MS confirms by action their view of VB

[Lloyd Sheen]

Well I have no got confirmation. Not a statement from a company but when
looking at the presentation they give. I am using VB Express and tring to
add an application file. Go to the Add dialog and .... nothing there. Oh
well. Now it seems to me that in C# Express there is an item for the
application configuration file. Not in VB though.


MS Get it together. Either fully support all languages or get out of the
business or just admit you don't really want VB.

This really pisses me off.

Lloyd Sheen

 

[m.posseth]

well i didn`t like the standard application config handling at all so i use
the " balena " class wich is far superior

http://www.vb2themax.com/ShowContent.aspx?ID=5d8114d9-0e1b-457a-a66a-04c861fac4a5

have a look at it and you will be convinced that this is a far superior way

regards

Michel Posseth [MCP]

 

[james]

It is kind of odd that it is available in C# Express Edition (just looked) and not VB Express. However, in the Standard Edition
there is a selection for a Configuration File in VB. Not too sure why the difference. I guess the reason might be that they
are currently giving away the Express Editions and this is one of the "Streamlined"
User Experiences that is mentioned on the Products Comparison webpages. Who knows, maybe there will be a service pack that will
add it back in.
james

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Lloyd,

MS Get it together. Either fully support all languages or get out of the
business or just admit you don't really want VB.

This really pisses me off.

You never could do with the IDE at design level for the languages the same.
There are many differences.

In my opinion you can do with the Visual Basic IDE the most, although there
have forever been some nice things in the C# IDE which are not in the VBNet
IDE.

So your statement makes not much sense to me, it would be as it was
opposite.

Cor

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Lloyd,

In VB 2005 the application settings are now in the project
properties -> settings tab.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/25zf0ze8.aspx

Ken

 

[james]

Isn't it amazing what a bit of research will find !! Thanks for the link Ken. I had similar questions as Lloyd did and this
answers them quite nicely.
james

 

[dm1608]

Would someone care to explain the equivelent of using the C# version of the
configuration file as apposed to the VB 2005 Settings file?

I get My.Settings.blah blah... how would I do the same in C#?

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,


this.Text = Properties.Settings.Default.EmaiTo;



Ken