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I love the String object's Format method. It's an unusual application where I'm not using it to build messages. (Long ago and far away, I used to use it to assemble SQL statements.) Typical code looks ...

C# might be more elegant with escape sequences, but that doesn't mean Visual Basic is weaker in this area. Sometimes you just need to escape. I'm speaking, of course, about escape sequences in strings ...