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Trouble w/ Multithreaded Windows Service Please Help

Aisha7-Aug-02 13:43

7-Aug-02 13:43

Hi,
I wrote a multi-threaded application that sends/recieves documents on a scheduled/event driven basis. It works fine as a console application the files are being sent and the CPU usage is around 30%. My problem is when I have the exact same code in a Windows Service application. When the service is using one thread to send documents it also works fine, but if there is more than one thread running at one time the CPU usage shoots up to 100%. Could someone please help me? Confused | :confused:

Thanks

P.S. The applcation is also using the System.Timer and File System Watcher.
Thanks Again,

Aisha

BinaryWriter

Steven Behnke7-Aug-02 11:55

Steven Behnke

7-Aug-02 11:55

I am writing a client/server application with the server running on Linux written in C++ and the client application running on Windows XP written in C#. I am sending JPEG images over the network from cient to server and am getting some very odd behavior. It appears that after each JPEG I transmit I get about 1 - 3 packets containing 1 byte of useless information. Is this something with BinaryWriter that is it sending additional informaiton about what it sent?

Thanks,
Steven

Textbox input with the passwordchar

Bill Ferreira7-Aug-02 9:17

Bill Ferreira

7-Aug-02 9:17

I need to have a multiline textbox with a passwordchar. I know that the passwordchar property will not work in multiline mode. So, I figure on capturing the keypress event to create the same effect but there is one problem: -

I can't figure out how to substitute the '*' character for the key pressed. Everything is read only.

Thanks,
Bill Ferreia

Re: Textbox input with the passwordchar

Nnamdi Onyeyiri7-Aug-02 21:49

Nnamdi Onyeyiri

7-Aug-02 21:49

every time you enter into the textbox, the TextChanged Event is called, maybe u could do something there?

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Solutions with multiple projects

Bill Ferreira7-Aug-02 9:11

Bill Ferreira

7-Aug-02 9:11

Say you have two projects written in different .NET languages (C#.NET, MC++.NET) How do you reference the classes of the MC++.NET in the C#.NET project?

I don't have any problems importing the projects into the solution, but I can't figure how to reference the classes.

Thanks,
Bill Ferreira

Re: Solutions with multiple projects

Nnamdi Onyeyiri7-Aug-02 21:50

Nnamdi Onyeyiri

7-Aug-02 21:50

is the MC++ code in a DLL? im not sure if you can then just reference it as u would a c# dll - ull have to try.

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Centering Message Boxs - How?

Joel Matthias6-Aug-02 7:33

Joel Matthias

6-Aug-02 7:33

How do I center a message box to my application form. I have tried passing the application form as the parent of the message box but it still appers centered to the desktop.

MessageBox.Show(myForm, ...);

Joel

Is there a vertical scrollbar?

Nnamdi Onyeyiri6-Aug-02 7:11

Nnamdi Onyeyiri

6-Aug-02 7:11

I need to know if there is a vertical scrollbar in a listbox. there is a bool HorizontalScrollBar property, but not a bool VerticalScrollBar

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Re: Is there a vertical scrollbar?

Luis Alonso Ramos7-Aug-02 7:19

Luis Alonso Ramos

7-Aug-02 7:19

You have ItemHeight (in pixels) and Height of the control... so you can try something like:

<br />
bool bVertScrollBar = lb.ItemHeight * lb.Items.Count > lb.Height;<br />

Just take into account that you can change the units of your form (with AutoScaleBaseSize).

-- LuisR

p.s. And take into account that the horizontal scroll bar could be displayed also, thus reducing the height of the display area.

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Re: Is there a vertical scrollbar?

Nnamdi Onyeyiri7-Aug-02 7:37

Nnamdi Onyeyiri

7-Aug-02 7:37

thats sort of what i did - except there is a property called PreferedHeight thats does your multiplication for you, and its better to use it, because not all the items in the listbox are the same height.

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Returning by Ref

gekoscan6-Aug-02 6:35

gekoscan

6-Aug-02 6:35

I am interested in returning a value by reference so that if it is an ArrayList when I make changes to it, the changes are permanent.

Now this is totally possible in C++ and I used to do it all the time.

ie. public &int Class1::Foo()

This must be possible in C#, is there something I am missing?????

Thanks very much...

Re: Returning by Ref

Nnamdi Onyeyiri6-Aug-02 7:10

Nnamdi Onyeyiri

6-Aug-02 7:10

you can do the same thing is C# - except, you have to declare the code as unsafe

e.g.

unsafe public &int Method()

and you need to compile with the 'comile unsafe code' compiler switch. I believe it is like this because when you do this, you are overrideing the .NET memory management, so you are handling the memory yourself or sumpthin.

p.s. to use it in normal code, just do this:

...
unsafe
{
   ....
}

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Re: Returning by Ref

Andy Smith6-Aug-02 9:19

Andy Smith

6-Aug-02 9:19

if you simply want to pass an ArrayList to a function which modifies the properties and such of that ArrayList, just pass the variable, no need for anything fancy.

if you want to pass an ArrayList to a function which has the ability to actually change the reference, add a "ref" modifier to the parameter of the method calls, both in the signature and in the call.

or are you trying to do something else?

Problem in Running in Other Platform! Why?

DotNet6-Aug-02 1:24

DotNet

6-Aug-02 1:24

Hie...to all,
I don't know why I can't run my application which I wrote it using C#.NET.
When I bring it into the Windows 98, I can't execute the program. Please advice me?
Thank you!

Aaron

Re: Problem in Running in Other Platform! Why?

James T. Johnson6-Aug-02 1:50

James T. Johnson

6-Aug-02 1:50

DotNet wrote:
I can't execute the program

What do you mean by "can't execute the program"?

Do you get an error message? Blue screen? What happens?

James

Re: Problem in Running in Other Platform! Why?

Johnny Zee6-Aug-02 4:33

Johnny Zee

6-Aug-02 4:33

I don't know the exact problem but did you installed the .NET Framwork?

How to use uxtheme APIs in custom control?

Li-kai Liu (Angus)6-Aug-02 0:13

Li-kai Liu (Angus)

6-Aug-02 0:13

Hi,

I'm wrting a custom control that will use theme library to
draw my control. But whenever I call OpenThemeData, all that
I get is a NULL theme handle. Is there any trick to do before
calling this function?

I saw one guy posting the same question a couple months ago
and sought no answer.

I also read James T. Johnson & akr0's discussion on this issue.
However, not quite understand what James mean by using P/Invoke.
What's P/Invoke? (I know it may be a dump question, but I'm a
beginner...)

Any help will be appreciated. It would be better if you can
provide a code snippet to illustrate. Thanks Smile | :)

Re: How to use uxtheme APIs in custom control?

James T. Johnson6-Aug-02 1:49

James T. Johnson

6-Aug-02 1:49

Li-kai Liu (Angus) wrote:
I'm wrting a custom control that will use theme library to
draw my control.

Unless you are doing something special the "easy" thing to do is to create a manifest file for your application and set the FlatStyle of your controls to FlatStyle.System.

If you want to go this route, Chris Sells' website[^] has a manifest file for VS.NET, you can use this same file for your application just rename it to myapp.exe.manifest.

That said, on to your other question.

Li-kai Liu (Angus) wrote:
What's P/Invoke?

P/Invoke is a method of executing functions from a C-style dll in a .NET program.

The first step is to declare the function you wish to use and the file that it is in. I'll use OpenThemeData as an example. There is a step embedded in this first step, in that you have to convert all the types used into .NET equivalent types. This is something you learn with practice and time.

[DllImport("uxtheme.dll")]
public extern static IntPtr OpenThemeData(IntPtr hwnd, string pszClassList);

Note that since the second parameter is a wide string (unicode) I could just pass the string in directly and not have to involve the MarshalAs attribute.

For more information look up the DllImport and MarshalAs attributes up in MSDN. If you have to pass structures around you'll probably also need to look at the StructLayout attribute.

HTH,

James

Re: How to use uxtheme APIs in custom control?

Li-kai Liu (Angus)6-Aug-02 19:20

Li-kai Liu (Angus)

6-Aug-02 19:20

Hi, James

The thing you addressed in the second part using P/Inovoke
is what I've done in my program. But it's still not working.
I've already had my unmanaged function declared as you did
in the post. And it looks to me that OpenThemeData doesn't
work as it should do. I had another uxtheme API

static public extern bool IsThemeActive();

It works very well. But just don't know why OpenThemeData
always return Null whenever I call it.

Part of the code in my control is as follow:
protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs pe) {

IntPtr hTheme = OpenThemeData(this.Handle , "button");

if (hTheme != IntPtr.Zero)
{
// draw themed control
}
else
{
// draw normal control
}
}

However, OpenThemeData always return Null...

Am I doing right with this?

Thanks!

Re: How to use uxtheme APIs in custom control?

James T. Johnson6-Aug-02 19:43

James T. Johnson

6-Aug-02 19:43

I think it is a result of using OpenThemeData incorrectly; but the docs aren't that clear on how it should be used. Eek! | :eek:

I only have one suggestion and it isn't a very good one. Put the class name in all caps ("BUTTON") or try "Button"

I tried to download the MSDN sample app but I just got a 404 instead Cry | :((