Creating rules for adding/subtracting 2 structures

Ok, I have a structure

Public Structure someStructure
Dim settingName As String
Dim settingValue As Integer
End Structure

Dim T1 as someStructure
Dim T2 as someStructure

now i want to call T1+T2 and obviously only add up the settingValue part of structure which is an integer.

i know there is a way to define how the + operator is used in C++, and I'm wondering if there is a fairly simple way to do it in VB.net. I can obviously write a simple function to add them together, but if there was a way to overwrite the + operation on that it would be sexy and clean at the same time. sorry, but i'm a .net newbie

Luc L.

Operator Overloading isn't supported until 2005. The closest thing you can do is make a function to do the work then call it.