What's equivalent in VB.NET for VFP's #DEFINE in/and .H file?

[IlyaRabyy]

Colleagues,

Being working in VFP for so long (1997-2019), and last time working in VB 13+ years ago, I cannot find if there is in VB.NET something similar to VFP's .H file with all those #DEFINE statements.
Essentially, I need to define an array in header/resource file, and #INCLUDE (or just include) this file into the project. This array is to be used to optimize the code in VB .NET by replacing excessive If-ElseIf-... with For-Next cycle.
AHWBGA!

Regards,

Ilya

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Precompiler directives are very common in any language, and the file extension also usually is .h

But you gotta tell me how you define an array via #define in VFP, you define constants, the names of them get replaced with the values, essentially. In VB.NET this is made with the preprocessor directive #CONST instead of #Define. You write that as #CONST NAME='value', or #CONST Answer=42 instead of the #DEFINE syntax that does not have the = operator.

But I think you look for something else.

Bye, Olaf.

Olaf Doschke Software Engineering

https://www.doschke.name

 

[IlyaRabyy]

Hi Olaf,
"how you define an array via #define in VFP" - good question!
Do not remember exactly how, but I saw it in yet VFP3b, IMS. My then "partner in crime" (fellow P/A) had it in a program written in FPD2.5, transferred it to VFP3, and it worked.
But then again: I might remembered the idea, not the execution of that latter...
Anyway, thank you for your tip, colleague!
I wonder if VB .NET would take #CONST String [] Offices = {"CHI","ATL","TRR","HII","MLW"}...

Regards,

Ilya

 

[Olaf Doschke]

I think you look for an Enumeration.

Public Enum Days
  Sunday
  Monday
  Tuesday
  Wednesday
  Thursday
  Friday
  Saturday
End Enum

Dim items As Array
items = System.Enum.GetValues(GetType(Days))
Dim item As String
For Each item In items
    MsgBox(item)
Next

Bye, Olaf.

Olaf Doschke Software Engineering

https://www.doschke.name

 

[IlyaRabyy]

Enumeration... The thought occurred to me also, but got no traction (dunno why).
Thank you for setting me straight, colleague!


Regards,

Ilya