[TOPIC CLOSED] +++ BREAKING NEWS: XY Switches Programming Language +++

[admin]

Humble . net, no VB

Ever used SHGetPathFromIDListW?

[MBaas]

Apologies for injecting a short german phrase: "Das ist aber nicht net!" ;-)
Well, this is Win32API - sorry, rarely used API and never that function...

[admin]

There is not much VB6 in XY. It's mostly API.

This is VB6. Currently find no way how to do this in net:

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Private Declare Function SHGetPathFromIDListW Lib "shell32" ( _
    ByVal pidl As Long, _
    ByVal pszPath As Long) As Long

...

Dim bPath(0 To MAX_PATH * 2 - 1) As Byte
ret = SHGetPathFromIDListW(pidl, VarPtr(bPath(0)))  'pidl comes from elsewhere, fully qualified
sPath = CStr(bPath)

[kinook]

https://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/sh ... fromidlist

[admin]

This does not work (returns: ret = 0, buff = ""):

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        Dim buff As New StringBuilder(" ", MAX_PATH)
        ret = SHGetPathFromIDListW(pidl, buff)

[kinook]

I guess VB.NET sucks even worse than VB6.

[GitCoder]

I guess VB.NET sucks even worse than VB6.

Indeed, as the only usable lang from the .Net universe is C#
VB.NET is perverse

I would never switch from vb to vb.net if it wasn't for c#

[admin]

Indeed, as the only usable lang from the .Net universe is C#

Where do I find good code samples for dotnet (VB or C#, I don't care which)? Somehow I find it hard to google my way to anything useful.

E.g., I need some starting point for how to use EnumDisplayMonitors...

[Leito]

This is not enough?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/window ... aymonitors

[GitCoder]

Indeed, as the only usable lang from the .Net universe is C#

Where do I find good code samples for dotnet (VB or C#, I don't care which)? Somehow I find it hard to google my way to anything useful.

E.g., I need some starting point for how to use EnumDisplayMonitors...

Stackoverflow is my first first source for C#
You will find here questions and solutions for everything.

The biggest community for Vb.net is for sure the Visual Basic.NET Forums
You'll find in the Codebank practical code examples using Visual Basic .NET
You will find here also many good and well-known german developers, e.g. Olaf Schmidt the guy behind the vbRichClient5 framework

[admin]

Thanks for the tips!

BTW, Olaf Schmidt is the guy who once planned to write a 64-bit compiler for VB6. He was my hope. Didn't work out obviously. He also took part in my old VBspeed project.

[GitCoder]

Thanks for the tips!

BTW, Olaf Schmidt is the guy who once planned to write a 64-bit compiler for VB6. He was my hope. Didn't work out obviously. He also took part in my old VBspeed project.

http://xbeat.net/vbspeed/ When can we expect VBNetspeed?
Yes, Olaf was the only man who could have brought it. I think he gave up on Vb6 in the end too. Although in the vbforums he is still active.

[admin]

This is gold when you come from VB6: The immediate window knows Unicode!!! Nerdfest...

[Filehero]

Regarding

This is gold when you come from VB6: ...

I'm really looking forward the the "new" regex engine. Look-behinds, ftw!

[Filehero]

I'm sorry Don, but I am reeeeeaaaally curious about the migration process.

Are you still at the stage of exploring the "new" possibilities?
Have you already got running the "core" XYplorer gui?
Any real wtf moments so far?