Greetings!

Are Import statements necessary at the top of the code behind file in ASP.net? (using VB)

Not sure if I'm reading something that's out of date or doesn't apply, or I'm just plain confused but I thought all namespaces and classes were included by default which would make that process redundant.

But I'm probably just confused... wouldn't be the first time.

No, they are absolutely necessary. You automatically get the core library. If however you want to use generics, streams, or any number of other things you need to import the proper library in order to use those things. Why automatically include file streams or generics if you aren't going to use them.

OK, thanks for that info - that makes sense.

No. But when you working with generics or some other .net libraries you must to import the .net libraries other wise it won’t work. For example you want to do what ever operation using sql server you should import the sqlclient library first, other wise .net framework gives error.

thanks for that info - that makes sense.