NewLine - For All Platforms

A lot of us code vbCrLf at the end of a string when we want to move to a new line in the output.

MsgBox( _
   "This is a message" _
   & NewLine & _
   "on two lines.")

The "CrLf" stands for "carriage return, line feed" and is compiled into hex 0D & 0A. It's been the way I've programmed it for ages. For Windows platforms, that's not a problem. But if there's a chance that your code will run on another platform, you probably want to use Environment.vbNewLine. There are .NET ports for non-Windows environments, such as Mono.

The reason is that for some of these other environments, CrLf isn't a "new line". The Microsoft doc states that:

"The property value of NewLine is a constant customized specifically for the current platform and implementation of the .NET Framework."

Note that Microsoft also provides a different NewLine in the namespace Microsoft.VisualBasic.ControlChars. This code ...

Imports _
Microsoft.VisualBasic.ControlChars
Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Button1_Click( ...
        MsgBox( _
           "This is a message" _
           & NewLine & _
           "on two lines.")
    End Sub
End Class

... will give you a CrLf and not a platform independant value. (But then, the Imports for Microsoft.VisualBasic.ControlChars would probably fail on another platform anyway.)