I'm wrestling with this treeview control. I have extended the TreeNode class to attach some extra data to the node. Basically, I added one property:[code]Is there a way to cast from a base type to a derived type?
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Public MustInherit Class Column
Public ReadOnly Property ReturnSomethingUseful() As Object
Get
'return something useful
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But this gives the following error:
Public Overrides Function ParseValue(sValue As String) As Boolean'
cannot override 'Public Overridable Function ParseValue(sValue As String) As Object'
because they differ by their return types.
I accept that you can't do this, but I'd like to be able to preserve the semantics of what I'm. trying to do, which is to have an untyped version that deals with Object, but a typed version in derived classes that knows about the specific type T.
I have a number of controls (Device1, Device2, etc.) that all inherit from BaseDeviceControl. In the DragEnter event handler I am trying to test for the correct type by using the BaseDevvceControl like this....
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I have a copy function that I'd like to override in subclasses to return the type of the subclass. Here are my interfaces:
Public Interface IBase(Of T)
Function Copy() As T
End Interface
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1) VB Allows non-type template parameters2) VB supports explicit specialization 3) VB allows the type parameters to be used as the base class for the generic type4) VB allows a generic type parameter itself to to be a generic 5) VB enforces that all codes are valid for all types of parametrs
View 1 RepliesI have one question. i have seen some codes like:
Req = CType(System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create("url"), Net.HttpWebRequest)
Is it really necessary to cast the same type, or is there a difference when its not casted.
i have a property (items) that i want to use for either a checkedlistbox or a standard listbox depending on the value of another property.
heres the code i wrote that doesn't work:
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Delegate Sub UpdateTextHandler(ByVal recbuffpass() As Integer)
Private Sub someSub()
Dim f As frmMain = My.Application.OpenForms("frmMain")
f.Invoke(New UpdateTextHandler(AddressOf f.UpdateTextMethod), New Object() {recbuf})
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What happens when a user wants to alocate "" as Item(DurationColumn) to integer? I get an exception. clean solution to avoid this and set 0 for ""?
When writing some Outlook code in VS2005, I came across a situation that, to me, does not make any sense. For reference, the version of Outlook running on this machine is Outlook 2003.The program I'm writing is designed to iterate through the emails in the inbox, to identify certain types of emails based on their subjects and bodies, and then to generate new emails based on the existing ones. However, the problem that I'm having is with simply iterating through the collection of items that comes from the Inbox folder. Specifically, what happens is that this line consistently fails on items that should be processed:
Current_Item = CType(The_Items.Item(Counter), Outlook.MailItem)
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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I am trying to create an Excel file using reflection. The reason, the application will be running on many machines some of which may or not have excel installed. I decided to embed the "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.dll" and via reflection generated the excel spreadsheet. The code I am trying to resemble is:
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Hmmmm having discovered that using the mciAPI doesn't utilise 5.1 sound, but using a virtual WMP does - I started a new approach to my multimedia project using some code from the net. BUT I keep getting exceptions (particularly with type casting). In the subrountine 'Player_PlayStateChange'.
The listing (see below) is now well commented by me. Can anybody please help concerning the damn annoying exceptions and stop me pulling my hair out.
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The following Code throws the InvalidCastException error. What I wish to know is why and what the standard workaround is for this situation.
Module Module1
Interface IFooBar
End Interface
Class Foo : Implements IFooBar
Public Shared Widening Operator CType(ByVal Val As Foo) As Bar
Return New Bar
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What I would like is the line B = C to work without me having to know what type of object C currently is. I need to find a way to get this to work so that i can finish a function I ma working on so that it will excecute correctly on any new object which implements the interface and boasts an Operator CType function to cast it to the type used in the function.
Is anyone any good with Databases & VB if so could you give me your opinion on the diagram i have drew and my application.ive never used a database before but would like to encorprate one into my app - i have done a diagram - i would like to know if it is possible to do and what type of data base would be esiest to do it with.
View 9 RepliesOne thing that always bugged me, is that I do not see the base type in Visual Studio.I just stumbled on this, because I tried to cast a System. Windows.Forms.MenuItem to a System.Windows.Forms.Control..In eclipse the "intellisense" (or whatever it is called) shows me while exploring the members of a class for each member from which base class it is inherited.In Visual Studio I cannot see the base class, even if I use the Object browser or the help.[code]Is there a way to query the base type tree of a class at Design Time?
View 8 RepliesIs there a way to get an enum to explicitly cast to it's base type?If I have something like this:
Code:
Public Enum Packets As Byte
Stuff = &H0
End Enum
I have to do
Code:
Dim test As Byte = CByte(Packets.Stuff)
Rather than
Code:
Dim test As Byte = Packets.Stuff
I don't see why that's the way it works, since you know that the enum will always have values of the base type.
How do I get using reflection the most generic type from a shared constructor in the base class :
Public Class Foo()
Shared Sub New()
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I expect the result to be Bar type and not the Foo. Is it possible?
I have a project that has mainly two objects, both inheriting from a base. Like this:
Public Class Vehicle
Property Model As String
Property Make As String[code].....
The above function doesn't work because myVehicle is a Vehicle, not a Truck.Is there a way I can pass around a Vehicle type and have the IDE know which type to use? Or am I completely missing a better way to do this?
OK I have a base query that is returning a list (ObjectQuery, actually but I don't think it matters) I have about 5 subtypes based on the main type and I need to filter them. Everything works fine until I want the results to be of the main type (not a subclass) Basically I have a query that includes everything, then I filter out the types that are not checked in a checkedbox list. (asp.net) Lets say I have an Entity named Task, and SubTask1 and SubTask2 that inherit from Task
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I'm trying to find a way to trick the compiler into exposing lines of code where the default "ToString" method of Integers, Longs, Doubles, DateTimes, etc. is being used. These are lines of code that must be reviewd for culture specifics. FxCop does not expose these areas when .ToString is not used explicity in the code.Putting a class in with something like the following freaks it out
Namespace system
Public Class Int32
Public Overrides Function ToSt
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Public Class notifierMain
Public Class Contacts
Inherits List(Of row)
Public Sub New()
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When I debug this winforms application I get curType = "notifier.notifierMain+Contacts+row" I want to the Validate function to know it is in MyContacts. How do I do this?
I've got a custom NumericEditor control that has a nullable Decimal property called Value. When I bind a data field to Value, I'd like to retrieve the underlying Type of the data that's bound, so that I can restrict the use of decimal places if the source field is an integral data type.I figure I'd have to do this in the BindingContextChanged event, but how do I get the Type of the data field from the binding itself? My Google-Fu is failing me at the moment.
In short, I'm looking for something like the GetValueType method mentioned in the following question: Simple databinding - How to handle bound field/property change. Winforms, .Net I imagine this method would also be handy if the Value property was an Object.
Trying to implement some sort of commit/rollback functionality in my base objects. I have it working with some help from google. However, I have a question My Base Class has a BeginEdit as shown below -
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Now, what I'm confused about is if I create another class, Class1, that inherits the base class. I add some properties such as Name, Age, Location, etc. to Class1.When I do Class1.BeginEdit, wouldn't "Me.memberwiseclone" make a copy of Class1, then CType try to cast it from Class1 to the BaseObject class? How does that work if Class1 has additional properties like the Name, Age..blah blah? Where do those gets stored in the Base class? I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the concept...
After debugging a particularly tricky issue in VB.NET involving the order in which instance variables are initialized, I discovered that there is a breaking discrepancy between the behavior that I expected from C# and the actual behavior in VB.NET.Nota bene: This question concerns a slight discrepancy in the behaviors of VB.NET and C#. If you're a language bigot that is unable to provide an answer other than "that's why you should use C#, noob", there is nothing for you to see here; kindly move along.Specifically, I expected the behavior outlined by the C# Language Specification (emphasis added):
When an instance constructor has no constructor initializer, or it has a constructor initializer of the form base(...), that constructor implicitly performs the initializations specified by the variable-initializers of the instance fields declared in its class. This corresponds to a sequence of assignments that are executed immediately upon entry to the constructor and before the implicit invocation of the direct base class constructor. The variable initializers are executed in the textual order in which they appear in the class declaration.
Contrast that with the portion of the VB.NET Language Specification concerning Instance Constructors, which says (emphasis added): When a constructor's first statement is of the form MyBase.New(...), the constructor implicitly performs the initializations specified by the variable initializers of the instance variables declared in the type. This corresponds to a sequence of assignments that are executed immediately after invoking the direct base type constructor. Such ordering ensures that all base instance variables are initialized by their variable initializers before any statements that have access to the instance are executed.
The discrepancy here is immediately obvious. C# initializes class-level variables before calling the base constructor. VB.NET does exactly the reverse, apparently preferring to call the base constructor before setting the values of instance fields.If you want to see some code, this related question provides a more concrete example of the divergent behavior. Unfortunately, it does not provide any hints as to how one might coerce VB.NET into following the model established by C#.
I'm less interested in why the designers of the two languages chose such divergent approaches than I am in possible workarounds for the problem. Ultimately, my question is as follows: Is there any way that I can write or structure my code in VB.NET to force instance variables to be initialized before the base type's constructor is called, as is the standard behavior in C#?
I would like to inherit from the Data.DataColumn in order to produce a DataTextColumn. That means that in the derived class, I dont want to see the non-applicable AutoIncrement property and the like - all I want to see are properties that apply to string types.[code]...
View 5 RepliesI'm struggling here.. I know I can disable the warning manually. However I'm not sure if this would be the right way to go about this.
Here's my interface..vbnet Public Interface IPopulatingClassBase Property Identity() As Int64 ReadOnly Property Dirty() As Boolean Sub Populate_Class(ByVal RecordID As Int64) Sub Save_Class() Sub Reset_Class()End Interface
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PS In my example think of it as classes that populate with data from a database. The parent class would be an organization, and the derived class a location. Both populate and have similar functionality. The only difference is locations are an entity of an organization(the data record for a location constraints it to an organization) upon loading location data I also populate the organization class. This is a real example of what my project does.. so having said I just want to know how I can get around this warning, and if not would it have any consequences if I left it as-is.
I get the error
Handles clause requires a WithEvents variable defined in the containing type or one of its base types.
in the following code..
Public Sub selCurrentManuf_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
Handles selCurrentManuf.SelectedIndexChanged
End Sub
The drop list to go with it is the following...
<asp:DropDownList
OnSelectedIndexChanged="selCurrentManuf_SelectedIndexChanged"
selectedvalue='<%#Container.DataItem("c1_manufidcurrent")%>'
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I created a lable to handle DateTime = Now, It works fine. but when I moved it inside a FormView I Get the following Message. Handles clause requires a WithEvents variable defined in the containing type or one of its base types?
View 5 Repliesi've finally got round to learning about classes and inheritance, but i'm not sure how to proceed. i have a base class Employee, which is inherited by 2 derived classes. how do i use the same Employee class in both derived classes? obviously if i write a sub new for both of them + declare a new Employee class, they won't be using the same class. heres my Employee class:
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