declaration statement question (VB6?)

[bri189a]

I've been doing:

 

Dim x as SomeClass = new SomeClass(operators)

 

But I found accidently:

 

Dim x as New SomeClass(operators)

 

Is the first or second preferred .NET syntax...I've been using the first since it's similiar to C# syntax. Is one of them VB6?

[PlausiblyDamp]

Either work fine in VB.Net in fact all the following have the same end result

Dim a As Object
a = New Object

Dim b As Object = New Object

Dim c As New Object

You found that in good quality VB6 code the first was the prefered method as doing the dim blah as new thing syntax in VB6 behaved differently to declaring and initialising on two lines (more importantly the difference was quite subtle until you were hit by a nasty bug or two)