John Baird
Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States
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Coding, syntax and commands
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Windows 2008 Server
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>I need to return 2 values from a VB.NET function. One is data type integer and the other string.
>>>What is the best approach to acomplish that?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Daniel
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>>You may wish to look at your design. A function should perform a single job and return a single value, if you have the need to do more, then I think inherently something is wrong.
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>Do I spot a 'VFP' mindset here :-}.
>C (and large junks of the windows API) regularly make use of out and ref parameters - even when a structure is used it is often returned as an out parameter. In these cases the main parameter is usually simply a success/fail indicator.
>What do you think is wrong with this approach?
>
>Regards,
>Viv
Viv,
I don't wish to get into a long drawn out argument here. My point is that from a coding standpoint, a method or function should have a single entry point, a single exit point, perform a single function and return a single result. c and the Windows API may not be great examples of programming practice as the current samples for Linq show it being mixed in the UI layer and not in the business or data layer where I think it should belong.
I have no problem with a function returning a boolean value as its main parameter and returning a structure or a single out parameter; but, adding more out parameters or returns leads to code that is difficult to understand, a mess to maintain and is good with a nice Chianti and a marinara sauce.
John
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