Visual Basic Blog

Why VB2017 only supports consuming ref returning methods

April 6, 2017 Apr 6, 2017 04/6/17

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

Hi VBers, Last week Klaus wrote an amazing post detailing a number of improvements made to the Visual Basic IDE and language in Visual Studio 2017 (and he even forgot one, stay tuned for awesome). Regarding the new ref-return feature Jonathan Allen inquired as to why the design was so different from the one in C#. It's not uncommon for ...