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Cascading list boxesworked out how to connect two database-linked listboxes using ADO dotNet. You know: the first one has countries, and when you click one of them, the second one shows cities in that country. I have long experience in VB for ver 2 up to 5, then I've been in VBA under Excel, Access, Word etc since. Therefore the dotNet framework is all a bit strange, and the Express edition is very lean on documentation. It took me a long time reverse-engineering all the automagic-generated code to find the appropriate objects and classes (quite often called the same things, too, which is very confusing). That's why I am so proud of this :-) Still, the question is this. Is there anyway of reading or diagramming or displaying the default classes and objects created automatically by the IDE? Thanks in advance. Tim F Tim Ferguson wrote:
Show quoteHide quote > Okay: I know this may not seem like much to you, but I have at last You just want to see the code that the IDE puts in behind as it adds it > worked out how to connect two database-linked listboxes using ADO dotNet. > You know: the first one has countries, and when you click one of them, > the second one shows cities in that country. > > I have long experience in VB for ver 2 up to 5, then I've been in VBA > under Excel, Access, Word etc since. Therefore the dotNet framework is > all a bit strange, and the Express edition is very lean on documentation. > It took me a long time reverse-engineering all the automagic-generated > code to find the appropriate objects and classes (quite often called the > same things, too, which is very confusing). That's why I am so proud of > this :-) > > Still, the question is this. Is there anyway of reading or diagramming or > displaying the default classes and objects created automatically by the > IDE? > > Thanks in advance. > > Tim F > > to the form? You need to turn on "Show hidden files" in your solution explorer. Then a + will be next to your form. The class inside that + will hold all the automatically generated code. Chris Chris <no@spam.com> wrote in news:uenX46rIGHA.208@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl: I already found this: it's how I managed to get anything working at all. >> Still, the question is this. Is there anyway of reading or >> diagramming or displaying the default classes and objects created >> automatically by the IDE? > > You just want to see the code that the IDE puts in behind as it adds > it to the form? You need to turn on "Show hidden files" in your > solution explorer. Then a + will be next to your form. The class > inside that + will hold all the automatically generated code. I just read through pages and pages of auto-code and every now and then found the object I wanted already instantiated and ready for use. Trouble is, it takes ages. What I was hoping for was a documentation function or window somewhere that would show me all the auto-created classes and the ready-filled objects so that I don't have to go find them one-by-one. Or is this something you just do the first fifty times and then just "know"? Best wishes Tim F Tim,
> (quite often called the same things, too, which is very confusing). This is because of the little bit strange acting of VB6 with classes and the > new reintroducing faking of that in VBNet for that for the My classes. Which makes in my opinion working with VB2005 less consistent and therefore more difficult to understand as you show now. However a class is a template, you cannot hold anything in it. Another name for a class is a Type. An object is something that you can make from a class and can use. (This is not for a shared class, which is in fact a module, from which all members are consequently in the program). I hope this helps, Cor "Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <notmyfirstn***@planet.nl> wrote in Thanks for this, although I understand the difference between classes and news:ey6O15wIGHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl: >> (quite often called the same things, too, which is very confusing). > > An object is something that you can make from a class and can use. > (This is not for a shared class, which is in fact a module, from which > all members are consequently in the program). objects. What I was referring to was that I could find classes like ContactsAtALocationDataTable which might or might not be instantiated into objects like jesstab9DataSet.ContactsAtALocation which is actually a class property. There are some mindnumbingly useful class methods (but deeply hidden) like ContactsDataTable.FindByCtNum and some classes don't seem to have instances at all. It would be really good if there were some kind of documentation or diagramming somewhere, without having to read through the the .xsd and designer files line by line. I get the feeling that ADO dot Net is very powerful, and that the auto-written code could be phenomenonally useful, but it's still really opaque. Perhaps a 3rd-party tool? Thanks and best wishes Tim F 
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