Category: Personal

.NET VB Visual Studio and MonoDevelop

I saw a pretty interesting case today. My lovely girlfriend is studying for computer science and while doing VisualBasic class, she created a software in Vistual Studio for her father. Later on we put Fedora on her laptop and now she needed to do some improvements in the application. We got MonoDevelop with mono-basic compiler and opened the project of VisualStudio on MonoDevelop. All seemed fine, but the code would not compile.

Next to the line of code “Me.MainForm = Global.OurAppName.Form1” it was giving an error: “OurAppName.Form1′ is a type and cannot be used as an expression. (VBNC30691)“. Note that this line of code was produced by VisualStudio. The issue has to do with object creation. While normal syntax would be “objectVar = New ClassName“, the actual code was of “objectVar = ClassName” format and obviously was giving compile error. Converting a code to “Me.MainForm = New Global.OurAppName.Form1” solved the issue perfectly well, but a question is: how an IDE would do such a mistake and why it would compile under windows?

Gnome3 Fallback Mode

After working for a while on Xfce, I found out about Gnome 3 fallback mode. That is almost exactly what I needed – old style Gnome. Obviously not completely like Gnome 2.x, but very very close to it.

Will work in Gnome 3 under this mode for a while to see. At least I have all my menus, applets, proper system tray and whatever else I am so used to in their correct places :)

Saturday

Just a short post on a nice Saturday. Started by going to BBQ for birthday party of my friends mother. Meat, beers, guitar, nice people, like always, pics here. After BBQ went went to Agios Georgios where some unknown event was to take place. We didn’t know much about what’s going on there, just decided to check and found out that there should be some DJ concert with tons of people and 20 euro entrance fee, so we skipped it and went to take few photos on a nearby beach. Managed to take few nice pics as well (somehow sea is always nice on photos).

As per now, it is Sunday morning, coffee and few nice plans for a day… Good thing is that tomorrow is a holiday, so this weekend is pretty long!

Latchi

Since parents of my classmate from hometown came for vacations in Cyprus, I decided to visit them in Latchi (close to Paphos) last afternoon. Had some nice time in a taverna by the marine, lots of talking and memories (haven’t seen them for 10 years or so), as well as few pics. On a way back, while I was driving, Yana was playing with camera and night lights, the experimental art photos here.

 

Few nice things about Latchi that I noticed yesterday: the Sunset is just amazing there and it is very very quiet. Even the music in the restaurants is not playing and due to the small size of a town/village and not that many people around – it is very relaxing, compared to Limassol, Paphos or any other town on the island. I am thinking on visiting that place from time to time during evenings for relaxed atmosphere.