"Gerald Hernandez" <Cablewizard@spam_remove@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Even if you get any of these variations to actually compile, it is still
of
> little use.
> While VB.Net (pre 2005) does allow you to declare Unsigned Ints, there are
> no operators.
> You can add, subtract, etc. not even within the same data type.
> Even simple compares will choke in many cases.
>
> Gerald
>
>

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at> wrote in message
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> "Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> schrieb:
> > C# allows one to specify a constant with a type of uint, so you could
> > have,
> > say:
> >
> > private const uint varname = 0xFFFFFFF0
> >
> > How does one port such statements to VB .NET?
>
> Currently that's not supported by VB.NET because VB.NET doesn't "natively"
> support unsigned types (notice that the unsigned types are not CLS
> compliant).
>
> Untested:
>
> \\\
> Private ReadOnly varname As UInt32 = _
> Convert.ToUInt32(&HFFFFFFF0)
> ///
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>
>

> C# allows one to specify a constant with a type of uint, so you could
> have,
> say:
>
> private const uint varname = 0xFFFFFFF0
>
> How does one port such statements to VB .NET?

"Gerald Hernandez" <Cablewizard@spam_remove@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Even if you get any of these variations to actually compile, it is still
of
> little use.
> While VB.Net (pre 2005) does allow you to declare Unsigned Ints, there are
> no operators.
> You can add, subtract, etc. not even within the same data type.
> Even simple compares will choke in many cases.

"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message
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> "Gerald Hernandez" <Cablewizard@spam_remove@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:uqVBBp4JFHA.1004@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Even if you get any of these variations to actually compile, it is still
> of
> > little use.
> > While VB.Net (pre 2005) does allow you to declare Unsigned Ints, there
are
> > no operators.
> > You can add, subtract, etc. not even within the same data type.
> > Even simple compares will choke in many cases.
>
> I understood that.
>
> Fer now, I'm just passing a constant to a sub/function, so I can get by
> cheating with Integer.
>