Doing math in vb.net like Eval in javascript

Question

Is there any way to parse a string in vb.net (like, built in methods), that can do math like Eval can? For example, 3+(7/3.5) as a string would return 2.

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Answer 1

I don't know about VB.net built in, but we do stuff like this by linking in the IronPython runtime and passing it the expressions. This is way way faster that using reflection.