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Collection initialization syntax in Visual Basic 2008?
How is the following C# code translated to VB.NET?
var theVar = new List<string>{"one", "two", "three"};
Collection initializers are only available in VB.NET 2010, released 2010-04-12:
Dim theVar = New List(Of String) From { "one", "two", "three" }