pre-processor directives in VB?!?

[funkyd77]

Hi,

I just discovered that you can use a certain number of pre-processor directives in VB.

I think you can use:

#const
#if
#else if
#end if

and probably a few others.

I'm jsut wondering if anyone has actually had a need to use pre-processor directives in their VB code? Perhaps for debugging purposes?

Anyway,

just wondering...

[parksie]

Yes. I use them for making ANSI / Unicode builds, and swapping between debug and release versions.

[funkyd77]

Parksie,

I tried to learn some stuff about orbs and corba a while back. I found a couple of web pages that were not too bad.

But i was just wondering how you learnt corba and idl etc etc. Did you find web resources or can you recommend any books? I think it's really good to know and i know they are ranting about it at uni all the time <computer / software engineering>.

Anyway, any help would be good.

Thanks,

[parksie]

I learnt it in Java from the book "Java 1.2 Unleashed". I then moved on to C++ with Orbacus (free).