeration

  • OpenMode enumeration

  • OpenShare enumeration

  • SpcInfo class

  • Strings.StrConv method

  • Strings.Len method

    NoteNote:

    The Strings.Len method is supported in Microsoft Silverlight.

  • TabInfo class

  • VBFixedArrayAttribute class

  • VBFixedStringAttribute class

  • VbStrConv enumeration

Other Visual Basic Differences in Microsoft Silverlight

Microsoft.VisualBasic.DateAndTime

The following members of the DateAndTime class are read-only and cannot be set in Microsoft Silverlight:

The DateString property always returns the system date as "MM-dd-yyyy" if you are running Visual Basic within Microsoft Silverlight regardless of the system locale.

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