How to set a bit in a short value

I have a VB.NET windows forms project. One of the values i am sending to a tool is a short value with a max of 2050. I need to be able to set the last bit of this short to either a 0 or a 1 based on some other criteria.

Need suggestions and / or pointers to how to do bit manipulation in VB.NET. Found lots of bit shifting but thats not what i need.

Cheers

Visual Basic.NET

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Winston Smith

8/22/2022 - Mon

kaufmed

11/8/2010

You can use the standard boolean operators (AND, OR, etc.) to do bit manipulation:

    Sub Main()
        Dim test As Short = 0
        Dim mask As Short = 1 << 2

        test = test Or mask

        Console.WriteLine(test)
        Console.ReadKey()
    End Sub

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kaufmed

11/8/2010

I meant to say "logic", not "boolean" :)

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