XYplorer Beta Club

No, I'm currently just w-a-i-t-i-n-g for the next delivery. The first had to be returned because of a couple of mistakes. Wish I had a better story to tell. I keep you posted...

All the luck for the next run.

Take also a look at this modern UWP and open-source Windows Explorer clone (written in C#)
https://github.com/files-community/files-uwp

Certainly useful for learning

GitCoder wrote: ↑01 Jul 2020 22:25 Take also a look at this modern UWP and open-source Windows Explorer clone (written in C#)
https://github.com/files-community/files-uwp

Certainly useful for learning

Thanks, useful indeed!

hi
great news , have a amazing software like xyplorer under macos and linux is really

will be possibily have a 100% portable version for windows with the new code ?
thanks

Sure, it will be 100% portable.

admin wrote: ↑08 Jul 2020 08:40 Sure, it will be 100% portable.

hi
but seeing you are busy on coding for months , there will be no update with new feature in the meanwhile

Yes.

BTW, I'm not coding for months, I've just been waiting for the code. I got it yesterday and I started coding today.

Now I'm trying to get the GUI started. Nobody knows how long this will take. I keep you posted...

The portable news is great indeed.

Good luck with the coding

admin wrote: ↑08 Jul 2020 11:55 Yes.

BTW, I'm not coding for months, I've just been waiting for the code. I got it yesterday and I started coding today.

Now I'm trying to get the GUI started. Nobody knows how long this will take. I keep you posted...

Best of luck on the conversion. I was a long-time VB6, then VB.Net coder - finally making the break to C# a few years ago when Microsoft started basically treating it like a second-rate language, no matter how much they denied it. And then recently their statement, “Going forward, we do not plan to evolve Visual Basic as a language.” That was the killer if ever there was one.

In retrospect, I'm super glad I switched. The syntax (once you make the relatively minor adjustment) is simply easier to work with. Plugins from hugely useful editors like JetBrains Rider and Resharper work super well for C#, but are simply missing abilities (and they will never implement) for VB.Net. I find LINQ to be much more uselessly verbose and difficult to read in VB.Net compared to C#, plus most examples any more are given in C#.

Any of our older code bases I've had to convert from VB.Net to C# weren't too easy, either. Some of the better and/or free tools out there simply struggle with the conversion - I ended up rewriting swaths of things.

I'm sure you struggled with the same decision, but if not, it might be a good time to consider the syntax change.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vbteam/v ... r-net-5-0/

All the best,
--J

I had thought about it, of course, but went for VB.Net now. There is a LOT of stuff in this code that just extends the limits of VB6. It will be easier for me to take care of that in a syntax I know by heart. The option to switch to C# is always there (even if some extra work is involved) and I have a gut feeling that I will go there one day.

I already noted that it's hard to find VB.Net samples. That's something I did not expect. VB6 (dead for 20 years) is still far better documented than VB.Net. So it looks like, I will read C# and write VB.Net (thank you, MS).

All fine here. Digging thru the code is like a trip thru a dusty attic. I have to face everything I did in recent years, like judgement day. Cannot give a date yet but I'm making progress, and I'm starting to like the new language. I'm sold, there's no way back. Worming thru towards the light....

Cool news.

Is the core gui already running?

Not yet. You'll get a screenshot when it happens. I'm very curious how it will look. Will it be even recognizable?

admin wrote: ↑16 Jul 2020 16:24 Will it be even recognizable?

Sure. I guess, dark mode by default.