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ubersu
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Posted - Oct 19 2004 :  4:45:41 PM  Show Profile
I'm a little puzzled by the parsing behavior of VAX when using VS2003 and the .NET languages. When using managed C++, only the System, System.IO, and System.Runtime dll imports get parsed so that their included classes are properly colored in the code. C# does a better job of parsing the imports, but VA View is woefully confused and has no sense of the namespace of even fully quaified methods or classes - in spite of the tooltips that indicate that VAX knows precisely what namespace a construct occupies. This behavior has been consistant in all versions of VAX, including the latest public release.

DJ

Chris Nahr
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92 Posts

Posted - Oct 20 2004 :  04:30:03 AM  Show Profile
What part of VAX is affected by this? There's another thread about the Definition Field's failure to find correct methods for CLR types with C#, but otherwise all referenced assemblies appear to be imported and parsed correctly by VAX in my C# projects.
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ubersu
Junior Member

16 Posts

Posted - Oct 20 2004 :  5:49:51 PM  Show Profile
In C#, I have an imported C# dll which contains a number of classes - the tooltips indicate that these are in the correct namespace. One class is named 'SNLXml.Command' - VA View shows the SQLCommand class from System.Data.SQLClient. In managed C++, I use the System::Runtime::InteropServices classes: 'Runtime' is not correctly colored. I also import the System.XML dll. XML is incorrectly colored in the 'using' clause. Further, while tooltips know what class is under the cursor, VA View hasn't got a clue as to the contained classes, and syntax coloring is incorrect... No big thing, but a real puzzle.

DJ
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feline
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United Kingdom
19014 Posts

Posted - Oct 22 2004 :  5:17:43 PM  Show Profile
could you post a small example function that reproduces this? i dont have any experience with managed C++, so it could take me a while to reproduce this myself.

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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ubersu
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Posted - Oct 23 2004 :  3:13:04 PM  Show Profile
Well, I'll try...

In a managed C++ console project, get a reference to System.Xml.dll and System.Runtime.InteropServices (mscorlib.dll) then:

using namespace System;
using namespace System::Text;
using namespace System::IO;
using namespace System::Xml;
using namespace System::Runtime::InteropServices;

note that 'Text', 'Xml' and 'Runtime' are not colored as classes, but rather as local variables. These declarations precede the 'main' routine.

In 'main', try
String* Filepath = "c:\\\\whateverpath\\\\myfile.xml";
StreamReader* sr = new StreamReader(FilePath);
String* myString = sr->ReadToEnd();
Console::WriteLine(myString);
StringReader* strsr = new StringReader(myString);
XmlTextReader* xr = new XmlTextReader(strsr);
//whatever code

and note that 'XmlTextReader*' is colored as a local variable, but 'XmlTextReader(strsr)' is colored as a method...

Hope this helps you get an idea. The original code makes reference to some things that are not publishable here, so I've just pulled out this little block.

DJ
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19014 Posts

Posted - Oct 23 2004 :  3:34:30 PM  Show Profile
the colouring on the namespace lines has been added:

case=397


the strange colouring on the:
XmlTextReader* xr = new XmlTextReader(strsr);

line is a known issue. i get the same thing in standard C++ all the time. from memory support said that VAX's lightweight parser isn't clever enough to tell that the second XmlTextReader isn't a function call. i will ask support about this one to be sure.

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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