Coalesce statement and conditional statement in VB.NET

Question

Possible duplicate:
Is there a conditional ternary operator in VB.NET?

Hi guys, Can we use the Coalesce operator (??) and the conditional ternary operator (:) in VB.NET, as in C #?

Answer 1

I think you can come close to using the inline if statement:

//C# int x = a ? b : c; 'VB.Net Dim x as Integer = If(a, b, c) 

Answer 2

 Sub Main() Dim x, z As Object Dim y As Nullable(Of Integer) z = "1243" Dim c As Object = Coalesce(x, y, z) End Sub Private Function Coalesce(ByVal ParamArray x As Object()) Return x.First(Function(y) Not IsNothing(y)) End Function 

Answer 3

for reference only, Coalesce operator for String

 Private Function Coalesce(ByVal ParamArray Parameters As String()) As String For Each Parameter As String In Parameters If Not Parameter Is Nothing Then Return Parameter End If Next Return Nothing End Function 

Answer 4

If there should be IIf

Dim x as Integer=IIf(a,b,c)