VB.Net calling New without assigning value

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Published on 2010-06-10T14:46:40Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 14:53 UTC
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In C# I can do this:

new SomeObjectType("abc", 10);

In other words, I can call new without assigning the created instance to any variable. However, in VB.Net it seems I cannot do the same thing.

New SomeObjectType("abc", 10) ' syntax error

Is there a way to do this in VB.Net?

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