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Diana Rhoades wrote: I am teaching myself
Diana Rhoades wrote: No doubt it is not a good first project but it is what I have
If you are teaching yourself then you should be able to pull the plug on a project that is not a good first project and start a new one.
Diana Rhoades wrote: There is not a great deal published on this scenario or I am googling the wrong terms.
There is a great deal published on all the topics involved in your scenario. However probably not one that matches exactly your combination of all the issues and technologies involved. This is why a developer needs to understand the basics of all the different technologies they need to use in a project, so that they are capable of integrating them all to accomplish the goals of the project.
Here is an excerpt from an Allen Holub article, where he discusses what things and why they are important for developers to know. (link to article)[^]
As far as I can tell, it’s because many so-called programmers just don’t know how to build a compiler. I really don’t have much patience for this sort of thing. To my mind, there is a minimum set of topics with which you have to be conversant to call yourself a professional programmer. If you don’t know these things, you’re a dilettante. This list includes a deep understanding of data structures and key algorithms, a little math (set theory, logic, a little statistics), mastery of analysis-and-design techniques, both process (e.g., RUP or XP) and structure (e.g., design patterns), and database structure and use (e.g., SQL). You also need to know how the hardware works.
You need this stuff even if you’re not actually using it in your work, because no matter what you’re doing, knowing this material will make your work better. How could you possibly decide which of Java’s Collection classes to use in a particular situation if you don’t know how those classes work under the covers, for example?
Knowing how to build a compiler is certainly one of the skills on this need-to-know list. Compilers are fundamental to what we do every day as a programmer. Knowing how the compiler works will let you make intelligent decisions about program structure, decisions that have real impact on the quality of our programs. More to the point, most programs have to parse input (either from a human being or from a machine) and make sense of it. To do that, you have to build a small compiler.
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good day people
im searching through every directory in my computer with Directory.GetDirectories and Directory.GetFiles and when it gets to folders suchs as program files or documents and settings it gives me the "Access to path ... denied" exception, i have searched and found no answer yet, so is there really no way i can get around this exception? do i have to just skip these folders or can i do something to have access to them?
thanks a lot in advance
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Hi,
yes, you might not have access to all existing folders (e.g. Vista prevents accessing the "System Volume Information" folder) so you need a try-catch inside the foreach that deals with accessing the individual folders. There are other things that might go wrong too, such as the local or networked drive disappearing, the folder disappearing, etc. so you need the try-catch anyway; without it the enumeration would suddenly come to a halt.
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well i guess i will just skip those damn folders 
thanks a lot man
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mirko86 wrote: i will just skip those damn folders
they exist, so they get reported by GetDirectories/GetFiles.
The method is not called GetAllFilesIWillBeAllowedAccessTo() you know.
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modified on Sunday, June 12, 2011 8:45 AM
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Hello guys i would like to incorporate windows live maps with my application, the only problem is that my application is a windows application. Is it possabile to use windows live maps with a windows application? any ideas?
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you can use a web browser control
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ok thank you. Im gonna ask you another stupid question but worth a try.
For example I view some portion of the map and then the internet cuts, is it possabile to cache the view part of the map so that it can be viewable withour internet connection. Because in my project the application's scenario is based on a thrid world country.
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Hello!
I have some code that add's users to my local administrator group.
But what i would like to accoplish is to add a user from an active directory to my localmachine admin group.
My code can add a local user to the local admin group.
I tried to alter the LDAP string for the ActiveDirectory connection but now it fails to add the domain user to the localmachine admin group.
The AD LDAP String: ldap://SERVERNAME01:389/CN=TESTUSER01,CN=Users,DC=DOMAIN01,DC=local
The Test String: WinNT://WORKGROUP/STEPHAN-F894E19/TestUser1
The Test String works the AD LDAP String doesn't work.
Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks!
the Code:
private void AddUserToGroup()
{
try
{
DirectoryEntry AD = new DirectoryEntry("WinNT://" + Environment.MachineName + ",computer");
DirectoryEntry grp;
grp = AD.Children.Find("Administrators", "group");
if (grp != null) { grp.Invoke("Add", new object[] { "WinNT://WORKGROUP/STEPHAN-F894E19/TestUser1" }); }
MessageBox.Show("Account Created Successfully");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}
}
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i Found this code on CodeProject:
public void AddToGroup(string userDn, string groupDn)
{
try
{
DirectoryEntry dirEntry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" + groupDn);
dirEntry.Properties["member"].Add(userDn);
dirEntry.CommitChanges();
dirEntry.Close();
}
catch (System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryServicesCOMException E)
{
}
}
But can anyone show me a sample LDAP String , UserDn String and a GroupDn String?
Thanks!
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LDAP string - LDAP://CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=aDomain,DC=com
userDN - CN=aUser,CN=Users,DC=aDomain,DC=com
DN means distinguishedName
cool?
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Hi,
im trying to convert the octet string (msExchSmtpRelayIpList) and convert into a list of IP addresses.
i have tried various things but just get random numbers that don't relate to IP addresses!!
can anyone help me?
Many Thanks,
Phil
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Hi Curtis,
this is just what i'm looking for. although the VB script calls the dll. do you know how i could use DLLImport to make calls this this dll?
sorry for the questions, i'm a newbie at this!!
thanks is advance!
Phil
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I haven't actually downloaded the software, just know of its abilities.
Microsoft has a tutorial on Platform Invoke at Platform Invoke Tutorial (C#)[^]
If you think that the official Microsoft tutorials don't tutor well (and I'd mostly agree with you), then Jason Clark wrote a pretty good piece for MSDN called Calling Win32 DLLs in C# with P/Invoke[^].
Either way that you learn, you'll need the signature of the method; you can get that from the VB script file.
"we must lose precision to make significant statements about complex systems."
-deKorvin on uncertainty
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Hi Curtis,
this has been a great help, and even though i understand it all much better. i still can't find the Entrypoints for the Dll. i have tried using Link /dump /exports dllname.dll and this doesn't return anything that is used in the VB script.
i have used COM browser and this shows more details, but when i use these details in the C# code it return a unable to find an entry point exception.
sorry to be a pain, could you help further?
Many Thanks,
Phil
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Hi,
wouldn't IPAddress.Parse() take care of it?
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Straight from msn:
NTSTATUS status;
status = WdfUsbTargetDeviceResetPortSynchronously(UsbDevice);
And please don't use the 'urgent!!' word inside the title, read the rules  ...
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sry about the urgent thing 
anyway what is NTSTATUS ? is it a class or something ? ( i never used com and win32 stuff)
thx a lot for your time
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Why do you ask these kind of questions to us?
The internet is like a very big book. To find some stuff in the book you can either ask people who have read it or you scan the text. For the big book called 'the internet' there are many full automatic scanners available (google.com for instance). If you have found a piece of usefull information, you should read the piece... if you'd done that, you wouldn't be asking questions.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa489609.aspx[^]
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well i did lot of searches but no results :s
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C# doesn't have functions.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: C# doesn't have functions
yh i know plz read the question before you answer
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Hello,
Can you reduce the resolution of a PDF, for example I have a pdf with a size greater than A4 is I ve go to the A4, is that possible?
Thank you very much.
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