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Passing a structure with array pointers to a Win32 DLL

16-Feb-04 8:56

If the server is reporting a timeout, then it is there you have to look. Your client code looks alright (though I hope you actually did URL-encode your POST data), but remember that it's not the one reporting the error. It would seem that your server code has a problem where it is waiting for a request to finish or something similar. How quickly do you get an HttpWebResponse when you call HttpWebRequest.GetResponse. Put a breakpoint in there and see. Remember, if you're threading those threads won't block so your program won't appear to halt.

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Member 88417915-Feb-04 22:15

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15-Feb-04 22:15

I am trying to get the exact character widths (and thus position/placement) of Arabic text which I am writing to the screen.

I have been trying to use “GDI32.dll” GetCharacterPlacementW. This uses a structure GCP_RESULTS which in turn contains a pointer to the text buffer and pointers to several array. One of these arrays, lpDx receives the distances between adjacent character cells.

I understand that .NET doesn't directly support a call to an unmanaged function which passes a structure with array pointers.
Apparently, though, there are two methods by which this can be achieved:
1) By manually marshalling the structure.
2) By using Pointers, ie unsafe code.

I find that I am out of my depth with this.

Does anyone have any C#/VB code for calling unmanaged code passing a structure with multiple array pointers?

Is there any better/easier way? Uniscribe, perhaps? Does anyone have a C#/VB code example for getting character widths for Unicode text with contextual shaping and combining characters?

Re: Passing a structure with array pointers to a Win32 DLL

Mazdak15-Feb-04 23:31

Mazdak

15-Feb-04 23:31

Use StructLayoutAttribute and for poinetrs in the structre use IntPtr trype. You can look into MSDN for more info and example.

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Re: Passing a structure with array pointers to a Win32 DLL

Heath Stewart16-Feb-04 6:18

Re: Advanced File Property

16-Feb-04 6:18

A string is a character array, and the address of a string is the address of the first character. SAme with other arrays. For those params, it's no problem for the default marshalers to handle this. Just be sure to use the StructLayoutAttribute with CharSet.Auto and UnmanagedType.LPTStr with the MarshalAsAttribute.

As far as marshaling the pointers, you'll have to pin them so that the GC doesn't move them (or garbage collect them, although that shouldn't happen until they're out of scope) while the unmanaged code is processing. For information on that, see the fixed keyword in the .NET Framework SDK, under the C# language specification section (or just type "fixed Statement" in the help index).

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Advanced File Property

KriZ~15-Feb-04 19:21

KriZ~

15-Feb-04 19:21

Can anyone tell me how to read a File Property like the Title, Subject, Author...
System.IO.File can only read those simple File properties like File Size, Creation date...

I have tried using "Interop.DSOleFile.dll", it works...but It is not Strong Named....
I want something strong named that can read the File Property...

Thank You!!

Heath Stewart16-Feb-04 6:09

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16-Feb-04 6:09

You can make that interop assembly strong named. If you use VS.NET to import a COM typelib, before creating it right-click on your project, select Properties, and set your "Wrapper Assembly Key Name" or "Wrapper Assembly Key File" under the "Common Properties/General" section. If using tlbimp.exe from the .NET Framework SDK, you can use the /keyfile:FileName or /keycontainer:KeyName command-line switches.

To answer your first question, though - no. The .NET base class library does not support these additional streams. You have to either rely on interop'ing a COM library (like you've done) or P/Invoking all the necessary functions and defining the proper structures and consts (etc.).

There is a .NET library someone made and documented here on CodeProject that works pretty good. See the article, Accessing alternative data-streams of files on an NTFS volume[^].

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15-Feb-04 18:38

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16-Feb-04 8:21

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Single/Double.ToString() help

Verdant12315-Feb-04 16:53

Re: Single/Double.ToString() help

15-Feb-04 16:53

i cannot for the life of me figure out how to get this to return a string that is not formatted in scientific notation

is there a simple guide or set of examples somewhere on how to use IFormatProvider?

msdn doesn't seem to provide any examples

edit: i found an example, it uses a mask... but why does the msdn page mention special characters (d/c/etc) for formating?
where can i find a reference for the available masks?

Werdna15-Feb-04 20:21

Werdna

15-Feb-04 20:21

This is a link to really good site on how to format numbers:
http://authors.aspalliance.com/aspxtreme/aspnet/types/numericformatstrings.aspx

Re: Single/Double.ToString() help

Heath Stewart16-Feb-04 5:55

Parsing Tab Delimited File

16-Feb-04 5:55

You keep reading the wrong things. Did you try reading the documentation for the NumberFormatInfo, which implements IFormatProvider? You don't even need to specify this for numeric types in string.Format (or any other formatting method like Console.WriteLine). There's also a big section on formatting in the .NET Framework SDK, which should be your first stop for .NET-related documentation, articles, and examples.

There is a simple solution for the scientific notation:

string s = string.Format("{0:e}", myNum);
// OR
s = myNum.ToString("e"); // Also documented in numeric type's ToString docs

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Verdant12315-Feb-04 14:05

15-Feb-04 14:05

is there any way faster then
using split()?

the lines are all the exact same format, with no nulls, etc

this is what i am using:

while (html_sr.Peek() >=0)
{
txt_file = html_sr.ReadLine();
user_info = txt_file.Split('\t');
SQLAction.InsertUpdateUser(int.Parse(user_info[5]),user_info[2],int.Parse(user_info[4]),double.Parse(user_info[3]),date_modified,int.Parse(user_info[1]),int.Parse(user_info[0]));
}

Colin Angus Mackay15-Feb-04 14:24

Colin Angus Mackay

15-Feb-04 14:24

The first obviouse thing is:

while (html_sr.Peek() >=0)
{
txt_file = html_sr.ReadLine();

Why not use:

while((txt_file = html_sr.ReadLine()) != null)
{
    // Do stuff...
}

Now, you no longer have to perform the peek operation and your test is against a value you would get anyway. (Since the RealLine method already performs some operation to determine whether it is at the EOF why duplicate the effort)

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Verdant12315-Feb-04 14:51

15-Feb-04 14:51

Thanks!

i had thought that Readline would throw an exception Smile | :)

now to test and see if this will provide any performance improvement

though i suppose most of my problem is the SQL method...
right now it proceses on average 170 of those lines per second, just trying to squash it down as much as possible

Werdna15-Feb-04 16:45

Werdna

15-Feb-04 16:45

You should probably use some profiler to see what takes most time.
It probably is sql query. Make sure you're not opening the connection with each query, but open it once and do all the queries then.

Verdant12315-Feb-04 16:47

15-Feb-04 16:47

thanks...
the query is actually a single stored procedure, but a complex one

Daniel Turini16-Feb-04 1:59

Daniel Turini

16-Feb-04 1:59

If you're doing INSERTs on a SQL Server from a comma-delimited file, use BCP (Bulk Copy).
It can do up to 100,000 lines/second on a big machine and on desktop machines it processes up to 10,000 lines/second.

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Verdant12316-Feb-04 7:55