XmlComment: Strange behavior

[Martin_T]

Hi,

can someone tell me, why this code works

Var commentNode As XmlNode = root.AppendChild(xml.CreateComment("Test"))

and this not?

Call root.AppendChild(xml.CreateComment("Test"))

[Kem_Tekinay]

What happens?

[Martin_T]

I don’t have any overriden XMLDocument methods in my project.

[Anthony_G_Cyphers]

@Martin_T

Call root.AppendChild(xml.CreateComment("Test"))

Dropping the Call doesn’t result in a compile error because AppendChild is overloaded with two signatures, one to return a value and one that doesn’t:

root.AppendChild(xml.CreateComment("Test"))

Adding Call confuses the compiler, it seems.