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I want to perform a bitwise-AND operation in VB.NET, taking a Short (16-bit) variable and ANDing it with ‘0000000011111111’ (thereby retaining only the least-significant byte / 8 least-significant bits).
How can I do it?
0000000011111111 represented as a VB hex literal is &HFF (or &H00FF if you want to be explicit), and the ordinary AND operator is actually a bitwise operator. So to mask off the top byte of a Short you’d write:
For more creative ways of getting a binary constant into VB, see: VB.NET Assigning a binary constant