Array starting at 1

If I recall correctly and backed up by a article

Lower Boundary Is Always Zero VB6 allowed you to have a nonzero lower boundary in your arrays in a couple of ways. First, you could declare an array to have a certain range. If you wanted an array to start with 1, you declared it like this: Dim y(1 To 3) As Integer This would create an array with three elements, indexed 1–3. If you didn't like this method, you could use Option Base, which allowed you to set the default lower boundary to either 0 (the default) or 1. VB.NET removes those two options from you. You cannot use the "1 to x" syntax, and Option Base is no longer supported. In fact, because the lower boundary of the array is always 0, the Lbound function is no longer supported.

So you are somewhat restricted to creating an array of 600 elements and not using element 0 or creating a 599 element array and started at element 0. Either way you get 00 elements in your application.

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
ReDim Preserve Array1(600)
End Sub
End Class

spotty at 2007-8-31 >

So the premise of the article is correct - just additional syntax has been added to make VB6 feel more comfortable.

Either way non-zero based arrays is not support in .NET 1.0, 1.1 or 2.0 and I havent seen anything to indicate that its about to make a reappearance in any of the current .NET development - so basically you cant create non zero based arrays - but now have a choice of syntax (although the older VB 0 to x is supported - the lower bound has to be 0 ) so you are simply creating unnecessary additional verbosity in an already verbose language.

spotty at 2007-8-31 >