VB.Net Initialising an array on the fly

Question

I wrote this - very simple - function, and then wondered does VB have some pre-built functionality to do this, but couldn\'t find anything specific.

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Answer 1

Any reason not to do:

Dim someNames() as string = New String(){"Han", "Luke", "Leia"}

The only difference is type inference, as far as I can tell.

I've just checked, and VB 9 has implicitly typed arrays too:

Dim someNames() as string = { "Han", "Luke", "Leia" }

(This wouldn't work in VB 8 as far as I know, but the explicit version would. The implicit version is necessary for anonymous types, which are also new to VB 9.)

Answer 2

Microsoft recommends the following format

Dim mixedTypes As Object() = New Object() {item1, item2, itemn}

per http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/8k8021te(v=VS.80).aspx

Note, you don't have to specify the size of new Array, as that is inferred from the initialized count of args. If you do want to specify the length, you specify not the "length" but index number of last space in array. ie. New Object(2) {0, 1, 2} ' note 3 args.

Answer 3

PrintNames(New String(){"Hans", "Luke", "Lia"})

Answer 4

Dim somenames() As String = {"hello", "world"}

Answer 5

The following codes will work in VB 10:

Dim someNames = {"Hans", "Luke", "Lia"} 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee336123.aspx