Re: Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings.Len() works, but Len() does not

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On Dec 13, 11:05 am, Tim Daim <t.d...@xxxxxx> wrote:
Can anybody please tell me what I need to do to be able to just type
Len(sMyString) instead of Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings.Len(sMyString)

When I convert old projects (from VB6 to .NET), Len() works, but if I
create a new VB.NET project, it does not. I set up the references so
that they look exactely like my converted project (with
VisualBasic.Compatibility, etc...), but I must have missed something.

Thank you!
Tim

Above all else, I would highly recommend you drop the VB classic
syntax and programming style as you move into .NET. Not only is
thinking that .NET is the next iteration of VB classic a dangerous
assumption, but using the syntax will make it harder for you to switch
between languages (such as converting a C# sample to something usuable
in VB, or for a future job / project that is written in a different
language).

For this particular scenario, just use the .Length() property of the
string to accomplish the same thing in a cross-language friendly
fashion.

Thanks,

Seth Rowe [MVP]
http://sethrowe.blogspot.com/


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In this case, you are correct that you can interchange Len(string) with string.Length. The problem is that a lot of the VB functions that have dotNET equivalents are actually a lot smarter than the dotNET versions in that instead of throwing exceptions, they return something that make sense in the context of the language. For instance, the Basic MID$(string, start, length) doesn't throw an exception if start+length > Len(string), but string.substr(start, length) does.

Mike Ober.


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