Hi Claudio,

There isn't an equivalent of the "as" operator in VB.NET (unfortunately). What you need to do is check the type before you cast to it to make sure it will succeed.

Dim st As SomeType
If TypeOf obj Is SomeType Then st = CType(obj, SomeType)
If Not st Is Nothing Then ...

>Hey!
>
>what's the equivalent of C#'s "as" operator in VB.NET?
>
>in C#, we can do safe casts as in:
>
>

>human john = new Human();
>man anyman = john as man;
>if (anyman != null)
>   // john is man, so go ahead
>

>
>I know it is possible to use the "is" operator to check the type, but that's not optimized for performance. How's the optimized version for that in VB?
>
>TIA