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17-Dec-06 23:51

Hi there! I'm not able to convert following vb.net code to c#. Pls assist

Public Sub WriteBinary(ByVal FileName As String, ByVal ds As DataSet)
ds.RemotingFormat = SerializationFormat.Binary
Dim myFormatter As IFormatter = New Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter
Dim myStream As Stream = New FileStream(FileName, FileMode.Create)
myFormatter.Serialize(myStream, ds)
End Sub

The line in bold is giving me trouble

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Guffa18-Dec-06 0:04

18-Dec-06 0:04

IFormatter myFormatter = new Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter();

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Nitin198118-Dec-06 2:06

18-Dec-06 2:06

Hi Guffa! Thanks for replying. I've already done this. It don't seem to work. This is the code.

void WriteBinary(String FileName, DataSet ds)
{
ds.RemotingFormat = SerializationFormat.Binary;
IFormatter myFormatter = new Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter();
Stream myStream = new FileStream(FileName, FileMode.Create);
myFormatter.Serialize(myFormatter, ds);

}

These are the errors

Error 1 The type or namespace name 'Formatters' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) d:\Nitin\Serialization1\Serialization1\Serialization1\Form1.cs 58 42 Serialization1

Error 2 The best overloaded method match for 'System.Runtime.Serialization.IFormatter.Serialize(System.IO.Stream, object)' has some invalid arguments d:\Nitin\Serialization1\Serialization1\Serialization1\Form1.cs 60 13 Serialization1

Error 3 Argument '1': cannot convert from 'System.Runtime.Serialization.IFormatter' to 'System.IO.Stream' d:\Nitin\Serialization1\Serialization1\Serialization1\Form1.cs 60 35 Serialization1

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Guffa18-Dec-06 3:50

18-Dec-06 3:50

Nitin1981 wrote:
Error 1 The type or namespace name 'Formatters' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?

I see. Specifying namespaces works a bit different in VB and C#. Specify the full namespace:

IFormatter myFormatter = new System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter();

Nitin1981 wrote:
Error 3 Argument '1': cannot convert from 'System.Runtime.Serialization.IFormatter' to 'System.IO.Stream'

Why have you put the formatter there? In the VB code it's the stream.

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Nitin198118-Dec-06 18:30

18-Dec-06 18:30

Hi Guffa, I got it to work. Ya I did make a mistake.

1. Even after importing necessary namespace fully qualified namespace has to be specified in c sharp so is it a bug in Csharp.?

2. Another thing how do you arrive at the conclusion by trial & error or is there some other way.

Thanks for your assistance.

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Guffa19-Dec-06 2:19

19-Dec-06 2:19

Nitin1981 wrote:
1. Even after importing necessary namespace fully qualified namespace has to be specified in c sharp so is it a bug in Csharp.?

No, it's not a bug. C# is just a little stricter about separating namespaces from class names than VB. When you import a namespace in C# you have to specify the complete namespace, while in VB you can import part of the namespace and specify the rest of the namespace in the code. If you specify the complete namespace, you can use the BinaryFormatter class name in the code without the namespace:

using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;

Nitin1981 wrote:
2. Another thing how do you arrive at the conclusion by trial & error or is there some other way.

What conclusion?

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Nitin198119-Dec-06 20:13

19-Dec-06 20:13

Hi I mean the difference between the syntax in c# and vb.net (for example in this case)

Thanks!

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Guffa19-Dec-06 21:05

19-Dec-06 21:05

You mean how I translate the code from VB to C#?

Basically I read the code and make sure that I understand what it does, then I write code that does the same thing. In .NET you have the advantage of the shared framework, which means that the classes used are the same and work the same.

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Nitin198120-Dec-06 2:25

20-Dec-06 2:25

No I mean first (in your first reply of this question) you also guessed that code should be like this
IFormatter myFormatter = new Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter();
Which was also the case with me. But later you came to the conclusion we need to specify full path in c#.I think now I'm clear enough.

Thanks a lot

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Guffa20-Dec-06 4:13

20-Dec-06 4:13

Specifying the full namespace is a way that always work, regardless of what namespaces you have imported (provided of course that you have a reference to the dll containing the class). Once it works, you can start looking into writing the using statement that imports that specific namespace.

I don't develop anything in VB.NET, that's why I didn't remember the difference in how namespaces are used from the start.

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Nitin198121-Dec-06 1:42