I tried to refactor my dynamic array into a List from System.Collections.Generic in .NET to make the code look cleaner.
The problem is that the List is completely useless by only accessing elements by value so that I can't write to them.
"Expression is a value and therefore cannot be the target of an assignment."
Is there a better collection class template for Visual Basic .NET 2010 that access elements by reference?
Pretty sure you're doing something wrong then.
public class Thing
{
public string Name { get; set; }
}
private static void Main(string[] args)
{
var list = new List<int>
{ 1, 2, 3 };
list[2] = 4;
Debug.Assert(list[2] == 4);
var thingList = new List<Thing>
{
new Thing { Name = "Dave" },
new Thing { Name = "Bruce" },
};
thingList[1].Name = "Batman";
Debug.Assert(thingList[1].Name == "Batman");
}
Just tested that code and it works fine.
Post some code.
Unless you're actually using a value type (i.e. a structure). In which case, it's hardly surprising that it's returned by value, since that is exactly what it's supposed to do.
Can you give an example of code generating this error?
I deleted that code to get it to work with a dynamic array again because I wanted to be on the safe side.
