RE: IWS problems

Thanks, Charles.

I really like the "with" capability too. I use that extensively in my VBA
stuff when I create Outlook and Excel plugins and the like. It's the
qualified DS without all that [myDsCopyNameHere.] malarkey involved. Maybe
we should request that as and RPG feature! (No, I'm serious!)

To reiterate without trying to be cute: If the language will not reveal
which variables are causing it trouble, then the language is not ready for
prime time; the guessing games begin. That's what (and all) I meant.
Lacking any experience with VB.NET, I have no basis for determining this
beyond the original post.

Dennis Lovelady
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You should probably update your opinion...

Given the CLR of .NET....VB.NET is a much of a "real language" as
C#.NET

Basically, it comes down to preferred syntax....for RPGLE developers,
the case insensitive verbose nature of VB.NET may be more comfortable.
Personally, I really like VB.NET's "with" construct and optional
parameters.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/csharpfaq/archive/2004/03/11/87816.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/dnlp.aspx

Charles

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Dennis Lovelady <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

If there's no way to figure out what variable is causing the error...

Anybody have
the slightest idea what that's about?

Yes.  It's about time they use a real programming language.  Other

than

that, you might draw straws...

Sorry.  There's no sort of debugging available on either end?

Dennis Lovelady
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James H. H. Lampert
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 12:23 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: IWS problems

Back to our customer who wants to communicate with our product via

web

services.

It seems that they are attempting to call one of the web services I
hastily deployed a month ago, and they're calling it from Visual
BASIC.NET.

1. It seems that the web service is throwing a number format

exception,

but we can't tell which parameter it's throwing it on. (Other than
obviously one of the ones coded as numeric.)

2. For all of the parameters specified as "decimal," they're also
finding a "specified" field associated with the parameter. Anybody

have

the slightest idea what that's about?

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