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I have not touched VB.NET since early in .NET Beta 1, so I am a bit rusty. One thing I was happy to find is support for using statements in VB.NET 2005. It took me a try or two to figure out the syntax, so I figured I would post it here for future reference.

Public Class Class1

    Public Sub Go()
        Using sw As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter("C:\hey.txt")
            sw.Write("HEY")
        End Using
    End Sub

End Class

via MSDN: "The using statement obtains one or more resources, executes a statement, and then disposes of the resource."

For those unfamailar with a using statement, you can use for classes which implement IDisposable. As soon as the variable defined in the using section goes out of scope, Dispose is called.