Is there a conditional ternary operator in VB.NET?

Question

In Perl (and other languages) a conditional ternary operator can be expressed like this:

my $foo = $bar = $buz ? $cat : $dog;

Is there a similar operator in VB.NET?

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Thanks to Lucky and Kris, I now know that in VB.NET this operation is expressed like this:

Dim foo as String = IF(bar = buz, cat, dog)

Answer 1

Depends. The If operator in VB.NET 2008 acts as a ternary operator. This was just introduced, prior to 2008 this was not available. Here's some more info: Visual Basic If announcement

Answer 2

iif has always been available in VB, even in VB6.

Dim foo as String = iif(bar = buz, cat, dog)

It is not a true operator, as such, but a function in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace.