Put The XMLSerializer Behind A 'facade' Class That User Won't Have To Supply Type Info To The Constructor?
Mar 19, 2012
I wish to put the XMLSerializer behind a 'facade' class of mine so that user wont have to supply type info to the constructor. But doing this has a problem. Consider this class:
Class XmlFormatter
Private Shared xs As XmlSerializer
Public Function Deserialize(ByVal serializationStream As Stream) As Object
Dim o As Object = Nothing
[code]....
The problem is that the user of this class cannot use Deserialize without first using Serialize because the XMLSerializer instance is created in Serialize and it is shared. But using Deserialize without this instance will simply return Nothing.
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Dec 27, 2010
I've been having problems with following code on some computers, while it's worked super on others (most):
Dim xmlSer As New System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(GetType(XMLContext))
which produces the stacktrace:
System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: type
at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer..ctor(Type type, String defaultNamespace)
How can that code throw that exception, when the argument is drawn from a gettype call, and note that it doesn't happen when debugging on my own PC, only when it's installed on some of the client PC's???
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Feb 15, 2010
I have an abstract class which requires a delegate to function. I pass the delegate into the constructor. Now that I have a non default constructor I need to call the abstract class's constructors from the concrete class which means that I need to use MyBase.New(...). I have included a quick example below.
Public MustInherit Class BaseClass
Public Delegate Sub WorkMethod()
Private _Work As WorkMethod
[code]....
I have tried to do this but I keep getting the following error: "Implicit reference to object under construction is not valid when calling another constructor".Can I not do what I am trying to do above? I initially had the delegate setup in its own setter method. But then I am creating a deceptive API because it does require a point to a method to work properly.
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Jan 15, 2009
I'm trying to serialize a user's preferences by means of an XMLSerializer. The preferences class contains Strings, Integers, Booleans and several Color structure variables. The serialization doesn't throw any errors, however the generated xml file has empty values only for the color variables.I tried the following two declarations of the XMLSerializer object, neither workerd.
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Feb 27, 2011
I was wondering if somone one could point me in the right direction on this.Basically I am making a proxy testing program. A user can supply a list of proxies to test. What i want to be able to do is have them be able to specify how many threads they want to run. Then have the program go through the list testing each one using the amount of threads supplied. Really not sure even where to start on this. Threadpooling?
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May 26, 2010
I have a custom class that has one property as a collection.For some reason XmlSerializer doesnt like the class having a collection property and the Serialize Fails!If I remove the collection property it works! Is there a special way of getting the collection in the class to work?
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Feb 3, 2011
Is there any way to create an XmlSerializer that stores along with the serialized data the data type, then when deserializing, it automatically identifies the type of the serialized object and creates an object of that type (returned as object).
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Aug 8, 2009
Something like in the image.I know that <Description("blah blah blah")>_ gives the description, but when the user is in the designer tab, I would like to know how to add that info when intellisense pops up.
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Sep 28, 2006
Is there any way to use a VB form to supply user credentials to the Runas command in command prompt? I basically need something exactly the same as the GUI for RunAs but just for Internet Explorer (yes I know you can right click and go RunAs but that cant be done in this case). So the user would open this VB form, type their username and password in, hit OK and it would open Internet Explorer with their credentials (they log in under a generic account used by many people).
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Dec 8, 2011
I have the following class which I want to serialize to XML:
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Aug 18, 2009
I have some classes, BsfciFile and StudyFlashCard. Bsfci is the extension to which I save my set of flashcards in an INI format. I am currently working to transform my code from using Windows API calls to access the INI to using a IniFile class that I found on the internet. I would like the BsfciFile to have a Array of StudyFlashCard objects, but I would like the StudyFlashCard class to use the IniFile class object contained in the BsfciFile class. I can pass the IniFile from the BsfciFile class to the constructor for the StudyFlashCard class, but I want it to modify the same IniFile as the BsfciFile class has later on.
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Feb 9, 2010
I am in the process of migrating from VB6 to VB 2008. In a pixel grid system I have thousands of cells with about 15 properties each. In VB6 I employed the user-defined datatype "udtCell()" as my array structure. Is this still a good approach - or should I perhaps make Cell a class?
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Nov 29, 2011
Is it possible to create a user control with a list of custom class type property? If it is, how can I? The issue is that, in designer mode the property is not displayed in property window. I can add the list on markup but when i switch to the designer mode it gives an error which is 'The user control does not have a public property named BookList'.
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Mar 7, 2011
What I want to do is pass a Type to another object's constructor, where the other object creates a new instance of Type. I can create a constructor with a parameter declared as System.Type without problem, but when I try to instantiate it tells me there is no such type.
Public Sub New(targettype As System.Type)
Dim Test As System.Windows.Forms.Form = New targettype
End Sub
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Jul 19, 2010
I just would like to know how to implement class constructor in this language.
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Mar 1, 2010
I am trying to make the properties of class which can only be set through the constructor of the same class
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Nov 26, 2010
How do I get using reflection the most generic type from a shared constructor in the base class :
Public Class Foo()
Shared Sub New()
'Here we have code to get the type[code]....
I expect the result to be Bar type and not the Foo. Is it possible?
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Jun 18, 2012
I have this code to get the default constructor:
Public Function f(ByVal t As System.Type) As Object
Return t.GetConstructor(New System.Type() {}).Invoke(New Object() {})
End Function
I need to pass values to the Constructor as
Public Function f(ByVal t As System.Type) As Object
Return t.GetConstructor(New System.Type() {someInteger,someString,etc.etc}).Invoke(New Object() {})
End Function
Also I have 3 classes of Type T, with all having different parametric constructor. It's important for me to have it generic as the Classes of type T might increase in future with less or more parameters.
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Mar 15, 2010
i'm working with different classes and different constructors. It's working fine until i try to inherit a class that also has a constructor. vb asks for mybase.new but when i add that vb says that a constructor cannot call itself, when i try it in a different way vb asks the parameters of the constructor of the class that i want to inherit.
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Jun 6, 2009
i've declared a bitmap at class level + i want to load an image into that variable in the constructor. i don't know why but it won't work and everything i've tried won't work either.am i missing a reference or something?
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Nov 19, 2010
I have an abstract class in vb.net with two subclasses. In the abstract class I have a constuctor that looks like this:[code]I would like to create a second constructor that doesn't take any arguments and just initializes the args to default values.[code]When I attempt to create a new subclass using the second constructor the compiler complains that I'm missing two args to the constructor.Is there a reason I can't overload the constructor in the abstract class?
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Mar 1, 2010
I have a custom collection class that I would like to pre-populate with data from the database. Basically it would search for "submembers" that are related to the "member" data record using the "member"'s primary key id.
I figured the best way to do this would be in the constructor of the class, but I am not so sure now. The collection class does not have any properties (the member class does).[code]...
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Mar 12, 2010
I'm making a class that reads a file and processes data in it, but I need some error handling. I'm giving it a constructor that takes a file location and processes that file. How can I make it so the constructor tells the program whether it found the file or not? Optimistically the program that calls this class would check for that first, but since I'm not going to be the only one that uses this class I'd like to know how to secure such a thing. It's probably bad practice to do this within the class, but I'd like to be sure it's as portable as possible.
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Oct 26, 2009
I discovered that an event raised (directly on indirectly) in the constructor cannot be handled outside the very class. To prove if that was the actual problem, I wrote a simple exemplary app.
Class with the event:
Namespace Utils
Public Class A
Public Event Test()
Public Sub New()
CallTest()
[Code] .....
The reason of such behavior became quite obvious after writing those pieces, but maybe there is a way to omit it?
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Nov 11, 2009
How do I force the Visual Studio compiler to generate an error when a required method is not being called in the constructor of a child class? Like when you edit the form designer code, the compiler complains when InitializeComponent()isn't the first call in the constructor of a form. Is this even possible in VB.NET?
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Nov 26, 2010
In the past when I have written classes and constructors, I named the variables in the constructor parameter something different than what would have been stored in the actual class itself.What I do now is name them the same, and reference the internal variables with Me.varname.Here is a class I just started building.Is my naming convention incorrect? [code]
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Sep 9, 2011
I am trying to write some unit tests on a class that looks like this, using Moq [code] the parameterized constructor is private or internal one of the two methods relies on the result of the other.I want to check that when GetThisOrThat is called with a value, it actually calls GetThis. But I also want to mock GetThis so that it returns a specific well-known value.To me this is an example of Partial Mocking, where we create a Mock based on a class, passing the parameters for the constructor. The problem here is that there is no public constructor, and therefore, Moq can not call it..I tried using the Accessors generated by Visual Studio for MSTest, and use those accessors for the mocking, and this is what I came up with [code]
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Apr 1, 2012
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Is there an explanation for this limitation? I mean, it's still in the constructor for the object, and the base class constructor is still executed first.
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Feb 3, 2010
I'm doing a lab for school, and I came across something I have never done before: create a default constructor within my class. It involves creating a private field to store the connection string, then create a default constructor that sets the connection string.
Here is what I have so far:
Public Class Appointments
Private sqlconnection As String = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("ConnectionString")
Private Property connectionstring() As String
Get
Return sqlconnection
[Code] .....
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Dec 27, 2010
I have a base class which must be overriden. This base class sits in one dll shared by all. The derived classes will each be in their own dll such that the addition of a new derived class can be done by distributing a new dll. The set of dlls, and therefore the set of derived classes, will be discovered by the main program on startup. That's all pretty straightforward. The problem is that the main program needs to be able to query a database to figure out which type of derived class it needs, then create a class of that type. Naturally, it can't know which types will be available ahead of time because even I don't know that. The program has to be dynamically extensible.The obvious way to do this is to have an interface in the dll that is implemented by a class with a default constructor. The sole purpose of that class would be to return an object of the type (one of the derived types) defined in that dll. The derived types can't really be this class, because they can't have a default constructor since the base class doesn't have a default constructor, and the derived class can't make up the arguments that the base class constructor needs.
So basically, each dll that houses a derived class would also house a simple class that implemented an interface for the sole purpose of creating that particular derived class. The main program would examine the dll to find a class that implemented the interface, and once it found one, it could ask it what type of class it created, or it could ask it to create an instance of that class. It seems like there ought to be an easier way to dynamically add new classes to the project. It seems like the derived class ought to be able to tell the main project what type it was. This could be done, except that the derived class would have to exist before any of its methods could be called unless the methods were shared. Since you can't have a shared method in an interface, the interface itself would make no sense at that point, in which case I would need to discover whether the class in the dll derived from the base class in the second dll, just to figure out whether or not I wanted to create it. That's getting convoluted by now, so I guess I'll leave it there. The basic point is that the base class is known to the main program from a common dll. The number and types of derived classes can't be known at this time, so the program has to be able to discover them dynamically. Each derived class will sit in its own dll (or there could be more than one in a dll), and has to be discovered, and instances created, as needed, by the main program.
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