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navigating all nodes in a win forms treeview

radi85-Dec-07 8:38

5-Dec-07 8:38

I am using Treeview in a C# windows form. The data entered into the tree is a hierarchical listing of table definitions associated in groups of various depth off of the Treeview root.

I am looking for a class or routine where I can navigate through each Treeview node and node/child, get the value of the element so i can process the output.

I have a rudimental listing of this through the first 2 nodes (with testing ), but this requires some more elaborate coding, maybe recursive:

<br />
String nodeName = "";<br />
int nodeNum = 0;<br />
int i = 0, j = 1, k=0, cnt=0, lstNode=0;<br />
nodeName = treeView1.ToString();<br />
if (treeView1.Nodes.Count > 0)<br />
{<br />
     for (i = 0; i < treeView1.Nodes.Count; i++)<br />
     {<br />
          nodeName = treeView1.Nodes[i].Text.ToString();<br />
          cnt = treeView1.Nodes[i].GetNodeCount(false);<br />
          if (cnt > 0)<br />
          {<br />
               lstNode = treeView1.Nodes[i].LastNode.Index;<br />
               lstNode = treeView1.Nodes[i].LastNode.Level;<br />
               for (j = 0; j < cnt; j++)<br />
               {<br />
                    try<br />
                    {<br />
                         nodeName = treeView1.Nodes[i].Nodes[j].Text.ToString();<br />
                    }<br />
                    catch (Exception e)<br />
                    { <br />
                         nodeName = "Undefined"; <br />
                    }<br />
               }<br />
          }<br />
     }<br />
}<br />

This needs to be refined so that I can see ALL child elements no matter how deep they are in the Treeview.

Can anyone help?

Re: navigating all nodes in a win forms treeview

Giorgi Dalakishvili5-Dec-07 8:53

Giorgi Dalakishvili

5-Dec-07 8:53

You will need to write a recursive function to iterate through all nodes of a treeview

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Re: navigating all nodes in a win forms treeview

radi85-Dec-07 8:55

radi8

5-Dec-07 8:55

That is my assumption as well, but I have not written a recursive function in quite awhile. Can anyone give me push in the right direction on this? Code samples or what not?

Re: navigating all nodes in a win forms treeview

Pete O'Hanlon5-Dec-07 9:19

Pete O'Hanlon

5-Dec-07 9:19

Without wanting to get into the exact details of the code, it would normally look like this:

public void WalkNode(TreeNode node)
{
  if (node.Nodes != null)
  {
    foreach (Node child in node.Nodes)
    {
       WalkNode(child);
    }
  }
}

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Re: navigating all nodes in a win forms treeview

radi86-Dec-07 6:10

radi8

6-Dec-07 6:10

Thank you very much. I was ot looking for the exact details of the code segment, just the outline for now. It has been a long time since doing any recursive programming (avoid like the plague) and am out of practice.

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Find name of declaring property of an object

Joby15-Dec-07 8:37

Joby1

5-Dec-07 8:37

Is it possible to find the name of the property for which an instance of an object is assigned to? ie: From inside an instance of an object that is assigned to a property of another object, I want to know the name of the property that that object is assigned to?

For example, you have a "Person" class that has a "MailingAddress" property and a "ShippingAddress" property, with each of these containing a general "Address" class object. From inside the instance of the "Address" object that is assigned to the "ShippingAddress" property, how do I find that this instance is assigned to the "ShippingAddress" property or the "MailingAddress" property? Or more generally, how do I find the name of the property for which an instance of an object is assigned to?

I would like to be able to do this without having a reference to the parent "Person" object; just determine the declaring property's name from any instance of an object.

Ultimately, I would like to define a string that contains the "path" down through an object hierarchy from property to property. For example, create a path string such as: "Person.ShippingAddress.ZipCode", which can be parsed later to in order to set the "ZipCode" property to a specific value for a Person. This example is somewhat trivial, but I need to be able to create this "path" for any object in order to set that object's property values for testing purposes. ie: Given that I know I will start with some parent object (in this case a Person object), I want to parse the path string so I can drill down through the Person class in order to set certain property values and then test the reaction of the program to those newly set values. Having the path string allows me to automate this testing process.

Reflection seems to work well when you want to drill DOWN into a class, but how to you start with an instance of an object and work your way back UP?

Thankyou for your time. Joby

Re: Find name of declaring property of an object

Christian Graus5-Dec-07 9:16

Christian Graus

5-Dec-07 9:16

I forget the details, but it's possible to get a call stack in code, I believe.

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Re: Find name of declaring property of an object

Pete O'Hanlon5-Dec-07 9:20

Pete O'Hanlon

5-Dec-07 9:20

You could always use the Stack for this. Try looking at the StackFrame class for this.

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Wanted to built my own ACD (Auto Call Distribution)

Muhammad Nauman Yousuf5-Dec-07 7:16

Muhammad Nauman Yousuf

5-Dec-07 7:16

I am on my way towards building my own "Automated Call Distribution", IF any has any clue for CTI or TAPI in .net 2.0 please let me know.

Thank you!
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IO performance in c#

poqeqw5-Dec-07 7:01

poqeqw

5-Dec-07 7:01

Im writing a windows service in c# vs2003 that does a lot of io on file
reading files writeing files and more the problem is
the performance of the program is not so good
1. can some opne direct me to material about io best practices
2. is there free tools to analyse the code so i can track the problematic portion of the code
thanks

Re: IO performance in c#

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.5-Dec-07 10:01

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.

5-Dec-07 10:01

How are you using the IO? Do you have any code? IO will be slower in a managed context compared to a C memory-mapped file but I have never really had much of a problem with file IO in C#.

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Are there in-depth samples for WorkFlow Foundation DependencyProperty ?

vgrigor15-Dec-07 5:27

vgrigor1

5-Dec-07 5:27

I need in-depth WorkFlow Foundation DependencyProperty samples, articles or explanations,
(for creation state workflow , whose activities are connectable to external .NET objects, WinForm's controls, arrays or DataRows in DataTable .)

Are there in-depth samples for DependencyProperty ?

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something I have:

http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2006/07/27/5444.aspx
DependencyProperty Activity binding

http://www.masteringbiztalk.com/blogs/jon/PermaLink,guid,0fae3e73-7801-4cf6-a5a5-9370b0f99973.aspx

is that the configuration mapping will control what page is next in the flow,

http://blog.hackedbrain.com/articles/UnderstandingDependencyObjectAndDependencyProperty.aspx

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webbrowser component and web application using java

JackD5-Dec-07 5:15

JackD

5-Dec-07 5:15

I'm trying to run a web application inside a webbrowser component and I get java runtime errors, Those erros doesn't append when running into internet explorer 7.

The c# application I created is simply a window with a webbrowser in it, nothing else.

Jackd

connection error

arkiboys5-Dec-07 4:59

arkiboys

5-Dec-07 4:59

I have installed an application on several xp machines. They all seem to be working fine.
Except one machine which has windows 2000. The application works but it is slow and sometimes it gives the following error:

An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server)

Please note that in sql server 2005 Local and Remote connections is selected using tcpip

Any thoughts why only this machines sometimes gives this error when connecting to the sql server 2005 please?
Thanks

Re: connection error

Dave Kreskowiak5-Dec-07 5:43

Dave Kreskowiak

5-Dec-07 5:43

Try updating the MDAC components to the latest. YOu can get that here[^].

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Passing value types async

Andre Azevedo5-Dec-07 4:15

Andre Azevedo

5-Dec-07 4:15

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me what happens (in the stack context) to the value type "x" after Init() method has been terminated:

--------------------

delegate void TestDelegate(ref int x);

class Program
{

static void Main(string[] args)
{
Init();
Console.WriteLine("Waiting");
Console.Read();
}

static void Init()
{
int x = 123;
int y = 123;
int z = 123;

TestDelegate t = new TestDelegate(TestFunc);
t.BeginInvoke(ref x, null, null);
}

static void TestFunc(ref int x)
{
Thread.Sleep(1000);
Console.WriteLine(x);
}

}

--------------------

Thanks,

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Re: Passing value types async

led mike5-Dec-07 5:17

led mike

5-Dec-07 5:17

It appears you need to do more studying to understand async delegate usage. See if this article helps

sorry, apparently nothing works on the site, here is the URL to the article

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/08/Async/[^]

Re: Passing value types async [modified]

Andre Azevedo5-Dec-07 6:37

Andre Azevedo

5-Dec-07 6:37

Thanks!
Looking at the article, I figure out that passing int ref parameter (like Figure 13 example) will cause the value to be boxed - if the value is assigned to a object field - or simply copied - if the value is assigned to a int field - just like my example does. D'Oh! | :doh:

Just assign some another value to "i" after BeginInvoke call and it will not affect the result.

The question is: Does the delegate class created has a "int" type or an "object" type to hold the value?

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modified on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 2:44:19 PM

Marshalling unmanaged DLL

Dio225-Dec-07 4:05

Dio22

5-Dec-07 4:05

I'm trying to use P/Invoke to marshal some legacy code. I either get an "Entry Point Not Found" error, or a "Memory access violation"

I've run dumpbin on this dll, and i've verified that the entry point exists. I'm lost.

Here's the source for the function I'm exporting..

extern "C" BOOL FindUser2(char *cpUserFile, 
              char *cpPassword, 
              char *cpUserName, 
              char *cpUserPriveledge, 
              char *cpUserID, 
              char *cpComments, 
              BOOL *bUserActive,
              char *cpErrorReason)
{...}

Here's my pathetic attempt to marshal it.

[DllImport("WN_USER_SECURITY.dll",EntryPoint="FindUser2") ]
        public static extern bool FindUser2(
            [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray)]char[] strFileName,
            [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray)]char[] strUserPassword,
            [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray)]char[] strUserName,
            [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray)]char[] strUserPriveledge,
            [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray)]char[] strUserID,
            [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray)]char[] strUserComments,
            [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)] bool bUserActive,
            [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray)]char[] strErrorReason);

Re: Marshalling unmanaged DLL

Pete O'Hanlon5-Dec-07 4:08

Pete O'Hanlon

5-Dec-07 4:08

Try marshalling your char[] as StringBuilder objects instead.

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Re: Marshalling unmanaged DLL

m@u5-Dec-07 4:50

m@u

5-Dec-07 4:50

Hi
first, as pete pointed out already it's a good idea to pass the char* with a string builder.
second, the BOOL *bUserActive looks to me like a ref value. so you might have to change your call as follows:

[DllImport("WN_USER_SECURITY.dll",EntryPoint="FindUser2") ]
        public static extern bool FindUser2(
            StringBuilder strFileName,
            StringBuilder strUserPassword,
            StringBuilder strUserName,
            StringBuilder strUserPriveledge,
            StringBuilder strUserID,
            StringBuilder strUserComments,
            [In,Out /*this is optional*/]ref bool bUserActive,
            StringBuilder strErrorReason);

it might work without the marshalAs Attributes because on "normal" datatypes, the clr automatically marshals the data correctly.
hope this helps
m@u

Re: Marshalling unmanaged DLL

Dio225-Dec-07 5:42

Dio22

5-Dec-07 5:42

Well, I still can't get past the "Entry point not found" exception. I've examined the DLL using dumpbin and Dependency Walker, and they both show the entry point "FindUser2" as existing at ordinal 1. For some reason the C# app just wont see it.

Re: Marshalling unmanaged DLL

Andre Azevedo5-Dec-07 6:44

Andre Azevedo

5-Dec-07 6:44

Did you get the exception in application run or in method calling?

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Re: Marshalling unmanaged DLL

Dio225-Dec-07 7:24

Dio22

5-Dec-07 7:24

The exception occurs when I try to call the method.

Re: Marshalling unmanaged DLL