I'm looking for a free Visual Studio feature, extension or macro. that can help with the following situation.
When I prototype I tend to keep all my classes in one file (bad practice I know, but yeah it a prototype). Then comes the point the where the files is too hard to navigate. So I breakout the classes into separate files inside the project, the folder structure reflecting the namespaces.
To achieve the is;-
1. Add new Folder
2. Add new Class
3. Name class
4. Cut and paste corresponding section into new class file.
For me, Steps 2 through 4 are prime fodder for a new Menu entries.
Cut Class as New Class File
Cut as New Partial Class File.
I've seen this feature in C# but not VB.net.
So does know any how to achieve this for VB.net?
Here's a macro that does what you want in C#... looking at the code it's probably fairly straight forward to modify it to work in VB...
http://plisky.net/main/macros/documentation
Also, I'm pretty sure all the commercial refactoring tools (Resharper, CodeRush, etc.) support this...
Resharper can do this using Move Type to Another File or Namespace
I just stumbled across this and can point you to an updated version of the macro that scrappy kindly linked. Its at http://plisky.net/main/plisy.net-visual-studio-productivity-macros.
If you still want it and wish to test it for VB I can happily make the changes to support VB.net but as I don't use VB I'd need a tester :) As its a while since this post you probably have something working already though.
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I am using Xcode 4.6.2 and i believe i am facing circular import issue in my project which i am unable to troubleshoot. Due to which i am not able to access few methods from another class using the class method. See my earlier question here.
Although i am using #class instead of #import in my header files, still i am unable to fine where exactly the problem is. Members of the StackOverflow have suggested me to use Xcode's built in functionality found under Product > Generate Output > Preprocessed File.
I have used this functionality and it generated a file that is too long to follow and i don't know what to do with it.
I have tried searching how to use it to troubleshoot the issue but couldn't find much help. Can anyone help me point out how to use "Preprocessed File" to troubleshoot my issue. Thanks!
I also went through your earlier question you have mentioned inside the question. You have said that you are using #class instead of #import in your header files, the methods that you are trying to access are declared in the header files and there are no typos of any kind.
In such cases, usually no body points this issue but i am going to do it anyway because i have faced such issues many times. You have probably created many copies of your project to work on each functionality and also keeping a working project.
When you do this, sometimes Xcode is still using the older copies of few files. That means it is still using the older copy of the TheFeedStore.h when the methods you are trying to access were not declared by you.
How to solve this problem is very simple. Go to the file from which you are trying to access the methods and the files in which these methods are declared.
In the Utilities section on the right hand side, check the location and full path under "Identity and Type" area.
First check the names of the project, if it is different from the project name that you are working on, that means Xcode is still pulling the old copies of the files from the previous revision of your project. See the blue arrows where the project name is 13SampleMoreRequests in my case.
If this name is same as your project name, then my answer does not solve your problem. If its different, you should use the new copies of the file by browsing the new location using the sign that is pointed out by red arrow.
Once you browse and use the new files, your problem will be solved and you will be able to access the methods. If you still can't, copy these files, delete from the project and then add them again and you won't face this problem.
Hope this helps!
Some colleagues, now departed, had the habit of adding new classes within a related class file.
This makes refactoring painful.
Is there a tool, perhaps within XCode or AppCode or just a simple script, that will split up these monster files?
It appears there is a tool to help with this in AppCode, but it only semi-automates the process.
I'm using AppCode 2.0, I don't know if the same tool is available in AppCode 1.x.
To extract one class from a file to a new file, right-click the#interface or #implementation line and select Refactor > Move. Alternatively press F6 on that line. You can now enter a new file name, though you probably want to copy+paste the class name in here. At this point you can also select any defines you want to move.
I have done some work on a script to extract all classes in a file. I'd love to share this one day, when I get the chance to remove our clients code from the unit tests!
I don't think so there is any tool for this. However you can write your own osx application for doing the same.
The application will ask to browse the file, and it will search for #interface....#endand#implementation....~#end` and will create a file from this. If a single file contains two classes then it will result in for files (two headers and two implementation). Then the original file can be deleted manually or automatically.
I think this above task can be completed in few hours.
Here you can go for save the original file in a folder, just in case you want to rollback.
I'm new to the .NET platform (old-time ASPer) and for a project have a simple pair of .aspx scripts that take some querystring data and process it. They both make use of the same Subs, Functions in them, so naturally I'd like to move the code to a common resource.vb file. Having done some reading, it looks like my options are a Code-Behind type setup, and placing the Subs, Functions in a .vb file and placing that file in App_Code.
So, the Code-Behind model doesn't seem to make sense here, as the functions are shared by both files. Placing the Subs and Functions in /App_Code/resources.vb and I am getting the following error when trying to call any of the routines:
Statement is not valid in a namespace
Reading this answer, I thought the last solution would be fine, but not so. Any pointers? This whole solution is meant to be simple and portable, something someone can deploy into their domain by simply uploading the files, so portability is also important.
Thanks,
Paul
The basic building block of VB.NET is the class, or alternatively a module. You cannot just dump functions into a code file, you need to associate them with a class or module.
For an easy fix, just put them inside a module:
Module FooBar
' Your methods here
End Module
But that is code smell and you shouldn’t let it get out of hand. .NET is inherently object oriented so you should put some thought into developing a consistent architecture where each class has one responsibility and performs the according actions.
(See SOLID principles)
I want to open an existing VB class file, add a few properties and close it again.
Simple enough, I thought: Take the CodeDom, a VBCodeProvider, parse the code (using the Parse-method), then identify the location where I want my stuff added (doubtless using some nifty LINQ expressions), add a bit of code and then have it generated and here we go.
Now I see that Microsoft apparently added the Parse method only for the fun of it but never implemented it.
What's the story here? Can I only generate code from scratch? Is it not possible to load existing code?
Does anyone know of any solutions?
You say "class files" and then you say "parse". I think you meant "parse and modify".
Our DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit with its Visual Basic Front End can do what you need on VB.net source code files.
DMS provides general parsing, AST-building, generic analysis and AST transformations, and is able to regenerate source text in compilable form. The Visual Basic Front End enables DMS to process VB.net, VBScript or VB6 and carry out any of these activities.
DMS's Source-to-Source transformations can be used to make changes using "if-you-see-this, replace-it-by-that" patterns.
I'm fairly new to VB.NET, and I've mainly been doing ASP programming up 'til now, and I have a pretty simple question.
I'm creating a program that will copy a selected file to a selected directory, and I want to store recent files/dirs so that they can be selected from a combo box. I was planning to just create a settings with "files" and "dirs", and just store the strings as | separated values (since that's an illegal file character).
Is there anything wrong with this approach, or are there any better methods?
I think your approach is fine as it seems to be simply a local cache of recent directories. You can persist the data in the application at the module level(create a module with a public object essentially is a global variable) but it goes away when the application is terminated.
This article is using a similar approach to what you were thinking although the example is in C#