Generic Literals in VB.Net 2010

Okay, something very cool in VB.Net as of VS2010 is that you can use literals for assignments to generic collections...

'List from Literal
Dim myList As New List(Of Integer)() From {1,2,3,4,5}

'Dictionary from Literal
Dim myDic As New Dictionary(Of String, Integer)() From {
    {"key1", 1},
    {"key2", 2}
}

Then when trying to load with Tuple's as the value, I ran into a snag, since it didn't understand the conversion of the tuple literal values. I found that by creating the needed extension methods into this module that I could do what I wanted to accomplish.

Dim myQueue= New Queue(Of Tuple(Of Integer, Integer)) From {
    {19, 63},
    {20, 63}
}

As you can see, it really isn't so difficult to use, but can be really useful when using paired values in a given collection. Generic classes such as Tuple, and Generic collections can help a lot in data iteration.

TupleExtensionsForGenericCollectionsModule.vb.txt (4.45 kb)