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gspiteri3-Apr-08 11:39

gspiteri

3-Apr-08 11:39

I find maskedinputs quite buggy imo i think the more elegant solution would be regular expressions

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half-life3-Apr-08 11:44

3-Apr-08 11:44

gspiteri wrote:
I find maskedinputs quite buggy

Welcome to VS C#, there a Lot of bugs
i did what u Thought about it's working fine
but i guess u have some other things in between

Hope i've been helpfull Smile | :)

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gspiteri3-Apr-08 12:46

gspiteri

3-Apr-08 12:46

half-life wrote:
Welcome to VS C#, there a Lot of bugs

lol i hear you half-life Smile | :)

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sarvesh.upadhyay3-Apr-08 23:54

sarvesh.upadhyay

3-Apr-08 23:54

Use Regex for this.You can get many example in c#, javascript just search in google.

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Read Ini File

half-life3-Apr-08 9:30

3-Apr-08 9:30

HI,

I'm Trying to read from ini file like this :

<br />
string ToReturn = "";<br />
GetPrivateProfileString("CATEGORY1", "CATEGORY1_KEY1", "", ToReturn, 255, iniFilePath);<br />

but i get nothing

anyone?

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Luc Pattyn3-Apr-08 9:51

Luc Pattyn

3-Apr-08 9:51

Hi,

if ToReturn is to be an output of your method, you need to use the ref or out keyword,
both where you define and where you use the method.
I suggest you read the documentation on these keywords.

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half-life3-Apr-08 9:55

3-Apr-08 9:55

Thanks i'll Do That Smile | :)

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PIEBALDconsult3-Apr-08 11:15

PIEBALDconsult

3-Apr-08 11:15

First, promise it's not for homework.

That's the very first thing I ever did with P/Invoke... but it was so long ago and I don't use it so I don't guarantee that my implementation is worth a darn:

[
    System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImportAttribute
    (
        "Kernel32"
    ,
        SetLastError=true
    ,
        EntryPoint="GetPrivateProfileString"
    )
]
private unsafe static extern uint
API_GetPrivateProfileString
(
    string lpAppName
,
    string lpKeyName
,
    string lpDefault
,
    byte*  lpReturnedString
,
    int    nSize
,
    string lpFileName
) ;

public unsafe static int
GetPrivateProfileString
(
    string     lpAppName
,
    string     lpKeyName
,
    string     lpDefault
,
    out string lpReturnedString
,
    int        nSize
,
    string     lpFileName
)
{
    int    result ;
    byte[] temp   = new byte [ nSize ] ;

    fixed ( byte* ptemp = temp )
    {
        result = (int) API_GetPrivateProfileString
        (
            lpAppName
        ,
            lpKeyName
        ,
            lpDefault
        ,
            ptemp
        ,
            nSize
        ,
            lpFileName
        ) ;
    }

    lpReturnedString = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString ( temp ).Substring ( 0 , result ) ;

    return ( result ) ;
}

half-life3-Apr-08 11:18

Need to put data into my web form on a webbrower

3-Apr-08 11:18

Thanks ,
i've Managed to handle it
but Thanks Anyway Smile | :)

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dino20943-Apr-08 9:23

dino2094

3-Apr-08 9:23

Hi,

I'm need to stress test an device that has a http interface. I created a program with the web-brower object and I can access the page. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to insert data into some forms on the webpage.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Re: Need to put data into my web form on a webbrower

Dave Kreskowiak3-Apr-08 9:53

Dave Kreskowiak

3-Apr-08 9:53

Save yourself the time and get this[^]. You can script all of your testing and have as many simulated clients as you want beating up on your web app.

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Re: Need to put data into my web form on a webbrower

CodingYoshi3-Apr-08 16:19

CodingYoshi

3-Apr-08 16:19

Hi,

Sorry I do not understand your question. What do you mean http interface?

Re: Need to put data into my web form on a webbrower

dino20945-Apr-08 12:53

dino2094

5-Apr-08 12:53

I tried the MS stress test but it didn't work.

But I found this guy's excellent article
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/automatingwebbrowsing.aspx[^]

Getting an Application window to behave as if it were called by showdialog()

jchalfant3-Apr-08 9:17

jchalfant

3-Apr-08 9:17

So I've written a C# winform application that's supposed to be launched by an MFC application. All is working well until my boss asks if there's a way for me to lock the MFC application until my application was closed.

Since I just didn't see the possibility of reverse engineering the MFC app and gaining control from my app, my straight answer was "no" and that he should check to see if the MFC app he's using is able to launch my application and wait for it to close.

Now I'd like to keep my bases covered and make sure that I was correct here that I'm just way out of scope to be able to do anything with his app besides accept command line arguments.

Re: Getting an Application window to behave as if it were called by showdialog()

Dave Kreskowiak3-Apr-08 9:39

Dave Kreskowiak

3-Apr-08 9:39

jchalfant wrote:
All is working well until my boss asks if there's a way for me to lock the MFC application until my application was closed.

The short answer is No. You have no control of another app's message pump or it's response to it.

The long answer is maybe, with a lot of research into hooking message pumps and filtering messages. I can see a bunch of potential problems doing this though.

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Re: Getting an Application window to behave as if it were called by showdialog()

jchalfant3-Apr-08 9:56

jchalfant

3-Apr-08 9:56

Thanks for confirming.

How do you retrieve the path of the .msi file.

maznblue3-Apr-08 8:15

3-Apr-08 8:15

Is there a way to retrieve the path of the .msi file programmatically that is currently being installed?

Dave Kreskowiak3-Apr-08 9:27

Dave Kreskowiak

3-Apr-08 9:27

maznblue wrote:
Is there a way to retrieve the path of the .msi file programmatically that is currently being installed?

Why would you want to??

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maznblue4-Apr-08 5:20

4-Apr-08 5:20

I have a generic application that relies on "Plugins" (extra dll's) that drive the program. Depending on who we ship the program to I would like to ship them the generic application (in the msi) with a custom zipped file containing the appropraite dlls. The zipped file is built by the engineers from dlls that are downloaded from a site specifically for the customer they are dealing with.

mav.northwind3-Apr-08 10:35

mav.northwind

3-Apr-08 10:35

If you need the path in a deferred custom action (the ones you create in a VS deployment project), then you'll have to pass it in the CustomActionData.
The installer property for the path of the msi file is SourceDir IIRC.
So if you set the CustomActionData to [SourceDir], then you should be able to retrieve it inside the custom action using the current Installer object's properties.

Regards,
mav

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maznblue4-Apr-08 5:25

4-Apr-08 5:25

Thanks, I will give that a try today. If it doesn't work I came up with a work around.

maznblue4-Apr-08 7:56