Multiple Generics restrictions in VB.NET

Did you know that VB.NET accept curly brackets ({ })? Neither did I, but it does for the special case of multiple restrictions describing a Generics type.

I needed to code a web service factory, and I used Generics to do so. In C#, the code would look like this:

The Generic type T has multiple restrictions: it derives from the base web service proxy and it implements a default constructor. Easy. But the project using this will be a VB.NET, and I’d prefer to have this factory in the same language. So, after some digging, here’s the same factory implemented in VB.NET:

Seams to me that the multiple restrictions notation in VB is very much like an in-line array initiation in C#. I think some C# developer suggested this syntax – it’s just so not VB like…