CInt和GetHashCode

Question

I came across some weird VB codes, when I am about to convert some VB codes to C#:

totalLinks = table1.Rows(i).Item("qty").GetHashCode) *  CInt(table2.Rows(i).Item("numOfLinks").GetHashCode + 1)

(The business logic should be getting the total of links = qty * numOfLinks).

table1 is a Datatable, and qty & numOfLinks are two columns from it.

Question1: Can we get a Integer by applying 'CInt' to a hashcode like above?

Question2: What does it mean by letting hashcode plus 1 and then get converted to integer like above? (should be converted to integer first and then plus 1? or I actually misunderstood the codes?)

I don't know how to convert it to C# before I understand exactly the meaning. Thanks!

Answer 1

Someone had no idea what they were doing with this code, but just got lucky that it worked.

GetHashCode happens to return the underlying value for Integer variables because there is really nothing to hash.

Therefore, you can (should) simply ignore the GetHashCode code and convert the code as

totalLinks = CInt(table1.Rows(i).Item("qty")) * (CInt(table2.Rows(i).Item("numOfLinks")) + 1)