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Does your application actually interact with the internet ?

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6120605.html[^]

does that return the computers IP address and not the IP address on the internet ?

Christian Graus

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Yes it does.
It returns my computer's IP address but i want Internet's IP address.

I hav already tried method told by u, it gives me my local IP address but i want the main IP address provided by ISP

Hi,

IFAIK there is no code for getting the public IP address; what you need is a web page that
provides you such information, such as http://www.perceler.com/getipadr1.php[^]

You could use HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() to use it programmatically.

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nagendrathecoder wrote:
I want the IP Address of the user using the application.

Prompt the user to turn back. Use a web cam to quickly take a snap of it and we can extract the IP address from the image. Big Grin | :-D

OK,. what country just started work for the day ? The ASP.NET forum is flooded with retarded questions. -Christian Graus

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That was not funny. You should crack jokes like these in some social communities.

Thanks for your answers, i got the way of doing it. Smile | :)

Hi, beginner programmer here, first post Smile | :)

I am writing a program that uses a arraylist of class part, and class Car consists of

Public Class Part
    Public name As String
    Public price As Double
End Class


Public Class Car
    Public name As String
    Public parts As New ArrayList
End Class

There is an ArrayList of Part and I would like each Car to consist of various Parts and the price would be totaled for a Car etc.

I would like to be able to change the price of a Part and if a Car contains that part I will be able to retotal the new amount.

By using something like
Car.parts.Add(partArraylist.Item(i))
Am i adding a copy? reference?

Any advice would be great, or am i approaching it the wrong way?

Thanks
150

Unless you're using VB 1.0 or 1.1, you should never use the arraylist class. Although I guess in VB it doesn't matter b/c the language is weakly typed, but ideally you should use generic collections such as List<Car> ( I think it's List(Of Car) in VB ).

150db wrote:
By using something like
Car.parts.Add(partArraylist.Item(i))
Am i adding a copy? reference?

If Part is a class, you're adding a reference, if it's a struct, you'd be adding a copy. So, yes, you could do that, and then change the price of the part, and all the cars with that part, should reflect the new price. Then you can have a method in the car that iterates over it's parts, adds them, and comes up with a total.

What if a car has more than one of the same part ?

Christian Graus

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Thanks for the reply, very helpful, forgot all about generics.

Yes a car is able to have more than one part, ie 4 wheels. Havent thought how to implement it yet, could I do something like,,

Public Class Car
    Public name As String
    Public parts As New List(Of Part)
    Public quantity As New Hashtable
End Class

And have the key as the partname and the value for quantity?

150db wrote:
Public quantity As New Hashtable

Now you have forgotten about generics again. Wink | ;)

Public Quantities As New Dictionary(Of Part, Integer)

An alternative would be to create your own generic class Qantified(Of T), that just contains an Integer for quantity and a T variable. Then you could do:

Public Parts As New List(Of Quantified(Of Part))

Despite everything, the person most likely to be fooling you next is yourself.

hi how can i detect a connection string in a program?
i want to detect a connection string in a program and find the database that the program connect to it.
i am writing a program that when it add to other program with sql database it must detect the connection string and the database that the program connects to it... please help me...

well, this sounds nasty, but, really what you want to do is load the whole program and it's config files as binary data, then go through it looking for something that matches a regex designed to find connection strings.

Christian Graus

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i thik that your way is difficult... isnt there any way to answer this question? all the databases are sqlserver

Well, you could use black magic I suppose.

You have a binary file and you want to find connection strings in it. How do YOU propose to do that ? You MAY be able to write code that detects attempts to connect to a SQL Server, and find them that way. A more obvious approach is to look for SQL Servers that can be seen and then look to see what DBs they have, that would be a ton easier. It won't tell you which DB belongs to which program, obviously.

Christian Graus

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"also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

how can load the whole program as binary data?

File.ReadAllBytes. Getting those bytes into strings that you can then run a regex on, is another matter. I guess you need to look for sequences that look like a string. I think the whole thing is a disaster. I assume you're assuming that the string is not in a config file, seeing as you're trying to hack into an existing program.

Christian Graus

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"also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

i cant undrestand you Confused | :confused:

plese help me... i must write this program till this evening Frown | :(

isnt there any other way?

Why do you have to write it this evening ?

Christian Graus

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"also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

i must deliver it to my boss. i am a programmer and its a piece of our projects Confused | :confused:

Your boss gave you one night to write something, but when it's explained to you, you can't understand the explanation ? Your boss is an idiot.

I've explained every possible way to do this that I can think of, in the plainest possible language. I don't know what else to say.

Christian Graus

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"also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

i can undrstand you but i want just to know is there any other way? you are right... i am sorry... thank you for your help my good friend anyway Rose | [Rose]

Hey guys,

Is there any body that worked on archive? Right now I am working on small application, which does the archive and the code was written in vb.net. It copies the database and zip that file and send that zipped file to write a DVD. This application works fine for small file but its giving error when we have data like 5 GB its giving error as below

ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipException: Maximum entry size exceeded

If any body can help, it will be grate …….appreciate your time. Thank you………

You should create a multi part zip, not a single 5 gb file.

Christian Graus

Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you

"also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )