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still teasing out thoughts from the cobwebs

15. Date literals
    today in VB you can only specify date literals in the format of #MM/dd/yyyy#
    That's incredibly USA centric. I'd like to input date literals in the form of dd/MM/yyyy, but because that would cause an ambiguity, I'd really like to see dd MMM yyyy, or failing that the ISO 8601 standard format of yyyy-MM-dd and yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ss
    
16. select case object
    I've been asking for this one for so long I forgot about it till I read the comments on Paul's blog.
    Ideally in the format of :
    
       Select Case sender Is
            Case TextBox1
                 ....
            Case TextBox2
                 ....
    
    similarly
    
    
   Select Case TypeOf(sender) Is
        Case TextBox
             ....
        Case Label
             ....




17. Catches in Using blocks
    Again this is one that I had forgotten about.
    
    Using aDisopable As  .....
    
    Catch Ex As Exception
    
    End Using
     
    
18. Calling partial methods
    VB 9 gives us partial methods, but the partial method itself has to be empty. It would be nice if there was a default method generated which you could still use, similar to the capabilities or Overrides but without the inheritance need.  I thought the use OverWrite could be used, e.g:
     

   'generated code
   Overwriteable Sub Foo()
      Dosomething()
   End Sub

   'user code
   Overwrite Sub Foo()
      DosomethingElse()
      Overwriten()'calls the generated overwriteable method 
   End Sub