Month: July 2008

Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System 3.0 Runtime Released

Posted on by David (dotNetDave) McCarter

The download that installs the Visual Studio Tools for the Office system 3.0 Runtime, which is required to run VSTO solutions for the 2007 Microsoft Office system built using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 has been released. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=54EB3A5A-0E52-40F9-A2D1-EECD7A092DCB&displaylang=en  

Retrieving Command Line Parameters

Posted on by David (dotNetDave) McCarter

Getting command line parameters or seeing if they are present is not as easy as you would think. I whipped up some code to make this flexible and easy.   Private Const ParameterPrefix As Char = "/"c          Private Function GetCommandLineArgument(ByVal parameter As String) As String      Dim paramValue = String.Empty      For Each tempValue As String In System.Environment.GetCommandLineArgs         If … Continue reading Retrieving Command Line Parameters →

Serialize Your Objects to and from JSON

Posted on by David (dotNetDave) McCarter

Here is some easy, generic code to serialize your objects to and from JSON:Public Shared Function JsonEncode(ByVal input As Object) As String Dim serilizer = New DataContractJsonSerializer(input.GetType) Using ms = New MemoryStream() serilizer.WriteObject(ms, input) Return Encoding.Default.GetString(ms.ToArray()) End UsingEnd FunctionPublic Shared Function JsonDecode(Of T)(ByVal input As String) As T Using ms = New MemoryStream(Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(input)) Dim serilizer … Continue reading Serialize Your Objects to and from JSON →