[Year 12 SofDev] VB6 > VB2010 musings - control arrays

[Mark KELLY]

Thanks for the tip, but I'll still need to be able to understand how to
create them from scratch for myself...

It's now a big learning curve to get as far as classes and collections to
achieve this in VB2010.

On 10 September 2010 11:06, Poultney, Gordon A <
Poultney.Gordon.A at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> Just make up your control array in VB6 first.
>
> Then import the project into VB.NET
>
> The object names change but you can still access them via standard array
> notation.
>
>
>
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> Gordon Poultney
> Horsham College
>
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> From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Mark KELLY
> Sent: Fri 10/9/10 10:29
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> Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] VB6 > VB2010 musings
>
>
> I've finally bitten the bullet, crawled out my comfort zone (and used
> several other clichés) in moving from comfortable ol' threadbare VB6 into
> shiny new VB2010 and the transition is not as smooth as I'd hoped it would
> be.
>
> The first hurdle I ran into was finding that my favourite old control
> arrays have been killed and now I need convoluted complex collections to
> achieve nearly the same thing. I read of a rumour that control arrays
> (wherein VB manages the necessary classes and collections behind the scenes)
> would be reinstated in VB but it seems not to be happening.
>
> And it seems default properties no longer work, e.g. textbox2="Fred" has to
> be fully spelled out as textbox2.text="Fred".
>
> Sigh. I suppose I'll get used to it in time (after all, I did manage to get
> from QB4.5 to Visual Basic 1.0), but for a quick hack I still fall back to
> VB6 to get the job done.
>
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-- 
Mark Kelly
Information Systems Manager; Reporting Manager
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
Direct line / Voicemail: 8520 9085
School Phone +613 8520 9000, Fax +613 9578 9253
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Korma: the philosophy that what you get out of a curry depends on what you
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