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Newby question about references in VB.NET

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SpankySpanky

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May 25, 2005
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AU
Please forgive the trivial question, but I cannot work this out.

I want to be able to do the following:

dim A as integer
dim B as object = A
B=33

and I need A to become 33. In other words I want to tell B to be a pointer or reference to A so that when I assign to B then that changes A.

Is this possible in VB.NET? I would rather not go unmanaged if possible.
 
Pretty sure this won't work because it would require an automatic up-cast from object (the type of B) to an int (the type of A), and the language just won't do that.

Chip H.


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