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Patrick Szalapski
Patrick Szalapski

Reputation: 9439

In VB.NET, how to call a property's Getter without using its value?

Suppose I have a third-party library with a shared (static) property with a getter that initializes some state, and I want to call it without using the returned value. Obviously, if that property on foo is named Bar, I could do:

Dim dummy = foo.Bar

Is there a good way to call this that doesn't require the dummy reference?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 224

Answers (1)

Meta-Knight
Meta-Knight

Reputation: 17845

No. If you try to call it without assigning the value:

foo.Bar

the error message is pretty clear:

Property access must assign to the property or use its value.

Property getters should just return state and shouldn't have any side-effects, so it makes no sense to call it without using the return value. It's an unfortunate design by the third-party library.

Upvotes: 5

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