VB.Net calling New without assigning value

Question

In C# I can do this:

new SomeObjectType("abc", 10);

In other words, I can call new without assigning the created instance to any variable. However, in VB.Net it seems I cannot do the same thing.

New SomeObjectType("abc", 10) ' syntax error

Is there a way to do this in VB.Net?

Answer 1

That should be the correct syntax, e.g.

Dim name As New String
Dim url As New Uri("http://www.somedomain.com")

Have you got some more code where this is happening?

Answer 2

See the answers to this other SO Answer

So this should work:

With New SomeObjectType("abc", 10)
End With

Answer 3

The following works on the Mono VB compiler (vbnc, version 0.0.0.5914, Mono 2.4.2 - r):

Call New SomeObjectType("abc", 10)

Notice the required Call.