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!

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Herfried,

<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet> (updated!)

What's new, pussycat?

Regards,
Fergus

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

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

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

By far the _only_ VB.NET ever. VB Classic is a _different_ programming
language.

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[Tom Spink]

Who spells Lisp with an 's' in it anyway?

And FYI, Fergus, or should I say James T. Kirk? I checked the headers of the
messages and your IP addresses match. ;-)

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Hi Tom,

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

Regards,
Fergus

[Tom Spink]

Ooohhh, I'd say the spaces make the code look neater, at least, if you look
at them in a fixed-width font. It helps me distinguish between braces.

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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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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

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

<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet> (updated!)

What's new, pussycat?

ROFL

The colors...

;-)

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[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Bones,

Ith there no eth in Lithp then?

Bones, I'm surprised - given that I mentioned you and Spock in a previous
post under my Fergus alias ....

Kirk out.

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Herfried,

With Pleasure and Merriment ;-))

I felt more joy and amusement than straight humour and laughter.

Regards,
Fergus

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Tom,

Oh groan,
LocalFree( ( HLOCAL ) szFile );
No, no, please - no more, I can't take any more!!

LocalFree ((HLOCAL) szFile);
Oh, that's better. My eyes are in focus again.

or
LocalFree( ( HLOCAL ) szFile );

Look at those poor lonely brackets all out on their own. They shouldn't be
left to fend for themselves, they're too young.

LocalFree ((HLOCAL) szFile);
That's better - a responsible identifier to look after them.

Regards,
Fergus

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Herfried,

In OE there is a drop-down listbox for choice of quotation character. The
choice is '>', ':' and '|'. I prefer the '|' because it produces clean
vertical lines. It's also easier to type, requiring only one hand. And I
prefer '||' because it seems clearer.

!! However, for you,
!! I am willing to change it.
!! Could you cope with '!!'?

To change the indentation I'll need more persuasion. Start talking. ;-)

Could you email me one of these posts as your reader shows it I'm curious
as to how these smileys look.

Regards,
Fergus

[Tom Spink]

> LocalFree ((HLOCAL) szFile);

*Tom cries and breaks down into floods of tears, he will be scarred for
life*

I _hate_ spaces between identifiers and brackets, okay, perhaps I can make
my peace with getting rid of the spaces on the casting statement:

LocalFree( (HLOCAL) szFile );

But, I think it looks much cleaner (especially when you're injecting into
windows ;-)) to put spaces after the parentheses.

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Hi Tom,

Oh groan,
LocalFree( ( HLOCAL ) szFile );
No, no, please - no more, I can't take any more!!

LocalFree ((HLOCAL) szFile);
Oh, that's better. My eyes are in focus again.

or
LocalFree( ( HLOCAL ) szFile );

Look at those poor lonely brackets all out on their own. They shouldn't be left to fend for themselves, they're too young.

LocalFree ((HLOCAL) szFile);
That's better - a responsible identifier to look after them.

Regards,
Fergus

[Tom Spink]

Actually, I rerouted the demijohn coordinates to include a modulating pulse
phaser, which in turn led to a deionization of the (HI) RISC 64-bit
hyperpiping computer nanotechnology preprocessor processor.

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Hi Bones,

Ith there no eth in Lithp then?

Bones, I'm surprised - given that I mentioned you and Spock in a previous post under my Fergus alias ....

Kirk out.

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

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

In OE there is a drop-down listbox for choice of quotation character. The
choice is '>', ':' and '|'. I prefer the '|' because it produces clean
vertical lines. It's also easier to type, requiring only one hand. And I
prefer '||' because it seems clearer.
I think that there is no newsreader available that knows that " ||"
is a single indentation level.
!! However, for you,
!! I am willing to change it.
!! Could you cope with '!!'?

To change the indentation I'll need more persuasion. Start talking. ;-)
Why do you use the indentation? I really like it in books, but news
posts are plain text files and it should be possible to show them on any
device.
Could you email me one of these posts as your reader shows it I'm curious
as to how these smileys look.

Yep... I will send you a screenshot.

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

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

LocalFree ((HLOCAL) szFile);
*Tom cries and breaks down into floods of tears, he will be scarred for
life*

I _hate_ spaces between identifiers and brackets, okay, perhaps I can make
my peace with getting rid of the spaces on the casting statement:

Full ACK.
LocalFree( (HLOCAL) szFile );

But, I think it looks much cleaner (especially when you're injecting into
windows ;-)) to put spaces after the parentheses.

I prefer this:

\\\
LocalFree((HLOCAL)szFile);
///

:-)

My bracket-matching algorithm is very fast...

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[What-a-Tool]

Lab to a Shepherd - I like that!
See C# mentioned occasionally here, along with occasional bits of code here
and there, but never the Visual C++ that is also in Visual Studio.
Is this a totally different animal? (Saw a quote once " "C" makes it
possible for us to blow off our own foot - C++ makes this a bit more
unlikely, but when it does happen, you blow off your whole leg" (or
something like that))

I'm starting to get a foggy picture in my head of of just what the
capabilties of .Net are, and starting to realize that it would probably take
a lifetime to fully mis-understand it all.
Have a lot of friends that are very knowledgeable about computers, but know
squat about programming. I kinda get the impression that I am not taken
seriously when I mention that I am learning VB. Kinda like saying that I'm
studing the complete works of Dr. Suess for English Lit.
(Thats not what I'M saying - I know different!)
Right now I'm only in my 4th week of Advanced VB, and I still get this
strange humming in my ears when I think about abstract classes,
but I've kinda been toying with the idea of trying a C++ class, maybe next
semester. Would this make me more valuable in the job market, or would I be
better off just trying to master (Ha-Ha!) VB? Is it worth it? My professor
seems to think VB is the future, and fewer and fewer people are going to be
learning these other languages.
Opinions?
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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 Tom,

The last time I rerouted a demijohn, I got very drunk very quickly, hic!

Regards,
Fergus

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Herfried,

Why do I use indentation?

Lol. For a man who likes this:
LocalFree((HLOCAL)szFile);
no explanation will suffice because it involves mention of the word
'space'.

;-))

!! I think that there is no newsreader available that
!! knows that " ||" is a single indentation level.

People know it. I don't understand your statement.

!! However, for you,
!! I am willing to change it.
!! Could you cope with '!!'?

No comment ?

Regards,
Fergus

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

!! I think that there is no newsreader available that
!! knows that " ||" is a single indentation level.

People know it. I don't understand your statement.

But I have to remove your quotes and insert standard quoting myself. I
prefer:

\\\

Bla
Foo

Blaba
Foo

Baz
Bar

///

And I _hate_:

\\\

|| Bla
|| Foo

BlaBla
Foo

Baz
Bar

///

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[Tom Spink]

I *knew* you were going to say that. ;-)

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Hi Tom,

The last time I rerouted a demijohn, I got very drunk very quickly, hic!
Regards,
Fergus

[Tom Spink]

Microsoft(r) Bracket Matcher XP?

Anyway, you could at least have a space between the cast and the variable?

\\\ LocalFree((HLOCAL) szFile); ///
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LocalFree ((HLOCAL) szFile);

*Tom cries and breaks down into floods of tears, he will be scarred for
life*

I _hate_ spaces between identifiers and brackets, okay, perhaps I can make my peace with getting rid of the spaces on the casting statement:

Full ACK.

LocalFree( (HLOCAL) szFile );

But, I think it looks much cleaner (especially when you're injecting into windows ;-)) to put spaces after the parentheses.

I prefer this:

\\\
LocalFree((HLOCAL)szFile);
///

:-)

My bracket-matching algorithm is very fast...

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[Mattias Sjögren]

But this character counting loop [...] is actually faster than

Only with Option Compare Binary. It's about the same or somewhat
slower with Option Compare Text.

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

InStr (with Option Compare Binary) uses
CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.CompareInfo internally. Because
InvariantCulture is constant, it can be cached (and the VB library
does that).

String.IndexOf (and InStr with Option Compare Text) uses
CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.CompareInfo. CurrentCulture can be changed,
and so has to be retrieved every time IndexOf is called.

So for a loop like this one, it's better to manually retrieve the
appropriate CompareInfo to a local variable and call IndexOf on that
instead.

Mattias

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Microsoft(r) Bracket Matcher XP?
Herfried's Brain Supreme.
Anyway, you could at least have a space between the cast and the variable?

\\\

LocalFree((HLOCAL) szFile);

///

Why?

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[Tom Spink]

> Herfried's Brain Supreme.

ROFL

Why?
Why Not? Because it looks pretty, and makes your code readable:

MessageBox((HWND)hWndMyWndPointer,(LPCTSTR)lpszSom eStringPointer,(LPCTSTR)lp
szAnotherUnnecessarilyLongName,(DWORD)dwCastingGal ore);

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Microsoft(r) Bracket Matcher XP?

Herfried's Brain Supreme.

Anyway, you could at least have a space between the cast and the variable?

\\\

LocalFree((HLOCAL) szFile);

///

Why?

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

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Why?

Why Not? Because it looks pretty, and makes your code readable:

MessageBox((HWND)hWndMyWndPointer,(LPCTSTR)lpszSom eStringPointer,(LPCTSTR)lp
szAnotherUnnecessarilyLongName,(DWORD)dwCastingGal ore);

I prefer to add spaces after the "," characters. I prefer this:

\\\
MessageBox(
(HWND)hWndMyWndPointer,
(LPCTSTR)lpszSomeStringPointer,
(LPCTSTR)lpszAnotherUnnecessarilyLongName,
(DWORD)dwCastingGalore
);
///

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[Tom Spink]

Oh no.... don't even get me started.... Multiple lines???? I can think of
nothing worse. I would rather program in FORTRAN (hehe ;)) than put multiple
lines on a call.

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Why?

Why Not? Because it looks pretty, and makes your code readable:

MessageBox((HWND)hWndMyWndPointer,(LPCTSTR)lpszSom eStringPointer,(LPCTSTR)lp szAnotherUnnecessarilyLongName,(DWORD)dwCastingGal ore);

I prefer to add spaces after the "," characters. I prefer this:

\\\
MessageBox(
(HWND)hWndMyWndPointer,
(LPCTSTR)lpszSomeStringPointer,
(LPCTSTR)lpszAnotherUnnecessarilyLongName,
(DWORD)dwCastingGalore
);
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Oh no.... don't even get me started.... Multiple lines???? I can think of
nothing worse. I would rather program in FORTRAN (hehe ;)) than put multiple
lines on a call.

I use multiple lines in VB.NET too when preparing code for publication
in a book (there must not be more than 80 characters in one line).

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[Tom Spink]

I was talking about C++, when I gave my previous views, I can allow VB.NET
in certain circumstances, such as creating a ColorMatrix, with an array of
an array of singles:

{ _
..., _
..., _
..., _
..., _
... _
}

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Oh no.... don't even get me started.... Multiple lines???? I can think of nothing worse. I would rather program in FORTRAN (hehe ;)) than put multiple lines on a call.

I use multiple lines in VB.NET too when preparing code for publication
in a book (there must not be more than 80 characters in one line).

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[Tom Shelton]

On 2003-10-11, Mattias Sjögren <ma********************@mvps.org> wrote:

But this character counting loop [...] is actually faster than

Only with Option Compare Binary. It's about the same or somewhat
slower with Option Compare Text.

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

InStr (with Option Compare Binary) uses
CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.CompareInfo internally. Because
InvariantCulture is constant, it can be cached (and the VB library
does that).

String.IndexOf (and InStr with Option Compare Text) uses
CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.CompareInfo. CurrentCulture can be changed,
and so has to be retrieved every time IndexOf is called.

So for a loop like this one, it's better to manually retrieve the
appropriate CompareInfo to a local variable and call IndexOf on that
instead.

Mattias

Mattias,

You are d'Man! Thanks for that. I was going to start looking into it
this afternoon... Now I can go spend time with the fam instead :)

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

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

I was talking about C++, when I gave my previous views, I can allow VB.NET
in certain circumstances, such as creating a ColorMatrix, with an array of
an array of singles:

{ _
..., _
..., _
..., _
..., _
... _
}

\\\
Dim astr() As String = _
{ _
"Foo", _
"Goo", _
"Bar" _
}
///

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[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Tom, Herfried

Oh do give me break. ;-))

Preferably after each comma, and closing bracket.

I take it Herfried, that you prefer crowds and parties to the life of a
loner. Me, I need my space!!

Regards,
Fergus

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Herfried,

Commas at the left are much neater.

Regards
Fergus

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Tom,

You knew I was going to say that? 'Course you did. There's the man who
does the straight lines, and there's the one who gets the gags! ;-))

Regards,
Fergus

[Cor]

Hi Fergus,
Please a reference by value?
:-))
Cor

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Commas at the left are much neater.

?!?

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[Fergus Cooney]

Howdy Cor, :-)

A reference by value to what, I wonder?

Regards,
Fergus

[Cor]

Hi Fergus.

I was lining up with my mouse, but could not find what it was, and as you
know those OT threads from Herfrid become intresting when the start to
become long.

:-)))))))

Cor

[Tom Spink]

ByRef? ByVal? ByEggs?

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Hi Fergus.

I was lining up with my mouse, but could not find what it was, and as you
know those OT threads from Herfrid become intresting when the start to
become long.

:-)))))))

Cor

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ByRef? ByVal? ByEggs?

???

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[Tom Spink]

Fergus was talking about a reference by value. So I thought I'd share
passing an entire object, passing a 32-bit heap pointer, or passing it by
egg. ByUPS might be a bit faster, but it's an overnight delivery.

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ByRef? ByVal? ByEggs?

???

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[Alexandre Moura]

I think the quote was something along the lines: "C makes it easy to shoot
your own foot, C++ alows you to reuse the bullet"

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

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I think the quote was something along the lines: "C makes it easy to shoot
your own foot, C++ alows you to reuse the bullet"

In C, we had to code our own bugs. In C++ we can inherit them.

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[What-a-Tool]

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but
when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup

maybe it's a misquote - but this is what I found.

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I think the quote was something along the lines: "C makes it easy to shoot
your own foot, C++ alows you to reuse the bullet"

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Sean,

Yes, that's the one I remember and it still makes me laugh!!

The .NET version doesn't have the same impact at all:
"VB.NET makes it possible to get a paper-cut - C# does too, and you
can also get a splinter."

Referring to your previous post, I'd certainly recommend learning C# as
well. It has advantages that VB doesn't, language-wise, but is not the strange
beast that C++ is, relative to VB.

One nice thing about C# is that some things which don't make sense, or are
a bit fuzzy, become much clearer when you learn the C# version.

Your professor is right about the numbers - but that's always been the
case with Basic versus the world of languages. He's wrong about it being the
future though, - it's just a part of the future.

I've heard rumbles that C# commands more dosh, but haven't confirmed this.
But in view of the numbers game, scarcity = value.

Regards,
Fergus

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Am working on a degree in microcomputers and networking systems. Discovered
a liking for programming after a couple of Q-Basic and now VB.Net classes
(this .NET is an amazing tool), but haven't decided in which direction to go
after this semester. C# may be it.
Thanks for the input.
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Hi Sean,

Yes, that's the one I remember and it still makes me laugh!!

The .NET version doesn't have the same impact at all:
"VB.NET makes it possible to get a paper-cut - C# does too, and you can also get a splinter."

Referring to your previous post, I'd certainly recommend learning C# as well. It has advantages that VB doesn't, language-wise, but is not the strange beast that C++ is, relative to VB.

One nice thing about C# is that some things which don't make sense, or are a bit fuzzy, become much clearer when you learn the C# version.

Your professor is right about the numbers - but that's always been the
case with Basic versus the world of languages. He's wrong about it being the future though, - it's just a part of the future.

I've heard rumbles that C# commands more dosh, but haven't confirmed this. But in view of the numbers game, scarcity = value.

Regards,
Fergus

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Sean,

LOL. Sorry to any ardent VBers.

Microcomputers and networking systems??

C# all the way - unless you go for C++.

Regards,
Fergus