C# IntelliSense is suck!

[Dave]

I am a VB.NET guy, recently i tried to write program using C#, having being
pampered by VB.NET's IntelliSense i find that the C#'s IntelliSense is SUCK!

[Robin Tucker]

Thankyou for offering your opinion.

Err, perhaps it would be useful to say WHY it sucks? Otherwise, I have just
wasted 4 seconds of my life reading your message.

"Dave" <da**@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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I am a VB.NET guy, recently i tried to write program using C#, having being pampered by VB.NET's IntelliSense i find that the C#'s IntelliSense is SUCK!

[Fergus Cooney]

Damn!!
8 seconds gone.
Pity the poor person who reads <my> reply too!!

[:\\\\derian]

i think thats the reason c# developers usually think they are better than vb
developers
at least thats the way it is over here... all the # guys think they have it
so tough b/c intelisense doesn't change a word to uppercase
and blah blah blah... since i'm relatively lazy, i like hitting ctrl +
spacebar and having my class names typed out...

thats just me though!

"Dave" <da**@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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I am a VB.NET guy, recently i tried to write program using C#, having being pampered by VB.NET's IntelliSense i find that the C#'s IntelliSense is SUCK!

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

Is suck or sucks? I do not have a problem with the Intellisense, but rather
with the fact that C# does not keep up with you like VB.NET (for the record,
I code mostly in C#). That should change in the next version, from the
rumors I have heard.

The syntax in VB.NET helps some, as you have to type in declarations like so
in C#:

SqlConnection conn;

But, you can use fully qualified names:

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection conn;

to get Intellisense. Or an alias:

using System.Data.SqlClient = sql;

VB.NET is easier here, as you type:

Dim conn As SqlConnection

and have a drop down.

Is this what you are talking about?

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I am a VB.NET guy, recently i tried to write program using C#, having being pampered by VB.NET's IntelliSense i find that the C#'s IntelliSense is SUCK!

[Cor]

4*4*4 seconds gone

[Daniel Pratt]

Hi :\\derian,

":\\derian" <de****@someplace.com> wrote in message
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i think thats the reason c# developers usually think they are better than vb developers
at least thats the way it is over here... all the # guys think they have it so tough b/c intelisense doesn't change a word to uppercase
and blah blah blah... since i'm relatively lazy, i like hitting ctrl +
spacebar and having my class names typed out...

thats just me though!

FWIW, ctrl + spacebar works just as well in C#. It even corrects the
capitalization, which is quite handy. Actually I consider myself both a VB
programmer and a C# programmer, which leaves me in the odd position of
feeling that I'm better than myself.

Regards,
Dan

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Dave" <da**@nowhere.com> scripsit:

I am a VB.NET guy, recently i tried to write program using C#, having being
pampered by VB.NET's IntelliSense i find that the C#'s IntelliSense is SUCK!

ACK. C# sucks. VB.NET rules.

SCNR

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[Fergus Cooney]

ROFL

[Tom Spink]

110% accurate.

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* "Dave" <da**@nowhere.com> scripsit:

I am a VB.NET guy, recently i tried to write program using C#, having being pampered by VB.NET's IntelliSense i find that the C#'s IntelliSense is

SUCK!
ACK. C# sucks. VB.NET rules.

SCNR

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[Fergus Cooney]

ROFLMAO

[Tom Shelton]

In article <#Z*************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>, Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:

* "Dave" <da**@nowhere.com> scripsit:

I am a VB.NET guy, recently i tried to write program using C#, having being
pampered by VB.NET's IntelliSense i find that the C#'s IntelliSense is SUCK!

ACK. C# sucks. VB.NET rules.

SCNR

Personally, all my development is in C#.... I like it :)

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Fergus Cooney" <fi******@tesco.net> scripsit:

ROFLMAO

It's the truth.

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* Tom Shelton <to*@mtogden.com> scripsit:

I am a VB.NET guy, recently i tried to write program using C#, having being
pampered by VB.NET's IntelliSense i find that the C#'s IntelliSense is SUCK!

ACK. C# sucks. VB.NET rules.

SCNR

Personally, all my development is in C#.... I like it :)

I use VB.NET and C#, but I don't like C#.

:-)

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[Cor]

Hi Tom,
When I read this, I think I have to go start using C#
Do you know if I can use the microsoft basic functions in it, because my
experimences showed me that they are such a lot faster?.
Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Cor" <no*@non.com> scripsit:

When I read this, I think I have to go start using C#
Do you know if I can use the microsoft basic functions in it, because my
experimences showed me that they are such a lot faster?.

I hope this is a joke.

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[Fergus Cooney]

VB.NET is a friendly Labrador which wags its tail and knocks things over.
It's just a bit boisterous and clumsy at times. Always seems to take up more
space than you'd expect. It does the most horrendous farts.

C# is a Police-trained German Shepherd. Sharp is a good word for it. Its
moves are clean and efficient. Cuddly it ain't - though it's quite beautiful.
You wouldn't have it for the children to play with - not because it's
dangerous (too well trained for that) but it just wouldn't be as much fun as a
Labrador.

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Cor,

I would recommend learning C# with as much fervour as I could muster. So
many of the things that VB obscures become clear when you do them in C#.

Part of this is the fact that a 100 line block of VB can be done in 20
lines of C# - so you can <see it all>. C# and elegance can be as one with each
other. I'd rarely say that with VB.

Regards,
Fergus

[Cor]

Hi Brutus,
No I told you that I did expirimences and that the Visual Basic functions
are faster that the system.net members.
I gave you that test program.
Cor

[Cor]

I am waiting on the comments or Armin

[Daniel Pratt]

This is the insidiousness of VB. It promotes "loose" thinking, which leads
to "top posting" and not recognizing simple logic such as the fact that no
statement can ever be more than 100% accurate.

Regards,
Dan

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110% accurate.

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[Cor]

Hi Brutus,
I forgot the reference

When I read this, I think I have to go start using C#
Do you know if I can use the microsoft basic functions in it, because my
experimences showed me that they are such a lot faster?.

No I told you that I did expirimences and that the Visual Basic functions
are faster that the system.net members.
I gave you that test program.
:-))
Cor

[Tom Shelton]

In article <O$**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>, Cor wrote:

Hi Brutus,
No I told you that I did expirimences and that the Visual Basic functions
are faster that the system.net members.
I gave you that test program.
Cor

What functions are faster? Almost all of the VB.NET functions delegate
to actuall .NET functions anyway...

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MVP [Visual Basic]

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Fergus Cooney" <fi******@tesco.net> scripsit:

VB.NET is a friendly Labrador which wags its tail and knocks things over.
It's just a bit boisterous and clumsy at times. Always seems to take up more
space than you'd expect. It does the most horrendous farts.

C# is a Police-trained German Shepherd. Sharp is a good word for it. Its
moves are clean and efficient. Cuddly it ain't - though it's quite beautiful.
You wouldn't have it for the children to play with - not because it's
dangerous (too well trained for that) but it just wouldn't be as much fun as a
Labrador.

ROFLM*O

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MVP · VB Classic, VB.NET
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Fergus Cooney" <fi******@tesco.net> scripsit:

Part of this is the fact that a 100 line block of VB can be done in 20
lines of C# - so you can <see it all>. C# and elegance can be as one with each
other. I'd rarely say that with VB.

Are you sure?!

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Cor" <no*@non.com> scripsit:

No I told you that I did expirimences and that the Visual Basic functions
are faster that the system.net members.

I know that (your test program), but I thought you wanted to turn to C# *shock*.

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<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Tom Shelton]

In article <3f***********************@reader21.wxs.nl>, Cor wrote:

Hi Tom,
When I read this, I think I have to go start using C#
Do you know if I can use the microsoft basic functions in it, because my
experimences showed me that they are such a lot faster?.
Cor

I don't see how they can be faster, since most of them are just wrappers
around the .NET framework classes... But, yes - if you like you can use
them. Just reference Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll, make your appropriate
using statements, and off you go.

--
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MVP [Visual Basic]

[Cor]

Hi Fergus,
I love the {}, the way a variable and an object is declared, the unifomity
of the program control,
do you real think I did not do some expirimences with it; I can do the most
strange things with JavaScript.

I find the word "then" absolute unneccesary in Visual Basic (that is a word
that I always forget to write).

But I realy hate the == and the case sensitive (probably because that
strange document object model, that has the uppercases on the most strange
places).

You must understand that, it has a lot of plusses for me, one of the things
to that C is for what is the code, almost natural language independent. But
because of the framework it is not and has therefore almost no benefits
about that above Visual Basic.

But I love it, if a it is posible to make a program that don't need comment
blocks.

And I think that is better to do with Visual Basic than C#

Therefore I don't understand those people who ask for comments blocks in
Visual Basic,

(You understand than too why I don't like the regular expression).

Cor

[Cor]

Tom,

I use the system.members, I don't like it that the index of the functions
start at 1.

But I was always arguing with Herfried about them, and thought why not it is
a benefit of a natural language when you can use more words to express
yourself.

Last week there was an arguing in this newsgroup with Jay B. and some others
about the regular expressions, the functions and the system members.

Jay B, said it was too discussed in the C# group but nobody did make a
testprogram, so I did.

With a String the Visual.Basic function Find was twice as fast as the
system.member indexof exactly on the same way used.
The regulair expression was 15 times slower than the indexof.
Only with a character, (that is not in the functions), the indexof was
faster.

I was perplex.

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Cor" <no*@non.com> scripsit:

You must understand that, it has a lot of plusses for me, one of the things

C++
++

Four "plusses".

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[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Dan,

ROFL.

Although in Tom's defense I have to say that there's Spock logic (range 0%
to 100%) and there's McCoy logic. The latter can have 'percentages' far in
excess of 100 - calculated, as it is, with emotionally fuzzy logic.

Regards,
Fergus

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Tom,

That's what I thought.

But this character counting loop
Do
iResult = InStr(iStart, strInput, strDelimiter)
If iResult = 0 Then Exit Do
iCount += 1
iStart = iResult + 1
Loop
is actually faster than
Do
iResult = strInput.IndexOf (sDelimiter, iStart)
If iResult < 0 Then Exit Do
iCount += 1
iStart = iResult + 1
Loop
(though not when IndexOf uses a Char)

Regards,
Fergus

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Herfried,

Sure, I'm sure.

Take:
Public Property Foo As String
Get
Return m_Foo
End Get
Set
m_Foo = Value
End Set
End Property
vs
public string Foo { get { return m_Foo; } set { m_Foo = value; }}
for instance.

That's perhaps an extreme example (8 to 1), but C# has lots of space
savers.

Regards,
Fergus

[Tom Shelton]

In article <#O**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>, Fergus Cooney wrote:

Hi Tom,

That's what I thought.

But this character counting loop
Do
iResult = InStr(iStart, strInput, strDelimiter)
If iResult = 0 Then Exit Do
iCount += 1
iStart = iResult + 1
Loop
is actually faster than
Do
iResult = strInput.IndexOf (sDelimiter, iStart)
If iResult < 0 Then Exit Do
iCount += 1
iStart = iResult + 1
Loop
(though not when IndexOf uses a Char)

Regards,
Fergus

Interesting... Did anyone look at the IL to see what was going on? Just
curious.

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MVP [Visual Basic]

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Fergus Cooney" <fi******@tesco.net> scripsit:

Sure, I'm sure.

Take:
Public Property Foo As String
Get
Return m_Foo
End Get
Set
m_Foo = Value
End Set
End Property
vs
public string Foo { get { return m_Foo; } set { m_Foo = value; }}
for instance.

That's perhaps an extreme example (8 to 1), but C# has lots of space
savers.

ACK. IMO the C# version is "unreadable".

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[Rick Mogstad]

FWIW, i would tend to agree. They are getting compiled into the same IL anyhow, so id rather have
code that makes sense just by looking at it.
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* "Fergus Cooney" <fi******@tesco.net> scripsit:

Sure, I'm sure.

Take:
Public Property Foo As String
Get
Return m_Foo
End Get
Set
m_Foo = Value
End Set
End Property
vs
public string Foo { get { return m_Foo; } set { m_Foo = value; }}
for instance.

That's perhaps an extreme example (8 to 1), but C# has lots of space
savers.

ACK. IMO the C# version is "unreadable".

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MVP · VB Classic, VB.NET
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Tom,

I haven't done so and no one else mentioned it. If you find yourself
delving, it would be interesting to know, but STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE might keep you
too busy! ;-)

Regards,
Fergus

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Herfried,

|| IMO the C# version is "unreadable".

That's useful to know - ponder and recall that feeling, then multiply it.
Many one-language-only speakers feel <that>, and more, when they see a page of
German or French, or English, or Russian, Greek, Sanscrit, Korean,
Babylonian....

Regards,
Fergus

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Herfried, Rick,

Europeans once discovered a tribe of natives who had lived their entire
lives in the jungle. A few of these natives once had occasion to travel with
the Europeans and eventually came to areas of plains where herds of grazing
animals lived. They could be seen for miles around. The natives couldn't
believe how some of these creatures were so big and yet others (of the same
type) were so tiny. They simply couldn't understand how the images were small
because of perspective. They had never perceived anything like it in the
jungle where the longest as-far-as-the-eye-can-see distance is measured in
mere metres.

So it is with C# and VB.

======================================
The standard formatting of braces in C# is
string foo()
{
Code at this level.
}

I <hate> it - for my eyes are used to
string foo()
{
Code at this level.
}

The former makes me feel very uncomfortable because my eyes can't parse it
as readily as the style I've been using for all these years.

Regards,
Fergus

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Fergus Cooney" <fi******@tesco.net> scripsit:

IMO the C# version is "unreadable".

That's useful to know - ponder and recall that feeling, then multiply it.
Many one-language-only speakers feel <that>, and more, when they see a page of
German or French, or English, or Russian, Greek, Sanscrit, Korean,
Babylonian....

It's not unreadable because I don't "speak" C#, but my eyes need much
more time to understand the code.

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MVP · VB Classic, VB.NET
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet> (updated!)

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Fergus Cooney" <fi******@tesco.net> scripsit:

So it is with C# and VB.

======================================
The standard formatting of braces in C# is
string foo()
{
Code at this level.
}

I <hate> it - for my eyes are used to
string foo()
{
Code at this level.
}

The former makes me feel very uncomfortable because my eyes can't parse it
as readily as the style I've been using for all these years.

ACK. One of our professors used this indentation style:

\\\
class Foo {
public void makeIt() {
doIt();
}
}
///

IMO really stupid because the eyes cannot parse it.

OT:

You always complain about my posts, so I will complain about your posts
too. In the usenet ">" is used to quote the text of the post you are
answering. Some newsreaders are able to parse the ">>>" at the
beginning of the lines and display them as vertical lines, the text is
sometimes displayed in different colors, depending on the quuting
depth.

When using non-standard quoting characters like "||" and large
indentations, the text will be "unreadable" with some newsreaders. My
newsreader, for example, displays the "||" as a smiley and is unable to
quote the text. I always have to remove the "||" and the indentation to
get it work...

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[Tom Spink]

<Mouth flaps like a fish>

"The Banana increased in size by 300%"

Anyways..... My statement was not meant to be taken literally, but as an
indication to my feelings on the fact that VB.NET is by far the best
language EVER.

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This is the insidiousness of VB. It promotes "loose" thinking, which leads
to "top posting" and not recognizing simple logic such as the fact that no
statement can ever be more than 100% accurate.

Regards,
Dan

"Tom Spink" <th**********@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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110% accurate.

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[Tom Spink]

Hi Fergus, Success!!! VB wins again

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Hi Tom,

That's what I thought.

But this character counting loop
Do
iResult = InStr(iStart, strInput, strDelimiter)
If iResult = 0 Then Exit Do
iCount += 1
iStart = iResult + 1
Loop
is actually faster than
Do
iResult = strInput.IndexOf (sDelimiter, iStart)
If iResult < 0 Then Exit Do
iCount += 1
iStart = iResult + 1
Loop
(though not when IndexOf uses a Char)

Regards,
Fergus

[Tom Spink]

Hi,

It's not even well formed C, IMO. You should see some of my C++ code:

BOOL IsAdminOwnerW ( LPWSTR wszFile )
{

LPSTR szFile;
DWORD dwLen = 0;

dwLen = WideCharToMultiByte( CP_ACP, 0, wszFile, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL,
NULL );

szFile = ( LPSTR ) LocalAlloc( LMEM_FIXED | LMEM_ZEROINIT, dwLen );
WideCharToMultiByte( CP_ACP, 0, wszFile, -1, szFile, dwLen, NULL,
NULL );

BOOL bRet = IsAdminOwnerA( szFile );

LocalFree( ( HLOCAL ) szFile );

return bRet;

}

See? Spaces everywhere.

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* "Fergus Cooney" <fi******@tesco.net> scripsit:

Sure, I'm sure.

Take:
Public Property Foo As String
Get
Return m_Foo
End Get
Set
m_Foo = Value
End Set
End Property
vs
public string Foo { get { return m_Foo; } set { m_Foo = value; }} for instance.

That's perhaps an extreme example (8 to 1), but C# has lots of space
savers.

ACK. IMO the C# version is "unreadable".

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[James T. Kirk]

What did I tell you Spock, - Bones and you just have different ways of
measuring.

Kirk out.

[Fergus Cooney]

LOLWPAM

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Tom,

By far the best VB ever, for sure, but are you saying that it's better
than Lisp?

Regards,
Fergus

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Tom Spink" <th**********@ntlworld.com> scripsit:

Anyways..... My statement was not meant to be taken literally, but as an
indication to my feelings on the fact that VB.NET is by far the best
language EVER.

I am not alone with this feeling...

;-)

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Tom Spink" <th**********@ntlworld.com> scripsit:

It's not even well formed C, IMO. You should see some of my C++ code:

BOOL IsAdminOwnerW ( LPWSTR wszFile )
{

LPSTR szFile;
DWORD dwLen = 0;

dwLen = WideCharToMultiByte( CP_ACP, 0, wszFile, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL,
NULL );

szFile = ( LPSTR ) LocalAlloc( LMEM_FIXED | LMEM_ZEROINIT, dwLen );
WideCharToMultiByte( CP_ACP, 0, wszFile, -1, szFile, dwLen, NULL,
NULL );

BOOL bRet = IsAdminOwnerA( szFile );

LocalFree( ( HLOCAL ) szFile );

return bRet;

}

See? Spaces everywhere.

I _hate_ the spaces, I would write:

\\\
BOOL IsAdminOwnerW(LPWSTR wszFile)
{
...
}
///

Notice the 8 spaces used for indentation.

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<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Fergus Cooney" <fi******@tesco.net> scripsit:

LOLWPAM

What does this acronym stand for?

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