Bitwise XOR

In VB.NET the keywords XOr, Or and And perform bitwise manipulations. When we use these operators on 2 Integers, a third Integer is returned.

These operators are the same as the punctuation-based operators in C-like languages. But in the VB.NET language, we use more descriptive keywords.

Example

This program uses 3 bitwise operators, the XOr, Or and And operators. It uses these operators and calls a function GetIntBinaryString to display the bits in an Integer.

Module Module1
    Sub Main()
        ' Part 1: use XOR with 2 integers.
        Dim a0 = 100
        Dim b0 = 33
        Dim result0 = a0 XOr b0
        Console.WriteLine($"XOr: {GetIntBinaryString(a0)}")
        Console.WriteLine($"XOr: {GetIntBinaryString(b0)}")
        Console.WriteLine($"XOr: {GetIntBinaryString(result0)}")

        ' Part 2: use OR with 2 integers.
        Dim a1 = 77
        Dim b1 = 100
        Dim result1 = a1 Or b1
        Console.WriteLine($" Or: {GetIntBinaryString(a1)}")
        Console.WriteLine($" Or: {GetIntBinaryString(b1)}")
        Console.WriteLine($" Or: {GetIntBinaryString(result1)}")

        ' Part 3: use AND with 2 integers.
        Dim a2 = 555
        Dim b2 = 7777
        Dim result2 = a2 And b2
        Console.WriteLine($"And: {GetIntBinaryString(a2)}")
        Console.WriteLine($"And: {GetIntBinaryString(b2)}")
        Console.WriteLine($"And: {GetIntBinaryString(result2)}")
    End Sub

    Function GetIntBinaryString(value As Integer) As String
        Return Convert.ToString(value, 2).PadLeft(32, "0"c)
    End Function
End Module
XOr: 00000000000000000000000001100100
XOr: 00000000000000000000000000100001
XOr: 00000000000000000000000001000101
 Or: 00000000000000000000000001001101
 Or: 00000000000000000000000001100100
 Or: 00000000000000000000000001101101
And: 00000000000000000000001000101011
And: 00000000000000000001111001100001
And: 00000000000000000000001000100001

With VB.NET, we have access to all the bitwise operators found in other languages, but we must specify them in a different way. We use keywords like XOr, Or and And for bitwise manipulation.