VB.NET - IIF(,,) - Both “sides” are evaluated. What situations should I watch out for?

Question

I recently learned of the IIF(A,B,C) function. I\'m a long time VB/VB.NET Coder who recently spent a lot of time coming up to speed in SQL coding.

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Answer 1

According to MSDN, the "If" operator introduced in VB2008 will short-circuit instead, which would be ideal for your expensive computation case:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb513985.aspx