Nullable Types In VB 2005

In one of the MSDN articles on the C# enhancements for the 2005 version, there is a mention of Nullable Types (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/2005/overview/language/nullabletypes/).

Will Nullable Types be also available in VB 2005 I hope so, as Nullable Types is the only language feature that I find compelling enough to make me want to switch.

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Nullable Types In VB 2005

Jed Atreides

Nullable types will be available for all languages, as it is implemented within the .NET Framework. However, VB will not have the same support as C#.

For example:

Dim nullable As Nullable(Of Integer)

If (Not nullable.HasValue) Then
' Do something
End If

This can be done in C#, like so:

int nullable = 10;

if (nullable == null)
{
// Do something
}
Suyog
A.K.

No the differences don't go beyond syntax. You have the same support in VB, you just have fully write out the name of the Nullable type.
WLW
Thank you David. That's good news. Do the support differences that you are referring to, go beyond the syntactical differences that you show in your example
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