Posted by
Al Nyveldt in
Development on Mar 29, 2006 |
0 responses
A few weeks back I discovered that Microsoft had created a bunch of C#
Code Snippets to make them more complete like the ones VB.NET shipped
with (via
Jeff Atwood).
I've been trying to get myself in the habit of trying to take advantage
of these for simple stuff when I can, but it take times to learn (and
remember) what functionality is packed in here.
Anyway, today, I
had occasion to write a quick app to load a delimited text file, check
it, clean it, and load it in a SQL table. I went to get a code snippet
to open and read text file figuring I'd just update it to read my
delimited file. To my surprise, there was a snippet specifically for
reading a delimited file.
It dropped my code in and I filled in
the delimiter and file name. I thought I was ready to go, but my code
no longer compiled. I noticed the code was calling
Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.TextFieldParser. I have never used
anything in the VisualBasic libraries before. It took me a few moments
to realize VisualBasic had its own reference that I needed to add to my
project to get this thing to compile.
For those few moments, I
was wondering how poor the quality of these snippits must be if one of
the first few I used doesn't even compile.