Question

With C# anonymous delegates, we can avoid declaration of extra method, I know in VB.NET they’re not available, but is there a design pattern that I can use so that I can avoid writing an extra method each time? I need it for SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges which will be used a lot of times in our code.

for example

SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(
                    delegate()
                    {
                        //some code here. 
                    }
                );

I want in VB.NET to do something like:

using RunWithElevatedPrivil() 
'some code here. 
end using 

Answer 1

Check this link, it may help:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepointdevelopment/thread/4854962a-0d4e-40e4-909a-581bb7a5ab03

In vb.net you can define a parameterless sub that does the code you
want executed with higher privileges and declare it as
CodeToRunElevated:

You will have to define module level variables for it to use.

Dim secureCode As New SPSecurity.CodeToRunElevated(AddressOf
Me.SPCode) SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(secureCode)