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I just made a very simple app.
Enter some numbers, click a button, program calculates a result.
I tried to build a "release" version.
Ugh.
I want a simple executable file where the user can click and it runs, without going through an installation procedure.
I have searched here and MSDN for...
"BUILDING A C# APPLICATION THAT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE INSTALLED"
... and I'm finding zero and a little bit less.
This is a simple practice program, 24 instructions, 75 lines total, all just click click and it puts a number on the screen.
What did I miss ? Please tell me this can be done. I want to show my boss that I am capable of doing something; if only a simple thing.
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- Code and debug the app.
- Switch the configuration to "Release" and rebuild.
- Give the app's release mode
.exe to your boss to run.
/ravi
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Actually all you have to do is go into the bin\Debug (or what ever folder you want), and pick up the exe from there. The pdb file contains the debug information, and you can actually attach to the process and debug with the pdb containing the symbols.
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C-P-User-3 wrote: What did I miss ? Please tell me this can be done.
All applications have dependencies, and .NET application depend on the correct .NET framework to be installed. We're not talking about native code here that you compile, but some kind of portable executable.
If you target-machine has all the prerequisites (correct .NET framework, various service packs) then you could do a simple xcopy and move the executable, as noted by the others.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I have been working on a WPF application and looking for the best way to implement the 'Ok' and 'Cancel' button click functionality in the modal dialog boxes.
The question has two parts:
Part -1:
Currently, I am doing it by creating a copy/clone of the actual object whenever we load the dialog. Later, I perform all the operations on the cloned object in the Modal dialog. If user press 'Ok', i'll assign all the values in the clone object to the actual object. If user press 'Cancel, i'll discard the cloned object and set it to null.
For E.g:
Suppose, I have a class Person
<pre lang="c#">
Class Person
{
public string FirstName {get; set;}
public string LastName {get; set;}
}</pre>
I have another class which holds the list of 'Person'
Class PersonContainer
{
public List<Person> Persons{get; set;}
}
We have a Window class 'PersonViewModel' which has all the things with respect to the view. This class has a ObservableCollection which is bound to a Datagrid in my View and properties 'FirstName and LastName' are bound to the columns of the Datagrid.
The view contains button to 'Add/Remove/Modify' the records and 'Ok' and 'Cancel' button.
suppose we have PersonContainer object 'originalContainer' with 2 records. In the load event of the view, we create a copy/clone of PersonContainer with 2 records. Let's call it as clonedContainer. When we perform any operation(Add/Remove/Modify) through the dialog, we do it on clonedContainer. Once, we are done, on press of 'Ok' button, we just update originalContainer with the clonedContainer. On press of 'Cancel', we discard the 'clonedContainer' and set it to null.
Q: what could be the best way to handle 'Ok' and 'Cancel' in a dialog? Is creating a cloned object right way?
Part 2:
I have to implement the undo/redo of all the actions(Add/Remove/Modify the record) that happened on the Dialog. This has been implemented through the ICommand pattern with Execute/Unexecute methods. Whenever, we add a record, we add it the through the Execute method. However, we use the clonedContainer object and not the real one. In the Unexecute, I am using the 'originalContainer' instance and remove the added Person object. Now, if we perform 'Redo', we need to create the removed 'Person' object. By this time, clonedContainer is no more as it has been destroyed once we close the dialog.
Q: How can we implement undo/redo here?
Thanks in advance!!!
Rags
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I don't know why you cloned the object, if the collection keeps the current record, you can save the index of it and if cancel is clicked, remove from the collection and only save when the save button is click, here is a small sample, just play with this and see if it can help you.
1-You need to implement commanding in your project (you are already doing it)
2-in your view
link you button to a command in your viewmodel
Example a Save button:
4-remember your imports, this way you can display on the view the message for the user to answer and don't need to clone.
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Thanks for the response!
Here I have used Person, PersonContainer and PersonViewModel just for representation. In actual scenario, the object is complex which updates many of its properties on Addition/modification of items in the datagrid. So, saving the index won't serve the purpose as we need the actual values.
Can you elaborate more on the 'imports' mentioned on #4? Still, i believe we need to clone the actual object and work on it. Appreciate, if you can help me a little detailed code.
- Rags
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Rags1512 wrote: Q: what could be the best way to handle 'Ok' and 'Cancel' in a dialog? Is creating a cloned object right way?
There is no "right" way, there are only efficient, inefficient and non-compiling implementations. FWIW, I'm doing something similar; I clone the object and throw it in a PropertyEditor. Has a third button that says "reset" that simply clones the original again and uploads it anew in the PropertyEditor. Works well, doesn't have much overhead.
Rags1512 wrote: Q: How can we implement undo/redo here?
An undo/redo is usually limited to the form where one is editing. You'd need the Memento-pattern, saving the internal state of the object every time the user performs an action. Undoing the action is then as simple as fetching the internal state from that point.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Thanks for the response!
Looks like memento pattern is the solution. Let me understand and try it.
-- modified 27-Oct-12 14:15pm.
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Like Eddy said, there is no right or wrong to do it, using observable collections, you could have 2 and a flag, if the record is dirty (meaning that was modify) then in the save event in your viewmodel you just save the record, if cancel was hit and it was dirty then restore from either the db. again (re-read the record) or copy it from the other collection. What I mean with the 'imports' is that the 'Message' needs a import on the viewmodel.
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There are essentially two ways to do this. The first is what you've done: copy the object, have the dialog operate on that copy, and update the original if you press OK. The second is rather similar, but instead of having a copy of the base data object to operate on, you operate on a specific data object for the form (i.e. it has properties for the fields that are editable on this form only), and if you press OK you assign all the properties from that data object into the source.
In the second case the data object can actually be the form itself, particularly with WPF's data binding that allows you to have UI controls display numbers, enum choices etc simply. This is normally what I do.
Re undo/redo, you need to save a command when you change the original object, i.e. press OK. Do you need to be able to undo each thing individually? ... I would normally expect 'Edit Object' to end up as a single undo action which is easier (you just have a command which stores the properties that were changed and the previous value, or even the whole before and after states, of the source object). If you do need undo entries for every dialog interaction then you need to have a local command stack within the dialog, and when you save the object you can execute them all in order on the source object and push them onto the global undo stack against that object.
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Hi I'd like to run a method of a class calling it using its name in string format. Is it possible using reflection??
Thanks a lot
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Reflection;
namespace testMenu
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Type r = typeof(MyClass);
r.InvokeMember('a',null,null,ob....).
}
}
class MyClass
{
public static void a()
{
Console.WriteLine("Have good time");
}
}
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TheGermoz wrote: Is it possible using reflection?
As stated no.
A method belongs to a class.
The class belongs to a namespace.
A class belongs to an assembly.
You must at least know about class/namespace/assembly to call a method.
If the class is in another assembly then you must load the assembly.
Then you must properly access the method.
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False – the question has access to the class he wants to look up in and once you've got the Type then you can use reflection on it.
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BobJanova wrote:
False – the question has access to the class he
wants to look up in and once you've got the Type then you can use reflection on
it.
I was wondering what the 1 votes were about....
So tell me - exactly how often have you found it useful to invoke a method of class within the same class?
Myself I would just call the method.
I answered the question for the cases that are actually useful.
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You answered a question which wasn't the one that was actually asked, in a way which is likely to confuse the questioner.
Reflection is rarely useful full stop in my work, apart from loading types in from assemblies for plugins (which conform to a static interface so I don't use reflection for method lookups at all). The only place where I can see method lookups being useful is if you're trying to implement a scripting language or similar, at which point I can definitely see it being a case of looking up a method by name inside a (statically) known class (e.g. typeof(SomeClass)).
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BobJanova wrote: if you're trying to implement a scripting language
If I was doing a script language I would compile it before interpreting it and thus the linkage would still be explicit rather than dynamic.
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public void InvokeAMethod(string name, string arg)
{
var type = this.GetType();
var method = type.GetMethod(name);
method.Invoke(this, new object[] { arg });
}
public void aMethod(string test)
{
Console.WriteLine(test);
}
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Not really. It was Microsoft's implementation of Reflection that was brilliant
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Bear in mind that reflection is slow; you shouldn't use it unless you don't know what you want to run at compile time (e.g. you are running commands based on user input, or you do not have a compile time reference to the class or a relevant interface through which to bind statically).
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I have a simple WCF service with one interface and one class. When I add a service reference to my console apps, my WCF service class is not getting the expected name. My WCF service class name is service1 but it is exposed to the client end as Service1Client.
Why is the word "Client" being added before my actual class name? Do I need to add anything in my web.config for the service or in the app.config for the console end?
tbhattacharjee
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This is not a C# question, it would be better posted in the WCF forum.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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Tridip Bhattacharjee wrote: Why is the word "Client" being added before my actual class name?
You can select any class name you want in the Add Service Reference dialog.
/ravi
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