Use <> Operator In ScheduledAction Class (Visual Studio, Windows Phone 7.1)?

I need to use the "<>" (not equal to) operator for a peice of coding which uses the SheduledAction class, but I keep getting this error:

Error 1 Operator '<>' is not defined for types 'Microsoft.Phone.Scheduler.ScheduledAction' and 'Microsoft.Phone.Scheduler.ScheduledAction'

Here is my coding thats bringing up the error:

Dim hw As ScheduledAction = ScheduledActionService.Find("Hello World")
If hw <> Nothing Then
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