sample VB.Net code for reading data from Big Query

Question

I need to query Google Big Query table using Google BigQuery API. I am using Visual Studio 2012 with VB.NET. I found a sample code in C# and I could get it to work with a minor change in Visual Studio 2012 using C#.

Reference: Google BigQuery with .NET documentation/ samples

I need the code in VB.NET so I converted the code to VB.Net and everything compiles fine except the following line of code.

// Get the auth URL in C# that works fine:
            IAuthorizationState state = new AuthorizationState(new[] {  BigqueryService.Scopes.Bigquery.GetStringValue() });

    ' Get the auth URL in VB.NET that is giving an error “Type expected” :      
Dim state As IAuthorizationState = New AuthorizationState(New () {BigqueryService.Scopes.Bigquery.GetStringValue()})

Visual Studio give the error “Type expected” for the code in VB.NET. Anybody knows that what is the correct syntax in VB.NET for this line of code?

Answer 1

It's exactly as your error describes. VB.Net doesn't like inferred array initializers so

Dim state As IAuthorizationState = New AuthorizationState(New () {BigqueryService.S...

should be something like

Dim state As IAuthorizationState = New AuthorizationState(New TheTypeOfArrayHere() {BigqueryService.S...