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Re: How to modify a PDF formular, which is already created. [modified]

shfaye19-Dec-06 0:56

19-Dec-06 0:56

I have try to modify PDF with itextsharp.dll, ReportNet.dll and SharpPDF too. But I don't found any example from those .dll to modify PDF but only to dynamic create PDF.

Windows Service User Account Credentials

ekynox19-Dec-06 0:46

ekynox

19-Dec-06 0:46

hi folks,

I have been working on a windows service application which monitors a specific mailbox on an exchange server. The application works as intended with one exception. The exception being the storage of the username and password that will be accessing the mailbox. Currently, as a crude method to test my application, I stored the username and password in an encrypted format in an xml file.

I had the idea that the user account I specified to run the windows service application can be used to access the mailbox provided the user has been granted access via Active Directory (which I have taken care off). By doing this allows me to ensure that the user account is in sync with AD.

The problem is at runtime how do I get the username and password of the account specified to run the windows service application to access the mailbox. I tried the Service Installer Process which has Properties to GET/SET the user name and password but this is only for install time not run time.

Any ideas as to how I can tackle this ? Or maybe what is the best practice way of doing this?

thanks
V

Re: Windows Service User Account Credentials

~~~Johnny~~~19-Dec-06 2:21

~~~Johnny~~~

19-Dec-06 2:21

The question seems strange, normally, you set the account when you install the service and this account runs the service, thus accesses the mailbox. So there is no reason to put it in the code. You can look at this by looking at the properties of any other service. Usually they run as System or other services, and if you are an administrator of the domain you do not have to enter any password. Make sure that either the server machine or the Domain Controllers group has access to the mailbox.

Re: Windows Service User Account Credentials

ekynox19-Dec-06 9:45

ekynox

19-Dec-06 9:45

thanks for the response. Well I was not clear when I had initially explained, the code I am using to access the mailbox, you need to explicitly provide the username and password. Hence my original question, how does one extract the username and password of the User Account which is running the service applications.

Re: Windows Service User Account Credentials

~~~Johnny~~~19-Dec-06 9:55

~~~Johnny~~~

19-Dec-06 9:55

This is one of the features of Windows and most other Os's. One cannot extract the password of a user, no need to explain why!

Regarding LineCounterAddin

harryyadav19-Dec-06 0:41

harryyadav

19-Dec-06 0:41

Hello,
i have visual studio 2005, i had installed ur Linecounter setup but it is not adding it in to addin manager pls help me where i m wrong and how i can launch linecounter

Re: Regarding LineCounterAddin

Paul Conrad25-Dec-06 18:29

Paul Conrad

25-Dec-06 18:29

harryyadav wrote:
i have visual studio 2005, i had installed ur Linecounter setup but it is not adding it in to addin manager pls help me where i m wrong and how i can launch linecounter

Ask the author of the addin...If you are using Visual C# Express, it won't work. I've had it work just fine in the other versions of VS 2005...

If you try to write that in English, I might be able to understand more than a fraction of it. - Guffa

Files in printer queue

sujanakar18-Dec-06 23:59

sujanakar

18-Dec-06 23:59

Hi,

I have a requirement as follows:

I am writing a server application which deals with printing files and some other tasks. My Application will send the files to printer, I want to monitor the status of the file whether its printed or printing or bloked.

How can I do that? Any help will be appreciated.

Thanx,
Sujan

.Net Programmer, Software Engineer

Re: Files in printer queue [modified]

althamda19-Dec-06 0:10

althamda

19-Dec-06 0:10

Probably something to do with System.Drawing.Printing and System.Printing.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.printing.aspx[^]
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.printing.aspx[^]

Hope this helps.

-- modified at 6:19 Tuesday 19th December, 2006

Re: Files in printer queue

Pete O'Hanlon19-Dec-06 1:59

Pete O'Hanlon

19-Dec-06 1:59

You should probably use WMI for this:

using System.Management;

....

{
	ObjectQuery qry = new ObjectQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_PrintJob");
	ManagementObjectSearcher srchr = new ManagementObjectSearcher(qry);
	ManagementObjectCollection coll = srchr.Get();
	foreach (ManagementObject mo in coll)
	{
		string info = string.Format("Driver : {0}\r\nOwner : {1}\r\nName : {2}",
		mo["DriverName"].ToString(),
		mo["Owner"].ToString(),
		mo["Document"].ToString()
	);
	Console.WriteLine(info);
}

the last thing I want to see is some pasty-faced geek with skin so pale that it's almost translucent trying to bump parts with a partner - John Simmons / outlaw programmer

Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

Re: Files in printer queue

Martin#19-Dec-06 2:16

Martin#

19-Dec-06 2:16

Hello Pete,

Is it possible to cancel a print job over the ManagementObject?

Thanks for youre time!

Martin

Re: Files in printer queue

Pete O'Hanlon19-Dec-06 2:44

Pete O'Hanlon

19-Dec-06 2:44

It is possible (and quite trivial actually). All you need to do with is to call mo.Delete(); to mimic selecting Cancel in the Print monitor.

Re: Files in printer queue

Martin#19-Dec-06 2:50

Martin#

19-Dec-06 2:50

Hello Pete,

Ok, what a suprise D'Oh! | :doh:

. Couldn't be easyer!

Thanks for your info.

Martin

Re: Files in printer queue

Pete O'Hanlon19-Dec-06 5:10

Pete O'Hanlon

19-Dec-06 5:10

Not a problem. Glad I could help.

Re: Files in printer queue

GrusumZA7-Mar-07 23:42

GrusumZA

7-Mar-07 23:42

Pete,

I could not find some properties in the ManagementObjects: Page size, and number of copies.

Plus, I have used a timer to keep getting a query at a fast rate. Even at this fast rate there is a possibility that it may miss an event or may miss some pages printed (opted to try and get the pages printed instead of using the total pages). Is there maybe another way to just retrieve all successfully printed print jobs?

Thanks.

Kevin.

Hmm [modified]

althamda18-Dec-06 23:50

althamda

18-Dec-06 23:50

How to get other people to code for me without lifting a finger myself on a simple search?

Give me's the codes!!!

-- modified at 11:53 Tuesday 19th December, 2006

Guess some people don't get sarcasm.

Re: Hmm

Stefan Troschuetz18-Dec-06 23:55

Stefan Troschuetz

18-Dec-06 23:55

althamda wrote:
How to get other people to code for me without lifting a finger myself on a simple search?

Pay them!

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

www.troschuetz.de

Re: Hmm

V.18-Dec-06 23:58

18-Dec-06 23:58

blackmail them...

V.
If I don't see you in this world, I'll see you in the next one... And don't be late. (Jimi Hendrix)

Re: Hmm

althamda19-Dec-06 0:00

althamda

19-Dec-06 0:00

Along the lines of 'my code will kill your code if you don't give me the code'?

Re: Hmm

V.19-Dec-06 0:02