Is there a way to force the type of a property of a VB.Net anonymous type?

Question

I mean something like this (in bold):

Dim anonType = New With {.Property1 = 10, .Property2 As Decimal? = Nothing}

Answer 1

You could always work around it like this..

Private Sub test()
    Dim tempDecimal? As Decimal = Nothing
    Dim anonType = New With {.Property1 = 10, .Property2 = tempDecimal}
    ' property value is nothing here, but if tempDecimal isnt declared as nullable,
    'the value will be 0
    anonType.property2 = Nothing 
    anonType.property2 = 5
    'tp will be Decimal here
    Dim tp As Type = anonType.property2.GetType
End Sub