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Re: How to use two different versions of same dll in vb.net web application?

Affan Toor13-Mar-12 19:02

13-Mar-12 19:02

thanks for reply.
our organization are shifting from an older version of third party API to its latest version. and we want to make this transition smooth, we want to use both for a while and gradually replace the functionality from older version to new version. if you have any alternative solution then please share.

Regards,
Affan Ahmad Toor

Re: How to use two different versions of same dll in vb.net web application?

Sentenryu14-Mar-12 1:50

Sentenryu

14-Mar-12 1:50

i don't know if this will work on VB, but i've found this workaround:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/abhinaba/archive/2005/11/30/498278.aspx[^]

also, this post from stackOverflow can be useful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5916855/using-multiple-versions-of-the-same-dll[^]

also, i've found that in SharpDevelop you could simple select the reference in the solution explorer, click properties and set a alias, this works for VB and C#, i can't verify that this is true for visual studio (i don't have it here), but its a good start point

if nothing works, the solution is to create 2 more class library projects and warp each version in a diferent namespace... too much work Cry | :((

EDIT: i haven't managed to reference the alias defined in SharpDevelop into the code, so, i think you will be forced to warp the dlls...

I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)

Re: How to use two different versions of same dll in vb.net web application?

ZurdoDev16-Mar-12 6:28

ZurdoDev

16-Mar-12 6:28

That is what the Reflection namespace is for in .Net. You'll have to load the dll's dynamically. I don't think it is worth it though.

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Shared Variables and Threading Issue

D3STROYRofWRLDS12-Mar-12 10:02

D3STROYRofWRLDS

12-Mar-12 10:02

Hey All,

So I am currently attempting to wrap my head around create multi-threaded programs and I am currently running into an issue when using a Shared variable across multiple threads.

The program is structured as follows:

Public Shared IsActive as Boolean

Main Thread = GUI
Sets the Value of IsActive through a Button Control

Two Worker Threads
Both threads are while loops that read the IsActive Boolean

Ex:
While IsActive = True
Do Work
End While

However when I change the value of IsActive from the Main Thread it causes the worker threads to stop (ThreadState = 16).

I have been reading that I have to synchronize/lock shared resources and have tried SyncLock and Monitor methods without success (it is entirely possible I am not using the above correctly, so If someone could provide proper examples for the above situation using the mentioned methods please share them).

Thanks a bunch for any and all help, much appreciated!

If further code is needed let me know.

Thanks!

Re: Shared Variables and Threading Issue

Dave Kreskowiak12-Mar-12 10:12

Dave Kreskowiak

12-Mar-12 10:12

If I read your post correctly, you declare a variable in your UI code (isActive) and set it to True. Then you start two threads that both look at isActive and run until isActive if False. When you set isActive to False, both threads stop.

This is the expected behavior. Or am I missing something? What are you expecting to happen?

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Re: Shared Variables and Threading Issue

Luc Pattyn12-Mar-12 10:44

Luc Pattyn

12-Mar-12 10:44

See, that is what you get from a poor choice of an identifier name, what you have implemented is a "PleaseContinue" flag: as soon as you set it false, the worker threads have nothing left to do, and terminate.

If OTOH you want a "TemporarilySuspended" flag (I switched polarity here!), something you could set true and false repetitively and your worker threads would obey, then you need your worker threads to wait for it to become true again. An AutoResetEvent may be a good choice then.

Anyway, IsActive is a bad name, as it does not describe a state, it is intended to give a command.

Smile | :)

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Re: Shared Variables and Threading Issue

D3STROYRofWRLDS12-Mar-12 10:58

D3STROYRofWRLDS

12-Mar-12 10:58

Yes correct, in my initial post I realize that the threads were behaving exactly as they should and just ended when the variable broke the workers out of the Wloop.

Basically, I want the two workers threads to constantly be running, and then when the shared variable is set to true they then start doing work. Then when the user clicks the button again the worker threads "pause" and wait for the next time the variable is set to True.

The "IsActive" name was just an abstraction. Smile | :)

I use a much more detailed name in my actual code.

In regard to the "TemporarilySuspended" flag and AutoResetEvent, could you provide some examples, would love to handle that properly.

Thanks a bunch for the help!!

Re: Shared Variables and Threading Issue

Luc Pattyn12-Mar-12 11:04

Luc Pattyn

12-Mar-12 11:04

I suggest you start by reading MSDN on the subject of AutoResetEvent class, the examples are adequate IMO.

Smile | :)

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auto cut in receipt using vb6 (pls help) in generic driver

akosirommel11-Mar-12 17:52

akosirommel

11-Mar-12 17:52

how to cut a receipt using vb6?

Re: auto cut in receipt using vb6 (pls help) in generic driver

Mycroft Holmes11-Mar-12 18:04

Mycroft Holmes

11-Mar-12 18:04

VB6 is no longer supported by Microsoft and therefore there are very few support resources. You need to rewrite the app into a supported language.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH

Re: auto cut in receipt using vb6 (pls help) in generic driver

Dave Kreskowiak12-Mar-12 5:04

Dave Kreskowiak

12-Mar-12 5:04

I'm may throw up because I'm supporting a V6 user, but you have to dig out the manual on the printer and get the character sequence to send to the printer to tell it to cut the receipt. Then you modify your code to send that character sequence when your receipt printing code is done.

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Can anyone give me a sample data model of a flight reservation?

Pelikss10-Mar-12 15:28

Pelikss

10-Mar-12 15:28

Can anyone give me a sample data model of a flight reservation?

Re: Can anyone give me a sample data model of a flight reservation?

Dave Kreskowiak10-Mar-12 18:12

Dave Kreskowiak

10-Mar-12 18:12

Why? Asking questions about YOUR code would be a bit more productive than copy'n'pasting someone elses code.

That's not something you're going to come acrossed in the public domain. Usually something like that is going to be a part of a VERY expensive piece of software.

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Re: Can anyone give me a sample data model of a flight reservation?

Estys12-Mar-12 2:19

Estys

12-Mar-12 2:19

Try DatabaseAnswers[^].
They have all kind of samples.

Cheers

ivo7510-Mar-12 10:52

ivo75

10-Mar-12 10:52

Hi I use wiaaut.dll to scan, but in some PC it's not work because it not register in PC. How I register this dll programatically and only one time?

Re: Register Wiaaut.dll

Dave Kreskowiak10-Mar-12 12:20

Dave Kreskowiak

10-Mar-12 12:20

You don't do it from your app code. This is a problem that's easily solved at install-time. Create an installer for your app, add the .DLL to it and the installer will register it for you.

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Re: Register Wiaaut.dll

ivo7511-Mar-12 4:39

ivo75

11-Mar-12 4:39

I use Smart Install Maker, are this installer make this? Are this dll is ActiveX, because in this installer have a ActiveX section

modified 11-Mar-12 11:10am.

Re: Register Wiaaut.dll

Dave Kreskowiak11-Mar-12 10:13

Dave Kreskowiak

11-Mar-12 10:13

Never heard of it. I have no idea.

.NET cannot target building a true ActiveX component. You've built a COM-exposed library. I have no idea if Smart Install Maker handles .NET assemblies properly and regsiters them. You'll have to contact the people that make Smart Install Maker for that.

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Re: Register Wiaaut.dll

ivo7511-Mar-12 10:37

ivo75

11-Mar-12 10:37

Yes Smart Install Maker register Wiaaut.dll and it work perfect Smile | :)

. THANKS

Re: Register Wiaaut.dll

YuanJianzhong25-Mar-12 15:09

YuanJianzhong

25-Mar-12 15:09

Shell "regsvr32 /s c:\windows\system32\Wiaaut.dll"

ExecuteScalar won't work?

Midnight Ahri9-Mar-12 14:32

Midnight Ahri

9-Mar-12 14:32

SQL

if db_id('DSX') is not null
Print 'DATABASE EXISTS'
else
Print 'DATABASE DOES NOT EXISTS'

This query result a normal text,
but when i use this,

Output = CStr(cmd.ExecuteScalar())

Output = Nothing

Am I wrong by using ExecuteScalar??
Thankyou before, Smile | :)

Re: ExecuteScalar won't work?

Dave Kreskowiak9-Mar-12 15:12

Dave Kreskowiak

9-Mar-12 15:12

ExecuteScalar returns the value in the first column of the first row of the result set. I don't believe SQL Print qualifies as the result set, so it should return nothing at all.

SQL Print messages are returned by the SqlConnection object, in the InfoMessage event.InfoMessage event[^].

But, in your case, I think you'd be better served by returning a 1 or a 0 in a result set instead of handling a text message to determine state.

Re: ExecuteScalar won't work?

Shameel10-Mar-12 17:47

Shameel

10-Mar-12 17:47

Replace the Print keyword with Select keyword and it should work.

Re: ExecuteScalar won't work?

Shameel11-Mar-12 19:32

Shameel

11-Mar-12 19:32

Would the gentleman who downvoted this answer own up and explain?

Setup DSN programmatically on the fly

KreativeKai9-Mar-12 8:03

KreativeKai

9-Mar-12 8:03

Hi all, Hope someone can help with this...
I wrote this code several years ago and it has worked great in XP. Our department is rolling out Windows 7 and the agency that uses the app I wrote are finally receiving their new Windows 7 systems.

One problem... code doesn't work any longer.

The code sets up a DSN entry on the fly. In XP, a standard user without any elevated rights could run the app and this code worked.

Now in Windows 7 when installing, I have the end user setup as local administrator and the app fails to Create the DSN. If I go in and right click on the "Click-Once" setup.exe and select "Run as administrator" it works. Also if I create a shortcut to the setup.exe and change the advanced settings to "Run as administrator" it also works from that shortcut.

If I use the icon created by the program from the "Start" menu or from the desktop, which doesn't have an option to "Run as administrator", even though the client is setup as local administrator, it kicks an error that it can't create the DSN. I can delete the DSN and see when it is created and when it can't and it coincides with the trials I've listed above.

Is there something I can put in code that allows it to work no matter if administrator or if a standard user, like it did in XP? Some google posts talk about UAC causing the problem, but just say they recommend to run as administrator.

I've searched google and code project, and most articles / posts seem to be from 2004 or around that time. We're using VS 2010... Is there a better way to creat the DSN's on the fly with VS 2010? Confused | :confused:

Here is the code

<br />
Public Declare Auto Function SQLConfigDataSource Lib "ODBCCP32.DLL" _<br />
(ByVal hwndParent As Integer, ByVal fRequest As Integer, ByVal lpszDriver As String, ByVal lpszAttributes As String) As Integer<br />
<br />
Private Const ODBC_ADD_SYS_DSN As Integer = 4<br />
<br />
Friend Shared Sub Create_DSN_For_Crystal_Reports()<br />
  Try<br />
    Dim attributes As New System.Text.StringBuilder()<br />
    Dim returnCode As Integer<br />
<br />
    attributes.Append("DSN=CCPROD")<br />
    attributes.Append(Chr(0))<br />
    attributes.Append("Server=CCPROD")<br />
    attributes.Append(Chr(0))<br />
    attributes.Append("Description=DSN added via code from Beneficiary System")<br />
    attributes.Append(Chr(0))<br />
    attributes.Append("Database=HrPr")<br />
    attributes.Append(Chr(0))<br />
    attributes.Append("AnsiNPW=Yes")<br />
    attributes.Append(Chr(0))<br />
    attributes.Append("QuotedId=Yes")<br />
    attributes.Append(Chr(0))<br />
    attributes.Append("Trusted_Connection=Yes")<br />
    attributes.Append(Chr(0))<br />
    attributes.Append(Chr(0))<br />
<br />
    returnCode = SQLConfigDataSource(0&, ODBC_ADD_SYS_DSN, "SQL Server", attributes.ToString)<br />
<br />
    If returnCode <> 1 Then<br />
      Throw New Exception("DSN could not be setup to allow Crystal Reports access - Contact Programming Staff")<br />
    End If<br />
  Catch ...     <br />
    ...<br />
  End Try<br />
End Sub<br />

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