The following is a mini version of a data structure that I need to be able to write & save to disk. Can someone give me a sample of code needed to do this
Public CardType
Card(0 to 52) as Integer
Suit(0 to 52) as Integer
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My application uses structures that contain strings and arrays that I want to write to disk. I understand that I can create the fixed length data types in the structures by using "ReDim" and "String$", but my question is: Does VB reallocate the storage for the structure which includes these redimensioned members in-line (which would be necessary in order to write the contents to disk), or does it allocate heap and merely store a pointer in the structure?If only a pointer is provided, is there a straightforward workaround to allow me to create fixed length data types in a structure that could be written to a disk file?Or, Is there an I/O method that will handle the situation by recreating a contiguous buffer containing the structure before writing it to disk?
View 1 RepliesI coded anything but I remember when using VB6 or Pascal/Delphi we used to define records/ structures with fixed length fields, then write those structures to a file knowing that they would always be the same length. You could then open a particular record within the file or simply find out how many records existed by reading the file length.From what I understand, it seems that such methods are depreciated in VB.NET and such structures are written as a stream.Does it now mean that we can define things like variable length strings and not need to worry about buffers or boundaries?Is it possible to read through such files and pick out individual records? Are there methods of determining how many records that exist in a file? What I'm looking to do is simply store multiple records of a structure in a file then retrieve them into an array so I can manipulate their order by sorting the array and search within the array. This is only a learning project so it is unlikely that the resultant array is going to be large, although if this is not generaly a good method of doing this then it might be interesting to fidn out what is. So far, I have read that they way to write a structure to a file is to "serialises" it and then write the bytes - is this correct?[code]
View 5 RepliesI was developing a software with related to Excel, in which I have to write and SAVE the details at appropriate columns. I am currently having a problem in saving the data.
Private Sub Button1_Click_1(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
'Open
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Very first time I debug the coding I haven't got much problem. But debugging it again gives me an Error AS: "A file named 'Resume.XLW' already exits in this location. Do you want to replace it?"
I was able to see this since I have enabled the display alerts. Disabling it generates a save as window.
I have a structure called 'Scheme' and in my program I want (ideally) an ArrayList of 'Schemes' (so i can add, remove schemes etc.). However, within the 'Scheme' structure, I want to have an ArrayList of 'Item''Item' is another structure. Are there any solutions out there for iterating through these arrays quite easily?
How can I easily add multiple Items to a Scheme and mutliple Schemes to my Scheme array. Code is below. When I try to add Items to a Scheme, I get the 'Object not set to a reference of an object, try the 'New' keyword', but you cannot declare 'New' keywork within a structure.
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I read in the Book "Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2008" about "User-Defined data types".The example given is creating a Structure as follows.I wanted to check that so I wrote all the code given; I used a TextBox and a Button for this.(I didn't include the "CheckDate" here; that is in the book)
Structure CheckRecord
Dim CheckNumber As Integer
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The problem is this does work.What I get is "00000". and I found out that the "Checks(4)" Array does hold any value ie: on keeping the cursor over that, it shows "CheckAmount 0.0, CheckNumber 0 , CheckPaidTo Nothing ".
I'm attempting to create a list of structures that contains a list of structures. I can't seem to figure out how to properly allocate the object for the inner list of structures. I expect the outer list of structures to have a couple thousand entries and the inner list of structures to be fairly small at 2 to 10. Both lists will grow over time but the number of elements within the inner list will be constant for an instance of the outer list. Meaning, if an instance of the outer list has 2000 entries each of those will have the same number of elements on the inner list, say 4 entries.
Here is a simplified code fragment. This fragment makes no attempt to create the instance of the inner list "StructBlist" since I can't figure out where to put it. Tried "New List(Of StructB)" in the declaration as well as "Alist(0).StructBlist = New List(Of StructB)" but neither works.
Public Class Form1
Structure StructA
Dim FieldA1 As Integer
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What is the different between these 2 structures?
Structure INPUT
Public dwType As InputType
Public mi As MOUSEINPUT
Public ki As KEYBDINPUT
End Structure
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Currently I am saving data from my applications by saving a text file via a stream reader as a string. I have come to a problem. In my current application, I have an array of the following structure:
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Structure TextureStruct
Dim unk1 As ULong 'always 0x70007
Dim unk2 As ULong 'always 0x70007
Dim unk3 As ULong 'always 0x70007
Dim unk4 As ULong 'always 0x70007
Dim unk5 As ULong 'always 0x70007
Dim unk6 As ULong 'always 0x70007
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Is it possible to declare a new list inside a structure.
I'm trying to get a list of structures that each contain a list of points,
but when i try to declare a new list inside the structure VB says "keyword not valid as an identifier"
I'm currently doing this project where i have to create a program that let's the administrator manage students (and their tests.) I have decided to use Random Access file in this project.because structures will need fixed lengths...i don't know how will i search through the students (a function of the program) when each student structure has a different length because of the number of tests they've done.* I have created a variable in the aStudent structure so that i can know the number of tests a student has done...but don't know how to use it.
Public Class FormAdmin
Dim currentStudentName As String
Dim currentStudentID As Integer = 0
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I have created a structure as below. I want the structure to be an array...so I can use a call like picks(1).a or picks.a(1) = blah blah. I don't understand how to use an array of a structure..
Public Structure apicks
Dim a As String
Dim b As String
End Structure
I have been trying to read the cd toc in one go from the API, I can read it OK with a single byte array, but I can't find a way to fill the formatted arrays
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'ORIGINAL STRUCTS
'MAXIMUM_NUMBER_TRACKS = 99
'typedef struct _CDROM_TOC {
' UCHAR Length[2];
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I have a problem. I'm working on this advanced web browser with my friend, and we made a favorites feature. So, it works and all that, but, after I close the executable file, it doesn't save anything!
Ex:Starting Up, adding Google as new favorites, then closing the browser. Starting up again, 1 hour later, but there's no Google Here's what I put for saving the favorites (please do not steal the code Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
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what is the best way to add, delete elements from arrays of structures structure
vb
Structure Proxy
Dim Server As String
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I am currently working on a project for myself which looks through employee's information to find their availability to work. I've tried making a structure which holds the employee's information but I can't think of a good way to create different instances of it and store information in it at runtime. I'd prefer to load the information in at startup and not have to declare each employee and information. I am very new to Visual Basic 2008 but I have a good grasp of arrays from C and C++.
View 3 RepliesI know that Structures are value types and classes are reference type, i know that since structures are stored in stack they are faster to use i also understands that structures can not use the Inheritance concept but still in most examples i see i always see that the authors use classes when building something like BBL library, if structures is light-weight compare to classes and i don't need it to be inherited should i use structure instead of class?is there a rule of when to use class and when to use structure ?
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i want to add a function like this inside the structure
I have a Structure, and I am having trouble initialising it. Specifically when I try to populate the Vector3 variables, it tells me that they are Nothing, so I need to make them New when the array of this structure is declared.[code]Structures cannot declare a non-shared 'Sub New' with no parameters.I have no parameter to supply, and this will be an array so I'm not even sure how I would supply it.The second option to fix the error is to make the Sub New shared, but then I get other errors: Cannot refer to an instance member of a class from within a shared method or shared member initializer without an explicit instance of the class.Does anyone know how I can resolve this. My end goal is to have an array of this structure type with the Vector3s ready to use.
View 6 RepliesI have created a collection of structures. Each structure, of course, contains fields.
Lets say something like:
Public Structure clientStructure
Public ID As String
Public firstName As String
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How can I access a field of a particular structure using for.... each?
That is, how can I retrieve out of the collection (lets say item 5's) firstName, using for...each?
Can a list class in vb.net contain Data Structures ?
View 1 RepliesJust a little frustrated with a simple error in a listbox result on a mobile application.Here is a sample of the results I should be getting:
The inputs are 50mph & 4.5 hours
Hour distance
1 50
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I need to have an Array of UDTs(Structures). Elements have to be added (at end) and removed (from anywhere). The different values of the elements need to be changeable.
I know how to implement it as an oldstyle array, but wouldn't it be better to implement as a List ( of T)? and if yes is such a procedure possible?[code...]
It says that I can't have structures as optional arguments.That's really annoying for my program. Isn't there any way to circumvent this?
Sub fa(Optional ByVal colz As System.Drawing.Color = Color.AliceBlue)
End Sub
This example cannot compile
I have an interface IDigitalState defined as
Public Interface IDigitalState
ReadOnly Property Code As Integer
ReadOnly Property Name As String
End Interface
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What I wanted to do was declare a variable as a nullable type of IDigitalState. I understand why I cant do this because the interface may be implemented by a class which is not allowed to be nullable. Is there a way to define the interface so that it can only be implemented by a structure.
I have 2 Structures
Public Structure One
Public ItemOne As String
Public ItemTwo As Integer
End Structure
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Results In an Unhandled exception. Bad Record Length. and then If I close it and reopen it I get an 'Unable to read beyond end of stream' error. So what is the best way to save an array of structures? Binary Reader/Writer? and why does this way not work (Even if its derived from VB6)
I have an array of structures:
Structure stCar
Dim Name As String
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I have a structure
Structure record
dim firstName as string
dim lastName as string
dim phoneNumber as string
dim email as string
dim address as string
end structure
I would be more that happy for someone to tell me I am missing something very simple here I am writing code that - amongst other things - talks to code on other servers using the tcpclient function in .net
What I want to do is - in essense very simply. I want to define a structure which includes an array load it with data and sent it to the other end of the socket.
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