Why VB.Net blah blah... [modified]

[R Giskard Reventlov]

Did you point out that it would more than double the budget and cause you to discharge several of your weapons in his general direction? :-)

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[Jacquers]

That sucks. How are you converting it? Manually or using an app?

[realJSOP]

I'm a government contractor - the contract doesn't end until net October, and there's no real schedule to speak of. Cost isn't an issue. He's got guns too. At least it would be a somewhat fair fight (if you can really apply the word "fair" to a gunfight).

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[Dalek Dave]

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

VB is a scurge on mankind

Scourge, surely?

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[realJSOP]

I'm using a web site that converts. For the most part, it does an okay job, but Linq statements tend to freak it out. I have a LOT of linq statements. I hate pretty much everything about VB, so this makes me hate my job. I updated my resume last night. I think my boss doesn't want to learn C#. I recognize that VB abnd C# are pretty much the same, but the differences are infuriating, and I simply don't like coding in it. NOTHING will change my outlook regarding VB. It has no redeeming features.

.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001

[realJSOP]

Yeah - what-the-f*ck ever.

.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001

[Jacquers]

Yeah, I'm not crazy about VB either. How about loading up the project in reflector and let it spit out the code in VB?

[Henry Minute]

C# also allows this.

The prefix "@" enables the use of keywords as identifiers, which is useful when interfacing with other programming languages. The character @ is not actually part of the identifier, so the identifier might be seen in other languages as a normal identifier, without the prefix. An identifier with an @ prefix is called a verbatim identifier. Use of the @ prefix for identifiers that are not keywords is permitted, but strongly discouraged as a matter of style.

from MSDN[^].

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[Nemanja Trifunovic]

Potato, pothato:

string @int = "Hi, John";

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[Henry Minute]

Agreed!

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[realJSOP]

It would never even cross my mind to do that. "Strongly discouraged"? It's more like a killing offense.

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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001

[realJSOP]

Yeah - like I said, it would never even cross my mind to do soemthing like that. It's just stupid.

.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001

[Dave Parker]

It could be worse, at least you're not having to rewrite in VB6.

[Chris Losinger]

SQL allows that, too. SELECT [Date] FROM History

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[Rama Krishna Vavilala]

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

but amazingly bad practice...

For manual code, yes! However, this feature is extremely useful for generative programming (where your code generates code based on user inputs, compiles it and runs it) Thankfully, this feature is supported in both C# and VB.

[realJSOP]

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

For manual code, yes!

For ANY code - yes. It's like using goto. Just because you *can* use it doesn't mean you *should*.

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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001

[realJSOP]

Yeah, and I hate it there, too. I'm not a fan of SQl either, as long as we're on the topic.

.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001

[Rama Krishna Vavilala]

It's like saying that assembler should not use jump statements or certain constructs. When you are auto-generating code which is not supposed to be read by anyone (sort of like ASP.NET does) this feature works well. The neat thing is that codedom automatically takes care of this.

[Simon_Whale]

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

Just because you *can* use it doesn't mean you *should*.

Best advice ever!

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