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.NET load of DLL in privatePath failing -- HELP!!!!

23-Sep-04 11:37

Yes, but you'll either need to implement your own DataGridColumnStyle or extend the DataGridTextBoxColumn. You could define a PasswordChar property, which would look something like this:

public class DataGridPasswordColumn : DataGridTextBoxColumn
{
  public DataGridPasswordColumn()
  {
    TextBox.PasswordChar = '*';
  }
  [DefaultValue('*')]
  public virtual char PasswordChar
  {
    get { return TextBox.PasswordChar; }
    set { TextBox.PasswordChar = value; }
  }
}

This encapsulates the functionality easily in your DataGridPasswordColumn which you can instantiate and add instances of it to the DataGridTableStyle used by the DataGrid.TableStyles collection property.

You could also do this without implementing your own DataGridColumnStyle derivative. In your Form, UserControl, or whatever you're doing this in set the specific DataGridTextBoxColumn's TextBox.PasswordChar property. You do not do this for each row, though; the same DataGridColumnStyle derivative is used when a particular cell is editted.

If you want more information on DataGridColumnStyles, search this site for a handful of decent articles about how to implement your own, or read the documentation for the class which includes a sample implementing a column style with a DateTimePicker control.

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LongRange.Shooter23-Sep-04 8:19

LongRange.Shooter

23-Sep-04 8:19

I hope someone has encountered this situation before because we are stumped!!

Situation:

We have a fat client application which remotes to an object manager under IIS.
The remoting has been working just fine for the entire year and then we went and 'fixed' things. Cry | :((

We moved our application DLL's into a subdirectory beneath the applications' bin directory.
We added a <runtime> division to the web.config which defined a <probing privatePath="bin; bin\OurDir">.
This is getting recognized by ISS but when it attempts to load my DLL I get this dump message:

System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name remoteManagers, or one of its dependencies, was not found.
File name: "remoteManagers"
   at System.Reflection.Assembly.nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Boolean isStringized, Evidence assemblySecurity, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Assembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
   at System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Boolean stringized, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
   at System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(String assemblyString, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
   at System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(String assemblyString)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingConfigInfo.LoadType(String typeName, String assemblyName)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingConfigInfo.GetServerTypeForUri(String URI)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingConfigHandler.GetServerTypeForUri(String URI)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingServices.GetServerTypeForUri(String URI)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Http.HttpRemotingHandler.CanServiceRequest(HttpContext context)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Http.HttpRemotingHandler.InternalProcessRequest(HttpContext context)

=== Pre-bind state information ===
LOG: DisplayName = remoteManagers
 (Partial)
LOG: Appbase = file:///d:/inetpub/vserver/OnLineServices
LOG: Initial PrivatePath = bin
Calling assembly : (Unknown).
===

LOG: Private path hint found in configuration file: bin; bin\TCANavigator.
LOG: Policy not being applied to reference at this time (private, custom, partial, or location-based assembly bind).
LOG: Post-policy reference: remoteManagers

Does ANYONE have a suggestion of how to get rid of this short of moving everything back into the \bin directory????

Thanks!

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Re: .NET load of DLL in privatePath failing -- HELP!!!!

Heath Stewart23-Sep-04 10:41

Re: .NET load of DLL in privatePath failing -- HELP!!!!

23-Sep-04 10:41

Get rid of the space in your privatePath. Directories should only be delimited by semi-colons and nothing else.

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LongRange.Shooter23-Sep-04 11:07

LongRange.Shooter

23-Sep-04 11:07

Heath,

I checked my source and the actual web.config does not have a space in the privatePath definition. It was just a bad typing into the message on my part. Any other ideas (hopefully as simple!!).

Actual web.config statement:

<runtime>
    <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
        <probing privatePath="bin;bin\TCANavigator"/>
    </assemblyBinding>
</runtime>

Michael

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Re: .NET load of DLL in privatePath failing -- HELP!!!!

Heath Stewart23-Sep-04 11:21

Re: .NET load of DLL in privatePath failing -- HELP!!!!

23-Sep-04 11:21

So long as that's the case (because spaces will cause problems - I've tested it), then it's possible your permissions on the TCANavigator directory aren't correct. Remember that the file system permissions must allow the ASP.NET account (ASPNET by default) read, list, and execute permissions, while IIS must allow access to the directory for the ASP.NET account.

You might also consider installing your assemblies into the GAC. This is how SharePoint works, along with other larger ASP.NET web application (with larger commercial deployment), because the GAC facilitates side-by-side versioning, assembly redirection, and more; not to mention the fact that you don't have to worry about having separate copies of the same assembly lying around in different ASP.NET web applications.

Installing your assemblies into the GAC would definitely solve your immediate problem.

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LongRange.Shooter24-Sep-04 4:40

LongRange.Shooter

24-Sep-04 4:40

Heath,

We are starting to see a "creaping" behaviour with this problem. ie. One machine works fine today then fails tomorrow. Since we are seeing impacts in other applications, I suspect that it is due to the 1.0 / 1.1 framework security patches. (it is getting out slowly to different machines)

The directories (bin and subdir's) all have the same attributes for access rights. Adding Read or Execute does not change the fault occuring. I really think it is specific to the log events that occur.

1) attempts to locate the DLL in the bin directory with partial name.
Not Found.
2) goes to the subdirectory with a partial name and finds it.
3) Framework reports I don't have rights to load by partial name (????)
4) System.IO.FileNotFound

The change in doing a partial name Assembly load is what is killing me. Seems I can do it in \bin but not in any deeper directory without creating some kind of framework permission.

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Re: .NET load of DLL in privatePath failing -- HELP!!!!

Heath Stewart24-Sep-04 5:36

24-Sep-04 5:36

I'm not aware of any such change of the top of my head, but a good place to start researching the problem is http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/[^].

To solve the problem without checking for security changes (which I'll do as soon as the page linked from above loads Smile | :)

, you can either use a fully-qualified name or qualify the name in the .config to allow for partial name resolution in cases like this. Read about the <qualifyAssembly> Element[^] in the .NET Framework SDK.

...man, this is loading really slow today...

Okay, the following are the links about the changes made in the service packs:

Unfortunately I don't see anything relevent to your problem, but you might take a second look.

Make sure the resolution above works and determine if the existence of the SP is truly the cause here (it works without; doesn't work with the SP installed). There could be an issue there (be sure to let me know).

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Heath Stewart23-Sep-04 7:21

23-Sep-04 7:21

The most common solution is to use a Timer. Since you're using Windows forms, just drop the Timer component on your form and double-click to add an event handler for the Timer.Tick event.

The following sample shows how you should change your current code, as well as what code you should add:

public MyClass() // Your constructor
{
  InitializeComponent(); // Put there by the designer.
  timer1.Interval = SystemInformation + SystemInformation.DoubleClickTime + 10;
}
private void ClickHandler()
{
  // Put whatever was in your Click event handler here.
}
private listView1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  timer1.Enabled = true;
}
 
private listView1_DoubleClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  timer1.Enabled = false;
  // Your double-click event handler code goes here.
}
 
private timer1_Tick(object sender, EventHandler e)
{
  timer1.Enabled = false;
  ClickHandler(); // Call your actual click handler.
}

It's a simplified example, but it shows the basics of using a timer to distinguish between clicks and double clicks. There are other ways, but using timers is quite simple.

Also note that the .NET BCL (base class library) provides three different Timer classes. You might want to evaluate which one works best for you.

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SandeepN23-Sep-04 8:49

SandeepN

23-Sep-04 8:49

Thanks for the reply

Can you please briefly explain other options too..

I might have to do this in MFC also
thanks once again..

Sandeep Naik

Heath Stewart23-Sep-04 10:53

23-Sep-04 10:53

Using timers in C/C++ (upon which MFC is written) to distinguish between clicks and double clicks is the most common scenario as well.

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Howto: Lock my ArrayList collection.

SandeepN24-Sep-04 4:32

SandeepN

24-Sep-04 4:32

Thanks a lot....
I could solve the problem

Sandeep Naik

matthias s.23-Sep-04 6:47

matthias s.

23-Sep-04 6:47

Hi,

I'm trying to write a class which provides access to several collections. Business requires, that the user of my class might access the collections content (the objects stored in it) without allowing him to modify the collection itself, that is, he can enumerate the objects, access call methods / access properties, but can't add or remove objects to or from the collection.

I hope I got the question clear enough to understand Smile | :)

What is the best way of designing this?

Thanks in advance!

Matthias

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Re: Howto: Lock my ArrayList collection.

Heath Stewart23-Sep-04 7:34

Re: Howto: Lock my ArrayList collection.

23-Sep-04 7:34

Extend whatever IList implementation you want (or just implement it yourself, or extend CollectionBase) and override IsReadOnly. Define a method that sets a state variable and can never set it again like so:

public class ReadOnlyArrayList
{
  bool readOnly;
  public override bool IsReadOnly
  {
    get { return readOnly; }
  }
  internal void SetReadOnly() // Or maybe public, whatever
  {
    readOnly = true;
  }
}

And there you go. Once you've filled it with the objects you want in the list, call SetReadOnly. ArrayList, along with other IList implementations in the BCL, check IsReadOnly before allowing changes using methods like Add or Remove. If you implement IList yourself, make sure you do the same.

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Werdna23-Sep-04 10:29

Werdna

23-Sep-04 10:29

If you have methods returning ArrayList and you don't want the consumer of the list to modify it, you can use ArrayList.ReadOnly(collection) method.

For example if you have internal:
ArrayList myList;

and method returning this list:
ArrayList GetMyList()
{
return ArrayList.ReadOnly(myList);
}

that way they will get ArrayList with all elements of your list. However if you internally change content of the list inside your class, then those changes will be reflected in the returned list (if someone is pointing reference to it).
Hope this makes sense.

Basic EventHandling Question

SandeepN23-Sep-04 6:42

SandeepN

23-Sep-04 6:42

I am handling OnClik and OnDoubleClick event on a listView. When ever user doubleclicks on a item, first OnClick and then OnDoubleClick event gets fired. Is there a way to avoid OnClick event when user has DoubleClicked on the item ?

Sandeep Naik

Interfacing with C Vendor DLLs

Evelyne23-Sep-04 4:53

23-Sep-04 4:53

1. my vendor interface is defined in an h & c file:

_EXTERN S16BIT _DECL aceSetIrqConditions(S16BIT DevNum, U16BIT bEnable,
U32BIT dwIrqMask,void(_DECL *funcExternalIsr)(S16BIT DevNum, U32BIT
dwIrqStatus))

void _DECL Callback(S16BIT DevNum, U32BIT dwIrqStatus);

/* Configure user callback ISR and enable EOM interrupts */
aceSetIrqConditions(DevNum, TRUE, ACE_IMR1_BC_MSG_EOM, Callback);

void _DECL Callback(S16BIT DevNum, U32BIT dwIrqStatus)
{
/* this is what I would write, I would like to get here with C#
}

2. I am trying to use the vendor interface for the above
aceSetIrqConditions() to call an interrup routine I write (eomInterrupt).
This is my C# effort, it compiles, but when I try to execute this, I get an
Error, see below:

// EOM Interrupt declaration
public delegate void Callback(short DevNum, uint dwIrqStatus);

[DllImport("C:\\acs\\bin\\Release\\emace_32.dll")]
public extern static short aceSetIrqConditions(short DevNum, ushort bEnable,
uint dwIrqMask, Callback cbm);

Callback cbm = new Callback(eomInterrupt);

aceSetIrqConditions(devNum, 1, ACS1553.ACE_IMR1_BC_MSG_EOM, cbm);

public void eomInterrupt(short DevNum, uint dwIrqStatus)
{
/* *** never gets to statement below! *** */
if((dwIrqStatus & ACS1553.ACE_IMR1_BC_MSG_EOM) != 0)
{
irqCount++;
}
}

The error is:
Debug Error!

File:i386\chkesp.c, Line 42.

The value of ESP was not properly saved across a function call. This is
usually a result of calling a function declared with one calling convention
with a function pointer declared with a different calling convention.

The program runs fine, except when I added above. What am I doing wrong???

Thanks,

--
Evelyne

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Heath Stewart23-Sep-04 6:58

23-Sep-04 6:58

First, if possible NEVER hard-code the path to the DLL from which you want ot P/Invoke functions. If necessary, add the path to the PATH environment variable and restart the application. If you hard-code the path, you're only in for a world of maintanance nightmares.

Also, if you haven't already read Consuming Unmanaged DLL Functions[^] and Marshaling Data with Platform Invoke[^], but you seem to have a good grasp of P/Invoke.

As far as the calling convention problem, we have discussed this before and it is a known problem. To better help you, though, what exactly is _DECL defined as?

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Evelyne23-Sep-04 8:47

23-Sep-04 8:47

Heath, Thanks for answering.

Why did my first reply not appear on the message board?

I don't know what _DECL is defined as.

Here are some applicable snippets from the vendor example, coded in c:
#ifdef WIN32 #include #include "stdemace.h" #include #endif
...
void _DECL Callback(S16BIT DevNum, U32BIT dwIrqStatus);
...
/* somewhere in their main, the conditions to call the user interrupt routine are set up */
/* Configure user callback ISR and enable EOM interrupts */ aceSetIrqConditions(DevNum, TRUE, ACE_IMR1_BC_MSG_EOM, Callback);
...
/* this is what I would write in C# */
/* can I define a C# method by assigning a calling convention of Cdecl? How do I do that? Where do I put the statement CallingConvention=CallingConvention.Cdecl? By the way this is just an idea!?! */

void _DECL Callback(S16BIT DevNum, U32BIT dwIrqStatus)
{
/* confirm that IRQ is ACE_IMR1_BC_MSG_EOM */
if(dwIrqStatus & ACE_IMR1_BC_MSG_EOM )
{
nNumIrqcounter++;
// todo: perform additional message processing
}
}
I hope this helps?

Evelyne S. Mitchell

Heath Stewart23-Sep-04 10:17

23-Sep-04 10:17

Evelyne wrote:
Why did my first reply not appear on the message board?

You hit the "Email" link instead of "Reply".

It's important to know what _DECL is defined as because that's obviously defining your calling convention.

You could just assume it uses the __cdecl calling convention and add the CallingConvention.Cdecl to your DllImportAttribute:

[DllImport("emace_32.dll", CallingConvention=CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
static extern short aceSetIrqConditions(short DevNum, ushort bEnable, 
  uint dwIrqMask, Callback funcExternalIsr);
 
delegate void Callback(short DevNum, uint dwIrqStatus);

Unfortunately, that won't solve your immediate problem. Delegates use the __stdcall calling convention and you can't change this directly in C#. You have to do one of the follow:

Change your native DLL to use the __stdcall calling convention (probably can't since this sounds like it's from another vendor)
Write a Managed C++ assembly that wraps this functionality. Since it targets the CLR and follows the CLI (mostly) you can use it in other managed languages like C#, VB.NET, etc.
Disassemble our assembly, change the calling convention, and reassemble your assembly.

For the last one, write your code and compile your project. Run ildasm.exe <MyProject.exe> to disassemble it. Find the declaration of your callback and add the following between the return type and the name Invoke defined for the delegate:

modopt([mscorlib]System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CallConvCdecl)

Now reassemble using ilasm.exe (notice no "d"). You will want to read about this tool in the .NET Framework SDK before running it to make sure your assembly gets resigned correctly, and you really should sign your assemblies (and version them) to produce a strong name assembly. Not doing that leads to security problems and makes upgrades and .NET code access security a pain. Frankly, it's easy. Just run sn.exe -k <filename> to generate a key pair and set the path in your AssemblyInfo.cs (by default using VS.NET) file's [assembly: AssemblyKeyFile("")] attribute, or add it to a container using sn.exe -i and use the AssemblyKeyNameAttribute instead.

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Evelyne24-Sep-04 16:15

24-Sep-04 16:15

Heath,

I tried to take your option 1 first, sounded less complicated. So I contacted the vendor and here is what they said:"The calling convention of the callback routine for the user interrupt is not _cdecl. The callback is defined to be _DECL which we have #defined in our code to be WINAPI. In the Windows files WINAPI is defined to be the standard calling convention. From Windef.h which is a Windows header file: #define WINAPI __stdcall."

So by not defining the calling option of CallingConvention=CallingConvention.Cdecl, that should have worked to begin with? So what do I doe now, I am really confused???

Evelyne S. Mitchell

Evelyne28-Sep-04 10:32