To answer your question: No, there is no such switch. I guess you could
remove the reference to the Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll assembly, but I doubt
if VB.NET would even work without it. But if you want, you could give it a
try.
However, I never understand people who want to use VB.NET but refuse to use
the VB.NET specific functions. After all, they often offer more than the
equivalent framework functions (i.e. Trim("") will give you "", "".Trim will
give you an exception so you always have to check wheter the string you want
to trim is empty). Sometimes an equivalent Framework function does not even
exist (such as Right()). This does result in faster development of business
applications, which usually is more important in "real-life" applications
than "purity" of the code.
So why not use this added functionality? As long as you have Option Explicit
On and Option Strict On, no harm can be done by unwanted type castings. And
in 99 % of all applications, the performance penalty will not be noticed.
Funnily, I have never seen anyone complaining about C# specific things, such
as "using"... why should it be good to use them, but bad to use VB specific
things?
Just my 2 cents
Urs
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Von: Yogesh Shetty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Gesendet: Freitag, 10. Mai 2002 14:30
An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Betreff: [DOTNET] VB6 Function Compatibility...
Hi,
VB.NET still supports some of the VB6 functions due to this there are
some lazy programmers who are still using the VB6 function in VB.NET eg:
Mid, Left, Right... when there is already equivalent function available
in .NET
are there any VB compiler level switch / or any other solution which
will allow only pure .NET code thererby restricting the developer from
entering any VB 6.0 compatible function...
Alternative solution could be developing an IDE Add-in / Macro which
will walk thru the code and check for the existence of the above
function... Has anybody tried this out..
Regards
Yogesh Shetty
Team COE
Financial Technologies (India) Ltd.
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