Why is it that some components/controls will not be inherited visually in a child form if they are declared with the access modifier Friend vs when they are declared with Protected. For example, I've got a DataSet object in my Parent Form that was initially "Friend" (I drag and dropped it to the form, so it was shown as a control in the designer view), but I noticed that my Child Form did not inherit the control as expected. Once I changed it to "Protected", it showed up in my Child form as expected.I am aware that Protected allows the Child Form to modify the inherited control, but how exactly does this tie in to the issue I described above?
I've been reading about access modifiers in VB.Net lately, and there is something that I can't really understand: How do elements in a Class (or Module) inherit the modifiers of their enclosing block?For example, suppose you have a Friend class Bla in an assembly, with a public method Foo:
Friend Class Bla Public Sub Foo (...) End Class
Does it behave differently than when Foo is set to Friend?
What are the situations and their associated benefits of using Generics over Inheritance and vice-versa, and how should they be best combined?I'm going to try to state the motivation for this question as best I can:I have a class as shown below:
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Now suppose I have a repository that takes an InformationReturn argument, that has to strore different fields in a DB depending on the type of Info object T is. Is it better to create different repositories each for the type T is; one repository that uses reflection to determine the type; or is there a better way using inheritance capabilities over/with generics?
I have two Forms, which have similar Functionality (i.e. an amount of similar Controls) but complete different Layout. So the normal inheritedForm (which VS2010 provides) wont work here.
I have tried following:
Public Class BaseForm Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form Friend WithEvents Button1 As System.Windows.Forms.Button
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So it looks like, the Designer only tries to guess how the Form looks like by inspecting the top-most Class, without compiling the full inheritance-Tree...
I'm working on an application which has a common window hierarchy with menus and worked ok on vs2003, but now I'm on VS2008 sp1 trying to generate the same hirarchy and I'm amazed that visual support for differents controls like the menustrip are not working. I've been investigating, and so far it seems that the answer to my question is "it's not supported".
I'm developing a VB app, part of which has a 'diary page' metaphor. The page is a panel and I want to put be able to put several different kinds of events on the panel. I've used a User Control for the first type, which works well, and it occurs to me that this and the other events have many properties and methods in common.
So I am wondering if it is possible or desirable to create a 'base' user control with the common properties and methods and have the other events inherit from that? (I am using the word event in the sense of a meeting or workshop rather than a Windows event).
I know one can do Visual Inheritance from a form and I've made a first attempt at applying the same process to my User Control, but when I open the 'inherited' control in the designer, all the properties are disabled and child controls are locked, even though the access modifier is 'Protected'. But I am still feeling my way with inheritance and I'm probably doing something dumb ...
Another approach would be to use MDI, but that feels a bit 'heavyweight' for this app ....
I am trying to create an infrastructure library to be used by all my projects where one of the project in that library contains the base forms for different things like ViewBase, EditBase, SearchBase & DialogBase. They all are inherited from a Base form which contains a toolstrip control with 3 common buttons for OK, Close & About.Now depending on the type of base form I would like to add few more buttons and controls on the toolstrip during the design time. For example the SearchBase would have a Search, Clear buttons and so forth and so on.
I have 4 WinForm app. Form1 inherits from baseForm, Formv2 inherits from Formv1, v3 from v2, v4 from v3. There are about 2 thousand controls spread across many tabs that contain tabs.
This is really killing Visual Studio 2008, frequently causing it to crash, and just terrible performance in general.
I want to create a FormV5 that inherits only from baseForm but contains all the visual layout of formsv1 through v4 (all of them), (there are no controls on baseForm).
The differences from form to form are mostly adding new controls, with some older controls having to be moved or hidden, and or a few labels changed here and there.
I'm using an MS Access database which has password (database password, not a workgroup or smth). I'm using 13 characters - with no special signs- only letters. When I try to open the DB from access it works fine, but when I try to run my Windows Form application from Visual Studio Connection String, I get a message that "Not a valid password".
I am having a Friend Class InterceptingChannelBase class.It has a property as below:
Protected ReadOnly Property InnerChannel() As TChannel Get Return Me.innerChannelT
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This class is being inherited by (Friend Class InterceptingInputChannel) class which in turn contains another (Private Class TryReceiveAsyncResult) class.The property above is being used in this private class as below:
Public Sub New(ByVal channel As InterceptingInputChannel(Of TInputChannel), ByVal timeout As TimeSpan, ByVal callback As AsyncCallback, ByVal state As Object) MyBase.New(channel, callback, state)
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I am getting the error on the above underlined statement saying that Protected Readonly Property InnerChannel is not accessible in this context because it is declared asa Protected.As far as i think,if i declare a property in class as 'Protected' then if this class is inherited by 'another' class then i can use this property and it should not throw an error.
just want to know what is the difference between these date values?Once some one told me that its difference is server date and client date but not sure which one he meant.Below is 3 type of date currently I'm using and don't know what is the difference between them.
DateTime.Now is from System.DateTime.Now Now is from Microsoft.VisualBasic.DateAndTime Today.date is also from System.DateTime
I have a Class with certain subs and functions declared as protected friends. From my understanding this should allow me to be able to access those subs and functions from anywhere in my project and yet it isn't working.
Read only wrapper - like ReadOnlyCollection. The friend keeps the pointer to the modifiable object, while everyone else can access only the wrapper.Write delegate - the friend gives the constructor of the object a reference to a delegate as one of the parameters, the constructor fills it with an address to a private method that can be used to modify the object.Reflection - obviously a bad idea. Included for completeness.Multiple assemblies - put your friends together in a separate assembly and set your modifier methods internal.Expose the modifiable object, but add comments to modifier methods "This is an infrastructure method - don't call it!"Nested classes.[code]...
As far as c/c++ is concerned ,friend functions are defined outside the classes and they are accessed without object name.But in vb.net how can i create friend functions like that ? Is the concept same here or its bit different than what was in c/c++ ?
When adding a new control to the designer in Winforms, the modifier on the control is set to Friend, but the default modifier is Private (right clicking the property and resetting the modifier). Is there a setting to set the modifier to default (Private)?
I have a few classes (about 15 or so) in VB.net (2005) that I would like to be able to serialize to xml. Unfortunately they are labeled as friend classes and cannot be exposed outside of the assembly.The assembly is a dll that is a com interop plugin to a CAD system. I have set all of my classes as friends so that they are not exposed outside of the assembly for 3rd party use. I am wondering if I even need to do that. Setting the class to public would allow me to serialize things. However I don't want people linking to the assembly and using the classes.Should I even worry about other programs linking to my assembly? In fact I don't think there is a large chance of this happening. I just don't like the idea of having almost all of my classes with a public scope.Is there a way to make a friend class serializable?
A friend at work is trying to write a piece of database software for an HND project and when adding his database file, he gets the below error message. I'm too much of a greenhorn to know what it means, can anyone make sense of it?
The only place I've seen the Friend modifier used is in the WinForms designer, as alluded to in Why is the modifier set to Friend in Winforms? and VB.NET: what does the 'friend' modifier do?. The Friend modifier appears to be an almost arbitrarily wide access level that was created to solve some historic architectural problem in VB, I just wonder if anyone has a meaningful continued use for it?
I have had some desires to expose methods only to a given namespace so as to roll the functionalities of a related collection of objects together and manage any of their non-thread-safe methods, while exposing the safe public methods to a wider scope in the same assembly. This access level does not exist yet Friend does. Possibly a corollary question then, is my usage of assemblies and namespaces at odds with what is intended?
Is it better to use friend or public forms in vb.net? What are the advantages of each?I notice when you import a vb6 project, the forms come in as friend, but when you add a new form in vb.net it is public. I have not seen any difference in the way they work, though, so I must be missing something.
First of all let me say that while I was knowledgeable enough to create my program using VB-10 express I am by no means fluent in 'programming' speak .. so if you choose to help me please don't use technical jargon.. just explain as if you are talking to a 6 year old ..
Anyways I would like to give my program to some friends either by Email or via the internet (I have a website [url] (it is a wordpress blog) but I have no clue as to how I would get it onto my site.
I have attempted to Email the files .. first I had to change the file extension because Email would not send an .EXE file.. Then I tried to ZIP the files and send them via WINZIP but my recipients kept getting 'unable to open file' messages.
