TimRayburn.CustomFunctoids - Logical XOR

This functoid does not take a lot of explanation, it simply fills another gap in the functoid library.  For those who may not be familiar with the glories of XOR, allow me to present the truth table for it.

As you can see, the difference between this operator and "Or" is that when both inputs are true, it returns false.  This is very nice when you need to handle edge cases where you could use either x or y but want to do something different when both are present.

The code, as always, is included below.  I'm trying Scott Dunn's Windows Live Writer Code Formatter on this post for the first time.  If there are problems, let me know and I'll go back to CopySourceAsHtml which I have been using.  Scratch that, it just blew up as I tried to publish this post, so we're back to using CopySourceAsHtml.

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   13         public LogicalXorFunctoid()

   14             : base()

   15         {

   16             // Assign a "unique" id to this functiod.

   17             this.ID = 24605;

   18 

   19             // Setup the resource assembly to use.

   20             SetupResourceAssembly(

   21               "TimRayburn.CustomFunctoids.CustomFunctoidsResources",

   22               Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());

   23 

   24             SetName("IDS_LOGICALXORFUNCTOID_NAME");

   25             SetTooltip("IDS_LOGICALXORFUNCTOID_TOOLTIP");

   26             SetDescription("IDS_LOGICALXORFUNCTOID_DESCRIPTION");

   27             SetBitmap("IDS_LOGICALXORFUNCTOID_BITMAP");

   28 

   29             this.SetMinParams(2);

   30             this.SetMaxParams(2);

   31 

   32             //set the function name that needs to be 

   33             //called when this Functoid is invoked. This means that

   34             //this Functoid assembly need to be present in GAC 

   35             //for its availability during Test..Map and Runtime.

   36             SetExternalFunctionName(this.GetType().Assembly.FullName,

   37               "TimRayburn.CustomFunctoids.LogicalXorFunctoid",

   38               "LogicalXor");

   39 

   40             this.Category = FunctoidCategory.Logical;

   41             this.OutputConnectionType = ConnectionType.AllExceptRecord;

   42 

   43             AddInputConnectionType(ConnectionType.AllExceptRecord);

   44         }

   45 

   46         public string LogicalXor(string firstVal, string secondVal)

   47         {

   48             bool bFirst = System.Convert.ToBoolean(firstVal);

   49             bool bSecond = System.Convert.ToBoolean(secondVal);

   50             bool result = bFirst ^ bSecond;

   51 

   52             if (result)

   53               return "true";

   54             else

   55               return "false";

   56         }

   57     }