Force a calculation result if less than zero to equal zero in VB.net

Question

Is there a built in VB function to ensure the following:

Dim price
Dim subsidy

if price - subsidy <= 0 then 
    price = 0
end if

In practical terms, I've lots of other things going on to calculate price, so I want to simplify this to:

Dim price = calculatedPrice - subsidy

and wrap that into some VB formatting that ensures if price ever becomes negative it's forced to zero.

I'm thinking that a simple type conversion might do it, but am not sure which type would suit.

Answer 1

You can use Math.Max to do it:

Dim price = Math.Max(calculatedPrice - subsidy, 0)