I’ve tried changing the root namespace of the updater projects but this does not resolve the problem.

Also, changing the framework to 4.0 causes the service to fail – is this a schema issue?

Sorry for the delays in posting back to you, if you haven’t figured it out yet, ‘var’ denotes the type will be inferred by Visual Studio and resolve based on whatever is assigned to it (implicitly typed, I think!) so to convert that piece of code you wanted you would most likely be looking at:

For Each destinationProperty As PropertyInfo In destination.GetType().GetProperties()

I think. You don’t need the brackets, and I’m not sure how you do var in VB.NET, so just cast it as PropertyInfo, what it should be (we know this as we look at the returning type of GetProperties())

For a helpful guide on translation between c# and VB.NET see here http://www.harding.edu/fmccown/vbnet_csharp_comparison.html

As for your updater not working, hmmm sad to hear you are having problems incorporating it! Are you receiving errors? What namespace problems are you having? Do you use ReSharper (http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper) that might give you more insight into problematic or mismatching namespaces.

You should just be able to test the Version of the current running assembly. Sample updater app, or your own app. Good luck!

Graham

Public Module ReflectionExtensions
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”’ Clone properties from an original object to a destination object.
”’ See for more info: http://goneale.com/2009/02/16/cloning-object-properties-via-reflection/
”’ NOTE: Does not currently handle list’s.
”’
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Public Sub CloneProperties(Of T1, T2)(ByVal origin As T1, ByVal destination As T2)
‘ Instantiate if necessary
If destination Is Nothing Then
Throw New ArgumentNullException(“destination”, “Destination object must first be instantiated.”)
End If
‘ Loop through each property in the destination
For Each destinationProperty As Reflection.PropertyInfo In destination.[GetType]().GetProperties()
‘ find and set val if we can find a matching property name and matching type in the origin with the origin’s value
If origin IsNot Nothing AndAlso destinationProperty.CanWrite Then
For Each originProperty As Reflection.PropertyInfo In origin.[GetType]().GetProperties()
If destinationProperty.CanWrite AndAlso originProperty.CanRead AndAlso (originProperty.Name = destinationProperty.Name AndAlso originProperty.PropertyType Is destinationProperty.PropertyType) Then
destinationProperty.SetValue(destination, originProperty.GetValue(origin, Nothing), Nothing)
End If
Next
End If
Next

End Sub
End Module

The C# to VB converters are pretty good but not perfect…

I’ve just finished upgrading it to VS 2010 and converting it to VB (I’m an old dog, C# wasn’t even dreamed of when I started programming…).

Anyway, the CloneProperties doesn’t seem to translate to VB –
For Each destinationProperty As var In destination.[GetType]().GetProperties()

breaks on ‘var’. What type is is supposed to be? If I get this fixed, the project runs.

Thanks,
Steve J
Portland, OR, US