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Yes - the 'doInBackground' method has an extra closing brace. The 'while' loop is being closed twice.

After each call to 'search', I would add:
if (breaknow)
break;

The compiler error says it all - "a 'ref' or 'out' argument must be an assignable variable".

((int)'A').ToString("X")

Certainly:

Project -> Add Existing Item -> Add as Link (you have to click the button drop-down - a bad interface for sure).

C++0x (or whatever they're calling it now):


notifyIcon1::BalloonTipClosed += [&] ()
{
delete notifyIcon1;
};


C++/CLI:

It's one of our converters (you can check out the link in my signature).

I agree about the "Keys" enum - the problem was that without a "using System.Windows.Forms", the converter can't confirm that "Keys" refers to the enum and not some other class of that name.

//.h file code:

public ref class MyDataGrid : DataGridView
{
protected:
virtual bool ProcessDialogKey(Keys ^keyData) override;
};

//.cpp file code:

As Ovidiu said, it's no picnic to convert to native C++, but if you are one of the handful of people in the world coding in C++/CLI, then you can use:

public ref class MyDataGrid : DataGridView
{...

The converter should have changed "Information.IsDBNull" to "System.Convert.IsDBNull".

Right you are (this is fixed in the next build).

Your C++ code was not compilable - after correcting it and converting I get:

private string computeChecksum_ascii_checksum = new string(new char[5]);
private string[] computeChecksum(sbyte[]...

Learn at least a little of both - it's easier to understand some concepts if you have experience with more than one language.
e.g., it's easier to understand C# struct vs class when you understand...

Just drop the 'RaiseEvent' keyword.

Note that 'CallByName' is not available in C# unless you set a reference to the Microsoft.VisualBasic assembly.

Both the syntax and the library dictate this requirement:

1. The syntax is a Microsoft-unique thing that never really caught on much.
2. The library used is .NET - the same as C#.

It's C++/CLI code which requires Visual C++ 2005 or higher.

It works just like C# code, so you will have nearly identical performance as C# (slower than native C++).

Also, your users will need...

If you want C++/CLI (using .NET), then it's fairly simple.
It's probably not what you want, but just in case here it is:



using namespace System;
using namespace System::Collections::Generic;...

<DllImport("coredll.dll")>
Private Shared Function SystemParametersInfo(ByVal uiAction As UInteger, ByVal uiParam As UInteger, ByVal pvParam As StringBuilder, ByVal fWiniIni As UInteger) As Integer...

(I realize that this conversion is not complete - you'll have to make some adjustments)



using namespace System;

private ref class Program
{
private:
value class Point

ToList is also available in C# - it's just that VB allowed you to drop the empty argument list:



lds.Fields = fs.FieldAliases.Keys.ToList();

lds.Values = new List<List<object>>();
for (int...

You've got something weird happening on your system or some bad locale setting.
When I try the same code I get 169.65 assigned to 'a'.

The dot is being remove some other way in your code.
CDec and System.Convert.ToDecimal certainly do not remove the dot.
If the string contains a valid decimal, then that decimal value is extracted...

In addition to MadHatter's answer, be aware that array length is used in C# to specify the size, while array upper bounds are used in VB, so you have to adjust for these.
e.g.,

Dim myArray(5) As...

You're right - it's not idiot-proof.
It will only work when you can reasonably assume that the argument is the string version of a decimal number.

If the argument is likely to be any junk then...