Visual Basic needs more credit
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With his pants on fire :laugh: I read somewhere that there are things that VB can do and C# can't an vice versa though... Think it had something to do with Errorhandling ?
Inline XML? Does C# have that yet?
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6 years of school, granted my studies are out of date by 5 years
"with" isn't particularly unique or interesting. There's a lot of functionality in a few lines. But you can stack up languages like cordwood that have lambdas, currying and/or templating features that would reduce the footprint of that code far more. It's awesome to be excited about a language. Lord knows I've spent most of the last 40 years that way. But do yourself a favor, take this post and put it in a calendar item marked 5 years from now and come back and look at it then. Visual Basic has come a long way since the VB3 days. But it's a very very long way away from winning awards for elegance.
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VB New image with {.height = height} C# New image {height = height} second one fails
No as you would of written it like this VB.NET Version
New image With
{
.height = height
}C# Version, in the C# version the With Keyword is ommited
new image { height = this.height }
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Are you still opposed to using (the namespace one, not the disposing one or the alias one) as well?
Yes. And I really don't like that Extension Methods require the
usingdirective. Very powerful are aliases though. Recently I used an alias to resolve a namespace conflict, rather than havegloball::scattered throughout some code:namespace PIEBALD.Data.MySql
{
using MySqlClient=global::MySql.Data.MySqlClient ;public sealed class DatabaseInfo : PIEBALD.Data.DatabaseInfo<MySqlClient.MySqlDbType>
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Inline XML? Does C# have that yet?
Don't know...
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When dealing with a database, sometimes there are bad records. I meant for these try catches to be this way, as I don't care at this point why there would be problems in the data, all other errors are handled.
Then catch the DB errors and rethrow the rest.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
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That code would fail as the scopes would be confused
No it wouldn't.
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this message is spam
Colborne_Greg wrote:
this message is spam
OK, at least you're being honest about it. As requested, I've reported your message as spam. Happy now? ;P
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Colborne_Greg wrote:
this message is spam
OK, at least you're being honest about it. As requested, I've reported your message as spam. Happy now? ;P
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Advertising your other post is spam
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Then catch the DB errors and rethrow the rest.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
I'm not using SQL
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No as you would of written it like this VB.NET Version
New image With
{
.height = height
}C# Version, in the C# version the With Keyword is ommited
new image { height = this.height }
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So now instead of with I need this. And I would have to write this over and over and over
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No it wouldn't.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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I think that Visual Basic should be shown off for its beauty and elegance. Here is a sample of what it can do - that no other language can do:
Private Sub AlbumListPopulate()
Try
AlbumsList.ItemsSource = New List(Of Image)For Each AlbumName In Pictures.Albums Try AlbumsList.ItemsSource.Add \_ ( New Image With { .Height = 150, .Width = 150, .Source = RotateStream \_ ( Pictures.Album(AlbumName).Picture, Pictures.Album(AlbumName).Angle ) } ) Catch End Try Next Catch End TryEnd Sub
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"with" isn't particularly unique or interesting. There's a lot of functionality in a few lines. But you can stack up languages like cordwood that have lambdas, currying and/or templating features that would reduce the footprint of that code far more. It's awesome to be excited about a language. Lord knows I've spent most of the last 40 years that way. But do yourself a favor, take this post and put it in a calendar item marked 5 years from now and come back and look at it then. Visual Basic has come a long way since the VB3 days. But it's a very very long way away from winning awards for elegance.
The unique part about the with; is that it is simple - easy to learn, little if no problems to overcome just by using the structure.
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Advertising your other post is spam
No, posting links to unrelated sites or commercial products is spam. Telling a user that you've already replied to their comments in another post on the same site is not. Falsely accusing other members of posting spam, however, would count as abuse. :suss:
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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It's just not that elegant to have two separate try/catch blocks that completely hide the error and never handle it. And everything you have there can be done in C# as well.
the try catches were not suppose to be illustrated as a bonus, and a laziness on my part, but intentional with how my code works
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No, posting links to unrelated sites or commercial products is spam. Telling a user that you've already replied to their comments in another post on the same site is not. Falsely accusing other members of posting spam, however, would count as abuse. :suss:
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
In my defense I got this exact post 3 times without validating you only posted it once
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VB New image with {.height = height} C# New image {height = height} second one fails
Colborne_Greg wrote:
second one fails
No, it doesn't. https://dotnetfiddle.net/J0N7Mm[^]
using System;
public class Program
{
public static void Main()
{
int height = 100;
var image = new Image { height = height };
Console.WriteLine("The image's height is {0}.", image.height);
}
}public class Image
{
public int height { get; set; }
}Output:
The image's height is 100.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Colborne_Greg wrote:
second one fails
No, it doesn't. https://dotnetfiddle.net/J0N7Mm[^]
using System;
public class Program
{
public static void Main()
{
int height = 100;
var image = new Image { height = height };
Console.WriteLine("The image's height is {0}.", image.height);
}
}public class Image
{
public int height { get; set; }
}Output:
The image's height is 100.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
damn
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What problem? People with less skill are more focused on getting the job done, then writing cool useless code.
The problem is that "people with less skill" assume that a "ooh shiny" language feature is cool at all.
Withis a PITA - it doesn't improve readability, it obfuscates it slightly and just makes it slightly shorter to type.Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
