"Git Over Here": Making Your Windows Mind Their Manners (Matt Gertz)

re: "Git Over Here": Making Your Windows Mind Their Manners (Matt Gertz)

VBTeam — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:40:13 GMT

Nope, not just text. The really cool thing is that ListBox actually uses objects -- you could certainly insert just strings into it if you wanted too, since strings are objects too, but it's better to insert all of the associated information so that you don't have to track is separately. Take a look at ChildWinCallback, where I insert the whole WinWrapper object into the ListBox:

Dim wrappedWindow As New WinWrapper(lhWnd, c)

Me.WindowList.Items.Add(wrappedWindow)

The only caveat is that you want the ListBox to display just the string portion. ListBox calls ToString on the object to do the display, which means that you have to supply your own ToString method in WinWrapper, so that it doesn't use the default "ToString" method for objects (which just shows object goo -- not very readable).

The result is code that's much more performant -- I get the whole object from the selection, so I don't have to look it up separately based on just the the string. I'm pretty sure all of the list-related controls we ship support this object/ToString way of doing things -- definitely something to keep in mind in your own code!

--Matt--*

re: "Git Over Here": Making Your Windows Mind Their Manners (Matt Gertz)

Guillermo — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:46:00 GMT

Great article!

However, this is not clear to me:

'GitOverHereBtn_Click

For Each wrappedWindow As WinWrapper In Me.WindowList.SelectedItems

How's it possible that you can convert the ListBox items into WinWrappers automatically? Aren't you getting only text back from the ListBox?

re: "Git Over Here": Making Your Windows Mind Their Manners (Matt Gertz)

VBTeam — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:40:03 GMT

Done -- mercifully, my schedule cleared up today, and I was able to write this up during the afternoon. Check it out!

--Matt--*

re: "Git Over Here": Making Your Windows Mind Their Manners (Matt Gertz)

jerry — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:54:34 GMT

Great! now i'll have an idea on what to do to learn :)

re: "Git Over Here": Making Your Windows Mind Their Manners (Matt Gertz)

VBTeam — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:46:30 GMT

This is a great question, Jerry, and one that deserves a better answer than me typing in a few sentences in the comment section. I've decided that I'll be making this the topic of a blog post later this week -- so I'll have an answer (or, at least, an opinion) in a couple of days.

--Matt--*

re: "Git Over Here": Making Your Windows Mind Their Manners (Matt Gertz)

jerry — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:12:47 GMT

Another great acticle...

But i must ask you something. I've been trying and trying, searching endlessly on the internet, but i can't find anything on the internet that really teaches me more. It's either easy stuff, or articles like these *gulp* that are way too far beyond me. And just experimenting takes forever, and usually doesn't show much results, because i don't know what to look for. How can i learn?

Happy New Year! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

VB Feeds — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:18:04 GMT

On behalf of the Microsoft Visual Basic team, I'd like to wish all of our readers a happy & healthy

Happy New Year! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

The Visual Basic Team — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:31:51 GMT

On behalf of the Microsoft Visual Basic team, I'd like to wish all of our readers a happy & healthy

ABウィンドウの位置を変更する方法 (Matt Gertz)

The Visual Basic Team — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:59:27 GMT

" パジャマプログラマ" をサポートする在宅勤務はすばらしいことです。環境にやさしい人でありたい私としては、現実的に実行できる場合は心から支持したいと考えます。私の現在の仕事は、人と対面するミーティングが多く、実際は在宅勤務する機会があまりありません。しかし、投稿するブログを練るときなどに夕方家で働くので、家から仕事ができる環境をセットアップすることは重要です。

re: "Git Over Here": Making Your Windows Mind Their Manners (Matt Gertz)

Emil — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:02:42 GMT

If you don't mind scrolling, an alternative is to simply use VNC...