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

The following extension methods replicate ++x x++ --x x--

Public Module INC_DEC

  
  Public Function PreINC(ByRef x As Integer) As Integer
    Return Interlocked.Increment(x)
  End Function

  
  Public Function PostINC(ByRef x As Integer) As Integer
    Dim tmp = x
    Interlocked.Increment(x)
    Return tmp
  End Function

  
  Public Function PreDEC(ByRef x As Integer) As Integer
    Return Interlocked.Decrement(x)
  End Function

  
  Public Function PostDEC(ByRef x As Integer) As Integer
    Dim tmp = x
    Interlocked.Decrement(x)
    Return tmp 
  End Function
End Module