[Mono-devel-list] mbas and Microsoft.VisualBaisc namespace

[Jambunathan K]

Dennis

> 2)      It is also my understanding that when Mbas is good enough to compile
> it, we want to convert the Mono version to basic as well. 

 I think for now all that's needed for mono's MSVB is this:
http://www.gnomebangalore.org/?q=blog/593.

More love for MSVB would mean less love for mbas unless of course
someone is volunteering some effort on this side.

> If we plan on converting in the future, I could add these to a coding
> conventions file for MSVB. 

Are you offering to convert Mono's MSVB from C# to VB.NET  ;-)
Obviously you are intersted.

Regards,
Jambunathan K.



On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 01:14:40 -0800 (PST), Dennis Hayes
<denisraytek at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 1)      It is my understanding that the Microsoft version of
> Microsoft.Visual.Basic is written in VB, not in C#. 
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> 2)      It is also my understanding that when Mbas is good enough to compile
> it, we want to convert the Mono version to basic as well. 
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> Am I correct? 
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> I have been given a commercial tool for converting C# to VB or VB to C# for
> testing using open source projects. 
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> I have already converted the NPlot C# demo to VB.NET. 
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> I have run the MSVB code through the conveter, and have found two C#isms
> that should be modified if we plan on converting to C# in the future. (I
> expect to find more). 
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> MySub(myVal += 2) 
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> myVal = myVal + 2 
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> MySub(myVal) 
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> I could also point out areas of mbas that need improvement before it can
> compile MSVB. 
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> Comments, suggestions? 
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> Also, anyone know of any open source code that could benifit by being
> converted frm cs to vb or vb to cs? 
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> Dennis 
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