Help needed converting C# to VB 1

[mwa]

My company is using a piece of software developed by another company. Their software has an API to add/remove documents from their system. They've given us a sample written in C#, and I'm in the process of converting it to VB. I'm stuck trying to understand one thing. They have the following:

List<DocAttribute> metadata = new List<DocAttribute>();
metadata.Add(new DocAttribute() { Name = "DocumentType", Value = txtDocType.Text});
metadata.Add(new DocAttribute() { Name = "SSN", Value = txtSsn.Text});

Here is what I came up with:

Dim metadata As List(Of DocAttribute) = New List(Of DocAttribute)
Dim attribute As New DocAttribute
Dim attribute2 As New DocAttribute
attribute.Name = "DocumentType"
attribute.Value = txtDocType.Text
metadata.Add(attribute)
attribute2.Name = "SSN"
attribute2.Value = txtSsn.Text
metadata.Add(attribute2)

Three lines of code vs. Nine lines of code... It works, but is there a better way to do this in VB? What would be the syntax to add the attributes on the fly, without having to dim a new attribute variable for each attribute?

Thanks in advance...

mwa
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[mwa]

I just figured it out... For future reference:

metadata.add (new DocAttribute() with {.name="name", .value="123"} )

A star for me!

mwa
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[taree]

There are a lot of free tools on the web for converting C# to Vb.net.

This is the one I used most of the time.

http://www.developerfusion.com/tools/convert/csharp-to-vb/

 

[mwa]

Sweet! Thanks!

mwa
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