>>>>>>(1) The short way is to cast the return result to UInteger, and change the return type of GetCrc32() to UInteger
>>>>>
>>>>>This line cannot be changed to UInteger:
>>>>>
>>>>>

>>>>>        Dim lnCRC32Result As Integer = &HFFFFFFFF
>>>>>

>>>>>
>>>>>It would give an error: "Constant expression not representable in type 'UInteger"
>>>>
>>>>Yes, it seems vb interpretes those as signed
>>>>
>>>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s9cz43ek.aspx
>>>>
>>>>Append the type to the constant. U and I
>>>>

>>>>    Dim lnCRC32Result As UInteger = &HFFFFFFFFUI
>>>>

>>>
>>>There you go! Thx, didn't know that syntax existed :-{
>>
>>Well, you know more vb than I do -
>I know VB just well enough to work with it where it maps pretty straightforwardly to C# and that's about it.
>>I just googled my way through
>And I was too lazy :-}


I just had the impression you were not in favour of unsigned types ;)