No increment operator in VB.net

Question

I am fairly new to vb.net and came across this issue while converting a for loop in C# to VB.net I realized that the increment operators are not available in vb.net (++ and

Answer 1

Simply because the designers thought that i++ is unnecessary when you have i += 1.

For loops don't need either one, so you don't lose anything.

It's Visual Basic after all... why make it complicated?