What's the advantage of declaring a function as "Shared"? I've noticed that it doesn't require you to instantiate an object to use the method when it declared as "Shared". Is that the only upside?
View 3 RepliesThese two snippets do the same thing - is there one that's better than the other, or is it just a matter of preference?
Using context As MyDatabaseDataContext = New MyDatabaseDataContext()
Dim test = context.Employees.Count
End Using
vs.
Dim context As MyDatabaseDataContext = New MyDatabaseDataContext()
Dim test = context.Employees.Count
When I am writing a sub or function that does some calculations etc. I often need a loop or a integer variable to count.
An example:
''' <summary>
''' Compare elements with the new data and perform all necessary actions.
''' </summary>
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As you can see, variables like timespan, nullCount and seconds are declared within this sub.
My question is, is it better to declare these in the class? I can imagine that would boost performance.
I want to set my tcpclient up as a function and declare the ip and port later. However It wont let me. this is not copy and pasted code due to security reasons I wrote this code as theoretical cause I can not discuss the nature of my work. I am using vb.net 2008
I have
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imports system.net
imports system.net.sockets
imports system.ipaddress
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I have created my own ListViewItem class, and added some custom properties to it of attributes. What I have at the moment is a tooltip which shows all of those custom properties (about 18 of them).What I want to be able to do is if multiple are selected, to show a tooltip, but if a property (say Title) for all of them is "My Title" it will show that, otherwise if they are different, I would like it to show "VARIES"Is there a way of declaring a parameter in my function and return a value? [code]
View 1 RepliesI have a base class foo that will be used in multiple child classes of similar but slightly different function:
Public MustInherit Class foo
Public Function bar1() as Something
''// Perfectly OK to change what this method does
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How do I get the compiler to generate an error when bar2() is overridden by a child class?
If I comment the paramList line, I see the "CreateDetailedReport()" message box, but if I uncomment it, the message box never appears - there are no errors or anything, it simply seems to not run the function. On my development machine it works properly, but this odd behavior is seen on the target machine.
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Any reason why this would make the line before it not run - even without producing an error,o
crashing, or something?
I want to know what implies to declare a function or a sub using public or directly Sub / Function i.e.:
Public Function Whatever()
' Process
End Function
versus.
Function Whatever()
' Process
End Function
What's best practice (in VB.Net):
Function GetSomething() as String
GetSomething = "Here's your string"
End Function
or
Function GetSomething() as String
Dim returnString as String = "Here's your string"
Return returnString
End Function
Obviously, neither of these implementations make any sense, but they're just meant to illustrate my point. Is there anything to be gained by using GetSomething itself to store the return value instead of declaring returnString locally and then returning that (does it avoid having an extra string allocated/instantiated - and if so, are there any performance/memory benefits)?
i have a function that i have in my data access class now i want to access it then declare and assign parameters and then insert data into database?
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'the function
Public Shared Function InsertNewRecord(ByVal myStoredProcedure As String) As Boolean
Dim conn As New SqlConnection
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i am beginner about general programming. Please give me basic shared functions .
I only know few functions such as : Public Shared Function lon(ByVal a As Integer, ByVal c As Integer) As String Public Shared Sub trung()
VB.NET 2010, .NET 4. I am working on an application for controlling an industrial machine composed of many devices attached to the computer. Most if it is reasonable straight forward, but I'm having trouble thinking about the RS-232 devices. One of the RS-232 devices is a fancy power supply with many functions. The ones that are relevant right now are voltage read, voltage write, current read, and current write. The design pattern I'm trying to implement is one in which each attached device is represented by an object that has methods for reading/writing etc and properties for things like COM port etc.
For this power supply, clearly the Port reference should be shared among the instances, so I have a base class (say, PowerSupply) with a Protected Shared Property Port As IO.Ports.SerialPort. Then I have a couple classes that inherit from this class, PowerSupplyVoltage and PowerSupplyCurrent that each define read/write methods and properties for holding the last read/written values. My issue is in parsing the response from the power supply using the Port.DataRecieved event on the shared SerialPort object. The protocol the power supply uses specifies what data it's sending in each response packet.
So, basically, it might say something equivalent to "The voltage is 100V" or "The current is 1A" or "The voltage has been set to 150V" etc. I'm trying to parse this in a shared function. Only during the parsing process would I determine which instance's read/written value to update. I can't access the read/written value properties of the instances from within the shared function. The best I could think of is creating some kind of PowerSupplyCommunicator object that would maintain references to PowerSupplyVoltage and PowerSupplyCurrent instances along with the shared Port and DataRecievedHandler functions.
how I can dynamically load a control inside of a shared/static function?The function itself is inside of a mustinherit/abstract class.(It's an ASP.NET project in VB) I want to do something like this:[code]I'm getting "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.",but I don't understand this error.I understand what it means, I just don't understand why calling LoadControl isn't seen by the compiler as being an explicit instance of the class. What's not explicit about using LoadControl to create a new control from a file? I tried creating a new user control and initializing it, then setting it to a different control with LoadControl to no avail.I also don't want to do a DirectCast because I'm trying to put this in a shared, mustinheret (abstract) class, which therefore doesn't have an .aspx file to write in a <%@ Reference Control="~/SomeControlPath.ascx" %>, so the class name is unavailable.What I'm trying to do is write a static function that takes some value and returns a control based only on that control's source file location.The end result is a user-modifiable list of controls.They get a column of controls that they freely add, remove, or reorder based on a static list of available child controls that I specify.
View 4 RepliesI can create classes that use generics, however I was wondering if it is possible to apply this to a shared method rather than rely on the caller casting to the correct type.This is the method:
Public Shared Function DeserializeObject(ByVal serializedXml As String, ByVal givenType As System.Type) As Object
Dim serializer As New XmlSerializer(givenType)
Return serializer.Deserialize(New IO.StringReader(serializedXml))
End Function
I'm pretty sure this can't be done, but thought I'd check (if so Extra points will be awarded if someone can technically explain why the compiler can't do this)..
I made the changes from this:
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to this:(the 'End Function' says "Function 'GetFolderPath' doesn't return a value on all code paths. A null reference exception could occur at run time when the result is used."
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xplain to me or give me an example of using a select case in a shared function
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i have a function that i have in my data access class now i want to access it then declare and assign parameters and then insert data into database.
I get this error: 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.
Partial Class _Default
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
<WebMethod()> _
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I know it has something to do with the fact that the first function is shared and the second function should probably be Public as well but I don't fully understand the reason behind it. Probably not relevant but I'm calling the web method from some javascript.
I have as sub that is triggered from the file system watcher when the new file is created in spec. directory.I need to call some function to do something with that file. [code]
View 6 Repliesi created a dll file using vb.net then it has a shared function that will execute a stored procedure of mysql but my code is something long and when accessing it, it has a big risk that it can produce an error if there is an incorrect string input, i am asking an advice how i can make it much better or can point me something much better than my code as my reference.here is my codefirst i created a function named mysqlParamDatatype wiith 1 parameter, this function will detect the mysqldatatype of the mysql sproc parameter so it can pass the value with the correct datatype. but it is to long.
Shared Function mysqlParamDataType(ByVal i As Integer) As MySqlDbType
If i = 1 Then
Return MySqlDbType.Binary
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Consider I have a shared function:Public Shared Function CalculateAreaFromRadius(ByVal radius As Double) As Double
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If I have two or more threads in the same vb .net app and each of them calls the shared function at the same time with different RADIUS, will they each get their own AREA? I want to know for each call to the function if it is using same local variables or each call creates new instances of local variables?Will the answers to above questions be same If I have multiple (2+) single threaded apps and they all call the function at the same time with different RADIUS value?
Im having a problem understanding if accessing httpcontext inside a shared function, without passing in the httpcontext as a parameter is thread safe?
Are the 2 functions in the util class equally thread safe?
Class foo
Sub main()
Dim qs1 = util.getQS(HttpContext.Current)
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I had a problem (which is now fixed) but I've no idea why.I have an Ajax AutoCompleteExtender with a WebService method to populate like <WebMethod()> _
Public Shared Function populateACE(prefixText As String) As List(Of String) However this didn't work - I put a breakpoint in, and it didn't even get hit. However... <WebMethod()> _ Public Function populateACE(prefixText As String) As List(Of String) does work (the only difference being not Shared).
Fair enough, but why? If you have an instance of a class then you can access Shared methods of it; if you don't have an instance of a class then you can access Shared methods of it. So what is going on behind the scenes?
I'm trying to get a query string from a shared function in a code-behind model using VB.NET. You have to use HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString("Query") in order to get it from a shared function, however doing HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString.Count gives back 0, which obviously isn't right in my case as there's many that exist. Is there some sort of issue with using this static call from a shared function?
View 1 Replieshow to pass system.type or a generic without much luck. I have two functions below one that works and the other that doesn't. I can't seem to make heads or tails of the VB syntax required for doing what I want to do.
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' Also attempted it like this
' Public Shared Function UnserializeFromJSON(ByVal obj As String, ByRef ty As System.type)[code].......
The context of this question is that I am trying to debug performance issues (apart from the obvious ones I already know about and can find).I inherited a code base (VB.NET) for an ASP.NET app. This is an app that was developed way back in .NET 1.1 days, and was the first .NET app for a lot of the developers who worked on it.
In this code base is a class called DatabaseUtility that contains several Shared Public methods as well as non-Shared Public Functions and Subs for CRUD operations to the database (SQL Server).
It is common in my "BL" that a method creates an instance of the DatabaseUtility which essentially figures out what the connection string should be and opens a connection, as well as giving the developer a handle to the other methods contained within it.Dim utility as New DatabaseUtility()
Once I have that, I start to create parameters that I am going to pass to one of the methods in DatabaseUtility (like GetDataSet). There is a Shared method in my DatabaseUtility called CreateParameter which does essentially that. It creates a SqlParameter object so I can add it to a Parameters collection.
Now, the code base is littered with a lot of this:
utility.CreateParameter(...)However, because CreateParameter is a Shared method, I am not sure what is going on behind the scenes. I know because it is a Shared member that an instance of the DatabaseUtility is not created when I call it like this:DatabaseUtility.CreateParameter(...)
However, because I am calling it from an instance (utility), does that change the behavior at all?
Here is a VB.NET Console module I'm testing to understand how Multi-Threading/Threads work.
Imports System
Imports System.Threading
Module Module1
Public Class SimpleThread
Public Sub SimpleMethod()
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With the help of NetFileEnum or Openfiles.exe of system32, we can get the username who has opened the shared files. Is there any API function or any exe files in any programming language like c#, vb.net, visual c++ to find out who is the user to create, rename, or delete shared files or folders on the network?
View 1 RepliesWhen I find examples online of VB.NET watch some functions use:
(Protected / Partial) & (Friend / Shared) & (Sub / Function) exp()
End (Sub / Function)
what is the difference?
i would like to have a shared function in a separate class file to address the form location . but i dont know how can i get this to work. if i use this below code in my form its working . but i cannot move this to a class file.
Shared Sub Formlocation()
Me.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.Manual
Me.Location = Screen.GetWorkingArea(Me).Location
End Sub