Collection initialization syntax in VB 2008?

Question

I'm trying to determine if there's a way in Visual Basic 2008 (Express edition if that matters) to do inline collection initialization, a la JavaScript or Python:

Dim oMapping As Dictionary(Of Integer, String) = {{1,"First"}, {2, "Second"}}

I know VB2008 supports array initialization like this, but I can't seem to get it to work for collections... do I have the syntax wrong, or is it just not implemented?

Answer 1

VB 9 doesn't support this yet. However, VB 10 will.

Answer 2

Hmm, that's what I was afraid of. Thanks.