Well, I just discovered a problem when I had a co-worker try out my program for what I have done so far. The .Net Framework on his machine wasn't 4. However, and don't know why, it's on mine. So now I have to change my framework to 3.5.
I have used String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace several times and looking for an alternative but I can't find one. The closest is IsNullOrEmpty.
While writing that, this came to mind, but not sure if it is the same. StringName.Trim.IsNullOrEmpty. Would that get me the expected results as IsNullOrWhiteSpace?
I'd like to create a Dictionary that is indexed by Strings: Dictionary(of String, ...). I'd like the Type after the comma to be an Array of MyObject's. If all I do is the following: Dim D as new Dictionary(of String, Array)
I feel like I'm missing out on some performance very time I access a member: Dim Object1 as MyObject = MyDictionary("Key1")(4)
Doesn't it have to perform some type of lookup to figure out what type of object the array is holding every time I access it in this manner?
I am trying to populate a dictionary with objects created from data in a recordset, but am having difficulty with VB's object referencing. I am very new to VB. Pseudo code of what I am trying to do:
dim dict as Dictionary rs = getRecordSet while rs.moveNext set myObj = new MyClass myObj.properties = rs.relevantFields dict.add myObj.getUniqueKey, myObj wend
However, all 'objects' in the dictionary are actually references to the most recently created (and thus last) object in the dictionary. I know why what I am doing above is not working, but I don't know the correct way to do it so that each element in the dictionary is it's own object.
I don't know if this is doable, maybe with Linq, but I have a List(Of MyType):
Public Class MyType Property key As Char Property description As String End Class
And I want to create a Dictionary(Of Char, MyType) using the key field as the dictionary keys and the values in the List as the dictionary values, with something like:
New Dictionary(Of Char, MyType)(??)
Even if this is doable, internally it will loop through all the List items, I guess?
I want to group items from a linq query under a header, so that for each header I have a list of objects that match the header title. I assumed the solution would be to use ToDictionary to convert the objects, but this allows only one object per "group" (or dictionary key). I assumed I could create the dictionary of type (String, List Of()), but I can't figure out how to write it. As an example I have written a simplified version below.
I have created a class with a function in it. I have a collection of data I want to pass back. I tried an arraylist first. Now I am trying to use a dictionary. My problem is that it creates the dictionary ok, but I am only get the last row of data from my
Function GetWeldAuditInfo(ByVal ResourceId As String, ByVal VendorId
countDictionary As Dictionary(of Category, Dictionary(of Date, Integer))
The Class has a Enumeration Property. For the purposes of demonstration, I'll call it MasterCategory.I have been trying to get out an object that looks like the following:
groupedCountDictionary As Dictionary(of MasterCategory, Dictionary(of Date, Integer)
Which results in a IEnumerable (Of Dictionary(of Date, Integer)) for each MasterCategory value.However, I need that IEnumerable of Dictionary flattened to one dictionary with all the integers summed (total counts) for each date. I then tried to use various selects and group bys (from numerous stackoverflow posts) to "flatten" it, but my efforts have fallen short.
Current Code
[Category Class] - MasterCategory As Enum - Name As String etc
I have created a Dictionary class (MyDictionary for the example). I am currently trying to pass MyDictionary into a function, filter it into a new instance of MyDictionary and pass this new instance into another method. When I am attempting to create the second instance from the filtered first instance of MyDictionary via Lambda Expressions and the ToDictionary Method, I am getting the following error:
Unable to cast object of type 'System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.Int32,System.String]' to type 'MyDictionary'. I have simplified the example and recreated it in LINQPad and am getting the same error.
I use VS2005 and I have just started working with the dictionary in particular the Dictionary.ContainsKey method. At the bottom of the page in the msdn library it says the following in the community content How to make sure that Contains functions properly.
I have written this function to auto correct gender to M or F from different values in a string array. It works fine but my manager told me to use Dictionary which he said is more efficient.[code]
I need to order a Dictionary in VB.net based off of the keys. The keys and values are all strings. The dictionary does not have a .Sort(). Is there a way to do this without having to write my own sorting algorithm?
I have a dictionary of key=string and value=datatable. I use a key to retrieve a datatable and assign that datatable to a new variable. Then I make some updates to the variable. However, I find that the dictionary itself is being updated even though I'm only updating the variable. This causes significant issues when I try to reference the dictionary later. How can I set up my dictionary so that it won't update when I use a value?
dim dt1 as datatable
dt1=dictionary(key)
For row=0 to dt1.rows.count dt1.Rows(row)(4)=dt1.rows(row)(4)/2 Next row
'at this point, when I look up dictionary(key), the value I get shows all of the original values divided by 2.
How to make a dictionary? that left side have listbox, rightside have one picturebox and textbox. When i clicked on the "APPLE" in listbox, it open APPLE'S picture and describe, when i clicked on the "ORANGE" in listbox, it open ORANGE's picture and describe.But now the problem is, i want to make it all in a exe, so that APPLE & ORANGE's picture and describe will be combine into the EXE, so what is the most easiest code to done...
- LOAD THE PIC INSIDE THE EXE (RESOURCE?) - LOAD THE TEXT INSIDE THE EXE (RESOURCE?) - SEARCH THE LISTBOX FOR SPECIFY ITEM
[code] For example, if the word was "cat" it would return true. If the word was "jlakfh", then it word return false. To do this i need some kind of dictionary array or something. How do I do this? If it helps, I only needs words with less than 7 letters in them, and more than 2 letters in them. Also, I don't need the definitions of the words. I only need the words themselves in the arary. Do I need to manually input all the words into an array or is there already a dictionary control or something that I could use?
I have been trying to use a bit array as a dictionary key and even though I know each bitarray value is different the program fails with a duplicate key message when a try to add the second record to the dictionary. Is there any way I can make this work?
i was searching for a simple solution that i can use in sorting a dictionary by value, and i was not content with what i found, so i made up these two functions for sorting a dictionary ascending and descending. I do not assume that they are perfect, so improvements are welcomed. They are written in VB.Net and use an intermediary dictionary.
Public Function SortDictionaryAsc(ByVal dict As Dictionary(Of Long, Decimal)) As Dictionary(Of Long, Decimal) Dim final As New Dictionary(Of Long, Decimal)
I have a series of "keys" and associated "descriptors". I have them set up in a VB dictionary to use the keys to select the descriptor for output (the descriptor is the English translation of the hexadecimal key; both are dictionaried as strings).I have looked at the help files and all they do is "for each" statements to retrieve the entire key list or the entire descriptor list. What I need to be able to do is take a key, determined early in the program, and use the dictionary to look up what the English equivalent is. I don't need to retrieve ALL the keys or ALL the descriptors.VB6 made this easy.I'm having trouble doing the same thing in VB 2008.I can provide a sample of the code I have been working with after I get access to that computer.
I'm writing a bit of code that I want to populate a TreeView, which it does quite successfully, but I also want to put a Dictionary in the Tag of each Level 1 child node. Once the Tag has been set to the Dictionary, is there any way I can modify the dictionary, without redeclaring the Tag.For Each verse In Verses
Dim _verse = verse.ToString.Trim Dim _node As TreeNode = New TreeNode(_verse.Split(vbNewLine).First & "...") _node.ToolTipText = _verse[code]...
What I would like to do is make an abstract class that will hold objects in a dictionary and manage the adding/deleting/key changes of those items in the dictionary. My problem is that in order to make the class as generic as possible I declared the dictionary as dictionary(of long, of SomeInterface).The problem is when I try to pass a strongly typed dictionary in the constructor using dictionary( of long, ClassThatImplementsSomeInterface) I get a compiler error because it cannot convert to that type.
The reason I want to pass the dictionary in the abstract class's constructor is so that I can use the strongly typed dictionary in the subclass and have the abstract class manage the keys when it needs to. So how can I do something like this? Also- If there is a much better way to manage keys than what I am doing feel free to let me know, but I am much more interested in how to make this work since I have encountered this type of problem a few times before.
Here's the abstract class: Public MustInherit Class HasChildrenKeys Protected m_childItems As Dictionary(Of Long, IHasKey)
Is there any sort of API for google dictionary or dictionary.com (note: i have tried the google API but that does not support dictionary!!!) or some way to download the information from those sites? i will be using this in a bigger program (a very basic chatbot) so the definition has to be able to easily be output to a string or textbox!!!
note: i have asked mr.google many a time but all the responses are not what i want! and i dont want to have to manually write my OWN dictionary (i.e. writing in each specific word and definition)
