As far as c/c++ is concerned ,friend functions are defined outside the classes and they are accessed without object name.But in vb.net how can i create friend functions like that ? Is the concept same here or its bit different than what was in c/c++ ?
View 11 RepliesI can think of the following tricks:
Read only wrapper - like ReadOnlyCollection. The friend keeps the pointer to the modifiable object, while everyone else can access only the wrapper.Write delegate - the friend gives the constructor of the object a reference to a delegate as one of the parameters, the constructor fills it with an address to a private method that can be used to modify the object.Reflection - obviously a bad idea. Included for completeness.Multiple assemblies - put your friends together in a separate assembly and set your modifier methods internal.Expose the modifiable object, but add comments to modifier methods "This is an infrastructure method - don't call it!"Nested classes.[code]...
First of all let me say that while I was knowledgeable enough to create my program using VB-10 express I am by no means fluent in 'programming' speak .. so if you choose to help me please don't use technical jargon.. just explain as if you are talking to a 6 year old ..
Anyways I would like to give my program to some friends either by Email or via the internet (I have a website [url] (it is a wordpress blog) but I have no clue as to how I would get it onto my site.
I have attempted to Email the files .. first I had to change the file extension because Email would not send an .EXE file.. Then I tried to ZIP the files and send them via WINZIP but my recipients kept getting 'unable to open file' messages.
I'm playing around with VB.NET once again since college and I'm trying to recreate a program that GeekSquad uses called the MRI for a friend.Upon doing so, I have run into a few snags. The must present one is once I publish my application to a particular spot that also includes already setup folders with portable apps setup in them. I want to use Process.Start("App Path") where App Path is the drive letter of where the Custom Program exe is located and calling file Test1.exe in the test1 folder in the root.
View 3 RepliesI can't make difference between public class and private class and friend and protected friend class.
View 1 RepliesI've been reading about access modifiers in VB.Net lately, and there is something that I can't really understand: How do elements in a Class (or Module) inherit the modifiers of their enclosing block?For example, suppose you have a Friend class Bla in an assembly, with a public method Foo:
Friend Class Bla
Public Sub Foo
(...)
End Class
Does it behave differently than when Foo is set to Friend?
Friend Class Bla
Friend Sub Foo
(...)
End Class
What I am trying to do is have a class where the functions of the same name are both instance functions and shared functions.
Public Shared Function Get...(byval xx as xx)
and
Public Function Get...
The Public Function uses a Property xx created in the constructor, whereas the Shared Function has the parameters (byval xx as xx).
I was curious if anyone has heard of writing a program with functions only. It is part of my current assignment but all the examples I have seen all over have at least subs for the click events. SO I am a little confused to say the least.
View 3 Replieswhat event do I add to right click over a textbox and add a function to and options list...
View 1 RepliesHow to use the Left, Right and Mid functions in VB 2008?
View 3 RepliesI have been trying to build a game bot in vb.net.One of the main problems is getting access to the text the game prints on the screen so I have been trying to hook the games calls to the windows api drawtext and textout functions.I have been hunting for examples of how to set up a hook in vb.net for a long time without any luck.I have found it impossible to translate examples in old school vb, C++, and C#.For convenience's sake I would like to use the freely available deviare and/or easyhook libraries.
View 2 Replieshow to elevate privileges when my program executes code through command prompt. My program will already prompt for administrator access when it is launched. This is the code from my manifest file that will allow it to prompt for UAC admin permissions/credentials (to elevate permissions)
VB .Net 2010
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<asmv1:assembly manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" xmlns:asmv1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" xmlns:asmv2="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
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I am making a program to deal with sine/cosine functions
If rdbsideA.Checked = True Then
Do While AngleB > 0
SideA = (SideB * Math.Sin(txtAngleA.Text)) / Math.Sin(AngleB)
Loop
MsgBox("The Length of Side A is ", SideA)
End If
That is if the user seleects to find side a. When the messagebox pops up, it doesnt state the previous calculation, why is that?
I have a program and the program works fine. The only thing is that I want to shorten it up and stop using the same code over and over. I use the same redudant code through out the code. I want to write some functions in order to stop from having to use the same code over and over in my program. I wanted to know if someone could help me with functions: Here is part of my code below.
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I am new to using VB2010 (and coding in general). Also brand new to these forums . Okay so I am making a program that: allows the user enter the number of customers served for each of 12 months into an array. The application should calculate and display the following statistics: total number of customers for the year, the average monthly number of customers, and the months with the highest and lowest numbers of customers. Use inputBox to get user input. Do not accept non-numeric or negative numbers.
The problem that I am having is that I do not know how to display which was the best and worst month. I imagine I need something that targets the highest/lowest number and finds the text in the corresponding index but I'm not sure how to do this.
I've been fighting for weeks now to make a simple music playback program. It would function much like Windows Media Player without the visualisations and playlists. I'm writing this on a Win7 box, but it needs to work on XP and newer.
I say fighting because I'm severely annoyed at how MS has worked some items and it's taken many days to go through everything only to find that it doesn't work.
I started by using WMP in VB Express 2010 and having it play my music. Simple, but not portable. I copied my .exe to a WinXP machine and it blew up. I copied it to a different Win7 machine and it doesn't run (I can double-slick all day, nothing happens,
no log entries, nothing....)
Then I find that there is an issue with the GUID of media player on different computers, and it'll most likely fail to run when you try to use it on other machines than the one the program was built on.
So I gave up on that.
I then figured I'd use DirectX. It's on XP and newer already, and is supposed to be backwards compatibile so if I build my app on Win7 it should still run on XP and such. I did that, and it works fine on the machine I built it with (again). My shuffle works,loop/repeat works, got my own version of a playlist and it all works. I copy that to another Win7 box and it doesn't run at all. It's setup as .NET 3 so I can be sure of compatibilty with WinXP.
For grins, I gutted all the code in my VB app involving calls to Directx and built that. It runs fine on other computers, including my XP test box. So I know the problem revolves around DirectX somehow.[code]...
Suddenly some functions of Word 2007 (in Vista 32) hanged the program, such as Help or Search/Replace. When Word is reopen a message appears: microsoft visual basic. File not found. How can I solve this? I have uninstalled/reinstalled Word twice, but nothing happens.
View 1 RepliesI'm having trouble getting this program to work.. I just cant figure out how to get results from GenerateNumbers outputted to the main program to be used in other functions/procedures.I tried
Dim Result1 As String = ThreeResults(0)
Dim Result2 As String = ThreeResults(1)
Dim Result3 As String = ThreeResults(2)
but for some reason it sets the value of each ThreeResults(x) to " "[code]......
I have a program that I need to operate functions based off of hotkeys.One of the most important things I need to be able to do, is hit Escape at any time and end the program.Remember, the program form will not be up, it will be a number of any other applications, I need like a global hotkey or something.
View 3 RepliesAs I develop code, I often want to unit test some of the building blocks of a class even if they are normally private. If my unit tests are inside the project, I can use "Friend" to accomplish this and still keep the functions private for normal use. But I would rather move my NUnit tests into their own separate project(s).
View 3 RepliesI'm working on a CNC control program, based on a DLL that someone else wrote. No problems with that sofar, as i get good support from the writer.
The problem i do have to tackle is the following: I want to acces all the functions by means of softkeys ( the F-Keys at the top of our keyboards ) when the program starts it shows the Main menu softkeys ( F1-F12), and each F-key has a function assigned to it, some will make the machine move, others will show another menu, or a fileopen/save dialog, depending on the chosen keys.
All works fine and handy-dandy, except for the F10 key, it seems to be "Sticky", when i press it, the program will not react to any other key, only the F10 key can get it back in "normal state" accepting every key with a function assigned..
How to "unstick" the F10 after pressing it?.. because pressing F10 now, means no other key will do anything, and that may become dangerous, when the machine is moving and it must be stopped..
Okay, so I'm doing a card game and I'm trying to set that when picturebox (PictureBox1) is clicked, a random card from 13 cards will come visible. Problem is, that when i start the program and click the picturebox, the same card will always come visible. As you can see i've put a button (Button1) which will hide every card. If I press Button2, then Button1 and then the PictureBox1 it will show differend card, but the cards which come visible are always the same.
e.g i press PictureBox1 (which will make card visible), then Button1 (which will make PictureBox1 non-enabled) and then Button2 (which will hide every card and make PictureBox1 pressable). Lets say i pressed the PictureBox1 four times and i got cards: 9, 6, 7, 3, then I close the program, start it again and press PictureBox1 again 4 times and it will show the same cards (9, 6, 7, 3). How can this be done that it will not show the same cards always?
Here's my code...
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
End
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I am attempting to have my program select a file, create DataTables and then perform some other functions. I want to be able to open another file and re-do the same steps.The problem I am having is that I add columns to my Datatables and when I try and to open another file while one is already open I get a message that a column of xyz is already added how do I properly "clear my datatable" or perhaps that isnt even the correct approach? Here is the code I have that Opens a File
HTML
Private Sub OpenToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles OpenToolStripMenuItem.Click
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This was working at one time but after adding to my project I must have placed something in the wrong place inadvertantly or it has soemthing to do with adding columns,?
1) Is it possible to access the Excel mathematical functions without actually opening Excel?
I was thinking of through a DLL WinAPI call or maybe a delegate function or smaller program?
2) Does anyone know of a MS link or area that gives instruction on "how to" use every function of every Windows DLL at all?
Or for all those that Microsoft have chosen to document online at least.
Who knows, why in vb.net WinForm projects the designer by default use the Friend WithEvents attributes and in C# - private ones.
By ex, in a form.designer.
.cs
private Label Label1;
.vb
Friend WithEvents Label1 as Label;
For WithEvents is more or less clear(for using Handles, apparently). But why Friend in VB and private in C#...
I have class Aand BHow do i declare the class B as a friend of A?
View 4 RepliesI have a Class with certain subs and functions declared as protected friends. From my understanding this should allow me to be able to access those subs and functions from anywhere in my project and yet it isn't working.
View 5 RepliesWhen adding a new control to the designer in Winforms, the modifier on the control is set to Friend, but the default modifier is Private (right clicking the property and resetting the modifier). Is there a setting to set the modifier to default (Private)?
View 2 RepliesI have a few classes (about 15 or so) in VB.net (2005) that I would like to be able to serialize to xml. Unfortunately they are labeled as friend classes and cannot be exposed outside of the assembly.The assembly is a dll that is a com interop plugin to a CAD system. I have set all of my classes as friends so that they are not exposed outside of the assembly for 3rd party use. I am wondering if I even need to do that. Setting the class to public would allow me to serialize things. However I don't want people linking to the assembly and using the classes.Should I even worry about other programs linking to my assembly? In fact I don't think there is a large chance of this happening. I just don't like the idea of having almost all of my classes with a public scope.Is there a way to make a friend class serializable?
View 2 RepliesCan we define a constructor with 'Friend' modifier?
Friend Class Reader
Friend Sub New()
End Sub
End Class