An article describing a unique means of writing a fixed-format or delimited text file would have technical merit.
Similarly, fixed-format or delimited text files can be likened to XML files in that they are mechanisms used to serialize content. csproj file was available elsewhere, the article would provide no new information.
PGN CHESS GAME FORMAT HOW TO
csproj file would not have technical merit- if one already knows how to write an XML file, and the schema for the. An article that describes only how to write a. csproj file, for example, is an application-specific file that uses XML to specify the application-specific data. An article describing different means of writing XML would have technical merit. An XML file, generically speaking, is a file containing some sort of data described using XML. XML is a language- it (in itself) describes no actual content. You're comparing apples to oranges when you compare PGN files to XML files. You can change my reply to state "poorly-written and elementary example in VB.NET." My mistake on the language- I primarily write in C# all day, so that's always on my mind. That fact that you have a few WriteLine statements used to create a PGN file (verses a FLORP, DOOWOP, or WHATZIT file) is not interesting. If your intention is to describe how to write a delimited text file, your article does not present any interesting or unique mechanisms for doing so. So, if your only intention was to post the file specification, your article is unncessary. Why are you posting an article that describes a file specification to a website devoted to technical articles relating to source code? As my earlier reply indicated, this particular file specification is available numerous other places.
PGN CHESS GAME FORMAT CODE
My point is that it presents nothing interesting in the realm of source code techniques or file formats. I understand that you're writing an article about how to write a PGN file. I don't think you understand my point- this article has absolutely no technical merit. If you have any comments or questions you are more then welcome to mail me or post it on the comment section. Hope this article make it easy for you to understand what is a PGN file. 'Any chess program that reads PGN files should now be able to import your chess game!
'Now write the actual game moves with standard FIDE notation
' Make sure the info section start with a "" sign. 'First write the info about the pgn file (game) Dim sw As New StreamWriter("c:\PGNFileExample.pgn")