Getting an example working...

Hi,

I've been trying to make a piece of example code from vbdotnetheaven.com that apparently was created under Beta 1 (or something not quite up to date), compile under the release VS 2005/VB.NET and I've been finding dozens and dozens of things that worked once but don't anymore, and lots of things renamed, etc.. It's been making "dll hell" look like heaven. Most of these things I've been able to work out but there's one that I haven't been able to find much info on-- I've found several examples on the web that reference MenuItems.All-- usually assigning it to something like a__1.

But, compilation returns:

error BC30456: 'All' is not a member of 'System.Windows.Forms.Menu.MenuItemCollection'.

Ok, obviously I can't use that anymore. But what did the All property do, and what would be the up-to-date equivalent?

The specific example I found by googling and is the "Database Explorer" example from this page:

http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/Sections/Ado.NET.asp

I've since gone to the main vbdotnetheaven pages and note that the look is quite different so now I'm thinking that the above example is known to be old though it was still quite accessible via google...

BTW, I thought "beta" essentially meant that the design has frozen, and they are just looking for bugs-- I guess Microsoft has redefined that as well, eh? Methinks "Trial Balloon," would be a somewhat better term for them to use.

-- Sync

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Scott Lysle20y ago
I took a quick look at this, I think seems the author wrote this before 2005 hit the streets, I don't know if it is a beta but the menu control provided in 2003 is not the same as the menustrip control in 2005 and I have had problems with this issue as well. If you can add a reference to the 2003 1.1 version of System.Windows.Forms, it might work; I don't have 2003 installed so I could not check it. I have removed the 2003 version of the menu control and replaced it with the 2005 version but that is not a whole lot of fun.