Delete or Remove a form field in a PDF

I'm accessing a form via JSObject with VB. I can get the field names by jsobject.getfields("Fieldname") and change their values, but I want to remove fields in the document and haven't been able to find anything in the documentation that does this. Is there a removefield or deletefield function or some other way to accomplish this?
Thanks.

How do I access "this" or the "doc" object working in Visual Basic? I've created a Pddoc object and from there I can get the fields:
Set jso = pddoc.getjsobject
set f = jso.getfield("field")
However, the pddoc doesn't have a "removefield" method and throws an error.
I tried:
this.removefield("fieldname") but I get an "object is not set error"
The Javascript API reference doesn't show how to accomplish this in VB. Your help (or anyone's) is greatly appreciated.

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