Add a Silverlight VB topic

11-17-2008 10:28 PM |

I rarely find any samples that use VB.  I realize most of the new code is using c#, but there are a lot of VB coders out here.  I am trying to port over a VB.NEt game to run on silver light and dont want to convert it to C# unless its absolutely necessary.  The derth of Vb samples and Videos is amazing. 

Im looking for a sample of  creating and using a web service using VB instead of c#.   Usually, I can translate the C# to VB.  I created a web service using  Silverlight 2.0, it seems to have added in everything so that I could just run a test.  However, on the user control that is calling the webservice, the functions are not available.

Anyway, during the searching, I finally decided to suggest that perhaps you need a new Topic.

Re: Add a Silverlight VB topic

11-18-2008 12:10 AM |

What are you suggesting?  If someone usually posts a question in VB.NET people try to answer the question in the same language.  Its true what you say...the flagship language of .NET is C# not VB.NET.

Are you asking a question for a web service problem or was that just an example?

Re: Add a Silverlight VB topic

11-18-2008 12:27 AM |

I agree with you. It really is amazing how few VB examples are out there. I had a lot of problems trying to publish an app written in VB that consumed a WCF service. Just to make things worse, the lack of support for VB means that the few examples that actually do exist, are rarely tested to the same extent as there conterparts in C#.

Not only is the documentation poor, but the automatically generated code produced by visual studio often requires "tweaking" in order to make it function correctly. Each new release seems to bring different problems.

I think a VB topic would be good, even if it does show up all those minor failings with C#

Re: Add a Silverlight VB topic

11-18-2008 12:33 AM |

I see topics or forums for  

           Installation and setup, 

           Programing with JavaScript

           Expression Studio

etc.  I was thinking that a Programming with VB area   It would get the VB related questions in one spot and hopefully get people to post additional VB related questions and answers.  I would say make a VB and a C# area, but almost everything  is already c#. 

Well, guess if there are not that many people using VB in Silverlight, it may not make sense.  But I have a bunch of VB code that I dont want to translate to C# unless necessary.  And I can post it to the getting started area.

I am looking for the answer to that problem, but it was just a sample.  Im kind of hard headed.  I really try to find the solution before before posting questions.

Re: Add a Silverlight VB topic

11-18-2008 11:34 AM |

I actually would take it further and have a "code translator" built into the forum.  This way you can post the code in whatever language.  A user can then set the preference based on his account and he could see questions/post answers in whatever default language and the snippets could be translated to the other language.  This would solve it for everyone.