Here's something else VB can't do
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(At least not as easily as far as I can tell.) Today I was working on some code that involves an if/else, but decided that when debugging, I wanted the else-block to execute regardless of the test. I came up with this technique:
if ( test ) { do stuff }# if !DEBUG
else
# endif
{
do other stuff
}Funny, I just did that in my C++ code the other day. I just had to experiment and you are correct, what is simple in C/C++ will never work in VB. Nice technical point. I am far more used to C and C# programming and starting a VB contract job next week. This is a good heads up for me. Thanks. I tried this is VB in VS2008 as a console app and it seems more or less equivalent to your sample: Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim iNumber As Integer Dim tText As String iNumber = 99 tText = "Is iNumber less than 100?" If (iNumber < 100) Then tText = "iNumber is less than 100" #If DEBUG Then iNumber = iNumber + 2 <<<<<<<<<<< GETS HERE FINE IN DEBUG. BUT, GOES FROM HERE TO End If #End If #If DEBUG Then Else tText = "iNumber is more than 100" <<<<<<<<<<< NEVER RUNS THIS CODE iNumber = iNumber + 7 #End If iNumber = iNumber - 19 <<<<<<<<<<< NEVER GETS HERE, JUST SKIPS IT End If Console.WriteLine(tText) Console.WriteLine(iNumber) End Sub End Module OUTPUT: iNumber is less than 100 101
TW Burger