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Heath Stewart wrote:
using console-mode VIM[^].
You heathen! 
Sorry, I'm in an odd mood today...had beer for a work-lunch-meeting, so now I want a nap...
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And this, too, shall pass away...
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What, you expect me to use emacs?! 
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Hello.
After analyzing the software industry, I believe C# and .NET are and will remain apart of a major set of development tool on the Win32 and Win64 platform second to only a combination of C/C++. With that in mind, I would like to ask what is the most complete and advanced programming book on C#/.NET?
Here are the books I am considering.
Programming Microsoft .NET by Jeff Prosise
Pro: Very good overall
Con: Broad and emphasizes .ASP
Programming Windows with C# (Core Reference) by Charles Petzold
Pro: Complete - discusses all GUI tools, etc.
Con: Fundamental - many examples of Windows Forms and no advanced design including multithreading, etc.
Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming by Jeffrey Richter
Pro: Extensive coverage of CRT and .NET
Con: Overrated, lacking advanced subjects including multithreading, etc. It is not like his previous book on Win32 programming.
I am trying to buy as few books as possible and still acquire a good overall understanding of C#/.NET and extensive converage of the framework for maximizing an application's performance. I am interested in multithreading, multiple processes, memory mapping, IPC, serial communication, socket, etc.
I believe I can learn the specifics (GUI) via experimenting, MSDN, and of course forums.
Thanks,
Kuphryn
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Read the .NET Framework SDK, including all the topics. The ending is obvious, but it's still thrilling.
And don't forget the Framework Class Library (FCL) anthology, which you can find in %WINDIR%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.X.XXXX. It's best read with ildasm.exe from the .NET Framework SDK - and previously reading up on IL is helpful - but can be read with others tools like .NET Reflector[^].
Best darn books I've ever read.
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Heath Stewart wrote:
Best darn books I've ever read.
Those are the book recommendations I would expect from you Heath, absolutely. 
- Nick Parker
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I have a two classes A and B
public class A
{
private static ArrayList allobjects=new ArrayList();
private static int objcount=0;
public A()
{
objcount++;
allobjects.Add(this);
}
public static A[] AllObjects
{
get{return allobjects.ToArray(typeof(A)) as A[];}
}
}
public class B:A
{
public B()
{}
}When I construct a B object it is added to the allobjects array fine.
However at random times, when I look at A.AllObjects in the debugger, there are more objects than what I added. For example if I construct one and I look at it there will be 7 in the array. Furthermore, if I look at A.allobjects[0].allobjects, this array will contain 13, if I go further I'll get 19 and so forth. If I put a breakpoint in the constructor, it never hits the breakpoint, yet objcount will reflect the number of objects in the array depending on how deep I go. So any A.allobjects[0].objcount=7, and A.allobjects.[0].allobjects[0].objcount=13 and so forth. This is bugging me out especially since I have a breakpoint in the constructor and that is the only place that objcount is incremented.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
K
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Hi
I got a question, how can I access to a DataSet or any object from another Form in the same project??.
I have a main form, (no MDI), and show a dialog, but I wanna that dialog use a Dataset from the main form.
Thanks.
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If you design your application properly things like datasets won't be controlled by forms so you shouldn't need to pass a dataset between forms.
Here is a good place to start: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpatterns/html/DesMVC.asp[^]
Also, analysing the way you asked your question ("from another Form in the same project") I have some doubts about your understanding of Object Orientation. So you may like to read also http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/beginneroop.asp[^] which was written with examples in C++ but the concept equally applies to C#
Finally, to actually answer your question I have provided a example implementation.
In the method in the main form that opens the dialog do something like this:
DialogForm dlg = new DialogForm();
dlg.TheDataset = this.myDataset;
dlg.ShowDialog();
where:
this.myDataset is your dataset
and
dlg.TheDataset is defined in your Dialog Form's class as
public Dataset TheDataSet
{
set
{
this.theDataset = value;
}
}
and that the Dialog Form also has a field defined as:
private Dataset theDataset
Does this help?
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--Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
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Is there any way programmatically generating the proxy (that will the web service methods) instead of doing it by via 'Add Web Reference' or 'WSDL.exe'?
Promise only what you can do. And then deliver more than what you promised.
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Kant wrote:
Is there any way programmatically generating the proxy (that will the web service methods) instead of doing it by via 'Add Web Reference' or 'WSDL.exe'?
I don't know what you're trying to accomplish, but isn't easier to simply send/receive the SOAP message through HTTP? After all, it's just a bunch of well-documented XML...
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Daniel Turini wrote:
I don't know what you're trying to accomplish
I am just curious. Other day I was talking to a friend who asked me this question.
Ex: In a GUI application, let the user input the URL of the web service and based on that can we generate the proxy?
Promise only what you can do. And then deliver more than what you promised.
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Kant wrote:
Ex: In a GUI application, let the user input the URL of the web service and based on that can we generate the proxy?
You can always generate the proxy and compile it. But I think that the easier way would be reading the WSDL definition (after all, it's usually a really simple XML) and creating a SOAP message (another XML), then send it through HTTP. Probably you'll find some sample (not in .NET) that already does this...
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Unless you want a typed web service proxy, you could extend SoapHttpClientProtocol (which generated web service proxies do by default) and instantiate that, either providing the URL to the WSDL document in the constructor or set the Url property (inheritted from WebClientProtocol) after instantiation. As soon as you call Discover to set up the bindings, you can use Invoke to invoke the methods you want. Invoke is protected, which is why you must extend the SoapHttpClientProtocol, but you could always expose an override as public if you wanted. You could do the same with the asynchronous protected methods (BeginInvoke and EndInvoke).
Without knowing what the bindings are, however, this could get pretty messy. That's where the DiscoveryClientProtocol comes in, another derivative of the WebClientProtocol. From this you can get a DiscoveryDocument which you can use to discover the bindings supported by the web service.
If you want to generate typed proxies, you can use the concepts presented above to do that. As I mentioned, the proxies extend SoapHttpClientProtocol and add methods for each of the bindings through discovery and simple call the protected Invoke to call them (or the asynchronous methods to support asynchronous methods on your proxy).
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Heath,
Thank you for the great idea.
I actually tried to extend SoapHttpClient as you said:
public class MySoapHttpClient : SoapHttpClient {
public string TestWebMethod() { this.Invoke("TestWebMethod", ...);}
}
and use it as
MySoapHttpClient obj = new MySoapHttpClient();
obj.Url ="http://localhost/WebService7/Service1.asmx";
obj.Discover();
string s = obj.TestWebMethod();
It works fine. But I cannot replace the signaure "TestWebMethod" with a generic one "Invoke(string MethodName)".
Does it mean that Binding must be reflected in the proxy ? Or there are some ways to go arround.
James
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You can, but you must hide the protected member by using new:
public new object[] Invoke(string methodName, object[] parameters)
{
return base.Invoke(methodName, parameters);
}
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Hi
I am uploading a file, using HTTPPostedFile.
Uploads are going fine but i want to compress the posted file
(a JPEG image actually) on the fly (i.e. before storing in the database).
For example if the client computer has selected a JPEG image file of 1056 Kb, the file uploaded / saved file size is reduced to , say 200-300 kb.
Can this be accomplished?
Any help would be appreciated
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Since JPEG images are already compressed by their very nature, you won't get to compress them any more than MAYBE 1%.
The only method you have is to reduce the actual image size, from say 1280x1024 down to 320x240 and store that. This is the only way your going to save space. Unfortunatly, you can't blow the picture back up to it original size without a severe penalty in image quality.
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JPEG is a lossy compression algorithm: if he wants to lose some image quality, he can keep the image size and further reduce the file size, with a loss on the image size (a drop to 25% image quality produces a way better result than a shrink/expand to 25% size).
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Okay. I'm sure I'm missing something really simple, but I am thus far unable to get ChooseColor (exported from comdlg32.dll) to work.
Before anyone suggests it, I know there's a ColorDialog control available. Using it is not an option, however, since the app I'm working on is for .Net CF. When calling the ChooseColor method, the runtime returns a really useful System.NotSupportedException.
My code looks like the following:
public struct CHOOSECOLOR<br />
{<br />
public int Flags;<br />
public IntPtr hInstance;<br />
public IntPtr hwndOwner;<br />
public IntPtr lCustData;<br />
public IntPtr lpCustColors;<br />
public IntPtr lpfnHook;<br />
public string lpTemplateName;<br />
public int lStructSize;<br />
public int rgbResult;<br />
}<br />
<br />
[DllImport("comdlg32.dll")]<br />
internal static extern bool ChooseColor(ref CHOOSECOLOR pChooseColor);<br />
<br />
<br />
public void ShowColorDialog(Form parent)<br />
{<br />
if(parent != null)<br />
{<br />
CHOOSECOLOR color = new CHOOSECOLOR();<br />
color.lStructSize = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(CHOOSECOLOR));<br />
color.hwndOwner = FindWindow(null, parent.Text);<br />
<br />
bool result = ChooseColor(ref color);<br />
}<br />
}
Any help is much appreciated.
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<br />
[StructLayoutAttribute(LayoutKind.Sequential)]<br />
private class CHOOSECOLOR: IDisposable<br />
{<br />
private int lStructSize;<br />
<br />
internal IntPtr hwndOwner;<br />
<br />
private IntPtr hInstance;<br />
<br />
internal int rgbResult;<br />
<br />
internal IntPtr lpCustColors;<br />
<br />
internal uint Flags;<br />
<br />
private int lCustData = 0;<br />
<br />
private IntPtr lpfnHook;<br />
<br />
private IntPtr lpTemplateName;<br />
<br />
<br />
public CHOOSECOLOR()<br />
{<br />
lStructSize = Marshal.SizeOf(this);<br />
hwndOwner = IntPtr.Zero;<br />
hInstance = IntPtr.Zero;<br />
rgbResult = 16777215;<br />
lpCustColors = LocalAlloc(64, 64);<br />
Flags = 0;<br />
lCustData = 0;<br />
lpfnHook = IntPtr.Zero;<br />
lpTemplateName = IntPtr.Zero;<br />
}<br />
<br />
public virtual void Dispose()<br />
{<br />
LocalFree(lpCustColors);<br />
}<br />
}<br />
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[DllImport("coredll.dll")]<br />
private static extern IntPtr LocalAlloc(int flags, int size);<br />
<br />
[DllImport("coredll.dll")]<br />
private static extern int LocalFree(IntPtr addr);<br />
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[DllImport("comdlg.dll")]<br />
private static extern int ChooseColor(CHOOSECOLOR pChooseColor);<br />
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[DllImport("comdlg.dll")]<br />
private static extern int CommDlgExtendedError();<br />
<br />
private void ShowChooseColor(object sender, System.EventArgs e)<br />
{<br />
CHOOSECOLOR color = new CHOOSECOLOR();<br />
int result = ChooseColor(color);<br />
if (result == 0)<br />
{<br />
MessageBox.Show("CommDlgExtendedError = " + CommDlgExtendedError().ToString());<br />
}<br />
}<br />
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Thanks a lot! I was starting to think about adding the mem allocation calls - there are murmurings about them in one or two places, but I wasn't able to find anything concrete until your posting.
Is it just me, or does CE's usage of the API seem a little like alchemy? There seems to be very very little in the way of example on line. Perhaps there are some useful books out there...
I don't come from a C(++) background, so I'm at a little bit of a disadvantage from the outset with structure conversion / API implementation, but in this case I think I had it right, and other "quirkiness" caused problems (my desktop example worked great).
One note: The import for the common dialog library should read "commdlg.dll" - two "m"s.
Thank you again.
Jared
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' ('I found it!') but 'That's funny...’
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I wanted to block certain Key Combinations pressed by the user from being executed by the System when my application is active.
For example in WIN 98 when any application is running, if the user presses Ctrl+Alt+Del, the Taskmanager will popup. I want to block such events from being happening when my application is active.
Such blocking is to be implemented for certain combinations of Key presses.
Exaplination with some code examples is highly appreciated since i need to implement this pretty urgently.
CHEERS
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I am having some difficulty with COM Interop at the moment, and am hoping someone can help...
What happens if you have a COM Client (i.e. COM is calling an .NET assembly using a CCW) and the .NET component (with the CCW) has references to another .NET Component. Does the 'dependancy' assembly require the CCW or an RCW? or can these 2 assemblies communicate in their native tongue (i.e. .NET).
Here is a problem I am trying to solve at the moment: I have Assembly1 which has a CCW (it is a "Custom Command" that can be called by a COM application). The second Assembly (Assembly2) contains generic methods that can be called by all kinds of different "Custom Commands". This way I get decent code re-use (all the common methods are stored in Assembly2).
I will try to 'diagram' it here:
COM (Client) -> CCW -> .NET Assembly1 -> .NET Assembly2
So if .NET Assembly1 has a reference to .NET Assembly2 can they "talk to each other" using .NET, or do they need a proxy (i.e. RCW or CCW) to communicate also?
What I am asking is... is the following config required?
COM (Client) -> CCW -> .NET Assembly1 -> RCW -> .NET Assembly2
Also, what happens if Assembly2 has other dependancies (for example Oracle.DataAccess.Net) Do these also need a wrapper?
I currently have a situation where another developer is trying to use my common code (i.e. he's trying to make his own Assembly1 which references the common methods I've made in Assembly2) but he can't seem to instantiate a class in Assembly2 because he's getting a System.IO.FileLoadException when Assembly2 is referring to the Oracle.DataAccess.dll. I've checked the HRESULT in WinError.h and it is "NTE_PROVIDER_DLL_FAIL" (i.e. "DLL Failed to initialize correctly").
Not sure if this is a COM Interop problem, or related to the fact he has 2 Oracle homes (he has Oracle 7 - installed first) and Oracle 9. I'm thinking it could also be a CAS (Code Access Security) problem? (i.e. Assembly1 has CCW so it can't call/reference/instantiate a .NET assembly which refers to another .NET assembly - Oracle.DataAccess.dll)... If he runs the Assembly2 code on his machine which calls a stub.exe (written in .NET) he can use the Oracle.DataAccess.dll no problem - but when it's in .Dll form, he gets the System.IO.FileLoadException error (above).
Any suggestions or clarification would be greatly appreciated.
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No, the dependent assembly does not need to expose a CCW. The CCW is a way of exposing a .NET component to COM clients, but the component is still a .NET component and thus uses other .NET assemblies like any other .NET application.
These assemblies must be resolvable, however. It seems that your assembly isn't being found. When you register your assembly exposing the CCW, do so with regasm /codebase MyAssembly.dll. This registers the full path to the assembly. Better yet, install all your assemblies in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC), then just register it with regasm MyAssembly.dll.
The deal with assembly resolution is that the application directory is checked first, and then if a probing section is configured in the application's .config file, those sub-directories referenced in that section are checked as well. Since your COM client may run from anywhere and use your CCW without knowledge of where the file is (the COM system deals with this information), you don't really know where to put the second, dependent assembly. This is why you put it into the GAC. After the CLR fails to find the assembly in the application directory or probing paths (and no explicit locations are mentioned in the assemblyBinding section of the .config file), it looks in the GAC. The PATH environment variable is never used, unlike native executables.
For more information about how assemblies are resolved, read How the Runtime Locates Assemblies[^] in the .NET Framework SDK.
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