what is the meaning of the dollar sign after a method name in vb.net

Question

what is the meaning of the dollar sign after a method name in vb.net

like this:

Replace$(\"EG000000\", \"0\", \"\")

Answer 1

Old type notifier - see this

Some other old ones:

& -> Long
% -> Integer
# -> Double
! -> Single
@ -> Decimal
$ -> String

Still exist in VB.Net for the sake of backward compatibility...