"log-"+ Now.ToString(“dd-MM-yyyy”) + ".txt" throws error

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The code line in the subject throws an error: To execute this expression activity type “VisualBasicValue`1” it is required to compile. Assure, that this workflow is compiled.

This is the first line of the project, so I dont see any obvious user created problem.

The original german version of the error is: Assign: Zum Ausführen des Ausdrucksaktivitätstyps “VisualBasicValue`1” ist eine Kompilierung erforderlich. Stellen Sie sicher, dass der Workflow kompiliert wurde.

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Hey,
It is not showing error to me
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Thanks
Rounak,

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For me it fails in an assign activity. If I use a variable and put the code in there, it also works flawlessly. At least till I get to a append file activity with the following line as text: System.DateTime.Now.ToString(“hh-mm”), where it then just runs indefinitely without writing anything in the file (tryed to upload a picture of it, but apperently it uploads the picture and then just vanishes)

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Hey,

you can use like that
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Thanks

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You can’t use like that because later in the code if you need that filename again, Now might return a different value.

You almost always want to assign a dynamic date-based filename to a variable then use that variable.

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Show us your Assign activity. Post a screenshot (just paste it into the reply box here).

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Apparently my chrome is not capable of uploading pictures, a different browser worked

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(“log-”+ Now.ToString(“dd-MM-yyyy”) + “.txt”)
This is my first activity in the project, where it just gives me an “has to be compiled” error, the one from the main post.

If I just do the assign in the variable itself, then that at least work (I can see, because the file is created). A first append then works.
The second append then is this one:
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With that one it just runs indefinitely and does not write into the file, so I think the System.DataTime.Now… is the culprit.

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On searching the group for “assure that this workflow is compiled” I easily found this post:

I’m guessing you have your project set to Windows instead of Windows Legacy, and don’t have the proper version of .Net installed.

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I actually also found that post, but just scimmed it and didnt get that fact. Well, now I feel dumb ^^. Will try that. Will have to figure out, how to convert my project to legacy though.

Thanks

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That trick sadly does not work for me and the project threw a plethora of errors in my face, when I tryed to open it with the mode just changed.

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I’m not surprised. The difference between Windows and Windows Legacy is probably buried quite deep.

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By the way, don’t do

LogFileLocation + LogFileName

This opens you up to incorrect paths if there is no backslash on the end of LogFile Location.

Use…

Path.Combine(LogFileLocation,LogFileName)

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thats a quite nice little trick there, will implement it directly after I fixed the legacy problem

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one should probably know the ins and outs of visual basic to use UIPath effectively (Or the C dialect that is the alternative language)

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Yes, I’ve learned a lot of vb as I’ve learned UiPath. Unless you’re in C# mode, what you’re really doing is writing VB code, the activities just hide it behind a visual layer. If you were so inclined, I think you could write your entire automation in vb using the UiPath libraries.

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