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Need help in making setup file in runtime

sPaudel26-May-09 23:25

26-May-09 23:25

I have a .exe file in which there are certain options to choose. According to choose of these options I have to make a installer. How can I achieve this. Any Idea??????

Thanks in advance.

Re: Need help in making setup file in runtime

Rajesh R Subramanian26-May-09 23:35

Rajesh R Subramanian

26-May-09 23:35

How are you creating the installation package if the options were known? Are you using any installation SDK in specific?

It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini

Re: Need help in making setup file in runtime

sPaudel26-May-09 23:47

sPaudel

26-May-09 23:47

Thanks for quick reply...
Let me clear my question...
I have a exe file of the project. In this the option choosing page along with all the forms which are needed for the particular option. Lets say if I tick 2 option among 5 option then I should have to make setup file taking only the forms related to the options I choose. Its like a making setup file in runtime.

Re: Need help in making setup file in runtime

Rajesh R Subramanian27-May-09 0:00

Rajesh R Subramanian

27-May-09 0:00

I understood your query, but I was asking you if you are using any setup SDK in particular. Not all installers offer you an API that you can use from your code (they only have a GUI). You might want to use the Windows installer SDK[^]. The API reference for the same is here[^].

CodeProject has a wrapper class around the said API - Wrapping the Windows Installer 2.0 API[^]

It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini

Re: Need help in making setup file in runtime

Rajesh R Subramanian27-May-09 0:21

Rajesh R Subramanian

27-May-09 0:21

If the setup is relatively simple, you might as well consider doing the packaging yourself with the cab SDK[^] or you could create a self-extracting archive.

If you choose to do it with a self-extracting archive, there are several ways (z-lib, lzma sdk, etc.,). I remember there was a C# wrapper around the lzma sdk (and that supported creation of self-extracting archives from your code) . A search must bring up plenty of options.

It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini

This was what I wanted

Rajdeep.NET is BACK26-May-09 23:00

Rajdeep.NET is BACK

26-May-09 23:00

Hi guys,

After a long google search, I accurately found out what I wanted. So, I thought to show this off to you guys. The only difference is, the project in the link has been written in VB.NET and I am trying to convert it to C#.NET. Heres the link, please go through it: Use CLSID to secure folders in WinXP[^]

PS: The above link also mentions about hiding a folder, is that somewhat malicious?

Cheers,
Rajdeep.NET Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Re: This was what I wanted

OriginalGriff26-May-09 23:06

OriginalGriff

26-May-09 23:06

Rajdeep.NET wrote:
After a long google search

Hmm. Not quite as long.[^]

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I thought it'd be longer, really.

OriginalGriff26-May-09 23:10

OriginalGriff

26-May-09 23:10

Rajdeep.NET wrote:
Goodbye forever,
Rajdeep.NET

Forever just doesn't last, any more.

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Re: I thought it'd be longer, really.

Rajdeep.NET is BACK26-May-09 23:39

Rajdeep.NET is BACK

26-May-09 23:39

OriginalGriff wrote:
Forever just doesn't last, any more.

Without CodeProject I am nowhere! So, I am in a circular Array which has only two index positions. I say goodbye forever from the 2nd index position and then again return back to the first.

Re: I thought it'd be longer, really.

fly90426-May-09 23:56

fly904

26-May-09 23:56

RajdeepOption[] roArr = new RajdeepOption[]{ new RajdeepOption("Attempt to Code"), new RajdeepOption("Goodbye") };
foreach (RajdeepOption ro in roArr)
{
   try
   {
      ro.Run();
   }
   catch (FailException fe)
   {
      CodeProject.Help(fe.Gibberish);
   }
}
Rajdeep.Exit();

Nothing circular about that!

My failometer has shot off the end of the scale!

I seem to have misplaced my ban button.. no wait... found it!

Re: I thought it'd be longer, really.

OriginalGriff27-May-09 0:52

OriginalGriff

27-May-09 0:52

fly904 wrote:

while (unfortunatelyTrue())
   {
   RajdeepOption[] roArr = new RajdeepOption[]
                              { 
                              new RajdeepOption("Attempt to Code"), 
                              new RajdeepOption("Goodbye") 
                              };
   foreach (RajdeepOption ro in roArr)
      {
      try   
         {
         ro.Run();
         }
      catch (FailException fe)
         {      
         CodeProject.Help(fe.Gibberish);
         }
      }
   }
Rajdeep.Exit();

Fixed that for you!

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Re: I thought it'd be longer, really.

fly90427-May-09 1:22

fly904

27-May-09 1:22

My failometer has shot off the end of the scale!

I seem to have misplaced my ban button.. no wait... found it!

Re: I thought it'd be longer, really.

EliottA27-May-09 4:13

EliottA

27-May-09 4:13

Argh!! He's in my startup!!

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Re: I thought it'd be longer, really.

OriginalGriff27-May-09 4:24

OriginalGriff

27-May-09 4:24

Calm down, calm down.

Breathe deeply, and slowly.

In...

...Out

In...

...Out.

Thats better.

Now, tell me: How long have you been feeling he is in your startup?

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Re: I thought it'd be longer, really.

EliottA27-May-09 4:30

EliottA

27-May-09 4:30

What seems like forever. And just when he says he is uninstalling he pops right back up! He is like Microsoft Search Indexer, even if I disable his service the stupid sh*t never really quits! Cry | :((

make it stop make it stop

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Re: This was what I wanted

Dave Kreskowiak27-May-09 3:51

Dave Kreskowiak

27-May-09 3:51

Rajdeep.NET wrote:
Use CLSID to secure folders in WinXP[^]

Yeah, and only people who don't know any better would think that this is a valid security technique, and it's not a supportable solution. It screws up backup software and what would happen if you lost the batch file that removed the CLSID?? How are you goin gto recover the folder??

Rajdeep.NET wrote:
PS: The above link also mentions about hiding a folder, is that somewhat malicious?

No, it's just plain stupid. The only people it stops are the ones who don't know how the file system or Explorer works.

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Trackbar

yesu prakash26-May-09 22:35

yesu prakash

26-May-09 22:35

Hi,

How can run the track bar while reading string from a text file.
eg:
i have a text file which contain

aaaaa
bbbbb
ccc
dddddd
eeee
.
.
etc
i will read these one by one as each row. While reading each row i need to move the trackbar accordingly automaticlly.

Thankyou
YPKI

Re: Trackbar

Eddy Vluggen26-May-09 22:38

Eddy Vluggen

26-May-09 22:38

Try a ProgressBar, and increment by each step Smile | :)

I are troll Smile | :)

Re: Trackbar

OriginalGriff26-May-09 22:54

OriginalGriff

26-May-09 22:54

I think you mean a progress bar - something to show the user haw far through you are? Rather than a track bar - something to let the user change numbers?

if so then:

FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(fileName);
ProgressBar pb = this.pbShowProgress;
pb.Maximum = (int)fi.Length;
string line;
while ((line = file.ReadLine()) != null)
    {
    pb.Value += line.Length;
    }

You may want to add using(...) and / or try - catch to this.

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Read XML Data from C#

QuickDeveloper26-May-09 22:24

QuickDeveloper

26-May-09 22:24

hi

i need to read XML data from an XML file into C#.i tried using XmlTextReader class but i am not getting all elements.

My XML file is as follows

<?xml version="1.0"?>
   <Form1> 
      <button>username</button>
   </Form1>

My code is as follows

// Create an instance of XmlTextReader and call Read method to read the file

            XmlTextReader textReader = new XmlTextReader("C:\\books.xml");

            textReader.Read();

            // If the node has value

            while (textReader.Read())

            {

                // Move to fist element

                textReader.MoveToElement();


                  Console.WriteLine("Attribute Count:" + textReader.Value.ToString());
            }

in the above code i am not getting all the nodes and elements...(maybe due to whitespaces)

please give links to any code samples etc...is there any other method to read??

thanks in advance...

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Re: Read XML Data from C#

tom57200726-May-09 22:35

tom572007

26-May-09 22:35

Hi
A nice example

reading text file and calculating the working hours for each employee

emmy_23200326-May-09 22:14

emmy_232003

26-May-09 22:14

hi there,
I have this text file
Enroll No,194,date2,30/4/2009,time2,0:3:38,Check Out
Enroll No,78,date2,30/4/2009,time2,0:3:43,Check Out
Enroll No,78,date1,30/4/2009,time1,9:44:47,Check In
Enroll No,107,date1,30/4/2009,time1,9:44:52,Check In
Enroll No,108,date1,30/4/2009,time1,9:57:39,Check In
Enroll No,106,date1,30/4/2009,time1,10:40:47,Check In
Enroll No,109,date1,30/4/2009,time1,15:23:30,Check In
Enroll No,107,date2,30/4/2009,time2,17:6:27,Check Out
Enroll No,194,date1,30/4/2009,time1,17:9:44,Check In
Enroll No,132,date1,30/4/2009,time1,17:32:19,Check In
Enroll No,106,date2,30/4/2009,time2,17:35:31,Check Out
Enroll No,78,date2,30/4/2009,time2,17:35:41,Check Out
Enroll No,132,date1,30/4/2009,time1,17:45:2,Check In
Enroll No,108,date2,30/4/2009,time2,18:33:18,Check Out
Enroll No,109,date2,30/4/2009,time2,22:30:18,Check Out
Enroll No,194,date2,1/5/2009,time2,0:4:18,Check Out
Enroll No,132,date2,1/5/2009,time2,0:4:29,Check Out

i'm using windows application c#.net 2005
i want to calculate the number of hours spend by each enroll no.
each employee should workk 7 hours daily and make 182 hours monthly.if the made more than 182 hours will be overtime,if he made less than 182 hours will be deduction.the employee can take 4 or 5 days off each month.
i want to calculate the number of hours he made between 2 dates as he may comes on 30/4/2009 at 8 o'clock pm and leaves 12:00 am that will be on 1/5/2009.
i also want to make a combobox which has enroll no's and the user choose his number then his working hours will be displayed according to his number.i don't know if that possible or not because i'm using this text file.

Best regards,
emmy

Re: reading text file and calculating the working hours for each employee

Rajesh R Subramanian26-May-09 22:22

Rajesh R Subramanian

26-May-09 22:22

Which part of doing this whole thing are you having trouble with?

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Re: reading text file and calculating the working hours for each employee

emmy_23200326-May-09 22:25

emmy_232003

26-May-09 22:25

this is the part of teh code i wrote but i can't have anything for an output
i don't know where is the mistake to make it work

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(@"C:\new.txt");
                   string line;
                   while (null != (line = reader.ReadLine()))
                   {
                       string[] split = line.Split(new char[] { ';' });
                       string bit = split[0];

                       if (bit == Convert.ToString(EnrollNo))
                       {
                           date1 = System.Convert.ToDateTime(split[1]);
                           //date2 = System.Convert.ToDateTime(spli[2]);
                           TimeSpan ts = new TimeSpan();
                           date2 = Convert.ToDateTime("0:3:43");
                           ts = date2.Subtract(date1);
                          // time1 = split[2];
                           listBox1.Items.Add(ts.Days + " Days " + ts.Hours + " Hours " + ts.Seconds + " Seconds ");
                           break;
                       }
                   }
                   reader.Dispose();

Re: reading text file and calculating the working hours for each employee

OriginalGriff26-May-09 22:36

OriginalGriff

26-May-09 22:36

emmy_232003 wrote:
string[] split = line.Split(new char[] { ';' });

emmy_232003 wrote:
Enroll No,194,date2,30/4/2009,time2,0:3:38,Check Out
Enroll No,78,date2,30/4/2009,time2,0:3:43,Check Out
Enroll No,78,date1,30/4/2009,time1,9:44:47,Check In

Problem number one: there is no ';' character in your sample file. Lots of ',' characters, though.
Problem number two: the date info is not in the second section, it is in the 4th.

Fix those, then see what happens.

[edit]left the damn "encode html tags" on again![/edit]

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