[RESOLVED] Wiring up Blend 3 with VB

[Isaacx]

Hey guys...

All I am trying to do is get my dumb button I created in Blend 4 work on a _Click event. I have the C# equivalent code, but I can't get it converted correctly...Here are both codes...I am using VS2010 just in case you want to know..

namespace TestButton1
{
    public partial class MainWindow:Window
    {
        public Page ( ) 
        {
            //Required to initialize variables
            InitializeComponent (); 
        }
    }
}

Namespace TestButton1 
    
    Public Partial Class MainWindow
        Inherits Window
 
        Public Sub New () 
        'This next line does not work and I don't know what is wrong...
        Me.InitializeComponent () 
        
        End Sub
 
End NameSpace

As soon as I can get this very first initialization down, I know I can get the rest of the events written fine.

Thanks guys.

[weirddemon]

If you're using expression blend + VB and not C#, why not just create the blend project in VB, so it creates VB code?

[Isaacx]

thats what I did, but all it created was a class declaration and an end class statement..

[jmcilhinney]

Perhaps you could define "doesn't work". Also, how exactly was that code generated? From the looks of it it should be getting auto-generated by the IDE when you add a new Window to your project. Is that what happened?

[Isaacx]

well it's working now. JMC, the C# code with the initializecomponent () line was auto generated each time, but the VB code wasn't. Then, every time I tried to put in

Public Sub New ( )
InitializeComponent ()
End Sub

I would get an error saying InitializeComponent wasn't defined. I don't know what I changed or if something just got goofy or what, but now when I put in the "Public Sub New ()" it auto generates the rest of the code for me. It may have been the namespace declaration, because I left that out and the auto-generated code worked...I don't know. Thanks for everyone's input.

[jmcilhinney]

The InitializeComponent method is generated by the IDE when you add a Form or Window using the normal item template.

[Isaacx]

I resolved this thread a little prematurely. I can get everything working now except for my state groups. I'm just having my button look like it was actually pushed with some little animations, but my animations are never called or something...this is my code.

Class MainWindow
    Inherits Window
 
    Public Sub New()
 
        ' This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.
        InitializeComponent()
 
        ' Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call.
 
    End Sub
 
 
  
    Private Sub Window_Loaded(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs) Handles Window.Loaded
        VisualStateManager.GoToState(Me, "Base", True)
 
    End Sub
 
 
    Private Sub TestStartButton_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs) Handles TestStartButton.Click
        MessageBox.Show("clicked") 'This works
        VisualStateManager.GoToState(Me, "Button_Click", True)
 
    End Sub
End Class