Question

Retrieving items from a Tuple is done by accessing the ItemX property.
Is there a way of naming each item so that using the Tuple will be more readable?

Code:

Looking for something like this:

Dim l As New Tuple(Of String, Integer)
l.Name
l.ID

Instead of:

Dim l As New Tuple(Of String, Integer)
l.Item1
l.Item2

Answer 1

No, there’s nothing in the tuple type that helps you out here. Options:

• If you need to pass the values in multiple methods, create your own type with appropriate properties. (You could derive from Tuple here if you really want, and just provide properties which delegate to Item1 and Item2, but I’m not sure I would)
• If you only need the values within one method, use an anonymous type