Need help converting this code snippet from c# to vb

Question

Hey i've tried all the online code converters but none of them work on this. Can someone please explain to me how to transform this sniped it to vb.net?

yahoo.OnBuddyAddYouRequest += delegate(object sender, string buddy, string requestMessage, ref bool bAccept)
{
    object[] inVar = { sender, buddy, requestMessage,bAccept };
    this.Invoke(new OnBuddyAddYouRequestYahooEventHandler(OnBuddyAddYouRequest), inVar);
    bAccept = (bool)inVar[3];
};

Answer 1

Change the inner code to a separate method:

private void buddyAddYouRequest(object sender, string buddy,
        string requestMessage, ref bool bAccept)
{
    object[] inVar = { sender, buddy, requestMessage, bAccept };
    this.Invoke(new OnBuddyAddYouRequestYahooEventHandler(OnBuddyAddYouRequest), inVar);
    bAccept = (bool)inVar[3];
}

and then change the line you quoted into this:

yahoo.OnBuddyAddYouRequest += buddyAddYouRequest;

Then you can run this through a code converter to convert it to VB.NET.

However, I should point out that the code makes no sense. It seems to invoke an existing method, OnBuddyAddYouRequest , but in an unnecessarily roundabout way. I realise that the author may be trying to overcome multi-threading issues; in that case, you can write it much more simply (and type-safe) like this:

private void buddyAddYouRequest(object sender, string buddy,
        string requestMessage, ref bool bAccept)
{
    bool bAcceptCopy = bAccept;
    this.Invoke(new Action(() => OnBuddyAddYouRequest(sender, buddy,
                                 requestMessage, ref bAcceptCopy)));
    bAccept = bAcceptCopy;
}

// ...

yahoo.OnBuddyAddYouRequest += buddyAddYouRequest;