http://msmvps.com/blogs/bill/archive/2007/10/11/vb-10-thoughts-part-6.aspxStandardization IOSO or ECMA standardization, to allow fully open development and meet organizational and governmental requirements for open standards. At present part of the language is under Patent protection, making it unclear for example if a thirdenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://msmvps.com/blogs/bill/archive/2007/10/11/vb-10-thoughts-part-6.aspx#1243427Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:47:08 GMTd67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1243427Anthony D. Green, MCPD<p>#25, YES</p> <p>#24, You won't get the intellisense support initially (it kicks in for the constructor, as I recall) but prefixing the line with Call works:</p> <p>Call New Thread(AddressOf bar).Start()</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1243427" width="1" height="1">http://msmvps.com/blogs/bill/archive/2007/10/11/vb-10-thoughts-part-6.aspx#1243364Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:18:43 GMTd67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1243364bill<p>I think the arguement could be made that the compiler can resolve this in this case, but it might not alwasy be human readable. For example you could have :</p> <p>New A.B</p> <p>That'd be unclear if a method named B is being called, or B is a class inside namespace A (or class A) However with parenthesis, it is clear as to which it is:</p> <p>(New A).B</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1243364" width="1" height="1">http://msmvps.com/blogs/bill/archive/2007/10/11/vb-10-thoughts-part-6.aspx#1243358Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:06:23 GMTd67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1243358HC<p>#24</p> <p>Is there a reason why</p> <p> &nbsp;New Thread(AddressOf bar).Start()</p> <p>doesn't/can't work?</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1243358" width="1" height="1">