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slice2vb(1)

translate Slice to Ice for Visual Basic .NET

NAME

slice2vb - translate Slice to Ice for Visual Basic .NET

SYNOPSIS

slice2vb [OPTIONS]... FILES...

DESCRIPTION

Slice to Visual Basic .NET compiler. Beware that monobas is not currently able to compile Ice for Visual Basic .NET code.

OPTIONS

Regardless of which Slice compiler you use, a number of command-line options are common to the compilers for any language mapping. The common command-line options are:

-h, --help

Displays a help message.

-v, --version

Displays the compiler version.

-DNAME

Defines the preprocessor symbol NAME.

-DNAME=DEF

Defines the preprocessor symbol NAME with the value DEF.

-UNAME

Undefines the preprocessor symbol NAME.

-IDIR

Add the directory DIR to the search path for #include directives.

The following options are specific to slice2vb.

--tie

Generate tie classes.

--impl

Generate sample implementation files. This option will not overwrite an existing file.

--impl-tie

Generate sample implementation files using ties (see Section 16.7). This option will not overwrite an existing file.

--checksum

Generate checksums for Slice definitions.

--stream

Generate streaming helper functions for Slice types.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2003-2007 ZeroC, Inc.

This is free software distributed under the GNU GPL. See /usr/share/doc/slice2vb/copyright for specific conditions.

SEE ALSO

Further information refer to Distributed Programming with Ice by Michi Henning, Mark Spruiell, et al. available as a PDF file in the non-free package zeroc-ice-manual.

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