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  • Luis Ferrao
    #1

    Scientific Notation

    Hi,

    I would like to prevent Visual Studio .Net from automatically converting
    1e3 to 1000 in my source code.

    Is there a way to do this without turning off any other automatic
    formating features?

    Thanks in advance,

    Luis

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    • Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
      #2
      Re: Scientific Notation

      "Luis Ferrao" <lfr@undisclose d.com> schrieb:[color=blue]
      > I would like to prevent Visual Studio .Net from automatically converting
      > 1e3 to 1000 in my source code.
      >
      > Is there a way to do this without turning off any other automatic
      > formating features?[/color]

      AFAIK there is no way to turn off this particular feature without turning
      off other valuable features of the IDE too.

      --
      M S Herfried K. Wagner
      M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
      V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

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        • Daniel
          #3
          Re: Scientific Notation

          Luis Ferrao wrote:[color=blue]
          > Hi,
          >
          > I would like to prevent Visual Studio .Net from automatically converting
          > 1e3 to 1000 in my source code.
          >
          > Is there a way to do this without turning off any other automatic
          > formating features?
          >
          > Thanks in advance,
          >
          > Luis
          >
          > *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***[/color]
          Could you not use the format command to specify the number of trailing
          digits?

          --

          Daniel
          MCSE, MCP+I, MCP in Windows 2000/NT

          --------------------------------------
          remove the 2nd madrid from my mail address to contact me.

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            • Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
              #4
              Re: Scientific Notation

              "Daniel" <daniel@madridm adridsoleado.co m> schrieb:[color=blue][color=green]
              >> I would like to prevent Visual Studio .Net from automatically converting
              >> 1e3 to 1000 in my source code.
              >>
              >> Is there a way to do this without turning off any other automatic
              >> formating features?
              >>[...][/color]
              > Could you not use the format command to specify the number of trailing
              > digits?[/color]

              I assume that the OP is referring to numeric literals placed directly in the
              source code.

              --
              M S Herfried K. Wagner
              M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
              V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

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                • Luis Ferrao
                  #5
                  Re: Scientific Notation

                  Yes i'm talking about the numbers as i type them in visual studio's text
                  editor.

                  In C# if i type 1e3 it stays that way but in VB 1e3 turns into 1000.0

                  Isn't there a way to configure the formating rules?

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                    • Ross Presser
                      #6
                      Re: Scientific Notation

                      On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 03:26:50 -0700, Luis Ferrao wrote:
                      [color=blue]
                      > Yes i'm talking about the numbers as i type them in visual studio's text
                      > editor.
                      >
                      > In C# if i type 1e3 it stays that way but in VB 1e3 turns into 1000.0
                      >
                      > Isn't there a way to configure the formating rules?
                      >[/color]
                      Tools / Options / Text Editor / Basic / VB Specific
                      Unselect "Pretty listing (reformatting) of code"

                      You will lose the other functions of pretty listing:
                      * Align your code to the correct tab position
                      * Recase keywords, variables, and objects to the correct case
                      * Add a missing Then to an If...Then statement
                      * Add parenthesis to function calls
                      * Add missing end quotes to strings
                      * Reformat exponential notation
                      * Reformat dates

                      And if you ever type control-K control-D to force it to reformat, it will
                      change 1e3 to 1000.0 at that time too.

                      You could always do something like this:

                      Dim N as Single = "1e3"

                      and let the implicit CSng() happen. I believe when compiled it would
                      optimize the same. Even if not, it's a pretty small penalty.

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