Does anyone know how to stop Visual Studio VB.NET editor from changing my beautiful scientific notation numbers into hideous decimal notation?
It seems that this is
I don't think there's a way to do it. You could rely on the implicit CDbl() conversion in this situation:
CDbl()
Dim myPrettyNumber As Double = "1E-16"
Or if you just want to be able to read it more easily, add a comment:
Dim myUglyNumber As Double = 0.0000000000000001 ' 1E-16