Question

This works nicely:

Public Const test As ULong = 1 << 30

This doesn’t work nicely:

Public Const test As ULong = 1 << 31

It creates this error:

Constant expression not representable in type ‘ULong’

How do I make it work?

This does work:

Public Const test As Long = 1 << 31

But I have to use ULong.

Answer 1

Try the following:

Public Const test As ULong = 1UL << 31 

You need to explicitly tell the compiler you are doing the operation on a ULong.

The C# equivalent works:

public const ulong test  = 1UL << 31;