I'm a newbie to VB, and I am having difficulty understanding what the following (legacy code) class declaration actually means:
Public MustInherit Class ModelBase(Of T As {ModelBase(Of T, TIdType), New}, TIdType)
There is also a related ModelBaseCollection:
Public MustInherit Class ModelBaseCollection(Of TCollection As {ModelBaseCollection(Of TCollection, TModel, TIdType), New}, TModel As {ModelBase(Of TModel, TIdType), New}, TIdType)
Inherits Collection(Of TModel)
I have difficulty understanding the need for the ModelBaseCollection class as the ModelBase class is a generic type.
I'm trying to declare a generic using a variable of type System.Type, with VB 2005, and haven't found the right approach. Consider the typical:
Dim m_GenObj As MyGenericObject(of T) Instead of using "T" I want to use a variable of System.Type, for something like: Dim m_MyType as Type Dim m_GenObj as MyGenericObject(of m_MyType)
Public MustInherit Class Column Public ReadOnly Property ReturnSomethingUseful() As Object Get 'return something useful
[code]....
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.
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
I have the following sample code in a VB.NET console application. It compiles and works, but feels like a hack. Is there a way to define EmptyChild so that it inherits from Intermediate(Of T As Class) without using the dummy EmptyClass?
Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim Child1 = New RealChild()[code].....
The other way to do this would be to move the generic code out of the Base class and then create 2 Intermediate classes like this [code]...
Then RealChild would inherit from the generic Intermediate and EmptyChild would inherit from the non-generic Intermediate. My problem with that solution is that the Base class is in a separate assembly and I need to keep the code that handles the generic type in that assembly. And there is functionality in the Intermediate class that does not belong in the assembly with the Base class.
I have a bunch of classes that all contain a Shared ReadOnly Dictionary. If I want to access that Dictionary when the class is a generic type (such as when I have a wrapper function that takes T as an interface that all of these classes implement), what's the way to do it?
I want to do something like GetType(T).GetMember("Dict"), but that will return a MemberInfo type, and that cannot be cast to a Dictionary of my defined type(s). For calling functions this way, one can use a delegate + CreateDelegate + GetMethod. But there doesn't seem to be an equivalent Create*for GetMember stuff. Or am I missing something?
If I plug the GetMember call into the immediate window, and then use a subscript as if it is an array, then the debug output says I am getting a Dictionary back. But if I use that same approach in the actual function that I am trying to write, then I get an error about System.Reflection.MemberInfo cannot be converted to Dictionary(X, Y)
Suppose I want to write a generic function that will return the fully qualified name of the data type. In other words, how would you implement the following: Public Shared Function Foo(Of T)() As String ' Return the fully qualified name of T End Function
I'm tyring to pass a variable data type to a template class. Something like this:
frmExample = New LookupForm(Of Models.MyClass) 'Works fine
Dim SelectedType As Type = InstanceOfMyClass.GetType() 'Works fine frmExample = New LookupForm(Of SelectedType) 'Ba-bow! frmExample = New LookupForm(Of InstanceOfMyClass.GetType()) 'Ba-bow!
[Code].....
I'm assuming it's something to do with the template being processed at compile time but even if I'm off the mark there, it wouldn't solve my problem anyway. I can't find any relevant information on using Reflection to instance template classes either.
(How) can I create an instance of a dynamically typed repository at runtime?
Public Class notifierMain Public Class Contacts Inherits List(Of row) Public Sub New()
[code]....
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 have 2 mustinherit classes where one is a generic one:
'Visual Basic 2008 - .net 3.5 - Any CPU Public MustInherit Class BaseObject
End Class
Public MustInherit Class BaseObjectList(Of T As {New, BaseObject}) Inherits List(Of T) End Class[code]...........
i receive: "Type argument BaseObject is declared 'MustInherit' and does not satisfy the 'New' constraint for the type parameter"users would never enter data in the wrong form,files they choose to open would always exist and code would never have bugs.
I am trying to construct a generic interface class with generic functions. My goal was to use this to implement multiple worker classes for database interaction that have the same basic functionality. Each class will deal with different object for example, category, product or supplier but unless the the functions in the interface are generic that this won't work.This is the interface code that I have but I don't know if I have done it correctly. [code]
I am trying to create a list of a generic type in vb.net 2.0 framework. This is the generic type definition:
Public Class GenericParamMap(Of T) Public Sub New(ByVal pParamName As String, ByVal pPropValue As T) mParamName = pParamName
[Code]....
The compiler does not allow a "T" in the method's parameter because it's not defined, but I'm not sure how or where to define it. I thought it was okay to have a generic method definition.
I am trying to write a generic method, to avoid code duplication, which will create or activate a Form as an MDI children, based on its type. But I have to lines in error (see comments).
I'm compiling a VB.Net 2.0 app (created in VS2008) using msbuild, and now I've added a generic return type, it's giving me the following:
Warning: Type library exporter encountered a generic type instance in a signature. Generic code may not be exported to COM.
Having just spent ages removing all of the previous warnings, I don't really want to add a new one. Any idea how to get rid of it (aside from not using generics)?I don't know what details I'd put in the attribute, or what number to put in the project-level ignore list.
I have a generic Class I'm using to hold information loaded from a database.I have a method which takes a DataRow as an argument, uses the object's known column name and extracts the data from the DataRow, such that:Dim loadData As T = CType(myDataRow("myColumnName"), T))works as my default assignment in most cases.Unfortunately, due to some horrifying design constraints, some of my columns may be null, and may also be taken from enumerations.This means that when <T> is Nullable(Of SomeEnumeration) the above code does not work because I can't cast 0 directly to SomeEnumeration.Zero.Is there some way to check whether <T> is Nullable(Of [Enum])? Or some way to write a method which allows Integers to be cast to Nullable(Of [Enum])?I feel like I'm forgetting something that would allow me to write one of the other of these, but my weak google-fu is turning up nothing.
EDIT: Okay, thanks to dasblinkenlight's answer below, I can detect when this circumstance is occurring, but what I need to do now is to take a type <T> which I know is Nullable(Of SomeClass), get a type reference to SomeClass and then create a new object of type Nullable(Of SomeClass) and assign that to LoadData.My problem was that I had a lot of difficulty in finding any function which would accept baseType as an actual Type.Parse accepted baseType as a parameter, I knew baseType was an [Enum] type because of dasblinkenlight's code, so I was, in this instance, able to code a solution. It's a solution which is very specific to my problem (i.e., T is Nullable(of SomeEnumeration)), but it's a solution nonetheless.
I have two classes; one is a data class which contains routines to handle data and the second is a utility class which contains useful routines which can be used again and again. I have come across a problem. Some of my routines in the utility class use routines in my data class and now I want to use some of my utility routines in my data class. I tried this in a service and the service just would not start. After commenting out code I realised it was because I was making a declaration in the utility class for the data class and in the data class making a declaration of the utility class.
I understand that this is now causing looping but is there a different way to do what I want. If not I would need to have two copies of routines in both classes.
In trying to add a bit of usage variety to a generic class I'm working on, I ran into this issue with trying to cast an object into an interface instance where the interface is defined inside the generic class.
I have a form that is set up like a master/detail form - fields on top with a child grid below. The difference here is that the child grid is reflective of a recursive relationship. That is the ID of the master has a one-to-many relationship with another attribute called "parent." the child grid displays all the children for that parent. It works properly except when a new record is being added to the master.My issue is that when the user clicks on the Add New button, the child grid then displays all the available parent records in the system instead of an empty grid. Once the new master (parent) record is saved, the grid reverts to proper behavior.Thus, my question: How do I prevent the child grid from displaying all the parent records when a new master (parent) record is being added?
In the code below, when I use the same interface with O in the Class declaration line and the Inherits line, I then get a compiler error when I access the interfaces Year member in both the properties. It says " 'Year' is not a member of 'IRegionYear'." I get the same thing if I use the same class with each Of.
I don't get this error when the interface or class entered for both Of clauses are different. Interface IRegionYear ReadOnly Property Year() As Integer End Interface MustInherit Class RegionYears(Of IRegionYear) [Code] ......
I am working on a general helper class to sort ListView SubItems. I wrote a base class that has much of the code I need. It includes a MustOverride for the Compare method so that the various inherited classes can implment their own comparisons based upon their type. For the value types, I end up with very similar code such as the following, where x and y are ListViewItems: Public Overloads Overrides Function Compare(ByVal x As Object, ByVal y As Object, ByVal sortColumnIndex As Integer, ByVal sortOrder As System.Windows.Forms.SortOrder) As Integer [code]
I have been searching for memory leaks in my application and come down to this weirdness. I have a class which implements IDisposable and one single event in it as shown below:[code]
