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Require assistance with a code example to be able to broadcast a simple message from an application to many instances of that application on the same computer. The message consists of a single string, either 1/0, On/Off, Start/Stop, High/Low or True/False broadcast from the Master application on 127.0.0.1:1234. The transmitting application (Master) shall continuously send the message until application close. The receiving application/s (Slaves) shall also receive the message continuously on a separate thread until the Slave application is closed. Timing is important, and needs to be less than 8 milliseconds, which I suspect will not be a problem.
The application is a VS 2019 WinForm type under dotNet 4.7, and the code snippet on the Master application shall be activated by a command button. The Slave/s will activate the appropriate code when either of the two conditions are meet.
As a retiree who last programmed in the 90's under Visual Studio 6, it's has been a leap to Visual Studio 2019 C#, and a lot of fun. But networking alludes me at this time. Appreciate any help on offer. With thanks. 
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Generally, client - server connections are point to point so that server can direct responses to the originating client only.
The way I'd probably do it is via Sockets: the app starts and tries to talk to a server instance. If it can, it's a client.
If it can't, it starts a server Socket and waits for a connection. When it gets it, that gets added to a Clients collection, and a new Socket waits for another connection.
When a socket closes, it's removed from the collection.
Broadcast is then simple: iterate the collection and send to each.
Make sense?
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Oh My! That is way past my understanding OriginalGriff. Hence the request for the very simple code example Back in a day, the Server was in charge of all things, but if I understand correctly that is the role of the client. Broadcast Messaging does not occur until two or more sockets are open? It that correct? I thought that the term 'broadcast' to be sending out data even if no one is listening.
I had a look through the various examples on-line, and found them overly complicated for my simple needs, but in hindsight, I suspect this is all necessary. Appreciate the reply. Perhaps more searching is in order.
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Start with an example using one server and one client. You will find examples of this.
Then test sending your messages.
You might even build it out completely using just a single client.
Then finally add the collection as per the previous suggestion. You probably can find examples of this also.
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Thanks Richard for the reply. Will have a look though the Named Pipes example you offered.
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Use Sockets to send and receive data over TCP - .NET | Microsoft Learn
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Thanks Guys. Appreciated. All good with the replies. Job done.
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i am using OleDbConnection to read excel files.
excel file is read properly.
but my form is resize and all text looks bigger and buggy when i open the connection.
i really dont understand whats happend.
please help me for this.
thanks in advance.
DataTable sheet1 = new DataTable("Excel Sheet");
OleDbConnectionStringBuilder csbuilder = new OleDbConnectionStringBuilder();
csbuilder.Provider = "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0";
csbuilder.DataSource = filename;
csbuilder.Add("Extended Properties", "Excel 12.0 Xml;HDR=YES");
string selectSql = @"SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]";
using (OleDbConnection connection = new OleDbConnection(csbuilder.ConnectionString))
using (OleDbDataAdapter adapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(selectSql, connection))
{
connection.Open();
adapter.Fill(sheet1);
connection.Close();
}
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Inherently, there's nothing in there that would cause the UI to resize. I assume, however, that there is a lot more to your code than this - what do you do with the DataTable? Is this being bound to something on the form?
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I know about the ConcurrentBag, ConcurrentDictionary, ConcurrentQueue and ConcurrentStack collection classes. But is there any Concurrent equivalent to the good ol' List<>?
The ConcurrentBag says it provides a thread safe unordered collection, but I need an ordered collection.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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There's a discussion about adding a concurrent list here:
ConcurrentList<T> · Issue #41740 · dotnet/runtime · GitHub[^]
The conclusion is that there's no meaningful way to implement it without locking the entire list - at which point, you might was well wrap a regular List<T> with locks.
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Thank you for the reply, Richard.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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A concurrent dictionary loaded ordered is essentially an ordered list.
Whether you handle it as KeyValue pairs or as .Values is another matter (maybe).
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Yeah, that's what I've settled on doing - using ConcurrentDictionary's.
Thanks for your reply.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'm using EF 6 Core Code First. I'm trying to set up some basic code and I'm getting an exception at runtime.
Here's my Context class:
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
namespace EFCoreDBFirstExample.Models
{
public partial class ModelContext : DbContext
{
public virtual DbSet Departments { get; set; }
public virtual DbSet Employees { get; set; }
protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder)
{
var connectionString = @"Server=MAROIS_KEVIN_1\SQLEXPRESS;Database=Test;Trusted_Connection=true;Encrypt=false;";
optionsBuilder.UseSqlServer(connectionString, options => options.EnableRetryOnFailure());
}
protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
modelBuilder.Entity(entity =>
{
entity.ToTable("Departments", "public");
entity.HasKey(e => e.DepartmentId)
.HasName("DeptartmentId");
entity.Property(e => e.DepartmentId)
.HasColumnName("DeptartmentId");
entity.Property(e => e.DepartmentName)
.HasColumnName("DepartmentName")
.HasColumnType("varchar")
.HasMaxLength(30);
});
modelBuilder.Entity(entity =>
{
entity.ToTable("EmployeeName", "public");
entity.HasKey(e => e.EmployeeId)
.HasName("EmployeeId");
entity.Property(e => e.EmployeeId)
.HasColumnName("EmployeeId");
entity.Property(e => e.EmployeeName)
.HasColumnName("EmployeeName")
.HasColumnType("varchar")
.HasMaxLength(30);
});
}
}
}
Here's how I'm using it
using EFCoreDBFirstExample.Models;
using (var db = new ModelContext())
{
var newDept = new Departments();
newDept.DepartmentId = 1;
newDept.DepartmentName = "Development";
db.Departments.Add(newDept);
var count = db.SaveChanges();
Console.WriteLine("{0} records saved to database", count);
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine("Departments:");
foreach (var dept in db.Departments)
{
Console.WriteLine($"{dept.DepartmentId}: {dept.DepartmentName}" );
}
Console.ReadLine();
}
Here's the exception:
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Storage.RetryLimitExceededException
HResult=0x80131500
Message=The maximum number of retries (6) was exceeded while executing database operations with 'SqlServerRetryingExecutionStrategy'. See the inner exception for the most recent failure.
Inner Exception 1:
SqlException: Cannot open database "Test" requested by the login. The login failed.
Login failed for user 'MAROIS_KEVIN_1\kevin'.
As you can see, I'm using Trusted Connection in my connection string. Not sure why EF is trying to connect with the user 'kevin'.
I could use some help here. Thanks
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Where did it get "kevin" from? That's the account you logged into Windows as. "Integrated Security" means use the Windows account the code is running as.
The error message is blatantly obvious: "Cannot open database "Test" requested by the login. The login failed.
Login failed for user 'MAROIS_KEVIN_1\kevin'."
You SQL Server doesn't know who "kevin using a Windows Account" is. You have to go into SQL Server Manager to correctly setup a Windows Login account in your SQL Server Security and give it appropriate permissions to the database and tables as appropriate for your situation.
If you haven't created the database yet and are relying on EF to do it for you, you have to give your account admin permissions to the SQL Server so YOU can create databases on the server.
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Yes, Kevin is my Windows login, but all my other apps use Trusted Connection without a user specified.
connectionString="Server=MAROIS_KEVIN_1\SQLEXPRESS;Database=Jayhawk;Trusted_Connection=true;"
I do have a user Kevin in SQL and I tried it with the password. I also just tried creating a new user and password and got the same error.
Something else is wrong.
Thanks
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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When you created the "kevin" account in SQL Server Manager, did you tell it to use Windows Authentication or SQL Server Authentication?
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Windows Auth
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Next up, on the Server Roles tab, which roles have checkmarks next to them?
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Public & SysAdmin
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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OK, based on your answers, the login should work.
I would go back to SQL Server Manager and create a new SQL account, password, and permissions of dbcreator and public. Change your connection string and remove TrustedConnection and put in the username and password of the account you create.
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That's what I thought too.
I have created a new login and still get the same error. Here's my Conn string
protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder)
{
var connectionString = @"Server=MAROIS_KEVIN_1\SQLEXPRESS;Database=Test;User Id=FatALbert;Password=AlbertIsFat!;;Encrypt=false;";
optionsBuilder.UseSqlServer(connectionString, options => options.EnableRetryOnFailure());
}
and the exception
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Storage.RetryLimitExceededException
HResult=0x80131500
Message=The maximum number of retries (6) was exceeded while executing database operations with 'SqlServerRetryingExecutionStrategy'. See the inner exception for the most recent failure.
Source=Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore
StackTrace:
at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Storage.ExecutionStrategy.ExecuteImplementation[TState,TResult](Func`3 operation, Func`3 verifySucceeded, TState state)
at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Storage.ExecutionStrategy.Execute[TState,TResult](TState state, Func`3 operation, Func`3 verifySucceeded)
at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.ChangeTracking.Internal.StateManager.SaveChanges(Boolean acceptAllChangesOnSuccess)
at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.DbContext.SaveChanges(Boolean acceptAllChangesOnSuccess)
at Program.<Main>$(String[] args) in C:\Projects\SandBox\Learning\EF6Core\Database First\EFCoreDBFirstExample\Program.cs:line 11
This exception was originally thrown at this call stack:
[External Code]
Inner Exception 1:
SqlException: Cannot open database "Test" requested by the login. The login failed.
Login failed for user 'FatAlbert'.
I also tried creating the DB 'Test' first in SQL and assigning it to FatAlbert and the same exception.
Again, I have other apps running on my Dev PC that don't use SQL Authentication and they connect just fine. So I has to be something with EF.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Wait a minute. Did you put the connection string ONLY in the OnConfiguring method?
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