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Dns.GetHostByAddress problem

29-Jul-04 5:33

Jan R Hansen wrote:
Does anybody know of such a control, or is this a candidate for my first CP article ?

You could write this up as an article. I haven't seen any controls on CP that do what you are asking so it should be fair game. I had written a control about a year ago doing just this for a project, which was simple enough but I no longer have the source to send you. It should simply be a process of finding the selected items in one side and adding them over to the other - don't forget to remove them from the first side then. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

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Dave@keyspell29-Jul-04 4:12

Dave@keyspell

29-Jul-04 4:12

Hi all

I have a problem with my program, I'm trying to send data between two computers. The problem is this, I can send data between the client app and server app (which is on my other computer, through wirless connection) as long as I specify the HostName i.e. "dave", then use the IPHostEntry.Resolve to get the ip address. I don't want to use the HostName as the app will run over the internet, so my client app sends it's ip address to the server, the server then try's to send data back to the client using the given ip address but gets stuck in a loop as it keeps sending itself the data not the client. When I had a look at the ip address the server was recieving it ok but when i had a look at the HostName that the server was producing from the ip address, it was refering to itself not the client.

Would this be anything to do with the fact that its over a local network and not the internet?

My Server Code is below:

TcpClient tcpc = new TcpClient();
int port = 5656;
string[] server = o.WhosOnline();
IPHostEntry IPHost;
string []aliases;
bool loggedin = false;
IPAddress[] addr;

bool success;
success = o.loguser(cmd[2].ToString());
//IPHost = Dns.Resolve("dave") <-- I DONT WANT TO USE THIS
IPHost = Dns.GetHostByAddress("192.168.0.1"); <-- I NEED SOMTHING LIKE THIS
Console.WriteLine("Host Name: " + IPHost.HostName); <-- DISPLAYS SERVER NAME
aliases = IPHost.Aliases;
Console.WriteLine(IPHost.AddressList[0].ToString()); <-- DISPLAYS CLIENTS IP
addr = IPHost.AddressList;
IPEndPoint ep = new IPEndPoint(addr[0], port);
tcpc.Connect(ep);
// Get the stream
Stream s = tcpc.GetStream();
StreamWriter r = new StreamWriter(s);
r.Write(stream);
r.Flush();
r.Close();
s.Close();
tcpc.Close();
Console.WriteLine("sent");

Can anyone help?

Re: Dns.GetHostByAddress problem

Heath Stewart29-Jul-04 4:41

Re: Dns.GetHostByAddress problem

29-Jul-04 4:41

If you don't want to hardcode the computer name, use Environment.MachineName. Call Dns.Resolve on that.

With the continuous rise in firewall adoption, you should not expect the server to be able to send a client information without a connection already being established. A client request/server response protocol is most prevalent in everything you do today, from SMTP, POP, IMAP (mail protocols) to HTTP and various IM protocols (all over SSL, which is also client request/server response-based).

Communications should occur like so:

Client creates a connection to the server, which the server optionally accepts (maybe it's a blocked IP or something). The client sends commands to request or post data. The server responds with an error or success code and sends the requested data or status back to the client. The client disconnects.

Because of firewalls - and especially NAT'ing firewalls (network address translation, which typically use reserved IPs that don't resolve on the Internet like the 192.168 subnet you're IP address is) - the server can't respond directly to the client without a connection already existing. There are some protocols supported by some firewalls (like VPN) that may allow this, but these are not trivial to implement.

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Dave@keyspell29-Jul-04 5:31

Dave@keyspell

29-Jul-04 5:31

Thanks for the reply

So what your saying is that i should not close the connection when the client has sent its data to the server so that the server does not have to connect to the client to send data back.

Would this mean that the server would use a lot of resources if there were multiple connections to it?

How to Export to CSV file from DataSet?

HyVong29-Jul-04 3:11

HyVong

29-Jul-04 3:11

Hi everyone, I'm trying to export into a csv file from the dataset. But i'm not using Button. I'm asking the user to check on the check box if they want to export the file. If they checked that checkbox, as i go through the form and grab data through my sql statement (and the data are now in the dataset, with two table, but i only want to export one table), at the end i would like to send those data to the csv file. And i have done some research but couldn't find much on what I'm doing. Does any one have any C# sample code links or give some suggestion in the coding, i'll be very appriciated. This is totally new to me, so i'm asking for everyone's help. Thanks in advance for your time.

Cheers! Big Grin | :-D

*HyVong*

Re: How to Export to CSV file from DataSet?

Not Active29-Jul-04 4:13

Not Active

29-Jul-04 4:13

One way is to use XSLT to transform the dataset xml into a csv format.

You could of course just iterate through the dataset and write to a file yourself.

Re: How to Export to CSV file from DataSet?

Michael P Butler29-Jul-04 4:35

Michael P Butler

29-Jul-04 4:35

Its VB.NET code but this example illustrates how to do it

DataTable2CSV - Saving a DataTable to a CSV file[^]

There should be no problem converting the code to C#

Michael

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How hard will it be to move to C# 2.0 ?

Andres Coder29-Jul-04 3:02

Andres Coder

29-Jul-04 3:02

I'm thinking of starting a new project in C#. Or should I wait til 2005 when Visual Studio 2005 (C# 2.0) is released so I wouldn't have to rewrite a lot of code ? How big will the incompatibility between C# 1 and C# 2.0 be ?

Regards, Desmond

SOCM_FP_CPP29-Jul-04 3:11

SOCM_FP_CPP

29-Jul-04 3:11

hi Desmond,

I do not feel MS will make such a drastic change in the language
for C# 2.0. I feel they will add support for Generics (Templates ) , Closures etc. ( All these VM languages are introducing back those
features of C++ they thrown away earlier )

IMHO , Stick with C# 1.x and if at all u need to change , it will
be some methods in the new BCL or some of the current classes might be made
deprecated ( As sun often does ! )

Praseed Pai
www.praseedpai.com

Nick Parker29-Jul-04 5:07

29-Jul-04 5:07

SOCM_FP_CPP wrote:
I do not feel MS will make such a drastic change in the language
for C# 2.0. I feel they will add support for Generics (Templates ) , Closures etc.

You don't think generics are going to be drastic?! Have you been reading everything we are going to get and the impact it will make?

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SOCM_FP_CPP29-Jul-04 19:42

SOCM_FP_CPP

29-Jul-04 19:42

hi Nick ,
Ur right !. Generics are a welcome addition to the C# language. Perhaps
it will change the way we program our data structures and other stuff.

I was anwsering the questions from a code maintanence point of view.
he was more worried about porting C# 1.x to C# 2.0.

Praseed Pai
www.praseedpai.com

Heath Stewart29-Jul-04 4:52

29-Jul-04 4:52

You won't need to rewrite code. There are no breaking changes in the C# language specification, only new support is added. Almost all the classes supported in the .NET BCL (base class library) will be supported as well (I can't say for sure: there's hundreds of classes).

And don't forget the .NET runs side-by-side. I currently have 1.0 SP2, 1.1, and 2.0 Beta installed. If a managed application that targets 1.0 is installed and .NET 1.0 is installed, it will run against that (unless you redirect). If .NET 1.0 is not installed but 1.1 is, it will run against that (it uses the correct or newer Framework by default). You can control this behavior, however. Read Deploying Applications[^] and Configuring Applications[^] in the .NET Framework SDK for more information.

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Turning of the monitors

PrebKlok29-Jul-04 3:01

29-Jul-04 3:01

Is there a way to make a program that turns of the monitors. In Power Option Properties, you kan set the time from 1 minute to 5 hours, but I would like a program that could turn of my monitors right away, just clicking on an icon - is't for using when i watch films on a projektor, so only monitor 1 an 2 shold be turnd of, not monitor 3 (the projektor).

Daniel Turini29-Jul-04 3:11

Daniel Turini

29-Jul-04 3:11

Usually monitors have a "Power" button... Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

Yes, even I am blogging now!

PrebKlok29-Jul-04 3:31

29-Jul-04 3:31

Well... I have my reasons, so is there a way or not?

Daniel Turini29-Jul-04 3:35

Daniel Turini

29-Jul-04 3:35

Use WMI to call the SetPowerState function on an instance of the CIM_DesktopMonitor class and pass 6 as the new power state.

Yes, even I am blogging now!

PrebKlok29-Jul-04 4:18

29-Jul-04 4:18

Hmm.. sounds quite easy, but sorry, I'm a newbee at C# so how do I do that?

Heath Stewart29-Jul-04 4:48

29-Jul-04 4:48

By reading about the System.Management[^] classes and their examples in the .NET Framework SDK. It's the only way to learn.

You can also download the Management Extensions for Visual Studio .NET from the links below, which installs extensions into VS.NET's Server Explorer. You can find the class you want and drag and drop it to your project ot create a typed ManagementObject (supported properties and methods are reflected on the created type), but all this does is provide a wrapper for calling ManagementObject.InvokeMethod, ManagementObject.Get, and ManagementObject.Put.

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PrebKlok29-Jul-04 5:10

29-Jul-04 5:10

Wow, I thought there would be something easy as just function.TurnOffMonitor(x) ... Sigh | :sigh:

Tom Larsen29-Jul-04 5:20

Tom Larsen

29-Jul-04 5:20

Its funny how some think someone else should write their code. Is the monitor power button looking like a more feasible implementation for you? Smile | :)

This is easily a case where one can overuse technology. By the time it takes you to figure out how to use the objects in Management you could have just shut off your monitor.

PrebKlok29-Jul-04 5:51

29-Jul-04 5:51

Ahrghhh.... I just wanted a little help for a something that mattered to me, but I guess I'll have to stick to what what my newbe skills could to come up with:

<br />
private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)<br />
		{<br />
			this.Location = new Point(0,0);<br />
			this.BackColor = Color.Black;<br />
			this.Size = new Size(1280*2, 1024);<br />
		}

all through it doesn't turn off the monitors (since my monitors are backlighted), but at least it dims the light. Thank you guys Dead | X|

Nick Parker29-Jul-04 7:22

29-Jul-04 7:22

PrebKlok wrote:
Thank you guys

What's the bad mood for? Do you not want to learn anything at all? Do you want to be a newbie forever? I suppose, if that's the manner in which you want things handled you should be upset.

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Heath Stewart29-Jul-04 5:44

29-Jul-04 5:44

Yeah, right next to DoesEverything.MakeMeCoffee(). Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

If there was a method or something for every possible feature (which is impossible), what would be the point of having programmers?

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Nick Parker29-Jul-04 7:20