Visual Basic needs more credit

[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

[Lost User]

Wrong forum, try http://www.codeproject.com/Feature/WeirdAndWonderful.aspx[^].

[PIEBALDconsult]

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

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

[Colborne_Greg]

With operator

[Richard Deeming]

Colborne_Greg wrote:

that no other language can do

Pretty bold statement, given it's followed by a code block that could easily be converted to C#. ;P

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[Simon_Whale]

I would make sure you have your flame proof pants on..

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[Pete OHanlon]

I suspect he's talking about the With block. Of course, as the With statement was introduced to fix a defect in VB in the first place...

[Colborne_Greg]

no with operator in C#

[Richard Deeming]

Just because you don't need the extra keyword doesn't mean that C# can't do it:

new Image
{
Height = 150,
Width = 150,
Source = RotateStream
(
Pictures.Album[AlbumName].Picture,
Pictures.Album[AlbumName].Angle
)
}

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"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

[Richard Deeming]

See my answer to your other post - you don't need the With operator in C# for object or collection initializers.

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[Colborne_Greg]

its not a with block, "new image with"

[PIEBALDconsult]

As well there shouldn't be. C# doesn't need it.

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

[Simon_Whale]

and you can do the same in C# without the need for "with" keyword

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[Dr Walt Fair PE]

Colborne_Greg wrote:

fortunately, no with operator in C#

FTFY

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[Richard Deeming]

Colborne_Greg wrote:

its not a with block

It's an object initializer, which is fully supported in C#, without needing an extra keyword. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384062.aspx[^]

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[Pete OHanlon]

So, the same as Auto-initialisation in C# then.

new Image{ Height = 150, Width= 150 }

[Pete OHanlon]

I have to say, you walked right into that one.

[JMK NI]

You can write code that fails completely silently in other languages too :doh:

[Colborne_Greg]

That code doesn't fail

[Colborne_Greg]

No better way to learn. I was told that C# and visual basic are the same language but I can find things in Visual Basic that are not in C# and things in C# that are not in Visual Basic