Question Setting a stream as the AlternateView content

[bifteki]

Is there a way to provide AlternateView class with a stream as its content, other than its constructor?
There is a ContentStream property but it's read only.
I am declaring the alternateview variable in the beginning of the code but I want to initialize it with a stream some time later within the code.

 

[jmcilhinney]

Just because you declare a variable doesn't mean you have to create an object. This code:

Dim myObject As New SomeType

declares the variable and creates the object in one line. It is equivalent to this:

Dim myObject As SomeType = New SomeType

If you don't want to create the object when you declare the variable then don't:

Dim myObject As SomeType

'...

myObject = New SomeType

The declaration and the instantiation can be separated by as much code as you like.