Re: Programatic Font Install - C# Discussion Boards

Richard MacCutchan20-Sep-09 4:05

20-Sep-09 4:05

See here[^] for some good information on the AddFontResource function, and PInvoke in general.

HighCloud wrote:
do I copy the dll's from my system directory to my project to use them?

No, the runtime system knows where to find them.

HighCloud wrote:
Is this the best way to install a type font programatically?

I'm not sure of the answer to this one, but there are some useful articles on Fonts here on CP.

HighCloud20-Sep-09 4:37

HighCloud

20-Sep-09 4:37

Thanks again.

I believe that for now I have enough information to compile and experiment with this material.

Luc Pattyn20-Sep-09 5:03

20-Sep-09 5:03

Hi,

could you provide the P/Invoke link? I am in the middle of writing an article on the subject, and eager to get more material.

FYI: you don't have to install a font to use it in your own app, there is a PrivateFontCollection class that could help you out. (I haven't used it myself though).

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Richard MacCutchan20-Sep-09 5:15

20-Sep-09 5:15

See my previous answer; it's PInvoke.net. Surprised that you didn't know about this, I felt sure you would have written some of it. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

Luc Pattyn20-Sep-09 5:25

20-Sep-09 5:25

Sorry, I misunderstood. I have known and like pinvoke.net for years (even when it has some errors); I am looking more for tutorial material though.

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Richard MacCutchan20-Sep-09 9:57

20-Sep-09 9:57

I must admit to being somewhat surprised that you did not know about it. Unfortunately it's my only source, although some of the entries do contain some quite useful sample code.

Luc Pattyn20-Sep-09 10:10

20-Sep-09 10:10

As I said before, I have been using www.pinvoke.net for many years. It offers reasonable reference material, somewhat incomplete and sometimes plain wrong.

I would like to see better P/Invoke tutorial stuff e.g. explaining all the Marshaling alternatives, and that is why I am writing my own article right now.

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Richard MacCutchan20-Sep-09 10:28

20-Sep-09 10:28

Luc Pattyn wrote:
and that is why I am writing my own article right now.

Excellent news; I'm looking for a decent tutorial Big Grin | :-D

Luc Pattyn20-Sep-09 10:53

20-Sep-09 10:53

Would you be interested in proofreading and providing feedback?
I plan a two-part article, of which the first part is almost ready (except for the download).
It contains general principles and many simple examples (C# so far, will be adding VB.NET), but skips everything about structs.

BTW: not sure I will publish it on CP as the house style doesn't really fit; I'll have to take that up with Chris in a couple of weeks.

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Richard MacCutchan21-Sep-09 11:22

21-Sep-09 11:22

Luc Pattyn wrote:
Would you be interested in proofreading and providing feedback?

I'd be happy to help in any way I can, although I have to warn you I'm neither a brilliant programmer nor an accomplished technical writer.

harold aptroot20-Sep-09 5:19

20-Sep-09 5:19

AddFontResource is not on PInvoke.net (yet)

Richard MacCutchan20-Sep-09 9:55

20-Sep-09 9:55

harold aptroot wrote:
AddFontResource is not on PInvoke.net (yet)

Shazzam![^]

harold aptroot20-Sep-09 10:03

20-Sep-09 10:03

Wut?

I did a search for it 4 hours ago, no results..

Richard MacCutchan20-Sep-09 10:25

20-Sep-09 10:25

harold aptroot wrote:
I did a search for it 4 hours ago, no results..

Come on Harold, this isn't like you, get a grip! What's this[^]?

harold aptroot21-Sep-09 0:47

21-Sep-09 0:47

I don't know man Confused | :confused:

It certainly looks like the right page?
How did you find it?

Richard MacCutchan21-Sep-09 3:15

21-Sep-09 3:15

harold aptroot wrote:
How did you find it?

www.pinvoke.net then use the left hand selector to find gdi32. Click the plus sign and it opens up, and you can see the individual entries.

I already new www.pinvoke.net to start with, so I did not Google it; maybe it's not well indexed.

harold aptroot21-Sep-09 3:54

21-Sep-09 3:54

Hm.. I tried to use that search bar of pinvoke itself (left top)
Apparently it doesn't work so well..

Richard MacCutchan21-Sep-09 10:47

21-Sep-09 10:47

harold aptroot wrote:
Hm.. I tried to use that search bar of pinvoke itself (left top)
Apparently it doesn't work so well..

This is weird, I just tried it and it worked fine. It found AddFontResource, AddFontResourceEx and RemoveFontResource! Even just using "fontresource" as a search key finds them all.

harold aptroot21-Sep-09 11:04

21-Sep-09 11:04

Hm.. that's not good, that means I'm becoming like CG, everything malfunctioning around me Frown | :(

Richard MacCutchan21-Sep-09 11:30

21-Sep-09 11:30

harold aptroot wrote:
Hm.. that's not good, that means I'm becoming like CG, everything malfunctioning around me

do
{

I have days like this when I spend hours tweaking code, testing, asserting, throwing etc. And then, after what seems a lifetime, I spot the misplaced comma, the transposed operand, or whatever, and suddenly it all starts to work correctly. But I never tell anyone else about the stupid mistake I made, that the rawest rookie could spot from twenty-five paces. I just mutter into my coffee and promise not to be so careless in future.

} while (true);

Luc Pattyn21-Sep-09 11:40

21-Sep-09 11:40

Don't tell CG. He would have to close down his blog[^].

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Retrieve the data from Excel Sheet, manipulate the data and then I want to store it in data base

HighCloud21-Sep-09 3:45

HighCloud

21-Sep-09 3:45

Please try

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa287781(VS.71).aspx[^]

There is another link at the bottom of this page for a tutorial.

PrivateFont Collection will not do for me as I want a prement install.

Thanks. Let us know about your writing.

amaankhan20-Sep-09 1:45

amaankhan

20-Sep-09 1:45

I want to retrieve the data from Excel Sheet row and column wise and then I want to manipulate the data and then I want to store it in data base. using VS 2008 C#

Re: Retrieve the data from Excel Sheet, manipulate the data and then I want to store it in data base

Richard MacCutchan20-Sep-09 2:39