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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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      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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      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

        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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        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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            Swift looks like C# almost exactly

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            • C Colborne_Greg

              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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              • L Lost User
                       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
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #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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                    Lost User
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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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                      • C Colborne_Greg

                        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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                        Lost User
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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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                            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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                                • M Mycroft Holmes

                                  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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                                  Colborne_Greg
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                                  #103

                                  He asked what if pictures were null. It's actually a shared class, and this procedure is only for displaying what is in the system.

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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
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                                    I came from Cobol and JCL, with 25 years of experience. I own a start up software company. Anyone that has C experience or web experience I find are bad employees, they make great leaders, not great employees, unless your business in devoted to C and C type languages, then you probably have 20 programmers to my one.

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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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                                      #105

                                      PIEBALDconsult wrote:

                                      Try writing an event that returns a value in VB

                                      How do you do that in C# that you can't do in VB?

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

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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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                                        F Xaver
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                                        #106

                                        I wouldn't write such empty Try's but.... still I like it over this here ^^

                                                }
                                             }
                                          }
                                        

                                        }
                                        }

                                        and this things aint better...

                                            } //For
                                        } //If
                                        

                                        } //Try

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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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                                          Chris Quinn
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                                          #107

                                          As I frequently say - it's not the tool that is used that's the problem, but the tool that uses it.

                                          ========================================================= I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka. =========================================================

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