Microsoft.VisualBasic is not automatic imported

Elements Mercury
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To reproduce, create a new project from the Mercury Console - .Net Framework template

Create this sub main:

Sub Main()
    WriteLn("Test" & vbTab & "the vbTab character")
End Sub

Compile the code, and you get the error:
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I believe that’s as designed. We tried changing that a while back to attempt to fix some other issue, and IIRC all hell broke loose when we did, breaking all kinds of things.

3

In that case, the Mercury templates should have it as default use.

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Okay. I’ll add that

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WinForms already has

<DefaultUses>Microsoft.VisualBasic;System;System.Collections;System.Collections.Generic;System.Data;System.Drawing;System.Diagnostics;System.Windows.Forms;System.Linq;System.Xml.Linq;System.Threading.Tasks</DefaultUses>

should I add there same set to all? (minus actual System.Windows.Forms in the non-WInForms ones)?

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Yes, except for system.windows.forms and System.Drawing - that is only needed for winforms.

Default imported in a framework Copnsole app (VB):
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So that set is correct.

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