slice2vb1

Usage

Overview

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.