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Daniel Sheets8-Nov-12 9:36

Daniel Sheets

8-Nov-12 9:36

Thanks for the replies.

And Matt... yeah, it was just meant as a throw-away example.
Still a good point to point out the GC though.

fjdiewornncalwe8-Nov-12 9:28

fjdiewornncalwe

8-Nov-12 9:28

Nothing wrong with that syntactically. But my preference is that if the method is more than a couple lines long, I like to break it out into it's own method so that readability and maintainability is a little easier.

I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.

SledgeHammer018-Nov-12 10:24

SledgeHammer01

8-Nov-12 10:24

If the "time consuming work" is more then a few lines, I'd say it is bad style. Its not bad style to call a method or mess around with the parameters, etc. That is often quite handy. For example, if you used the stock handler there, you couldn't pass in any arguments. Its often a lot more useful to do something like:

bw.DoWork += (x, y) => MyCustomMethod(someLocalObject1, someLocalObject2);

To be honest though, I've shied away from BackgroundWorker as I find async to be much cleaner.

Clifford Nelson9-Nov-12 7:57

Clifford Nelson

9-Nov-12 7:57

If you are using VS 2010 and Framework 4, use Tasks, I have not used VS 2012, so probably async is better. I like to us lambda expressons even for more than a few lines, but obviously not too many lines. What would I consider too many, maybe 10. It keeps everything together.

Sheets.d9-Nov-12 8:04

Sheets.d

9-Nov-12 8:04

I don't get it. What's the big deal with putting a lot of code inside of a lambda expression?

Is it a matter of preference? Readability? Adherence to a standard of coding?

Total hack - but is it OK?

Clifford Nelson9-Nov-12 22:27

Clifford Nelson

9-Nov-12 22:27

I think that too many lines is the same as having too many lines in a method. To me it is being able to see everything together when you can.

Memory Stream

Kushina8-Nov-12 7:04

Kushina

8-Nov-12 7:04

Hello every body ...

I want to take a pictures using a linksprite jpeg camera and send the data to the serial port ...

my question is >> how I can store the incoming bytes in a memory stream and then convert the stored data to a jpeg image >> Smile | :)

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CAN ANY ONE HELP ME PLZ ...

Re: Memory Stream

Kushina8-Nov-12 7:05

Kushina

8-Nov-12 7:05

in c#

Re: Memory Stream

jschell8-Nov-12 8:43

jschell

8-Nov-12 8:43

Input
System.IO.MemoryStream which has a Write() method. That is how you put it into a Memory Stream.

Kushina wrote:
then convert the stored data to a jpeg image

Not sure what that means but since the camera takes jpeg images then the incoming bytes are already a jpeg.

HOWEVER, if what you are really asking is how can you write an application that interfaces with a camera then the steps are:
1. Learn how USB devices work
2. Learn how to interface to USB devices in C#.
3. Learn how the interface to the specific camera works (with 1/2)
4. Write C# code to access the camera using 1/2/3.
5. Do something with the images. Presumably store them as files. Then learn more about C# System.io classes.

Naturally the above presumes you know some C# in the first place. If not then you must also learn the basics of C#.

Re: Memory Stream

Kushina9-Nov-12 9:58

Kushina

9-Nov-12 9:58

Thank you for your kind reply ,response and your help .

It was very useful for me , but I'm still a bit confused and it could be because I did not point out clearly the problem .
I'm a beginner in c# but I have learned some basics in this language .

We have used link sprite jpeg camera in our project . our doctor has divided the project into a group of tasks and we have to learned
to implement it step by step .

This camera has a manual which contains all commands to communicate with the camera
(http://www.mediafire.com/view/?ec79xt02620zil5[^])

we were able till now to send the reset command and get back the return msg .

now we want the camera to take a pictures which has a dimensions (160*120);my task is to get the bytes that represent the picture and how to save it in memory stream to be processed later on . after that how this picture can be displayed as a jpeg image or any other extenssion.

harold aptroot8-Nov-12 4:58

harold aptroot

8-Nov-12 4:58

Say we have a struct A that looks like this:

struct A
{
    public string a0;
    public string a1;
    public string a2;
    public string a3;


    public unsafe string this[int index]
    {
        get { return *(&a0 + index); }
    }
}

Ok so you can't do that, it would only work for unmanaged types. Fixed size array then? Nope, also only works for unmanaged types.

So then I had a terrible idea:

struct A
{
    public string a0;
    public string a1;
    public string a2;
    public string a3;


    public unsafe string this[int index]
    {
        get { return get(ref this, index); }
    }

    delegate string Get(ref A obj, int index);
    static Get get;

    static A()
    {
        DynamicMethod dm = new DynamicMethod("getat", typeof(string), new Type[] { typeof(A).MakeByRefType(), typeof(int) }, typeof(A));
        ILGenerator gen = dm.GetILGenerator();
        gen.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_0);
        gen.Emit(OpCodes.Ldflda, typeof(A).GetField("a0"));
        gen.Emit(OpCodes.Sizeof, typeof(IntPtr));
        gen.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_1);
        gen.Emit(OpCodes.Mul);
        gen.Emit(OpCodes.Conv_I);
        gen.Emit(OpCodes.Add);
        gen.Emit(OpCodes.Ldind_Ref);
        gen.Emit(OpCodes.Ret);
        get = (Get)dm.CreateDelegate(typeof(Get));
    }
}

And guess what, it works (as far as I tested).

This is a total hack, obviously. But is it OK? Assuming it isn't given bad indexes, can it fail somehow?

I'm not really too interested in "how to do this the right way" (unless you've got something that isn't "just use an array" or "use a switch, it's only 4 items" (that's just for the example)), just in how terrible this way really is.

modified 8-Nov-12 12:15pm.

Dave Kreskowiak8-Nov-12 6:37

Dave Kreskowiak

8-Nov-12 6:37

I'll give it an A+ for creativity, but a D for maintainability.

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SledgeHammer018-Nov-12 6:43

SledgeHammer01

8-Nov-12 6:43

Terrible idea. I *would* use an array or switch Smile | :)

, but if you are against that for some absurd reason, you can also dynamically get the variable by name via reflection or expression trees (if you care about performance).

BobJanova8-Nov-12 23:18

BobJanova

8-Nov-12 23:18

Can you guarantee that reflection will give you the fields in the right order? I know that it actually, in practice, does (I have some attribute based reflection code to find data display properties in some real business code and you get the fields in declaration order), but when you're indexing into it that needs to be guaranteed.

If you can then yeah I'd have a one shot reflection lookup that creates a cache array of int→PropertyInfo and then look up into that.

Eddy Vluggen8-Nov-12 8:47

Eddy Vluggen

8-Nov-12 8:47

harold aptroot wrote:
This is a total hack, obviously. But is it OK? Assuming it isn't given bad indexes, can it fail somehow?

Not much exceptions that are thrown by those functions, according to MSDN. You might want to check whether the topic 'verification' from this page[^] applies to your situation.

No, wouldn't call it a hack, but emitting code is not a widely-understood topic; so you might wanna document what you did there. An implementation that 'generates' the required switch-code and compiling that with the built-in mechanism would be more familiar - also a bit slower, but I doubt that the layout of the class will change often, so it'd be a matter of compiling once and re-using the existing thing.

I'd go for reflection, as mentioned by others. Caching the results might improve speed there, but it's fast enough for most tasks without additional caching.

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harold aptroot8-Nov-12 9:05

harold aptroot

8-Nov-12 9:05

Thanks, looks like it'll be fine.

Yea I know, normally I would do something sane, but the situation demands it

Eddy Vluggen8-Nov-12 9:24

Eddy Vluggen

8-Nov-12 9:24

harold aptroot wrote:
normally I would do something sane

It's not "insane code", just a tad more scary than seeing someone compile code on the fly. Maintainability might be an issue. It may fail due to a security-update when you're celebrating a wedding in Hawaii, so it'd be best to put some explanation and some hyperlinks in the xml-comment header.

harold aptroot wrote:
but the situation demands it

Is this situation a person? It prolly ain't Mr. Performance Smile | :)

This is one of the rare times where the situation itself is more interesting then the programming-exercise.

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harold aptroot8-Nov-12 9:43

harold aptroot

8-Nov-12 9:43

Oh it's just for research, not that interesting..

How to get outlook mails using add-ins

Eddy Vluggen8-Nov-12 10:13

Eddy Vluggen

8-Nov-12 10:13

..and since when do people learn voluntarily? Mad | :mad:

Are you trying to imply you're actually researching the differences? Trying to emit compiled code, just to see if it works? What kind of pervert would go out and "try*"?

So, from your answer I take it that the requirement is the boss, and that he's reading CodeProject? Smile | :)

*) FWIW, it is faster

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Depends on your goal

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.9-Nov-12 7:26

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.

9-Nov-12 7:26

If it is more because you don't want to write the code or generate it then:

FooBar abc = new FooBar();
abc.abc0 = "123";
abc.abc1 = "456";
abc.abc2 = "789";
abc.abc3 = "101112";

string kapaow = (string)(abc.GetType().GetFields()[3].GetValue(abc));

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Sanjeev99187-Nov-12 23:10

Sanjeev9918

7-Nov-12 23:10

Hello everyone,

i'm using an outlook add-in using these below events i got sent and received mails in my wcf service but only when outlook is running if outlook is closed and somebody send me mails than the add-in does not call my wcf service method

here are events

private void ThisAddIn_Startup(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
       {
           this.Application.ItemSend += new ApplicationEvents_11_ItemSendEventHandler(Application_ItemSend);
           this.Application.NewMailEx += new ApplicationEvents_11_NewMailExEventHandler(Application_NewMailEx);
       }

Please help me

Thanks

Dave Kreskowiak8-Nov-12 1:36

Dave Kreskowiak

8-Nov-12 1:36

Think about this. You're creating an Outlook Add-In. If Outlook is not running, your Add-In is not running either. So how are are these events going to fire if Outlook is not running??

Your solution is to either leave Outlook running all the time, or rewrite your app as a Windows Service that uses Outlook functionality.

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OriginalGriff8-Nov-12 4:15

OriginalGriff

8-Nov-12 4:15

...or talk to Chris Elston about this time travel module he's been asked to work on... Big Grin | :-D

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Sanjeev99188-Nov-12 23:31

Sanjeev9918

8-Nov-12 23:31

Hello Dave Kreskowiak,

I agreed with you. but i'm talking about those mails which come to me when my outlook is not running and as i run my outlook i got all mails in my outlook but i wonder on which event i can call my WCF service method to get those mails

Thanks