Objects implicitly instantiated in vb.net?

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Yes that is legacy behavior. Classes did not show up in VB until v4, before that Form1.Show was The Way to show forms. In order to keep previous code compatible (VB3 was also very popular), the old method was maintained.

It is still supported in .NET as a legal means to show forms. Initially, this was added to make it easy to migrate VB6 code to VB.NET. But is also there to make it easy to get something running in VB – MS refers to it as functionality at your fingertips and similar phrases.

Basically, it provides the tinkerer an easy way to program without understanding Objects and OOP. Imagine the questions we would have here if Form1.Show threw an error.

Explicit instancing is the better method because it is object oriented and makes it less likely your code will reference – or create – a new Form2 when you actually wanted to use an existing instance.

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