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  • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

    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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    Colborne_Greg
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    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

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      Richard Deeming
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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

      "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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      • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

        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
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        #85

        damn

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        • C Colborne_Greg

          What problem? People with less skill are more focused on getting the job done, then writing cool useless code.

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          OriginalGriff
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          #86

          The problem is that "people with less skill" assume that a "ooh shiny" language feature is cool at all. With is 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 – ∞)

          "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
          "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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          • P PIEBALDconsult

            That's what makes C# better than VB. :-D Try writing an event that returns a value in VB. :cool:

            You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

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            Jorgen Andersson
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            #87

            What's the problem?

            Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]

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            • P PIEBALDconsult

              What about that can't be done in C#? :confused:

              You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

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              Lost User
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                     Catch
                      End Try
                  Next
              Catch
              End Try
              

              End Sub

              A rat's tail of different closing elements instead of some simple closing brackets.

              The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
              I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.

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              • C Colborne_Greg

                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 Try
                

                End Sub

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                PIEBALDconsult
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                #89

                Actually it just got a lot more credit... Swift is Apple's version of VB. :-D

                You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

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                  The problem is that "people with less skill" assume that a "ooh shiny" language feature is cool at all. With is 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 – ∞)

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                  Colborne_Greg
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                  #90

                  My employee cost vs performance says otherwise

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                  • P PIEBALDconsult

                    Yes. And I really don't like that Extension Methods require the using directive. Very powerful are aliases though. Recently I used an alias to resolve a namespace conflict, rather than have globall:: 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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                    Colborne_Greg
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                    Thank God I don't need SQL anymore. I use Unidex which I wrote in Visual basic ;)

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                    • P PIEBALDconsult

                      Actually it just got a lot more credit... Swift is Apple's version of VB. :-D

                      You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

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                      Colborne_Greg
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                      #92

                      Swift looks like C# almost exactly

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                        Swift looks like C# almost exactly

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                        PIEBALDconsult
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                        #93

                        Of course my comment is tongue-in-cheek, but you must not have looked at Swift hard enough yet.

                        You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

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                                 Catch
                                  End Try
                              Next
                          Catch
                          End Try
                          

                          End Sub

                          A rat's tail of different closing elements instead of some simple closing brackets.

                          The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                          I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.

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                          Colborne_Greg
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                          Visual basic does not have the closing bracket issue that C# has. It makes it easier for people that have less or no skill to be more productive, oh look win for VB.

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                          • P PIEBALDconsult

                            Of course my comment is tongue-in-cheek, but you must not have looked at Swift hard enough yet.

                            You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

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                            Colborne_Greg
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                            #95

                            No I haven't, I've only seen declaring memory and other basic functions which all were the exact same as C#

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                            • C Colborne_Greg

                              Most of that code is autocompleted also the inside catch is to ensure the loop continues

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                              Colborne_Greg wrote:

                              also the inside catch is to ensure the loop continues

                              Now you're swallowing 10.000 exceptions in a loop :laugh: After that a "File Saved Succesfull" dialog and pretend nothing ever happened.

                              Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

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                                Colborne_Greg wrote:

                                also the inside catch is to ensure the loop continues

                                Now you're swallowing 10.000 exceptions in a loop :laugh: After that a "File Saved Succesfull" dialog and pretend nothing ever happened.

                                Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

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                                Colborne_Greg
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                                No the problem is when one error exists it kills the loop half way through, this code is only run to display results on the GUI, so not only do I not want it to fail for one error, I don't want it to waste time trying to figure out anything related to that error. I am only unidex the only errors that get through to a client are typos, such as bad filenames

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                                  Visual basic does not have the closing bracket issue that C# has. It makes it easier for people that have less or no skill to be more productive, oh look win for VB.

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                                  Colborne_Greg wrote:

                                  It makes it easier for people that have less or no skill to be more productive

                                  And that's exactly what raises my expectations whenever someone comes with VB.

                                  The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                                  I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.

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                                    Colborne_Greg wrote:

                                    also the inside catch is to ensure the loop continues

                                    Now you're swallowing 10.000 exceptions in a loop :laugh: After that a "File Saved Succesfull" dialog and pretend nothing ever happened.

                                    Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

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                                    Lost User
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                                    How often I have seen something like that. And then the criminal who wrote this thinks he's being treated unjustly and exclaims something like "But it always has worked!". And then try to explain to Mr. Pointy Hair that this mess only pretended to work at best, fell flat on its face and was more busy covering it up than anything else at worst, and that looking away will not solve anything or save us one single cent.

                                    The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                                    I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.

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                                    • C Colborne_Greg

                                      If pictures is null the memory space creates itself and returns a empty album list

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                                      Mycroft Holmes
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                                      #100

                                      I think he is referring to the empty catch, it was my first thought. Oh a new version of resume next :laugh:

                                      Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                                      • C Colborne_Greg

                                        So now instead of with I need this. And I would have to write this over and over and over

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                                        PIEBALDconsult
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                                        Colborne_Greg wrote:

                                        I need this

                                        Probably not.

                                        You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

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                                        • S Simon_Whale

                                          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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                                          PIEBALDconsult
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                                          Simon_Whale wrote:

                                          would of have

                                          FTFY new image**()** { Height = Height } In one small test, I see that the this. isn't required, but it seems to confuse the debugger a bit. I prefer to use this. just because.

                                          You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

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