Read .MIS files with Style. (VB.net)

[--BulletMagnet--]

VB.net is great for beginners. Especially the intellisense features. Highly recommended.

This is just in case anyone wants to learn, im not selfish with my source code, at least not yet on these little programs.

Public Class Form1
    Private Sub OpenToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object,ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles OpenToolStripMenuItem.Click

        'Create a new dialog
        Dim o As New OpenFileDialog

        o.Title = "Choose MIS"

        o.Filter = "Mission File (*.MIS)|*.MIS"

        If o.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
            'Import dialog selection from user to RichTextBox
            datainputbu.Text = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText(o.FileName)

        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub SaveToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SaveToolStripMenuItem.Click

        'Create new save dialog
        Dim s As New OpenFileDialog

        s.Title = "SaveMIS"

        s.Filter = "Mission File (*.MIS)|*.MIS"

        If s.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then

            'Save the file as plain text, as to not lose any formatting
            datainputbu.SaveFile(s.FileName, RichTextBoxStreamType.PlainText)

        End If
    End Sub

   
    Private Sub BackgroundColorToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BackgroundColorToolStripMenuItem.Click

        'Create new color dialog for background color of RichTextBox
        Dim cd1 As New ColorDialog

        If cd1.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then

            'Set backcolor to user selection
            datainputbu.BackColor = cd1.Color

        End If


    End Sub

    Private Sub TextColorToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TextColorToolStripMenuItem.Click

        'Create new color dialog for text color
        Dim cd2 As New ColorDialog

        If cd2.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then

            'Set text color to selection
            datainputbu.ForeColor = cd2.Color

        End If

    End Sub

    Private Sub CutToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CutToolStripMenuItem.Click

        datainputbu.Cut()

    End Sub

    Private Sub CopyToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CopyToolStripMenuItem.Click

        datainputbu.Copy()

    End Sub

    Private Sub PasteToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles PasteToolStripMenuItem.Click

        datainputbu.Paste()

    End Sub

    Private Sub SelectAllToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SelectAllToolStripMenuItem.Click

        datainputbu.SelectAll()

    End Sub

    Private Sub FontToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles FontToolStripMenuItem.Click

        'Create new font dialog
        Dim font As New FontDialog

        If font.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
            'Use font selected by user
            datainputbu.Font = font.Font

        End If

    End Sub
End Class

(The background and text colors can be changed to whatever, the font as well. You can open and save .MIS files. No complex features yet though I have some in mind.

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[atholon]

C# == Better

[--BulletMagnet--]

Yea lol, non-debatable.

I actually plan on starting to learn C# soon after I get fairly good at VB.net if I want to "make it in the real world." It doesn't seem real popular among us Delta Force programmers. Delphi, VB, and a bit of C++ seems to be the most popular.

But anyways, I hope I can learn some C#. Is that what you use?

[atholon]

Yeah C# is pretty easy. I am just starting to learn it. My friend and I made an app for my company. I know java and php so it helps.

I was trying to get my MCPD but school takes too much itme

[IcIshoot]

there may be some difference the deeper you go, but I haven't really found much difference between vb.net or c# - its basically just minor syntax differences.


ie

Private Sub OpenToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object,ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles OpenToolStripMenuItem.Click

        'Create a new dialog
        Dim o As New OpenFileDialog

        o.Title = "Choose MIS"

        o.Filter = "Mission File (*.MIS)|*.MIS"

        If o.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
            'Import dialog selection from user to RichTextBox
            datainputbu.Text = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText(o.FileName)

        End If
    End Sub

in VB.net translates into

private void toolStripLabel1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
        //Create a new dialog
            OpenFileDialog o = new OpenFileDialog();



        o.Title = "Choose MIS";

        o.Filter = "Mission File (*.MIS)|*.MIS";
        

        if (o.ShowDialog()== System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK)
            {
            //Import dialog selection from user to RichTextBox
            datainputbu.Text = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(o.FileName);

            }
    

        }

Really not that much of a difference, at least at this level of programing. Maybe once you get into structs and types it may be more different.


I regularly bounce between vb.net and c# and delphi, just depends on my mood and project. Any thing vb.net can do c# can do and vice versa so really its more just looks.

[--BulletMagnet--]

Yea I don't really want to learn another language's syntax but i'll have a go at it. Delphi/Pascal I work in a little too. Love it because it doesn't require any run-time files or the .NET framework, and it's not just overly hard to learn, lot of similarites with VB.

Anyways good to have someone in the community to still talk programming with.

[IcIshoot]

I like delphi because the windows API functions are built right in, don't have to do any of the clunky load library calls. And as you said, no runtime.

I use c#/vb.net for things that are harder to do in delphi... for example I have a program in mind that I would like to display proper html pages in.

I'm going to use C# for that, as my version of delphi I haven't been able to readily find a way to display html pages... It appears I have to use a 3rd party component to do so, which my version doesn't allow.

[--BulletMagnet--]

Hmm to display HTML pages, I always just used a multiline textbox or richtextbox (those things are loevely), and it was very simple to load them in using the read all text method. Easy stuff, but you may wanting to be doing something more complicated.

One other reason I don't use Delphi so much is because it isn't exactly supported that much anymore while VB.net is everywhere. The more VB.net noobies around the better lol.

Oh and I know some very basic ASM lol. Old school.

I'm actually good at writing programs straight from binary :P

So do you have any programs released yet? If so i'd like to see them. Maybe even a bit of source code to learn from lol.

[atholon]

VB is the most different from any language I have come across.

C++, C#, JAVA and PHP all have very similar syntax but VB doesn't.

I need to get into ASP.net, that is where the $$ is

[IcIshoot]

I wrote cs cache nuke available for download @ dfbarracks.com, clears out the cache folder for BHD.

I have an other program that I haven't released yet that I use to get my public IP.


Most of what I write are small, half written stuff that throw together to quickly help me get something done.

For example, I have one that I used to search the Anaconda server manager logs to see when a particular person or IP was in the server.

Still others are just exploratory stuff, like thanks to Dstructor (author of pinger) I got a sample app that will convert your IP and port into the novakey.


I have looked at assembly, even started reading a pdf file on it, thats as far as I went. I know enough C/C++ that I can understand basically what is going on and convert it to an other programing language. Haven't tried to really write any thing in C/C++ in a few years.


And of course I know html, php, picking up javascript (working on a website that uses AJAX ).


@atholon.. I agree, vb.net does have a unique syntax. And knowing php really helped with picking up c#, which in turn has helped out with javascript lol.


VB's style is almost english, and it is because of that that I learned it first, starting back in quickbasic.