iif-function – Tarik Billa

Iif equivalent in C#

January 29, 2023 by Tarik

C# has the ? ternary operator, like other C-style languages. However, this is not perfectly equivalent to IIf(); there are two important differences. To explain the first difference, the false-part argument for this IIf() call causes a DivideByZeroException, even though the boolean argument is True. IIf(true, 1, 1/0) IIf() is just a function, and like … Read more

Performance difference between IIf() and If

January 6, 2023 by Tarik

VB has the following If statement which the question refers to, I think: ‘ Usage 1 Dim result = If(a > 5, “World”, “Hello”) ‘ Usage 2 Dim foo = If(result, “Alternative”) The first is basically C#’s ternary conditional operator and the second is its coalesce operator (return result unless it’s Nothing, in which case … Read more