title: No increment operator in VB.net
body: <p>I am fairly new to vb.net and came across this issue while converting a for loop in C# to VB.net
  I realized that the increment operators are not available in vb.net (++ and --)
  whereas i was able it do something like <code>cnt +=1</code></p>
  
  <p>I researched a bit and came across <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2004/07/19/why-no.aspx">Eric's post</a> on the same, but wasn't really able to understand fully on it.
  He mentions of <strong>In VB, a STATEMENT cannot be just an EXPRESSION.</strong> not sure how that really fits in. </p>
  
  <p>I hope someone here would be able to explain why this doesn't work in the same way as it does in C#.
  (Hope this will also hold true as in why we have <code>==</code> in C# for comparison)</p>