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How to create Help Provider?
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Google, amazing tool, if you use it...
If I feed it your whole question: Google "How to create Help Provider"[^] it gives me over 700 million hits...
Number two on this list is MSDN: Introduction to the Windows Forms HelpProvider Component[^]
In future, please try to do at least basic research yourself, and not waste your time or ours.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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What is the purpose of a .edmx file? It is a XML formatted file in Visual Studio. It has database table information. But how is it used in a Visual Studio C# asp.net web app?
Online search engines say that "an .edmx file is an XML file that defines a conceptual model, a storage model, and the mapping between these models. An .edmx file also contains information that is used by the ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer (Entity Designer) to render a model graphically."
But how is it used, and how is it made?
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It's a file that is used by the Entity Framework. That is an ORM (Object Relational Mapping) Framework. To access a database without the need to manually write SQL queries and the like. They exist to make the life of a development (hopefully) easier.
Those files are generated from the designer integrated in Visual Studio but you can also manually edit them if you like. There will/should also be some autogenerated .Net Code which then provide access to the data model defined in those edmx files.
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Hi,
I am trying to communicate with a HID device, using feature reports.
When using normal input and output reports, I use the FileStream to read and write reports. This works great, even with async communication.
My problem is that I am using feature reports instead. This means using the HidD_SetFeature and HidD_GetFeature from the Windows hid.dll file.
This also works, but the HidD_GetFeature cannot be used async. When called it does not block until there is a report, so I end up having to poll when I expect there to be data.
So I am looking for a way to do feature reports async, or have the HidD_GetFeature method to block until there actually is a report.
Any insight is appreciated!
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I'm curious why you need to constantly get feature information from a HID device since the feature set of a device should be static and fetching it once in response to a connection event I would think would be sufficient. However, it's not for me to judge... 
If the function doesn't support async there is no way to make it act that way without implementing some sort of polling. Unlike making an async call synchronous, there is no 'await' for functions that don't use a callback and immediately return.
That being said, it isn't too hard to implement your own. Setting up a background worker or some other threading solution (even a system.threading.timer can be used) so you check at a given interval is very common. It used to be used a lot with serial comms to check the input buffer. The only gotcha is to make sure you have an abort so your app doesn't hang at close. If you use a timer with a polling interval it will automatically abort when your app shuts down. Also, make sure you handle the cross-thread marshal if anything is going up to the UI.
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Hi Jason
Thank you for your input, appreciated!
Unfortunately, I did not write the firmware for the device. It uses feature reports as a 'bidirectional' report instead of input/output reports.
I have already implemented a polling solution, with best guess of how long to wait for, and what the polling frequency should be.
It works, but burns a lot of clock cycles in an already loaded system.
Thanks again and good luck with the fireworks - be careful 
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Ugh! Why do some vendors insist on doing things their own way instead of the way everyone else in the world does it!
Good luck. Polling is always a fine art of balancing responsiveness against overhead.
Thanks for the good wishes. We are buried in snow here in the Midwest US and I am VERY ready for fireworks season to return!
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What about polling in a different thread and adding a custom event when data are available? With the current multi-core computers, that should help to remove load from the main (UI) thread of the application. Beware of Control.Invoke/BeginInvoke when you then update the UI on data received from the device.
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Hi all,
I'm trying to build a SOAP message from scratch in C# for a webservice-consuming application. The WSDL provided for the service specifies using as a paramter to a particular method a class generated by the WSDL that includes roughly 70 different properties. When such a class is returned as the result of a method on this webservice, the proxy has no trouble moving the data from the SOAP message into this class, regardless of whether all 70 properties are present or not. Those missing fields are represented in the incoming message as self-closing tags. However, when the proxy generates a SOAP message *to* the webservice using this class, generating self-closing tags for empty fields, the webservice rejects the call. It's only when it's presented with non-empty tags--and at that, not all of the properties, if they contain a value, will be accepted--will it accept the message.
About 6 months ago I figured out how to create the message from scratch in C#, using the HttpWebRequest/Response classes (I think so, anyway), but since then I've lost those code files and can't figure out how I did it. Does anybody have an example of how to do it? Or, even better, any suggestions about what I can do to force the proxy to ignore empty properties when creating the SOAP message?
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If all else fails you could of course just hand craft everything.
So rather than trying to use the C# soap classes just use http or even TCP and just create exactly the SOAP that you need.
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That's what I'm working on right now, actually. I suppose the most specific my question could be is this:
Given a class with various members, how can I turn that into a SOAP message? For instance, if my class is wsRecord, and wsRecord has a String field called ID, a String field called Title, a DateTime field called RecordDate, and a String field called Comments, how do I put that into the message? None of the examples I've found online include any messages, only empty requests that return a response.
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Easiest way I have found to do this.
- Create something that you know works to the target system using the existing API libraries
- Get it to work so it sends and receives.
- Set up a packet capture tool
- Run the message and capture the packets.
- Use the packets to create your HTTP message.
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using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace Applica
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
long Totbyte = 0;
DirectoryInfo da = new DirectoryInfo("C:\\Folder");
FileInfo[] Arr = da.GetFiles();
foreach (FileInfo ap in Arr)
Totbyte = ap.Length;
Console.WriteLine("Total Bytes = {0} bytes", Totbyte);
string temPath = Path.GetTempFileName();
string temPath2 = Path.GetTempFileName();
if (File.Exists(temPath))
{
byte[Totbyte] data = File.ReadAllBytes(temPath);
File.WriteAllBytes(temPath2, data);
}
}
}
}
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computerpublic wrote:
Well, it runs, but it might not be doing what you think it's doing. You're displaying the length of the last file in the directory, but your loop and variable name suggest you want to display the total length of all files in the directory. That's quite a simple change:
foreach (FileInfo ap in Arr)
Totbyte += ap.Length;
Note the "+=" instead of just "=".
computerpublic wrote:
Firstly, what would the length of the files in C:\Folder have to do with the length of a temporary file?
Secondly, the ReadAllBytes method will return an array of the correct size to contain all of the bytes in the file you're reading. You don't need to specify the size of the array.
byte[] data = File.ReadAllBytes(tempPath);
Thirdly, since you're just copying one file to another, why not simple use the File.Copy method?
if (File.Exists(temPath))
{
File.Copy(temPath, temPath2, true);
}
Finally, look at the documentation of GetTempFileName:
Creates a uniquely named, zero-byte temporary file on disk and returns the full path of that file.
That means that temPath will always exist, and will be an empty file. Copying it over another empty file will have no effect.
Perhaps if you explain what you're trying to do, we might be able to point you in the right direction.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I already have the file on my computer. I do not want to read the file to my computer. I want to read the file into an array. I did not know that the array would automatically be the right size. I do not know which of the identifiers is the array. How do I go about accessing the array.
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It's still not clear what you're trying to achieve.
If you want to read the content of a binary file:
byte[] data = File.ReadAllBytes("C:\Folder\TheFileToRead.ext");
for (int index = 0; index < data.Length; index++)
{
byte theByteAtThisIndex = data[index];
...
}
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Your explanation is great. I know I am using a byte array (I don't think a bit array exist), but how do i go about accessing the bits of each byte in the array?
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You can use the BitArray class to treat the array of bytes as an array of bits.
byte[] data = File.ReadAllBytes("C:\Folder\TheFileToRead.ext");
BitArray dataAsBits = new BitArray(data);
See BitArray Class[^]
Note the order of the bits in the bytes!!
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Upvoted ! At the time I wrote my response to this thread, Richard's reply was not available here, which is becoming all too typical: there is often a gap of hours before content on QA and Forums shows up, and, yet, other parts of CodeProject seem to be updated instantly.
Had I seen Richard's response, I would not have posted.
“But I don't want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.”
“How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice.
“You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here.” Lewis Carroll
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I can't understand what you are trying to do here:
1. you get a Directory, and then you iterate over all its files setting a variable to the current file length: which means the value of 'Totbyte is always going to be equal to the length of the last file read.
Did you mean to make a total of the length of all files ? in which case you should have: Totbyte += ap.Length; ?
2. then you create two temporary files, and check if one of them exists, and read its bytes into a byte[], which makes no sense, since the temp file will have no content.
Isn't it the case that the file (files ?) you want to read have something to do with the first part of your code, where you create an array of files from a Directory path ?
“But I don't want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.”
“How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice.
“You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here.” Lewis Carroll
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Ideally what I am trying to do is copy of a file off my desktop in an Array of Bits (not Bytes). Can you please explain how this can be done?
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Richard Deeming already gave you the answer to this.
You could use the BitArray class[^] to give you access to the bits in each byte, but it's not exactly what I would call "efficient".
You would still have to read the file into a byte array and then pass the byte array to the BitArray constructor.
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