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Some overall comments:
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I have my doubt you will ever get this to work; it looks like a lot of code is present, none of which is yours, no source and no documentation available. Normally one starts from scratch, creates a little piece of code, gets it to work, then expand it a bit, etc. That way most if not all code is familiar and in working order all of the time. You will have a lot of code, some mistakes, and not much that works I expect.
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You can tell Reflector to show a method in a language of choice. If VB.NET is not your prime language, and maybe C# is, it may help to look at the C# code it suggests.
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I was told there are add-ins for Reflector that would turn an entire DLL into source code right away.
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There are programs, and web services, that translate code from one .NET language to another. I use them occasionally when trying to answer questions here on this forum.
5.
Make Google your friend. All of MSDN and heaps of useful articles will be at your disposal, simply by entering a few keywords.
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I seem to be learning best the hard way, every time I try learning something the easy way I end up not knowing anything. This is why I love looking at other peoples code and learning their syntax. I have done a lot of work on my own serialport classes under VB.NET so most of this code is known to me. The unknown parts being delegating and event handling.
I havent found a good tutorial on using delegates under VB.net nor on event handling, but I have both present here in this code sample, now if I could (given enough time) reverse engineer this, I would end up understanding both on a relatively known problem (serial port communication).
VB.net is my language of choice, but I had done some minor work in C#, I have already compared C# and VB.net reflector outputs and this did help me solve SOME of the problems, just not all.
I would be interested in reflector addon that turns an entire dll into source code, I have been searching under addons for it, but I havent been able to find it, is it third party (not listed on reflectors home page)?
Yeah there some sort of a plugin for VS that handles PINVOKING, I also use it a lot.
Turns out that using google shake and bake solutions makes me patchwork code together without knowing WHY it works, unfortunately due to time constraints on my projects, I do the majority of things this way. AFAIK most programmers do. It makes me feel unsecure about my knowledge and the behaviour of the code that isnt all mine.
I love learning how the stuff actually works.
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IMO the quickest way to learn a new technology is by reading a book about it. A tutorial is meant to take you from zero to first understanding; you will not be getting why things are done a particular way, and not another way, just by looking at existing code.
I can't help you with articles on delegates and events if you insist on them using VB examples.
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Fixed a few things;
1) Delegate is a system.delegate method so there was a problem in namespaces, had to explicitly state what a "DELEGATE" is (a system.delegate in this case)
2) Unresolved at this time, mostly because I am clueless when it comes to delegates 
This is the C# variant of one of the events/delegates:
public delegate void OnForceClose(int ErrorCode);
public event OnForceClose OnForceClose;
When expanded it reveals the following:
[MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.Synchronized)]
public void add_OnForceClose(OnForceClose value)
{
this.OnForceClose = (OnForceClose) Delegate.Combine(this.OnForceClose, value);
}
[MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.Synchronized)]
public void remove_OnForceClose(OnForceClose value)
{
this.OnForceClose = (OnForceClose) Delegate.Remove(this.OnForceClose, value);
}
VB.net variant looks like this:
Public Custom Event OnForceClose As OnForceClose
MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.Synchronized) _
Public Sub add_OnForceClose(ByVal value As OnForceClose)
Me.OnForceClose = DirectCast(Delegate.Combine(Me.OnForceClose, value), OnForceClose)
End Sub
MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.Synchronized) _
Public Sub remove_OnForceClose(ByVal value As OnForceClose)
Me.OnForceClose = DirectCast(Delegate.Remove(Me.OnForceClose, value), OnForceClose)
End Sub
I have no idea what this does, I can make an educated guess and say that this delegate is "announced" by using an older routine that does not use "add handler", "remove handler" and "raiseevent" instead it plugs into an older system.delegate method and therefore uses a different way of adding and removing a handler (see c# example).
The VB example seems to show how to splice two delegates (or events) into one by the means of system.delegate.combine method, I have no idea why this is used in this example and what it should accomplish.
I would need to find out what the difference is between the above mentioned examples and the addhandler/removehandler/raiseevent (which I am partly familiar with) and then try to recreate the whole thing.
Any help/insight would be most welcome.
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Hi again,
in normal situations, you don't need to go into the internals of events, i.e. I don't expect you would need Delegate.Combine at all. In normal circumstances, all the code you would need is what can be found in the MSDN example here[^]. There are three parts:
1. event declaration, with event keyword
2. event set-up, based on AddHandler
3. event processing, which looks like a regular method you have to provide.
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I am looking into it right now, hopefully I will be able to rewrite the functionality of this part of code using normal VB.net syntax as shown on MSDN.
That is the only remaining error by the way, I have fixed all the other errors except for this one concerning events and delegates.
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Dim numRef As Byte*
Fixed numRef = buffer
I have this thing that puzzles me. 
I suppose that fixed means that garbage collector isnt allowed anywhere near the memory location to prevent accidental removal.
That I can do in VB.net. 
On the other hand I have no idea what Byte* is, seems to me its a pointer, what I do know from debugging is that it seems to retain only the first element in buffer (which is an array of 1023 I think, irrelevant at this point).
Does the pointer point only to the first element? 
So if you store 1023 bytes in byte* it retains only the first byte?
Please help 
Added more info at 12:00
The next line of code is the following;
flag2 = Win32.ReadFile(Me.m_handle, numRef, 50, (numBytesRead), AddressOf overlapped)
numref in this case is taken from the line before and hence flag2 returns boolean true. Interesting thing is, in my patchwork code I use the following
Dim flag2 As Boolean = False
Dim numRef As Byte() = Nothing
numBytesRead = Nothing
numRef = buffer
flag2 = False
flag2 = Win32Serijski.ReadFile(Me.m_handle, numRef, 50, numBytesRead, overl)
And in contrast to the original code, my flag2 ALWAYS returns TRUE, while in the original code it returns true only if theres NEW data in the buffer.
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Hi everybody,
I'm struggling with the creation of an Office-AddIn in Visual Basic Express 2008 (for code and details please see this message). The code is similar to several examples I found on the net and it used to fully work before, but now it makes trouble. The project compiles well, all components can be registered (also the tlb) and the registry entries seem to be all ok. I can even call methods of the AddIn from Excel VBA, but a toolbar button doesn't get installed. It actually seems as if all the connection-events just don't fire.
What I could use now is some advice on how to debug the dll in runtime, i.e. examine the connection process in order to find out exactly where the assumed error(s) occur. Does someone of you know a way (VB Express) or a (free) tool which might help in that? I'm really trapped in the dark and running in circles right now... 
Thank you for advice,
Mick
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Hi Michael,
I don't know what the official answer would be; there may well be a fancy tool or command to solve your problem right away.
However this is what I would do, all very basic, nothing fancy at all; its main purpose is to increase observability and tracability:
- create a log method that somehow logs a one-line message
- make sure try-catch blocks are present where useful
- add log statements to the code, in order to trace progress and report all exceptions
- check that there are no empty catch blocks nor finally blocks
Assuming your allowed to create and write files, a log method could be (not tested in VB!):
Public Shared Sub Log(msg as String)
File.AppendText("<path to a writable location on disk, maybe> C:\temp\mylog.txt", msg & Environment.NewLine)
End Sub
Of course, a more elaborate scheme could be used, with timestamp, thread ID, severity, whatever.
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Thank you Luc for your pragmatic approach.
Following your basic idea, I had already put a MsgBox after every couple of lines before - so I just had to change them a little bit to get the same result as a log. Unfortunately the result is that the corresponding log lines are just not written (like the msgboxes not shown before), while the log lines of the classes' other methods are written. That's also the basis for my assumption that the events aren't fired at all...? In this special case, the Try... Catch approach didn't seem to make sense, as for the test I removed everything but the log lines from the IDTExtensibility-Members just to see if they are called at all.
Is it possible that I encounter a general problem with the IDTExtensibility2 Interface here? Like written in the above mentiones message, I had experimented with stuff I didn't really understand... Would it be possible that I "destroyed" anything in that interface, so that it doesn't provide the events anymore (e.g. registry setting)? If yes: Would I have to re-install VB Express or can I extract the relevant assembly somehow from the installer package?
Thanks again
Michael
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Hi Michael,
I'm not familiar with the IDTExtensibility2 interface, so I can't comment from experience. I did look a bit at the MSDN documentation and this struck me:
"IDTExtensibility2 contains methods that act as events when the interface is implemented. Visual Studio calls these methods whenever an event that affects an add-in occurs, such as when it is loaded or unloaded, whenever a change is made to it, and so forth." from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/extensibility.idtextensibility2(VS.80).aspx[^]
Now how would Visual Studio be involved once your component is ready for use??? I think you'll need to Google some more, maybe find a better example, or a completely different angle on the problem.
Good luck!
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Hi Luc,
thank you for you rapid answer and the link, which I had a quick look on.
Somehow the first sentence "IDTExtensibility2 Interface... Hosts the event notifications that occur to add-ins..." makes me think even more that I might have a problem with the interface itself, since there's obviously no event notification happening.
Probably a re-installation of the interface dll (seems like this msaddndr.dll is part of windows itself) helps - but I guess I'll do that tomorrow. Please send me a short STOP if you think that thought is complete nonsense.
In case you're here in Europe, too I wish you a good night  - and thanks for the mental support anyway
Michael
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You're welcome.
I would not reinstall anything until I was convinced the approach and code are valid (unless there were other reasons to suspect a couple of things of course).
I would research more, and try on another system. I suggest you also try some totally different code that relies on the same parts, maybe something from here[^].
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Hi Luc,
just to let you know: I don't know how and which, but one of my todays steps solved the issue! After your hint I got a bit into the tracing of VB, which helped here and will help me in the future, too. For this one it's quite likely that it was a registration issue... Thanks again. 
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Hi,
i've a 2 sim mobilephone and I have the following problem: I want to create a software (in vb.net or c#) that allows me to assign each number stored in the phonebook with one sim. In this way I could call one vodafone number with my vodafone sim and one number Tim with my Tim sim. Can you help me?
I hope to be clear and have been written correctly in English
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How you do that depends entirely on the phones themselves and if you can get an SDK or whatever you have ot do to communicate with the phones. You're best source of information is going to be the manufacturer of the phones. What you're thinking of doing is VERY specialized and you're not likely to get any help on how to do this from here. You need to find a forum more specific to "hacking" your phone than this one.
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ok, but at least is It easy to know where the register is set to choose the sim for call?
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Only through the SDK documentation on the phone.
I have no experience with it myself, but I at least know where'd I look for the information.
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I have looked for an explanation to why the following code is resulting in the error
"Overload resolution failed because no 'SetSelectedCellCore' is accessible." on the line
dgvStudents.SetSelectedCellCore(0, 0, True)
I have no controls on my form. I am running Win7 and Visual Basic Express 2008, but i get the same result on my WinXP machine running VB Express 2008. Any help would be appreciated.
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Public Class Exercise
Dim dgvStudents As MyDataGridView = New MyDataGridView
Private Sub Exercise_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
Handles MyBase.Load
Text = "Students Records"
dgvStudents = New MyDataGridView()
dgvStudents.Location = New Point(12, 12)
dgvStudents.Size = New Size(650, 100)
Dim colFullName As DataGridViewColumn = New DataGridViewColumn
colFullName.Name = "FullName"
colFullName.HeaderText = "Full Name"
Dim celFullName As DataGridViewCell = New DataGridViewTextBoxCell
colFullName.CellTemplate = celFullName
dgvStudents.Columns.Add(colFullName)
Dim colPhone As DataGridViewColumn = New DataGridViewColumn
colPhone.Name = "PhNum"
colPhone.HeaderText = "Ph Number"
Dim celPhone As DataGridViewCell = New DataGridViewTextBoxCell
colPhone.CellTemplate = celPhone
dgvStudents.Columns.Add(colPhone)
Controls.Add(dgvStudents)
dgvStudents.SetSelectedCellCore(0, 0, True)
End Sub
End Class
Public Class MyDataGridView
Inherits DataGridView
Protected Overrides Sub SetSelectedCellCore( _
ByVal columnIndex As Integer, _
ByVal rowIndex As Integer, _
ByVal selected As Boolean)
MyBase.SetSelectedCellCore(columnIndex, rowIndex, selected)
End Sub
End Class
modified on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 1:46 PM
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The overridden method remains protected and can only be accessed from within your MyDataGridView class. A public wrapper method would be needed to do what you want as the SetSelectedCellCore method's access modifier cannot be changed from protected to public.
Alan.
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This is a protected method which means that you can't access it directly. AFAIK you can only access it from within the class.
Generally, the only time you would want to override this method was if you wanted to prevent a user from focusing on a particular cell.
Why not just do
dgvStudents.Rows(0).Cells(0).Selected = True
I would not suggest overriding a protected method to do something it's not meant to do...but...
you could just add a new method within your MyDataGridView class called something like MySetSelectedCellCore that simply calls your overridden SetSelectedCellCore. Then you just call that MySetSelectedCellCore. It would look like:
Public Class myDataGridView
Inherits DataGridView
Protected Overrides Sub SetSelectedCellCore(ByVal columnIndex As Integer, ByVal rowIndex As Integer, ByVal selected As Boolean)
MyBase.SetSelectedCellCore(columnIndex, rowIndex, selected)
End Sub
Public Sub MySetSelectedCellCore(ByVal columnIndex As Integer, ByVal rowIndex As Integer, ByVal selected As Boolean)
SetSelectedCellCore(columnIndex, rowIndex, selected)
End Sub
End Class
though again, I must stress, that's not what it was intended to do and not the best way to do what it looks like you are trying to do.
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Thanks, both of you, for the pointers. I have learned a couple of different ways to do this now. I should be able to apply this to different objects as well. 
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Just as an FYI, when you call
dgvStudents.Rows(0).Cells(0).Selected = True the DataGridView implements this by making a call to SetSelectedCellCore You can see this by using the class you created as listed in your OP and setting a breakpoint on
MyBase.SetSelectedCellCore(columnIndex, rowIndex, selected) then calling
dgvStudents.Rows(0).Cells(0).Selected = True .
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I did notice that, so I went searching for the reason that it worked... I did a little bit of VB6 as a hobby and wondered what could be so drastically different in vb.net.  now i need to move a program I wrote in VB6 over to .net. I think I might like the new OOP paradigm, but only time will tell, and there's a little bit of a learning curve here.
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hi
how to parse the Excel worksheet and write the data to a file using VBA Scripting ?
kindly provide me the tutorial to implement this task.
Thanks in Advance,
Narendra
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