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 In VB9, there's a bug when using XML literals with any type member that is a protected keyword.  For example, given the following psuedo types,

Class Doc
   Public Property [Imports]() As List(Of DocImports)
End Class

Class DocImports
   Public Property [Namespace]() As String

The following code won't compile:

Dim d As New Doc

The trick is to escape the Imports property inside the the XML query:

Dim xml = <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
                <Imports>
                   <%= From item In d.[Imports] _
                      Select <Import><Namespace><%= item.Namespace %></Namespace></Import> %>
                </Imports>

This seems to only apply to some keywords, not all. Imports, Sub, Function all cause the problem, yet Class, Private and Namespace don't.  One thing you'll see is the <%= substitution block won't get the characteristic highlight colour.

And another quirk is if the property is called Option, VB will colour that as if it is a keyword even when it is a property such as stock.Option.  This one only seems to impact Option, and does not impact the actual compile, only code aesthetics ;)