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Michael P Butler26-Nov-02 11:20

26-Nov-02 11:20

After looking at my planned workload for Christmas and the New Year, it looks like it is time to make the jump to C# for writing the front end for my apps.

I'll be working on MIS systems with database back-end. Whilst I'm happy enough with how ADO.NET works, I'm finding my reference shelf is a little light on books for Windows Forms and Controls.

I currently only have Inside C# (Second Edition) and the Petzold Programming Windows with C#. What books are good for learning about the ins and outs of Windows Forms and Creating user controls? An Amazon search reveals a lot of books, but usually when a new tech is released a lot of the authors are just jumping on the bandwagon. I'd like to seperate the wheat from the chaff.

What books have helped you?

Michael

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Re: C# bookshelf

Christian Graus26-Nov-02 11:22

Christian Graus

26-Nov-02 11:22

I have those two books. The ADO.NET book fills the gaps because Petzold does not cover the DataGrid. What else do you need ? Smile | :)

Christian

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Re: C# bookshelf

leppie26-Nov-02 11:39

leppie

26-Nov-02 11:39

Michael P Butler wrote:
What books have helped you?

None. Never bought a C# book. Had help from Thinking in C# though. Countless hours browsing the .NET Framework reference in MSDN, I must say it is quite remarkable the amount of work the have done. Smile | :)

DBHelper - SQL Stored Procedure Wrapper & Typed DataSet Generator for .NET popularity better now, thank you Smile | :)

Filling in the holes

Michael P Butler26-Nov-02 10:58

Michael P Butler

26-Nov-02 10:58

CP and Genghis[^] do I good job of filling in some of the holes in the .NET framework GUI classes. I was just wondering if there are more places for me to look for decent C# GUI classes for standard Windows apps.

I'm interested in classes that give me a nice doc/view framework (i.e the kind of things I've taken for granted in MFC/WTL). A nice wizard to generate code for a standard windows app (menu, toolbar, view) would be great.

Any links welcomed.

Michael

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You make the rockin' world go round -- Queen

Re: Filling in the holes

Stephane Rodriguez.26-Nov-02 11:03

Stephane Rodriguez.

26-Nov-02 11:03

Michael P Butler wrote:
I'm interested in classes that give me a nice doc/view framework

You've got a MDI sample written in C# in your .NET framework samples : SDK\Samples\Quickstart\Winforms\samples\MDI.

OK, what do make of this? Reloading an assembly

leppie26-Nov-02 10:27

leppie

26-Nov-02 10:27

Hi all

I stumbled upon this beauty. For thos that has been here for a while you know the problem with un/loading an assembly (and overwrting it for that matter). IOW the basic idea of a plugin DLL. I'm not sure if the solution will fit all, but it does work in my case and well too! Smile | :)

//my uber loadfrom fix :D
//the following replaces Assembly.LoadFrom()
FileStream stream = File.OpenRead(assemblydll.Text);
byte[] buffer = new byte[stream.Length];
stream.Read(buffer, 0, (int)stream.Length);
stream.Close();
File.Delete(assemblydll.Text);
Assembly asm = Assembly.Load(buffer);

Now the assembly is in memory.

OK the BIG FAT question is, what happens when we reload an updated assembly?

With my limited testing it seems the assembly is present multiple times when calling AppDomain.CuurentDomain.GetAssemblies(), but on invoking a method via Reflection seems to target the last assemby loaded, thus amking it perfect for plugin type assemblies. And saves you from AppDomain HELL.

Hope this helps someone in the future Smile | :)

DBHelper - SQL Stored Procedure Wrapper & Typed DataSet Generator for .NET popularity better now, thank you Smile | :)

Re: OK, what do make of this? Reloading an assembly

David Stone26-Nov-02 12:07

David Stone

26-Nov-02 12:07

I've been thinking that would also be a great way to have an application update itself...load an assembly into memory and then when the app closes, the in memory assembly executes some code to update the app.

leppie wrote:
saves you from AppDomain HELL.

Laugh | :laugh:

We escaped from DLL Hell just to move to AppDomain Hell.

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Re: OK, what do make of this? Reloading an assembly

leppie26-Nov-02 12:31

leppie

26-Nov-02 12:31

David Stone wrote:
I've been thinking that would also be a great way to have an application update itself...load an assembly into memory and then when the app closes, the in memory assembly executes some code to update the app.

I'm not sure how this relates to my post! OK, maybe the "deletable" bit (and you could register that with appexit event, makes sense Smile | :)

).

I'm actually after the answer for the BIG FAT question of what is happening, as according to Eric Gunnerson et al this was NOT possible... ; however unloading is impossible, but .NET seems to use the last loaded assembly as the reference, this is confirmed by executing methods via Reflection.

It difficult to describe. You can have a look in my latest DBHelper tool to see this in action (under the hood of course).

Smile | :)

DBHelper - SQL Stored Procedure Wrapper & Typed DataSet Generator for .NET popularity better now, thank you Smile | :)

Re: OK, what do make of this? Reloading an assembly

David Stone27-Nov-02 16:24

David Stone

27-Nov-02 16:24

It didn't answer your question, I was merely sharing my two bits about in-memory assemblies. Poke tongue | ;-P

Converting a HIMAGELIST to an ImageList?

Zombies with Coffee, LLC26-Nov-02 9:21

Zombies with Coffee, LLC

26-Nov-02 9:21

Sounds simple!

I'm calling SHGetFileInfo to get myself a HIMAGELIST, and now I want to create a ImageList so I can access the images.

An example I saw did a SendMessage to set the handle to a control. Unfortunately, I want to use a ComboBox which doesn't have a native ImageList.

So, how can I create a ImageList from a HIMAGELIST pointer?

Thanks!!

Re: Converting a HIMAGELIST to an ImageList?

NormDroid26-Nov-02 10:05

NormDroid

26-Nov-02 10:05

HIMAGELIST is actually a handle, i would attach your HIMAGELIST's handle to your ImageList object?

Re: Converting a HIMAGELIST to an ImageList?

Zombies with Coffee, LLC26-Nov-02 10:10

Zombies with Coffee, LLC

26-Nov-02 10:10

Absolutely. Many MFC examples use m_ImageList.Attach( hImageList )

How do I do it in C#?

Reboot a Server with C#

athomas421926-Nov-02 9:14

athomas4219

26-Nov-02 9:14

I am looking to remotely reboot a server through C#. I have a VBScript example from Microsoft, but I can't seem to figure out how to move it to .NET. I'm also unable to figure out how to use the WMI (System.Management) classes to reboot.

Can anyone help me, either with source code examples or other websites to check?

Thanks!

Re: Reboot a Server with C#

NormDroid26-Nov-02 10:02

NormDroid

26-Nov-02 10:02

Oh know its a case of DLLimport
ExitWindows is the function your after, but you'll have to DLLimport to use it.

Re: Reboot a Server with C#

J.Liss26-Nov-02 13:47

J.Liss

26-Nov-02 13:47

If the server is remote, then you can also use wmi to shut it down.

In your msdn:
ms-help://MS.VSCC/MS.MSDNVS/wmisdk/u_ctrl_2ndx.htm

Re: Reboot a Server with C#

athomas421927-Nov-02 3:39

athomas4219

27-Nov-02 3:39

I want to do it to a remote computer, so I suspect it's a WMI thing. Anyone have any idea how to do this through WMI?

Re: Reboot a Server with C#

thematt27-Nov-02 7:03

thematt

27-Nov-02 7:03

Here is an example:

string server = @"\\" + txtServer.Text;
ManagementScope ms = new ManagementScope(server + @"\root\cimv2");
ObjectQuery oq = new ObjectQuery("select * from win32_OperatingSystem");
ManagementObjectSearcher mos = new ManagementObjectSearcher(ms, oq);
ManagementObjectCollection moc = mos.Get();
foreach(ManagementObject mo in moc)
{
string[] ss = {""};
mo.InvokeMethod("Reboot", ss);
MessageBox.Show("The reboot command has been sent.");
}

The only difference between local and remote reboots is the ManagementScope and the optional ConnectionOptions.

Matt is a network administrator for an auditing company in the midwest. He is shamelessly looking for Windows programming side jobs.

Re: Reboot a Server with C#

athomas42192-Dec-02 3:27

athomas4219

2-Dec-02 3:27

That last one worked like a champ. Thanks!

SNMP Provider for WMI

thematt26-Nov-02 7:20

thematt

26-Nov-02 7:20

How do I connect to a remote SNMP device using the WMI SNMP provider using System.Management objects? Can someone provide an example for me?

Matt is a network administrator for an auditing company in the midwest.

Re: SNMP Provider for WMI

J.Liss26-Nov-02 13:58

J.Liss

26-Nov-02 13:58

First try the SNMP provider:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=19776
(included on XP?)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/docs/WMIandSNMP.doc

so you can still use WMI from C#.

Re: SNMP Provider for WMI

thematt27-Nov-02 7:10

thematt

27-Nov-02 7:10

Thank you for the links, but I have been to them. I have visited a lot of sites and the best I can get are vb scripts. I think I know in general what I need to do, but I really need a couple of specific examples.

Matt is a network administrator for an auditing company in the midwest. He is shamelessly looking for Windows programming side work.

Re: SNMP Provider for WMI

J.Liss27-Nov-02 7:29

J.Liss

27-Nov-02 7:29

Check out:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2002/Sept/SnmpLib.asp

owner draw of listview and treeview

Shaun Wilde26-Nov-02 3:21

Shaun Wilde

26-Nov-02 3:21

Is it possible to do ownerdraw of ListView and TreeViews without using the windows API?

I am constrained by a pure C#/.NET framework requirement. This means no COM objects or accessing DLLs unless that functionality is directly exposed by some .NET framework.

All the exmaples I have seen so far seem to use windows API in the least.

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Re: owner draw of listview and treeview

Matze26-Nov-02 5:29

Matze

26-Nov-02 5:29

Absolutely without - I don't know, but to be honest: I don't believe it (at least if even SendMessage is included into the restriction list). However, did you already had a look into the UtilityLibrary from Carlos Perez?? (just search here in CP)It's not only an excellent tutorial, it even has samples for Listbox- and Treeview implementation.
May be this gives you the ultimative hint?? Or you find a way to re-implement the rare API calls into pure C#?
Wish you success! Bye
Matze

Re: owner draw of listview and treeview

Stephane Rodriguez.26-Nov-02 5:36

Stephane Rodriguez.

26-Nov-02 5:36

One word : WndProc

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