.net - Difference Between Declaring And Constructing A Value Type Object?
Oct 2, 2009
I've been working in .NET for some time now, but occasionally I still get confused by a disparity between the framework and my prior experience in C++.In .NET, all objects are either value types or reference types. Reference types are allocated on the heap while value types are allocated on the stack (in the current CLR implementation, anyway). I get that. However, at least in VB.NET, you can still define a constructor on a value type.
Public Structure Coordinates
Public x As Integer
Public y As Integer
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Sep 27, 2011
I am attempting to launch a specific form depending on the selected node of a treeview on the doubleclick event. The code I need to use to launch the form is a little bulky becuase I have to ensure that the form is not disposed, and that the form is not already openbefore launching a new instance. I'd like to have all of this checking happen in one place at the end of the function, which means that I have to be able to pass the right form type to the code at the end. I'm trying to do this with a System.Type, but that doesn't seem to be working
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Oct 19, 2010
what is the difference between declaring a variable in this way
ByVal
List As IEnumerable as
a parametre in a function
Dim
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Apr 15, 2010
I'm not entirely sure what to call what C# does, so I haven't had any luck searching for the VB.Net equivalent syntax (if it exists, which I suspect it probably doesn't).
In c#, you can do this:
public void DoSomething() {
new MyHelper().DoIt(); // works just fine
}
But as far as I can tell, in VB.Net, you must assign the helper object to a local variable or you just get a syntax error:
Public Sub DoSomething()
New MyHelper().DoIt() ' won't compile
End Sub
Just one of those curiosity things I run into from day to day working on mixed language projects - often there is a VB.Net equivalent which uses less than obvious syntax. Anyone?
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Feb 11, 2011
I've used VB.net for several years now, but keep coming across little quirks that I don't know how to work around. Curiosity finally got the best of me, so I ask now: is there a way to create an object without assigning it?For example, say I have an Engine class, that I want to instantiate and have it immediately do whatever it needs to do. If there's nothing I need to do with Engine after creating it, I have, till now, done something like:dim myEngine as new Engine()Is there a way to avoid the "dim myEngine as" part? You certainly can in Java. I could just create an object with "new Engine()" in java and not assign it to anything.
Why do I need this? Because often I want to create a delegate object (hence I called it "engine") that performs some functionality, but otherwise I don't need to ever reference it. I used to have such objects have a "public sub perform", but have found that cumbersome -- I'd rather just create the object and not worry about remembering to call its perform method. And I find it aesthetically displeasing to create references to objects that I don't intend to use
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Jul 19, 2009
i have have a few questions about the syntax of the lan.:
1) What is the 'Get' statement and when do you use it?
2) Whats the difference between public, private, protected etc... when declaring functions and subs.
3) When would you use the overrides property?
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Oct 5, 2009
If you want a instance of an object to be created when a form loads or another class is created, you have two options:
Public class example
private IAmAObject As IAmAObject
public sub new()
[CODE]...
Or like this:
public class example
private IAmAObject as new IAmAObject
public sub new()
[CODE]...
I always use the first one. It's more type work but I think it's neater. How about you people and is there any real difference between the two?
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Mar 30, 2011
I'm trying to develop a class in VB .NET in order to manage a language globalization stored in a database and editable by the user.What I need is to know what kind of class I need to declare in order to use it without declaring a new object. For example, the way My.Settings is used.
One of the goals is that in some project the developer imports the reference and after that access directly to a property. For example: My.CustomLanguage.GetWord("Hello") without declaring objects.
Is this possible? And if it's what is the best way to aproach it?
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Mar 12, 2010
What is the difference between using the 'array' class in VB and just declaring an array like normal. In other words, what is the difference between:
Dim numOfTicketsPerDay As Array
Dim intNumOfTicketsPerDay(6)
As Integer
Is there any preference of when one should be used over another?
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Jun 2, 2011
I'm declaring a line at the top of my code window. Dim sTemp as String = textbox1.text
I tried commenting a few things related to the code but none of it makes it work.
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Jan 6, 2011
Is it possible for a class of exposing a type for function returns, without allowing users of that class to create variables of that type? A couple usage scenarios:A Fluent interface on a large class; a statement like "foo=bar.WithX(5).WithY(9).WithZ(19);" would be inefficient if it had to create three new instances of the class, but could be much more efficient if the WithX could create one instance, and the other statements could simply use it.A class may wish to support a statement like "foo[19].x = 9;" even when foo itself isn't an array, and does not hold the data in class instances that can be exposed to the public; one way to do that is to have foo[19] return a struct which holds a reference to 'foo' and the value '19', and has a member property 'x' which could call "foo.SetXValue(19, 9);" Such a struct could have a conversion operator to convert itself to the "apparent" type of foo[19].In both of these scenarios, storing the value returned by a method or property into a variable and then using it more than once would cause strange behavior. It would be desirable if the designer of the class exposing such methods or properties could ensure that callers wouldn't be able to use them more than once. Is there any practical way to accomplish that?In formulating a question, it's difficult sometimes to draw the line between complicated usage cases, and simpler usage cases which aren't quite so important. Here's another usage case, and one closer to the one I'd be most interested in (though I'm also interested in Fluent chaining; being able to have something behave like a C++ reference to a value type would be nice, but probably too much work to bother with).I have a type which is somewhat like the Windows registry, in that it is a hierarchical collection of items, each of which may have a string value, an integer value, and/or a nested collection of items. I wish to be able to support the following types of usage:[code]As for the Fluent interface, my thought would be to have the WithXXX properties return a new instance of a derived class which shadows (not overrides!) the WithXXX properties with versions that simply modify the current instance. The return object from WithXXX would be known to be of the derived class, and would thus use the shadowed WithXXX methods, but once it was assigned to a variable, it would be regarded as an instance of the base class, so the next WithXXX would create a new instance.
C++ a stronger concept of value types than C# or vb.net, including the very useful concept of references to value types; it ensures that references to value types cannot be persisted outside the scope of the type in question. Unsafe code in C# can use pointers to value types, but they don't have the protections offered by C++ references.
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Mar 31, 2010
I have two forms A and B. B is a child of A - i.e. I have a button on A that pops up form B. I want B to be able to access and change data (e.g. an instance of an object etc.) in A and also to call some function in A. At the same time I'd like to preserve the right to alter the data in A without opening B. I've achieved this using the following (i.e. by declaring the object and method as Friend):
Public Class frmA
Friend _data as Hashtable
Friend Sub GetData()
If _data IsNot Nothing Then
_data As New Hashtable
Is there anything inherently wrong with the what I've done and if so how can I achieve a similar result? (It seems to work - I can read, add to and change the values in the _data Hashtable from within form B and when B is closed the values persist i.e. I can access the changed values from within form A. I just dont know if its a horrible fudge).
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Feb 16, 2012
Got a question regarding declaring a variable. Basically I have a module that writes to a text file using textwriter which is declared for the whole module to use at the top of the code. But what I want to do is clear the contents of the text file when the program is executed (using file.writealltext). The problem I have is that the file is obviously already in use as a result of the textwriter and the file cannot be modified because of this.
My question is: is there any way of declaring the textWriter object later on (not during the initial initialization of the module) without passing the object between functions? Setting the variable as inactive or something along those lines during initialization would be ideal.
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May 7, 2009
This error makes no sense to me[code]...
Unable to cast object of type 'DynamicTreeNode' to type 'DynamicTreeNode'.
I have an inherited TreeView with an inherited class called DynamicTreeNode inside it. I am trying to loop through the DynamicTreeNodes in the TreeView.Nodes property which is causing this error.
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Jan 25, 2011
For I = 0 To 10
If Items.Count = 0 Then Exit For
Dim T As New Thread(AddressOf Thread)
T.Start(New Object() {"Test", "Test"})
[code]....
When I put same code in empty project it works.
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Jul 5, 2010
I've got a piece of code in a project (MyProject) that contains early bound object from a referenced assembly (We'll call it CommonAssembly):
Dim myObject As CommonAssembly.MyEarlyBoundType
now I have another assembly that is dynamically loaded because it is not present in all projects:
Dim myLateBoundObject As Object = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.CreateInstanceAndUnwrap("Utils", "Utils.MyLateBoundType")
MyLateBoundType derives from CommonAssembly.MyEarlyBoundType, and I want to cast myObject to myLateBoundObject and then programmatically invoke the additional
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Apr 5, 2009
i always get this error when i tried to update my table: Unable to cast object of type 'System.Object[]' to type 'System.String[]'.
i only want to update STATUS, ENDTIME, and PRICE
the data type of each field are:
STATUS = nvarchar
ENDTIME = smalldatetime
PRICE = money
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Apr 8, 2011
If I create a class in VB called Test,I noticed I can instantiate it like:
Dim test As New Test
or
Dim test As New Test()
What is the difference?
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Jan 28, 2010
I want to know the difference. I have given 2 lines code.
CODE:
Let me know difference between both datatype.
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Dec 17, 2009
what's the main difference between a Class and a Type and a ValueType.and is a Delegate a Type? or an eventhandler/event (the actual event itself)is every object a type? or is it only true in VB
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May 23, 2010
Dim MyOrders As Order()
Dim MyOrders2() As Order
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Nov 25, 2010
I'm using vb10. I need to use a timer for forms to turn off and on and I was going to use a timer control and I noticed there is a timer class. What is the difference? Should I use the timer class instead?
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Jun 2, 2011
if I created a new object like this Dim sqlconn As New SqlClient.SqlConnection(cs)
and Dim sqlconn = New SqlClient.SqlConnection(cs) Whats the difference?
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Jan 28, 2012
when view in browser, i got this error: Unable to cast object of type 'ASP.webform1_aspx' to type 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button'.
how should i solve this problem?
Line 7: If Not Page.IsPostBack Then
Line 8: Dim rowIndex As Integer = 0
<b>Line 9: Dim btn As Button = DirectCast(sender, Button)</b>
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Apr 19, 2010
I had write code (just for learning), the codes :
dim Temp as string
Temp = Recordset("
Table_Field")
but, when I start Debugging the error messages "Unable to cast object of type 'ADODB.InternalField' to type 'System.String"
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Apr 13, 2011
I am implementing IMAPI2 into my vb.net project but ran into a wall. I am getting the message Unable to cast object of type 'IMAPI2FS.FsiStreamClass' to type 'IMAPI2.IStream' when trying to start the burn. I googled around and found this is something that microsoft hasn't fixed.. which basically renders IMAPI2 useless in vb.net.
I found a post on codeproject.com by eric hadden who combined the IMAPI2.dll and IMAPI2fs.dll into an c# interop file. I also see the IBURN interop in microsoft SDK samples. I'd like to use either, but it's in c# and I'm using vb express. Does anyone know a way to get the interop into visual basic or a way around "Unable to cast object of type 'IMAPI2FS.FsiStreamClass' to type 'IMAPI2.IStream'"?
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Jun 1, 2009
I'm having a problem with converting from one source type to a destination type. I have a form with 2 buttons (button 2 uses the OpenFileDialog to have the user open an excel file set to NewFile),(button 1 takes the contents from specific cells in NewFile and arranges them how I need into oXLApp1).
The error I get is "Unable to cast object of type 'System.IO.FileStream' to type 'Excel.Application'." in line 14 of the code below.
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
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Mar 19, 2009
I'm new to VB 2005, the code below is actualy coded from VB 6 and just converted it to VB 2005. I'm having trouble with line that's on bold letters.In VB 6 this works just ok. By the way the error message is "Unable to cast object of type 'System.String' to type 'ADODB.Connection'." [code]
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May 24, 2011
I can't cast my objects. I get: "Unable to cast object of type 'ClassA' to type 'ClassB'".
The service Class:
Public Class svc_Insp
Implements Isvc_Insp
Public Function Test(ByVal pm_income As ClassC) As String Implements Isvc_Insp.Test
[code]....
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May 14, 2009
Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to class type 'rjsDocMan.Folder'.Instances of types that represent COM components cannot be cast to types that do not represent COM components; however they can be cast to interfaces as long as the underlying COM component supports QueryInterface calls for the IID of the interface.The code where it is flagging the error is:
<div style="color: Black; background-color: White;">
treeview += AddChildren(Session("DocMan").RootFolder)
</div>
[code].....
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