VB.Net Inline comments

Question

Being a c# developer, I was very surprised to find i couldn't create inline comments within an array declaration.

In a test case I want to simulate 2 byte array packets coming through together:

Dim buffer As Byte() =
{
   &HF5,
   &H5,
   &H53,
   ... many more bytes
   &H1,
   &H2,
   &HCE, 
   &HF5, 'New packet starts here... this doesn't work :(
   &H5,
   &H53,
   ... many more bytes
   &H1,
   &H2,
   &H1A
}

Surely I'm missing something, is it possible to place inline comments within an array declaration?

If not, is there a decent work around? Probably need to split array into 2 and then join them together?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

No it is not possible.
But, as you found out by yourself, in the future version - Visual Basic 14 (Visual Studio 2015) this will be possible New Language Features in Visual Basic 14

For current version you can create a properly named variable and use it in the array declaration

Dim newPacketStarts As Byte = &HF5

If you have a lot of hardcoded values - create constants with describable names

Const StartOfNewPacket As Byte = &HF5
Const AnotherValue As Byte = &H1
Const AnotherNewvalue As Byte = &HF53
'...

Declare array then

Dim buffer As Byte() = 
    {
        StartOfNewPacket,
        AnotherValue,
        AnotherNewvalue
    }