Comment Feed for Channel 9 - The switch Decision Statement - Day 1 - Part 13 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/a608/d7c58e2b-c04c-4c96-8f1d-9e10015da608/day01part13_100_ch9.jpg Channel 9 - The switch Decision Statement - Day 1 - Part 13 Picking back up on the notion of adding logic to your code, we look at a second decision statement—the switch—and compare its usefulness to the “if” statement we previously looked at. Download the source code in c# Download the source code in VB.Net en Sat, 18 May 2013 05:32:57 GMT Sat, 18 May 2013 05:32:57 GMT Rev9 Re: The switch Decision Statement - Day 1 - Part 13 This might not be HUGELY important but your code has an error (in the video and the download).  When you introduced the String.Format you should only have car, boat, cat or "... Sorry we didn't understand your response.  You lose" in your message statement.

** Easy fix for someone who is familiar with programming language but to a newbie they might get a wee bit lost.  As the output is not what is expected or originally intended by the programmer.

posted by Nique26

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Phone-7-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/The-switch-Decision-Statement#c634257996230000000 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:40:23 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Phone-7-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/The-switch-Decision-Statement#c634257996230000000 Nique26 Re: The switch Decision Statement - Day 1 - Part 13 @Nique26: the correct solution would be to replace

myTextBlock.Text = String.Format("You won a {0}!", message);

with

myTextBlock.Text = message;

posted by Clint

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Phone-7-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/The-switch-Decision-Statement#c634259998980000000 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:18:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Phone-7-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/The-switch-Decision-Statement#c634259998980000000 Clint Re: The switch Decision Statement - Day 1 - Part 13 Or, just change message = "You won a new car!";

to

message = "new car";

posted by petaganayr

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Phone-7-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/The-switch-Decision-Statement#c634308069790000000 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:36:19 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Phone-7-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/The-switch-Decision-Statement#c634308069790000000 petaganayr Re: The switch Decision Statement - Day 1 - Part 13 posted by mmio

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Phone-7-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/The-switch-Decision-Statement#c634375392290000000 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:40:29 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Phone-7-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/The-switch-Decision-Statement#c634375392290000000 mmio Re: The switch Decision Statement - Day 1 - Part 13 Nope, the code on the video works, is the download that have some bug in it.

If you copy paste the entire code on a new proyect (and name the textBlock and textBox just like the names on the video) the code works.

posted by el_alien

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Phone-7-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/The-switch-Decision-Statement#c634448265720000000 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 02:56:12 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Phone-7-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/The-switch-Decision-Statement#c634448265720000000 el_alien