Archive for the ‘VB.NET’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/08
A friend is starting a new business, so I am curious to what [Wayback/Archive] Sonde — Arriving soon will bring (or brought if this post scheduling arrives later than their release).
Looking at the taglines below, I think is that this is an intelligent (unlike LLM “intelligent”) source analysis/probing tool.
The Arrival animation sequence at [Wayback/Archive] Sonde — Arrival attributes the software development past in 29 stages, all the way back from FORTRAN till the more recent Swift until finally showing the moon, hopefully indicating a release before the Artemis IV will land people on the moon:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/16
I originally missed this as back then I was in the midst of managing trouble in my parental family, unaware I was already having rectum cancer. Then things went fast, not even including the Covid-19 years, so I was glad last year I got reminded of this mid-2019 article:
[Wayback/Archive] Alan Turing Wrote Object-Oriented Code In C And Ran It On BEAM – De Programmatica Ipsum writes a lot of interesting things on programming paradigms, starting with
In his rare 1994 book “Object-Oriented Programming In C” Axel Tobias Schreiner explains how to do inheritance, class methods, class hierarchies, and even how to raise exceptions using nothing else than pure, simple, pointer arithmetic-filled, ANSI C.
then arguing basically most of not all modern languages share the majority of programming paradigms and all these paradigms are repeats of the past:
But none of this is new. Smalltalk, arguably the precursor of object orientation, had collect and select methods which were the grandparents of our more common map and filter functional friends.
What sets modern languages apart is that they the majority covers all the paradigms you might need, just differing in how well they support the paradigm-du-jour.
It means programming language wars should have been a thing of the past for about two decades now.
Please let that sink in.
Oh: if you look for that ANSI C book, here it is: [Wayback/Archive] https://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/books/ooc.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]
Via: [Wayback/Archive] De Programmatica Ipsum: “”In his rare 1994 book “Object…” – mas.to
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/05
Last year, within a week, I saw two tweets of languages that, like Pascal, have a with statement as well:
- [Archive.is] Shawn Wildermuth 💻☕🎸🎥🎮 on Twitter: “JavaScript’s Forgotten Keyword (with)”
- [Archive.is] John Kaster #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter: “@suited_aces @marcocantu @delphijunkie @JimMcKeeth @jpluimers I present “with”… “
The first points to an article that shows the JavaScript implementation of with is very similar to the Pascal one: [Wayback] JavaScript’s Forgotten Keyword (with) – DEV Community.
Just in case some of my readers do not know my opinion of the Pascal with statement (it even has it’s own blog category), I really think you should not use it Delphi: you should avoid the with statement as it makes your code less future proof.
The reason not to use it is called [Wayback] Accidental Shadowing in computer language speak (it also can rear its head when you define variables at different block levels like for instance this golang example: [Wayback] Warning for accidental variable shadowing with block scope – Technical Discussion – Go Forum).
Even the JavaScript specification advises against using the with keyword in [Wayback] with – JavaScript | MDN
**Warning:**Use of the with statement is not recommended, as it may be the source of confusing bugs and compatibility issues. See the “Ambiguity Contra” paragraph in the “Description” section below for details.
There have been various proposals to extend the Delphi implementation of the with statement to make it more resilient to Accidental Shadowing by forcing the usage to be prepended by a . (dot) or alias, as for instance seen in [Wayback] Re: “with” Coders are Monsters – delphi / [Wayback] delphi • View topic • “with” Coders are Monsters:
This is in fact what the second twitter messages pointed to: a VB.NET example doing just that: prepend with a dot: [Wayback] Maarten Balliauw on Twitter: “Looks like using With makes it pretty clean!… “
I was not even aware that VB.NET had it, but it has: [Wayback] With…End With Statement – Visual Basic | Microsoft Docs
And it has similar debugging issues as with Delphi as per [Wayback] The VB.NET ‘With’ Statement – embrace or avoid? – Stack Overflow:
Find the beginning of a With statement and set a breakpoint. Step to the next line (so you’re hiding the first line right under the if block). Highlight it, then ‘Add Watch’. You should see this: ‘With’ contexts and statements are not valid in debug windows.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/18
[Wayback/Archive] awaescher/Fusion: 🧰 A modern alternative to the Microsoft Assembly Binding Log Viewer (FUSLOGVW.exe)
So, do you know what “Enable immersive logging” means? Or why you should separate log categories from “Default” and “Native Images”? Did you ever forget to disable the log again and wondered why every .NET application was that slow and your disk ran out of space?
…
Forget all the setup upfront – just hit “Record” to capture your assembly logs. If you are done, click “Stop” again. That’s it.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Meik Tranel on Twitter: “@Nick_Craver Take this: github.com/awaescher/Fusion Nice UI and never forget to disable that env var ever again.”.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/17
Some notes for my link archive.
A long time ago, I asked [Wayback/Archive] c# – Console application using Clipboard.GetFileDropList: how to check if that came from a cut or copy operation? – Stack Overflow.
Back then, the use case had disappeared, so I didn’t follow up. But a new use case might appear soon, so here it goes:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/16
[WayBack] Mad With PowerShell: FileInfo and DirectoryInfo objects are not populated upon creation in PowerShell.
TL;DR:
- Apart from the
FullName property, the other poprerties of FileInfo and DirectoryInfo are populated later than their instance creation
- A call to their
Refresh method populates or re-populates them
- That method is implicitly called when you request other properties than
FullName
Example: see the [Archive.is]fileinfo.cs: Length property
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/10
By now this
should be out of [WayBack] Draft – .NET Glossary Diagram – Scott Hanselman: a list of common terms to describe various parts of the .NET ecosystem.
He has a nice list of sentences where each term is used.
I’ll try to use them myself as well, so I gave it a start at paulcbetts/refit: The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/07
Ah, C. The best lingua franca we have… because we have no other lingua francas. Linguae franca. Surgeons general? C is fairly old — 44 years, now! — and comes from a time when there were possibly more architectures than programming languages. It works well for what it is, and what it is is a relatively simple layer of indirection atop assembly. Alas, the popularity of C has led to a number of programming languages’ taking significant cues from its design, and parts of its design are… slightly questionable. I’ve gone through some common features that probably should’ve stayed in C and my justification for saying so. The features are listed in rough order from (I hope) least to most controversial. The idea is that C fans will give up when I call it “weakly typed” and not even get to the part where I rag on braces. Wait, crap, I gave it away.
Great re-read towards the end of the year: [WayBack] Let’s stop copying C / fuzzy notepad
Via: [WayBack] Old and busted: emacs vs vi. New and hot: Language war, everybody against everybody else. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
–jeroen
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