title: Single statement across multiple lines in VB.NET without the underscore character
body: <p>Is there a way to have a statement across multiple lines without the underscore character?</p>
  
  <p>It is really annoying in multi-line strings such as SQL statements, and especially <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query" rel="noreferrer">LINQ</a> queries.</p>
  
  <p>Beside from the ugliness and difficulty when changing a line (nothing lines up anymore), you can't use comments in the middle of the multi-line statement.</p>
  
  <p>Examples of my daily personal hell.</p>
  
  <pre><code>dim results = from a in articles _
                where a.articleID = 4 _ ' articleID     - Nope, can't do this
                select a.articleName
  
  
  dim createArticle as string = _
      "Create table article " &amp; _
      "    (articleID int " &amp; _
      "    ,articleName varchar(50) " &amp; _
      "    )"
  </code></pre>