Hi all,

In the book there are quite a lot of code examples where parenthesis are added at the end of an object, however, when typing these into Visual Studio it lops them back off again, an example of this is on page 398.

' create a new user
Dim objUser As New User()

when this is entered into Visual Studio I get

' create a new user
Dim objUser As New User

I was just wondering if anyone could explain why this happens, I'm assuming they are not needed (or else VS wouldn't remove them) - but I would like to understand why they are removed, and also - I swear that sometimes they aren't (but I might be wrong on this one), I just seem to remember typing code where for example

User() remained as that.

Any information would be appreciated.


Regards

Rob

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Regards

Rob

Rob,

It seems, unbeknownst to me, that parenthesis are not always required when calling a constructor for a class, even if the class provides one or more overloaded methods.

However, parentheses are required when calling procedures and functions, even if they don’t accept parameters. That’s the best that I can tell you at this point.

Thearon

Hi Thearon,

Thanks for the reply, hmm..tis an odd one...its not really a big issue, I was just wondering why sometimes they are there, and sometimes they get removed (and how does it know!).. :)




Regards

Rob

Hey,

When declaring an object like that (using VB.NET syntax), the parameters are ripped off because VB.NET doesn't care about those being there (syntax-wise). C# uses them because of its syntax:

User objUser = New User();

For C#, they are required like this, but because you are declaring a new type in VB.NET, it doesn't like them (except when declaring parameters for the new constructor). I think it's because it is regarding it as a type instead of a new class definition, but I don't really know if that's it.

It knows because it is a variable declaration (Dim statement). Those Microsoft folks are pretty smart, whether you believe that or not. :D

Brian

Hey,

Now that I think about it, the parameter removal in VB.NET is more of a VS.NET standard than anything else. Each language has a required syntax, and if you used a different editor, I don't think it would throw an error if you had parenthesis for:

Dim o As New User()

However, VS.NET standard doesn't like (). I think that's what it is. For the C# example in the previous post, the () are needed.

Brian

Brian