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How feasible is it to convert VB.net code to C++? This company here claims to have a product to do it, but discussions online seem to say that it can't be done. Just wondering if Tangible Software Solution's solution is likely to work. Kind of thinking that if ever I want to try and get a job in computing I ought to know C++ rather than VB.net so it would be a good idea to switch over, including a couple of current projects that I have. Thanks.

Seems you have to turn off GIT support http://www.pavelvasek.com/is-visual-studio-2013-too-slow/. I don't know what GIT support is, but if it's making it impossible for me to work then it's pretty useless.

Nope, nothing to do with my project. It's when I activate the VS window that there are problems, even if I have no project open. I just activated the window, clicked on the File menu item, and got the wait cursor for a good minute before the contents of the File menu appeared. Very frustrating.

Hmm, on second thoughts it's still slow. Quite often I click on something and just get the wait cursor. It can take a minute before it comes round. Maybe I should try to reduce the number of tabs I have open (although only about eight typically). Or maybe my project is a bit heavy for it, although at 10,000 lines it wouldn't seem exceptional.

Thanks, yes I've upgraded to 2013 and it was fairly pain free. Does seem a lot faster so far.

I'm frustrated at how slow Visual Studio is. I have a programme which is not that complicated (less than 1MB when compiled) yet Visual Studio always seems to hang when I activate it and leave me waiting for a minute or more with "Not responding" in the title bar. Is there anything I should be doing about this? I'm using VS 2005 on Windows 7. Maybe I need to get a newer version of VS.

Grief, parsing html is tedious. Anyway I'm looking at another site now - sports.spreadex.com/en-GB/spread-betting/Horse-Racing. Again I can do a WebRequest but this doesn't contain the prices. Any idea how I can got hold of the prices on this page?

Ignore, resolved the problem Why would a WebRequest return data that is hours out of date? Do I have to set something to ensure that it's not looking at cached information. It worked so well yesterday, and today it's hopeless...

So I don't really know how the price itself is delivered. Somebody here has done it, but it's quite involved and he used JSON, certainly wasn't just able to look at the html. Grateful for any further pointers for how to do this, otherwise I suppose I should be reading through the article I've referenced.

Thanks. But I just ran a WebRequest on this page hxxps://www.sportingindex.com/spread-betting/horse-racing/indices/mm4.uk.meeting.4856484/9-25-kempton-50-30-20-10, and while I could find the names of the horses in it, the prices were absent. For instance: "<li class="hide" key="MM4.uk.173823415" meetingKey=mm4.uk.meeting.4856484> <a href="#" class="info">Info</a> <span class="markets">Forceful Beacon</span> <span class="sofar"></span> <span class="price"></span> <span class="indicator"></span> </li>"

Sorry, didn't see your reply. I'll make sure I subscribe to instant email notifications of replies now. Betting prices from here hxxps://www.sportingindex.com/. So I'm looking to get the data continuously and use it for analytical purposes. I suppose I could be wrong about the data being in Adobe Acrobat - I just believe this to be the case because an Excel web query returns no results and occasionally I get a message that Adobe Acrobat has crashed. Also I am looking at a website where an Excel web query does return results. How can I get this data into vb? Again I need the data continuously so I don't want to have to keep manually refreshing the spreadsheet. And it would be simpler if I could bypass the need for a spreadsheet altogether if possible. Thanks.

How can I download data from Adobe Flash into vb.net?

Thanks, yes I have SP1 installed. Haven't run into any problems so far.

I've been running Microsoft Ready to Launch Visual Studio 2005 on an xp operating system and just upgraded to Windows 7. When installing vs after the upgrade I got messages about how it was incompatible with Windows 7. But I ignored them and vs seems to work OK. Am I OK to carry on ignoring this? I don't really want to have to upgrade to a new version of Visual Studio if I can avoid it.

Er, yeah, I suppose so, having a bit of a moment. I was hoping there might be some syntax like "If Case =5 Then" but sure, it's not really necessary.