It seems that this post covers your question: http://msmvps.com/blogs/carlosq/archive/2011/03/15/vs-2010-sp1-changing-quot-byval-quot-vb-net-code-editor-experience.aspx So no, there is no way to get the old behaviour. From now on ByVal is the default (what it was before) and it won’t get added automatically to the method parameters. In my opinion this is a good decision since it’s making VB.NET a bit … Read more
There is nothing inherently wrong with using the colon to combine statements. It really depends on the context but as long as it doesn’t reduce readability, there is nothing wrong with it. As a general rule I avoid using the colon for this purpose. I find it’s more readable to have one statement per line. … Read more
Unfortunately, there’s no exit two levels of for statement, but there are a few workarounds to do what you want: Goto. In general, using goto is considered to be bad practice (and rightfully so), but using goto solely for a forward jump out of structured control statements is usually considered to be OK, especially if … Read more
Dim equation As String = “2+6/2” Dim result = New DataTable().Compute(equation, Nothing)
You can use this function, linq might be a more elegant way. Dim allTxt As New List(Of Control) For Each txt As TextBox In FindControlRecursive(allTxt, Me, GetType(TextBox)) ‘….’ Next Public Shared Function FindControlRecursive(ByVal list As List(Of Control), ByVal parent As Control, ByVal ctrlType As System.Type) As List(Of Control) If parent Is Nothing Then Return list … Read more
Do the following: Open the File menu. Choose Add, then Existing project Add the project you want into your solution s From the solution explorer, select the References item of the project you want to need to reference the “other project” into. Click on Add reference Choose the project item Add your other project as … Read more
You’re using a new instance of System.Random every time. Random is seeded by the current time. Initializes a new instance of the Random class, using a time-dependent default seed value Reference Since you are creating new instances in very quick succession, they get the same seed. Instead, you should use the same instance of Random, … Read more
You can use the Process class to run a batch file Dim psi As New ProcessStartInfo(“Path TO Batch File”) psi.RedirectStandardError = True psi.RedirectStandardOutput = True psi.CreateNoWindow = False psi.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden psi.UseShellExecute = False Dim process As Process = Process.Start(psi)
Typically, a value of false is represented by 0 and a value of true is represented by any non-0 integer value. The specific value for true and false (among others) are things that you shouldn’t rely on – they can potentially be implementation specific. I’m not sure what you are trying to do, but it … Read more
The purpose of the BackgroundWorker class is to perform work on a non-GUI thread while the GUI remains responsive. Unless you set Control.CheckForIllegalCrossThreadCalls to false (which you shouldn’t do), or use Invoke as suggested in the other answers (which I also wouldn’t recommend), you’re going to get an illegal cross-thread operation exception. If you want … Read more