could someone explain the difference to me

Hi all could someone explain why is this happening?

Ive got a first piece of code:

Code:

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Private Function Clone2(ByVal s As String) As String
        clone2 = s
End Function

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

dim s as string
dim ss as string

s = "asdf"
ss = clone2(s)
ss = "zxcv"
    End Sub

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Which happily makes value of s = "asdf" and value of ss = "zxcv"

now have a look at another peice of code

Code:

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Public Function Clone2(ByVal tn As TreeNode) As TreeNode
        clone2 = tn
    End Function

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

dim tn as new treenode()
dim tnn as treenode

tn.text = "asdf"
tnn = clone2(tn)
tnn.text = "zxcv"
    End Sub

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Which makes tn.text and tnn.text = "zxcv"


Why????

Because String variables are of Value type and objects (treenodes, textboxes....whatever) are reference types. Wich means that in the second case you are just saying that tn and tnn is pointing to the same object in memory. You then have to clone the object, but what you are doing is not a proper clone. There is a clone for the treenode class, why do what you did?

Code:

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Dim tn As New TreeNode()
tn.Text = "abc"
Dim tnn As TreeNode
tnn = tn.Clone
tnn.Text = "def"
MsgBox(tn.Text)

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Quote:

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Originally posted by Athley
Because String variables are of Value type and objects (treenodes, textboxes....whatever) are reference types. Wich means that in the second case you are just saying that tn and tnn is pointing to the same object in memory. You then have to clone the object, but what you are doing is not a proper clone. There is a clone for the treenode class, why do what you did?

Code:

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Dim tn As New TreeNode()
tn.Text = "abc"
Dim tnn As TreeNode
tnn = tn.Clone
tnn.Text = "def"
MsgBox(tn.Text)

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I guess this will still work though

Code:

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Private Function Clone2(ByVal tn As TreeNode) As TreeNode
        clone2 = tn.clone
End Function

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/Leyan

Guys,

got it, solved my problem (while writing you a reply ;-) which was if anyone interested...

I've got a treenode subclass.

Code:

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Class DomainNode
        Inherits TreeNode
        Public DomainRow As DataRow
        Public Sub New(ByVal DRow As DataRow)
            MyBase.new()
            Me.Text = DRow.Item("Name")
            DomainRow = DRow
        End Sub
    End Class

Private Sub TreeView1_DragDrop(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs) Handles TreeView1.DragDrop
 Dim pt As Point
        Dim DestinationNode As DomainNode
        Dim OriginalRow, DestinationRow As DataRow
        Dim OriginalNode As DomainNode = CType(e.Data.GetData("OntosNavigator.Navigator+DomainNode"), TreeNode)
        pt = CType(sender, TreeView).PointToClient(New Point(e.X, e.Y))
        DestinationNode = CType(sender, TreeView).GetNodeAt(pt)
        If IsDropAllowed(OriginalNode, DestinationNode) Then
            DestinationNode.Nodes.Add(OriginalNode.Clone)            DestinationNode.Expand()
            OriginalNode.Remove()
end if

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now i'm implementing a dragndrop operation. for some reason whenever i've tryed to clone an original node it was just exiting of sub (without any error msg.) been new to this type of programming i thought that i have to write an override to clone method in my new class. that is where all the confusion started....