How do I translate this very simple C# syntax to VB?

OriginalGriff's solution is the perfect solution to this question. I'm just posting another "answer" here as it allows me to format the code I'm about to post.

My original intent was to DEAL with such strings, basically finding a way to remove such "garbage" from the string without affecting the string too much.

This was causing an issue writing to XML. The following would fail:

Dim sFoo As String = "a" + ChrW(&HD800) + "b"

Dim oXML As System.Xml.XmlDocument
Dim oRoot As System.Xml.XmlElement

oXML = New System.Xml.XmlDocument
oRoot = oXML.CreateElement("foo")
oXML.AppendChild(oRoot)
oRoot.InnerText = sFoo
oXML.Save(System.IO.Path.Combine(System.IO.Path.GetTempPath, "foo.xml"))

To fix it - or at least prevent the error -

Dim sFoo As String = "a" + ChrW(&HD800) + "b"

Try
    If Not sFoo.IsNormalized Then
        sFoo = sFoo.Normalize
    End If
Catch ex As Exception
    Dim bytes As Byte()
    bytes = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(sFoo)
    sFoo = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString(bytes)
End Try

Dim oXML As System.Xml.XmlDocument
Dim oRoot As System.Xml.XmlElement

oXML = New System.Xml.XmlDocument
oRoot = oXML.CreateElement("foo")
oXML.AppendChild(oRoot)
oRoot.InnerText = sFoo
oXML.Save(System.IO.Path.Combine(System.IO.Path.GetTempPath, "foo.xml"))

To the reader: Now this replaces the "garbage" with other characters that a human reader might perceive as "random" or nonsensical. For my intents and purposes that is perfectly fine, but if you need to do better than that you'll have to address that problem yourself :-)

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How do I translate this very simple C# syntax to VB?

Not exactly a solution, but in the news :
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/deep-learning-to-translate-between-programming-languages[^]
Automatic translation is still a subject of research.
So beyond the most basic translations, automated translation is not really a solution.
The only efficient solution is to learn both languages and translate manually.