When I pass an an object 'MyObject' which implements 'IMyInterface' to a method parameter declared as IMyInterface, I understand that this method parameter 'sees MyObject through the eyes of its interface'.
View 2 RepliesSo I did tons and tons of work trying to make an interface for a common set of classes. The idea was to make an interface that each class could use within the set, but ultimately each class is different. Turns out interfaces do not like shared members. What I tried:
Public Interface ISomeInterface
Shared Property Meta() as Object
End Interface
Public Class A
Implements ISomeInterface
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Obviously, had I done my homework on this, I would have known that shared members can't be use in interfaces. Should I just leave the individual classes completely responsible for handling its shared members? Is there another way to keep coupling down to a minimum with shared members? Theres about 20 something or so classes that will implement a single interface.
So say I define some interface, and that interface has members that need to be implemented under some idea, and I then implement this interface on a class that already has those members defined. How do I NOT receive errors about having to implement said members despite them already being implemented (because I didn't type the oh so ridiculous 'implements IMyInterface.foo').
For example say I have an interface that defines the event KeyPress, and then I have a custom Form that implements this interface of mine. It throws an error. VB is the 5th language I've worked in that uses interfaces... and up until now they've all treated interfaces relatively the same. This is the first time I've seen this not allowed. What perplexes me more, is it IS allowed in other .Net languages. Just not VB.
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I have a couple of small classes to represent parts in a search filter. If the searched value equals NonValue the filter is supposed to do nothing. This is defined in a Base Class:
Private Class BaseFilter
Protected NonValue As Object
Protected sQueryStringBase As String = "AND {0} {1} {2} "[code]......
When I then create a StringFilter and check for allowed value:
Dim stf As New StringFilter()
stf.CheckNonValue(MyString)
I get a NullReferenceException (NonValue = Nothing) , when I expected the NonValue object to be String.Empty. Is this a bug in my code, or am I trying to achieve polymorphism in a wrong way?
Curious situation:
public class MyTextBox : TextBox
{
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I have a C# project with a generic interface
public interface IMyFoo<T> { void DoSomething(T instance); }
I also have a C# project with an interface that inherits from several IMyFoos
public interface IMyBar : IMyFoo<Type1>, IMyFoo<Type2> { ... }
Everything works fine in C# land (including the scenario below which doesn't work in VB).
I have a VB .NET project that references this C# library.I have an instance of IMyBar and try to use as follows:
Dim instance as MyType1 = ...
Dim bar as IMyBar = ...
bar.DoSomething(instance) '
This generates a compile error: DoSomething' is ambiguous across the inherited interfaces 'IMyFoo(Of MyType1)' and 'IMyFoo(Of MyType2)'.
What's up? I can DirectCast like this and it works fine...but I'd REALLY rather not
DirectCast(bar, IMyFoo(Of MyType1)).DoSomething(instance)
ok this is annoying, i've got a structure RInteger.
Private VAR_Value As Integer
Private VAR_Max As Integer
Private VAR_Min As Integer
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I have a base form and I inherit other forms from it. However, if i go back and change say the size of the base form, I don't see those changes take effect in my inherited forms. Does anyone know why that is? Is there a solution to this issue?So as far as design is goes, what exactly gets inherited by other forms?
View 9 RepliesAre Interfaces used often? Need opinions.
View 4 RepliesI have the following problem with MEF: Interface definition to be used by host:
Public Interface IExecuteDoSomething
Inherits IAddinSettings
Event DataReceived As EventHandler(Of DataReceivedEventArgs)
Function DoSomething() As Boolean
End Interface
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Everything seems to work fine until the Button2_Click routine is executed, then an InvalidCastException is thrown with the info:Unable to cast object of type 'System.Collections.Generic.List1[SharedLibrary.IExecuteDoSomething]' to type 'System.Collections.Generic.List1[SharedLibrary.IAddinSettings]'.
How can i solve this problem, because the imported object implements both of the interfaces?
In this discussion let us discuss every usage of interfaces in .NET. Any real time examples and difficulties in using interfaces can also be discussed here.
View 6 RepliesIm building a game with VB.NET I designed the core of the game in form1 window But now I need menus. How can I implement this without having 5 or so windows that I show() and hide() ? Doing that slows it down a lot and uses lots of memory. I tried tabs, but I don't want the tabs to appear, just switch. Whats the best way to implement multiple interfaces?
View 1 RepliesHas someone a hint what I'm doing wrong in VB.Net?
Module Module1
Interface ISearch(Of T As ISearchResult)
Function ids() As List(Of T)
End Interface
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The third cast isn't working. Why? did I miss a oop lesson?
What I would like to do is make an abstract class that will hold objects in a dictionary and manage the adding/deleting/key changes of those items in the dictionary. My problem is that in order to make the class as generic as possible I declared the dictionary as dictionary(of long, of SomeInterface).The problem is when I try to pass a strongly typed dictionary in the constructor using dictionary( of long, ClassThatImplementsSomeInterface) I get a compiler error because it cannot convert to that type.
The reason I want to pass the dictionary in the abstract class's constructor is so that I can use the strongly typed dictionary in the subclass and have the abstract class manage the keys when it needs to. So how can I do something like this? Also- If there is a much better way to manage keys than what I am doing feel free to let me know, but I am much more interested in how to make this work since I have encountered this type of problem a few times before.
Here's the abstract class:
Public MustInherit Class HasChildrenKeys
Protected m_childItems As Dictionary(Of Long, IHasKey)
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I have a solution with multiple projects, some of the projects are written in VB, some in C#. I am wondering if there's a way to use interfaces and/or enums written in VB in C# classes? My C# code below doesn't compile, however I am able to see the interface in intellisense.
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P.S It's a console/service application, not ASP.Net (where I know it's doable).UPD: Sorry guys, was missing a reference to the project with the interface. It's fixed now. I think the thing that in VB projects references are done slightly different than in C# confused me.
I have a program written in Visual Studio to me 3 values ( 0-255, 0-255, 0-255) to send the serial interfaces, and While assigned to the 3 values of 3 sliders together.[code...]
View 1 RepliesSay I have a interface called IProperties and I have a collection called colMyProperties that is a collection of IProperties. Then I have an object called clsProperty that implements the IProperty interface. Now, in my code where I add objects to the colMyProperties collection I add a bunch of clsProperty objects. so far so good.
Now when I try to access an object in the collection I can only access properties and methods of the IProperties interface, not the clsProperty object. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to cast the object?
I have a project that has several different interfaces (a website, a local application, and some webservices), that all use the same class library. The library is an API to a database. Some settings, like log level, database connection etc, i want to store in a single place, and I want them editable. What is the best way to accomplish this? I am concerned both about ease of editing, and ease of access for the dll, as there will be a lot of calls to it and a lot of lookups for the values. I have considered using app.config, a standalone XML file, and writing values to the registry, but I cannot find any good comparisons.
View 2 RepliesI have three classes which implement an Interface iComparesWith, and I wish there to be a single function such that each iComparesWith object of any of the three implementing classes should be able to compare itself with any other iComparesWith object, again, of any of the three implementing classes, and know if the two objects are equal. How can I code this so that the comparison code is only written once? Is it the case that I will have to create a top-level MustInherit class which implements the equality comparison, and have MustOverride methods for all of the methods of iComparesWith?
View 1 RepliesI am working on creating a customized UI composite control. This control would be a container to several other custom controls.As a first step, i am creating the container UI using a singleton pattern. This is because at any point in time only one isntance of this container is allowed to be created. This is fine.Now i want to practice interface based desgin. So i introduced a sinple interface calleD IdesignSurface which has two properties. I would like my singleton class to implement this interface,so i tried something like this and got an error saying "end of line
NotInheritable
Class DesignSurface
implements IDesignSurface
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I am a VB programmer of some 13 years. I started briefly with VB5 back in the mid-to-late 1990s, but then quickly moved to VB6 which I did for several years on PCs and HPCs (CE 1.x devices).I have done .NET 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2008 each for stints, intermingled with VB6 coding, at various jobs. But, I never got formally trained on VB.NET. In fact, I taught myself VB5/6 too. I have a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics, but the university CS program only had Unix systems. I basically learned everything I know on the fly from various Microsoft Press and other company's books (and the MS website/MSDN CDs too) while doing projects.I was wondering what everyone would suggest to really learn the .NET workings and why they are setup like that for Windows client/server applications. It doesn't have to be technical and brain-numbing.I have recently run into things dealing with MSFlexGrid vs DataGridView and how they link/work with database sources that confounds me. And, I am assuming there's just something I don't know about how/why VB.NET works the way it does...and I want to learn it to become a better developer.I want kind of that fun book that's easy to read, is thorough in that it teaches you a wide range of how to use/implement .NET controls/interfaces, and will fill in the gaps in my knowledge and experience.
View 1 RepliesCan we call firewall an interface?
View 1 RepliesI have an interface called IBaselineControl. Now I'm trying to write a procedure which requires, as an argument, a Control which implements the IBaselineControl interface. However, I don't know the syntax for this. VB.Net allows us to require multiple interface implementations along with class inheritance when writing constraints for generic types. The syntax used there suggests that something like this might work:Public Sub Test(X As {Control, IBaselineControl})Unfortunately, that syntax doesn't work and I'm unable to find any syntax which does.
View 6 RepliesIs is possible to implement a type specifier with 2 interfaces in .net? Something like:
Public Sub New(obj as ICollection and INotifyCollectionChanged)
''Initialize Code
End Sub
I have a Delphi written DLL that exposes some interfaces to a vb.net application.
The interfaces inherit from IUnknown (but this could be changed if required), simplified example:
IWindow = interface(IUnknown)
['{E9A11D0B-8A05-4CBA-83FA-C5CC6818DF6E}']
function GetCaption(var Caption: PChar): HRESULT; stdcall;
end;
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Now I want to transfer a collection of IWindow to vb.net, and in the vb.net application I want to be able to loop through it with a for in loop.
I read that it's possible using IEnumerable/IEnumerator but I don't quite understand how to implement them. Are there any good tutorials about this, specifically showing the declarations on both side? Example code would be great.
Please note that I prefer not create a com dll that should be registered and imported. Currently I export a function that enabled me to obtain an interface.
how to do something that seems that it should be simple.
I tried it on a larger project I'm working on and got an error, so I reduced it to the simplest possible that I could find:
Public Interface IF1
Event WakeUp(ByVal TheObject As Object)
End Interface
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I just started playing around with interfaces recently and I have a couple things I want to ask. First off I always understood that an Interface cannot contain code, you are merely creating almost a "template" of methods, property's etc...Lets say I have this:
Public Class MyTest
Implements IMyTest
Public Sub iDispose() Implements IMyTest.iDispose
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I have the following code compiles without issue. Of course, I get an invalid cast xception when executing the Dim C As IDoThingsC = GetThing_C(). Am I missing something?Would you ever want to return an object that does not meet the interface requirement for a function return value?
Public Class ClassA
Public Sub DoThings_A()
Debug.Print("Doing A things...")
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is there any reason why we couldn't add/extend an interface to an already existing class?
i believe this would be v useful. it would be like drawing links from my class to already existing classes, and drawing links from already existing classes to already existing classes
I am looking for a way to add an interface implementation to a class at runtime.
Here is a sample code, which I will discuss below.
Public Interface IAction
Sub DoThis(a As Integer)
End Interface
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This is related to WCF, where one needs to provide to CreateHost a single class, which implements all interfaces required for the end points. In this scenario, ActionDispatcher is such a class, and IAction is one of the many interfaces to be implemented.
My vision is to avoid implementing IAction in ActionDispatcher manually, but have some sort of registration mechanism, where I can say, that ActionDispatcher must implement interfaces IAction, IDoing, INoAction, etc - and have the dispatching methods generated for me.
MSDN says, that any class is compatible with any interface, so I don't need to declare "Implements" in the ActionDispatcher. But I still need to implement the interface and connect the implementing method to the interface definition, so WCF can find it when needed.
The closest thing I found is probably the Automatic Interface Implementer, but it (1) creates a new type, (2) adds dummy methods.
I has also tried to understand CodeCompileUnit class, but so far couldn't see the relation to what I need.