I was struggling with an issue today when converting some C# to VB.NET. C# has a really cool yield return statement that is used in an iterator block to provide a value to the enumerator object. VB.NET does not have the yield keyword. So, there are a few solutions (none of which are really clean) to get around this. You could use a return statement to return the value if you are looping through and would like to break an enumerator and return a single value. However, if you’d like to return the entire enumeration, create a List() of the child type and return the list. Since you are usually using this with an IEnumerable, the List() will work nice.