Specify Generic Types On Delegates?
Nov 15, 2010
Maybe I am just not reading the MSDN documentation correctly, but given a function that takes in one string parameter and returns type T, how can this be specifed as a shared function using Func()?
MSDN says Func(Of In T1, Out TResult), but all of their examples use the same data type, i.e., Func(Of String, String). I want to do Func(Of In String, Out T), where T is arbitrary (but I can constrain it if necessary by a base class). I want it shared/static at the class level, yet the encapsulating class will itself not be a generic class. It seems in this specific scenario, it's impossible to do what I want because the compiler would have no way of knowing what Type T is at runtime.
So is it possible to do generics on delegates or anonymous lambda expressions in VB.net (not C#)?
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Dec 15, 2010
I am struggling to get the syntax for the reflection call GetCustomAttributes ... at least I don't seem to be able to get hold of the custom attribute which I've decorated a particular method with. The complicating factor maybe that I have passed that method into an extension method as a generic delegate. (The other, more likely, complicating factor is that I'm not sufficiently familiar with reflection or what happens when you pass a method as a parameter like this!)
The code appears to run, and when I step it, the count returned from the GetCustomAttributes is 1. I can't work out how to get hold of that custom parameter
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Apr 20, 2010
Public Function CastToT(Of T)(ByVal GenericType(Of Object) data) As GenericType(Of T)Return DirectCast(data, GenericType(Of T))End Function
The above clearly does not work. Is there any way to perform this cast if I know that all objects inside data are in fact of Type T?
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May 4, 2011
Is there any way to define a Generic in VB.NET which will accept only Singles or Doubles? I tried the following things, based on what I've found online, but none compile:
Dim target As Nullable(Of {Single, Double})
Dim target As Nullable(Of T As {Single, Double})
Dim target As Nullable(Of T {Single, Double})
Dim target As Nullable(Of Single, Double)
Dim target As Nullable(Of T As Single, Double)
I want to specify that target can either be a Single? or a Double? only.
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Dec 2, 2010
I'm trying register presenters with Windsor using the convention based method but trying to do this in VB.NET, but the problem is it does not want to compile this statement:
Dim type = GetType(AbstractPresenter(Of))
I am getting : Too few type arguments to AbstractPresenter(Of TView, TPresenter)
Which I don't understand because this is a valid statement according to question. Also showing valid in other C# to VB.NET converters when converting typeof(AbstractPresenter<>).
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Oct 23, 2009
I am using VB.Net. I have an object class called clsA(of T as clsB). Depending on what T is, I want to do different things. Let's say that clsC and clsD both inherit clsB and therefore can be used for T.
If I have an instance of clsA(of clsC), how can I get the inside type (i.e. clsC) using reflection?
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May 10, 2011
Well this is maybe a little different than other array based conversion questions, but I'm dealing with forced typing concerns due to interface implementation and thus would like a few opinions on the process. I've basically redesigned the Collection suite for .Net because I don't like the extreme simplicity of the default Collections and dictionaries, as well, when I want the more complex concepts I don't want to have rewrite the same collection over an over again.
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Nov 29, 2010
Is there an exhaustive list of all of the "base" (not used in an object-oriented sense but more in a common sense) generic types in the 4.0 .NET Framework? I have found this list that I often send newer/mid-level devs to so they can understand how non-generic types map to generic types, but this is by no means exhaustive. I'm looking for something that also includes things such as KeyValuePair<>, Tuple<>, and other basic generics that may not be very-well known. Interfaces such as IObservable<> would be nice but not necessarily required.
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Mar 5, 2010
Is there a way to use a generic that only accepts integer types?
I have a Clamp(value, min, max) function, and it would be nice if it could accept ints, uints, floats, shorts, ect without having to write an individual function for each type.
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May 25, 2011
NOTE: I am mixing VB and C# - snippets come from different librariesI have a VB class definition as follows:
Public Class Session(Of TConnectionBuilder As {DbConnectionStringBuilder, New}, _
TConnection As {DbConnection, New}, _
TDataReader As {DbDataReader})
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Aug 28, 2009
I'm trying to write a class that will be in charge of persisting application options. Since the options need to be persisted the values that I'm sent must be serialisable.
Initially I thought I've be able to write a method with a signature like this[code]...
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Jan 19, 2012
addressing the need for getting the bytes of an object. But I am wondering if there is an approach to calling BitConverter.GetBytes on a generic type where I know the type is a primitive (Int32, UInt16, etc).
Public Sub Foobar(Of T as Structure)()
Dim x as T 'Assume T is declared as Int32
Dim y() as Byte
y = System.BitConverter.GetBytes(x)
End Sub
The above will throw your usual error:
Overload resolution failed because no accessible 'GetBytes' can be called with these arguments:
'Public Shared Function GetBytes(value As Double) As Byte()': Value of type 'T' cannot be converted to 'Double'.
'Public Shared Function GetBytes(value As Single) As Byte()': Value of type 'T' cannot be converted to 'Single'.
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One solution I think would work is a large Select Case calling GetType(), but that is horrendously slow (because of boxing) and looks ugly. I would think that since I call my higher level class with a primitive data type for T, that the compiler would be smart enough to figure it out, but I assume I am not providing enough information for it to derive what T's underlying value is at compile time for the invoked instances.
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Jan 23, 2009
I have bee trying to figure out, how to match generic types, without the type parameter in a IF-ELSE statement - heres what i mean:
<P>IF TypeOf(Obj) Is GenericTypeExample(Of ???Any???) Then</P>
<P>End if</P>
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Jun 4, 2009
Suppose I want to write a function like the following (as usual, a trivial example for illustrative purposes):
Public Function calcSqSum(Of T)(ByVal list As IEnumerable(Of T)) As T
Dim sumSq As T
For Each item As T In list
[Code]....
As you can probably guess, this function causes an error because a generic object is not guaranteed to implement the + operator. As far as I know, though, any numerical type (Integer, Double, Decimal, etc.) will.
Is there a way to write a (quasi-)generic function that can accept any numerical type, without having to explicitly overload the function for every such type yourself?
Alternatively, I suppose an equally acceptable solution would be to somehow check if a type implements the '+' operator (or any operator generally associated with numerical types and used by the function).
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Dec 14, 2011
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.
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Oct 2, 2009
Im working on my first n-tier application. I am trying to serialize a structure and Im getting an error"Soap Serializer does not support serializing Generic Types : System.Nullable`1[System.DateTime]."Here is the structure that is being serialized
Namespace Structures
<Serializable()> _
Public Structure structAllergy
Public AllergyID As String
Public ProfileID As String
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The bold line is the line that is throwing the error.
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Sep 16, 2010
Write an overload for every numeric type or if possible constrain a generic extension method to just numeric types.
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Mar 27, 2009
What are Delegates and Multicast Delegates in VB.NET? How do I use them? provide a simple example to illustrate the concept.
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Dec 16, 2009
We have migrated our Vb6 application to VB.NET using a third party tool. Now we are in a process of Refactoring and introducing object oriented concepts in the application.
In VB6, we were using structures in many places. As a part of introducing object oriented programming,
1. is it a good idea of changing all Structures to Classes? or Is there a concept of "Generic Structure" similar to Generic collections, Generic classes?
2. Can some one guide me any source containing guide lines or best practices for applications that are migrated to VB.NET from VB6 and implementing object oriented programmaing.
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Apr 13, 2012
Consider:
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.
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Nov 1, 2009
I have a class with a Property called 'Value' which is of type Object.Value can be of any type, a structure, a class, an array, IList etc.My problem is with the setter and determining whether the value has changed or not.This is simple enough for value types, but reference types and lists present a problem.For a class, would you assume that the Equals method has been implemented correctly, or just assume that the value has changed every time the setter is called?If I did assume it's changed, then perhaps I should assume it for value types as well, so that the behaviour is consistent.
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Aug 14, 2010
I have a Journal that records entries for different types: Journal(Of ParentT)
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Nov 25, 2011
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]
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Jun 30, 2011
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.
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Feb 8, 2012
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).
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Jun 19, 2012
If i have an object that implements an interface (and don't know the exact object) i can call a sub (DoSomething) by going:
vb
Dim iObj = trycast(something, iInterface)
if iObj isnot nothing then
iObj.DoSomething()
end if
How can I do this for a Generic? such as...
vb
Public Class TestClass(of T)
Public sub DoSomething()
....
end class
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Jun 23, 2012
I need to compare two dictionary values if the types stored are equal, this is what i have
if gettype(Args(key)) = gettype(argtypes(key)) then
'' do something
end if
[Code]....
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Feb 10, 2010
I have a class that I want to be serializable but contains a public instance of delegate that, apparently can't be serialized: [Code] Is there a way to make it serializable however?
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Oct 7, 2010
I have been using a pretty slick generic invoke method for UI updating from background threads. I forget where I copied it from (converted it to VB.NET from C#), but here it is: Public Sub InvokeControl(Of T As Control)(ByVal Control As t, ByVal Action As Action(Of t))
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Feb 3, 2012
Consider these two functions[code]...
My question is: what is the right way to accomplish this to resolve the ambiguity so that I can pass value or references types and get overload 2, but pass Functions and get overload 1? Can I constrain the types in some way to make this happen?
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