Re: Byval Vs ByRef Performance - Visual Basic Discussion Boards

Hello Guffa

Thanks for your help back then.

I am trying to index with his regex but it does not pick text that's stored in a HTML tag.

Example: Johnson <b>Peter</b> Smith for the keywords "John" and "Peter" returns only "John"

\\b("+keyword+"'?s?)\\b|(^"+keyword+"'?s?)\\b|\\b("+keyword+"'?s?$)

So how do I go about making the regex pick-up Peter, which is in a HTML tag. Thanks

Anthony, Canada.

On the contrary. It finds "Peter", but not "John".

Do you have an example that actually does demonstrate what you are trying to do?

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Thanks!

For example, i want to search for James, but because the James in my text is embedded in a BOLD tag, it does not return a result.

So if I have <b>James</b> is there a way I can "remove" the HTML tag, and have only "James" for my regex to pick-up?

ant1xxx wrote:
For example, i want to search for James, but because the James in my text is embedded in a BOLD tag, it does not return a result.

Yes, it does.

ant1xxx wrote:
So if I have James is there a way I can "remove" the HTML tag, and have only "James" for my regex to pick-up?

You don't have to. It's matching only "James", not the html tags.

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We have a main method which calls a sub method 50 times and in turn the sub method calls one more method 5 times. From the first the datatable is passed by byval and one or two value types are passed by byval. The method doesn't make any changes to the variables

1. Byval or Byref - which will be faster-multiple times and multilevels calling?

2. Will that be a good idea to have multiple levels of methods to be called multiple times. We have lot of local variables. Will the garbage collectors's headache be more in creating and destroying the objects?

Thanks

ByVal means that the method will create its own copy of the variable, and any changes will not be passed back to the method that called it.

ByRef means the method will use the variable you passed in and update it.

Some objects (I believe DataTables are one example of this) are always passed ByRef even if you specify ByVal because they are so complex.

It sounds like what you want to do is use ByRef. Running a method that updates a couple variables 50 * 5 = 250 times shouldn't be too much for an average computer today. If you were updating several hundreds of thousands than you may worry about it more.

Hope this helps.

thank you i never fully got that. i even goggled it before and never saw good answer.

First: abandon any notion of ByRef vs. ByVal from VB6.
Second: there is a difference with ByVal and ByRef wrt object instances.

What ByRef and ByVal indicate are which memory address to copy to the method's stack.

Lets look at the following code:

<br />
    Private Sub DataTableCreator()<br />
        Dim dt As New DataTable()<br />
        ByValReceiver(dt)<br />
        ByRefReceiver(dt)<br />
    End Sub<br />
<br />
    Private Sub ByValReceiver(ByVal valdt As DataTable)<br />
        valdt = Nothing<br />
    End Sub<br />
<br />
    Private Sub ByRefReceiver(ByRef refdt As DataTable)<br />
        refdt = Nothing<br />
    End Sub<br />

ByValReceiver will take in the memory address of the object on the heap and assign it to a local variable "valdt" on it's stack.

ByRefReceiver will take in the memory address of the variable "dt" from DataTableCreator's stack and assign that to refdt.

So what does this do for you? Two things.

1) If you run the code you'll see ByValReceiver won't effect dt in DataTableCreator, but ByRefReceiver does.
When you assign Nothing you're in effect clearing the memory reference from the variable.
refdt is really a reference to a reference (or pointer to a pointer in in the old days Smile | :)

**p), setting it to nothing clears the real reference to the DataTable, which is dt in DataTableCreator.

2) I can't prove this since .Net can be a black box, but I fully expect that nesting calls with ByRef will cause multiple dereferencing steps (going to the memory address in the variable) to get back to the heap.
If you used refdt, first it must dereference to dt, then dereference dt to get to the actual DataTable instance on the heap.
This would actually marginally slow things down.

ByRef is required for when you want value types, which are held on the local stack (i.e. integer, long, structures etc) to be modified by the called method.
Think out parameters.

Objects should be handed down ByVal, unless you really want to use the trick above!

Hope this clears things up at least a little?

Coding since '85 - ATARI BASIC, Forth, C, Java, C#, VB.Net ..

K.P.Kannan wrote:
The method doesn't make any changes to the variables

Then you should not pass anything by reference.

K.P.Kannan wrote:
Byval or Byref - which will be faster-multiple times and multilevels calling?

ByVal will be faster, and that is the default way of passing parameters.

When you pass an object by value, you are passing a copy of the reference to the object, and it will be handled just as afficiently as a local variable in the method.

When you pass an object by reference, you are passing a reference to the reference to the object. Whenever you use it in the method, it has to be dereferenced, which adds a small overhead each time.

The ByVal and ByRef keywords are mostly kept for compatibility reasons. In object oriented programming they are very rarely used at all.

K.P.Kannan wrote:
Will that be a good idea to have multiple levels of methods to be called multiple times.

Unless you are making a huge number of calls to the methods, it doesn't matter much.

K.P.Kannan wrote:
We have lot of local variables. Will the garbage collectors's headache be more in creating and destroying the objects?

Local variables are allocated on the stack, and don't have to be garbage collected at all. If you have local variables that are references, and create objects for those references, the objects will of course be garbage collected.

Creating and freeing objects are considerably cheaper in .NET than it was in VB6. As long as you make use of the objects, you should not normally be concerned with the cost of creating and freeing them. If you create and free the same kind of objects a lot, you might consider a way of reusing them, but on the other hand many objects are not even built to be reused in that way.

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Thank you all for the explanations. It was nice and explained a lot

hi,
I need to make an error handling for a program but I don't know how should I start.
If you have any idee please let me know.
thanks.

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hi,
i m developing a ftp in vb.net,it is connecting to server and when
using ftpfindfirstfile it is returing some value.but the problem is with
Structure WIN32_FIND_DATA cfilename it is fixed string in vb but how convert
this in to vb.net,
if anyone provide wininet api it will be great help

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2006, 2007

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In that site there is only for vb but not for vb.net.
can any one provied some code for wininet for vb.net

BS. That link goes directly to code for VB.NET, NOT for VB6. PInvoke.net doesn't support VB6 code at all.

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Microsoft MVP
Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007

hello frnds,

i am using vb.net 2005, my problem is i am display a word file in webbrowser control by converting it in htm format but when i am press Ctrl+P key the printDialog appears..
how can i disable these keys ???? D'Oh! | :doh:

OR
is there any option to block the user from printing the pages....???? Confused | :confused:

please help....Thankx in advance for sweet cooperation

-koolprasad2003

Be A Good S/W Eng... Life is swing with you..Enjoy..

Solution 1:
Try setting the WebBrowserShortcutsEnabled to false. This stops my control from doing anything on Ctrl+P, however the program I checked it in had a keypress handler on the form itself.

Solution 2:
Handle the webbrowser's KeyUp event:

If e.KeyCode = Keys.P Then<br />
If e.Control Then<br />
' do nothing with this.<br />
e.Handled = True<br />
End If<br />
End If

It ought to be that setting e.Handled as true will stop the control from doing anything when Ctrl+P is pressed.
BTW it needs to be KeyUp because KeyPress has no easily accessible value (and is a pain).

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Hello Ninja,

thankx a lot...it helps me much

-koolprasad2003 Smile | :)

Be A Good S/W Eng... Life is swing with you..Enjoy..

i wan to do one crystal report by takin combination.
the report should look like this.

sl.No Caste of student no of students fees paid

caste n no of students v r takin from admission table.
amount paid from feereceipt table.
caste should be distinct n no of students should be respectable to that.

We used this query

SELECT a.CasteOFStu AS Category, (select count(*) from admission) AS NoOfStudents, (Select Sum(FeesReceiptDetails.amount) from FeesReceiptDetails,FeesReceipt where FeesReceipt.ReceiptNo=FeesReceiptDetails.REceiptNo) AS TotalAmount
FROM Admission AS a, FeesReceipt AS b
GROUP BY a.CasteOFStu;

Confused | :confused:

but its givin total no means over all no of students irrespective of caste.
can u give me any fair idea of any query which has solution to above problem r any other crystal report functionality to help us in this condition.
thank u....

First, please don't type in SMS language. Its ugly.

Second, you are not making any connection between admission table and your feereceipt table in your query.

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Hello
The purpose of the following is to export data from crystal report (implemented in Vb.net) to Ms access database
While working with crystal report XI (without implementing the report in vb.net application ),I could do the following :
Export to ODBC format then choose MS Access Database. and the DB is ready

but when i have implemented the report in VB.net I couldn't find the way (or the button in the toolbar) export to ODBC or to MS access

can you help me exporting the data to Ms access?

Regards
Ramy

In C# the comparison looks like:
If (dg.DataSource.GetType() == typeof(DataTable)
But in VB I get an error DataTable is a type and cannot be used in an operation.
How to ensure that the type of dg.DataSource ist type DataTable?
Thank in advance for reading
Erhard

Erhard