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A solution that I'm developing has a server and multiple clients. The clients access Client-Activated object on the remoting server. What would be the best way of keeping track of the connections?
I have a SQL server on the same machine and I'm thinking about doing it like this: on init - add an entry in the connection table. when the object is disposed it will remove itself from the table. However, there are a few problems.
+ if the client crashes -> when the lease runs out the connection will be unregistered. right?
+ What about if the server crashes - I'll just clean up the connection table on startup.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Your SQL-Server solution works, but there is an easier way to tracking your clients (I think):
Create an ArrayList and add each ClientObject by creation.
Use delegates to remove ClientObjects, when there lease is running out.
If the server crashes, the ArrayList will be removed automatically 
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Actually, this is not so good but your solution to use a lease is what I was going to recommend anyway. I originally recommend using a database as we do for our app (which is driven by a SQL Server anyway) because if your remoting object goes down for some reason, your list is lost. The database (in our case, which is replicated and stored on a RAID array) will persist this information so that when the remoting object comes back up, it can grab the information and return to its original state.
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As I hinted at before, implement ILease and return that in an override for GetLifetimeService on your remoting object. If a sponser cannot be contacted or has not renewed the time on the lease, you remove the row from the RDBMS for that sponsor (a client). In an internal remoting application, your lease can ping the sponsers to determine if they still exist. If you expose your remoting object on IIS (which automatically gets exposed as a Web Service, thus using HTTP which is one-way), you'll just have to wait until the sponsor does not renew their lease and remove the row.
If the remoting object (the server) crashes, this really isn't a problem. As long as the database is still up and running, the remoting object will grab the existing information (this is the reason I mentioned you should persist connection information in a database or something) and restore its state. Clients can't really connect why the remoting object is down, so you don't have to worry about new information. Now if the server(s) that has/have both your remoting object and the database go down, the scenario isn't much different from before. Just use transacted statements to increment and decrements your client connections table and they will be logged so that they can be completed in such a case.
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Actually, this is for a different but similar project. 
I had everything covered the only thing was : If the activated object crashes and the client app never decides to re-activate the object. The information will remain on the server, and the admin app on the server will read the entry in the database as a live connection.
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That would be a problem, then. I guess the only thing you could do in such a case is to prevent the admin application from worrying about what's in that table and instead get the remoting object and this admin app to interact instead of using a table as a sort of intermediary.
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Does anyone know how to MODIFY the value of a custom attribute associated with a class property at runtime?
I havn't been able to find a single example of this on the net.
Thanks Heaps,
Patrick.
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You can't modify attributes at runtime. You can, however, use an ICustomTypeDescriptor to return an array of attributes that you can create at runtime (note, this interface is only used by certain classes like the TypeDescriptor in System.ComponentModel).
See the documentation for ICustomTypeDescriptor.GetAttributes for more information.
If you use reflection instead of a TypeDescriptor to get attributes, you won't be able to change anything unless you programmatically create an attribute and add it to your array/list/collection.
Finally, if this is a custom attribute, you can give the attribute's property a set accessor as well, but this is to change only a property. This is highly NOT recommend, though, because attributes are meta-data that describe classes, etc. The attributes in the base class library don't allow such changes. If you need to modify values like this, you should consider a abstract or virtual property for a particular type that child classes can override, or using an interface for a good polymorphic design.
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Hi There,
Yes, besides being a great music it's the situation I'm in right now.
I've searched and searched and I cannot find what I want, I'm starting to think that it's not possible.
I've developed a service using C#, and used one of the great advantages of .NET, the possibility to easily install a service, I've done everything I wanted, except for this:
Is it possible to set the name of the service during installation? 
I must/want to give this option so that the user can install several instances of that service each with a different name. (Gateway I,Gateway II, etc).
If this is impossible what are the alternatives?
Thanks for all the replies,
Luis Pinho
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See ServiceInstaller and ServiceProcessInstaller. The documentation for these two classes in the .NET Framework SDK also include samples.
Basically, you derive from Installer to create your own installer then add an instance of each of the aforementioned classes according to the documentation.
You can use the installutil.exe utility that is installed with the .NET Framework or include the assembly that includes the installer class in a Windows Installer setup project in VS.NET as a Custom Action.
If you want to set anything during installation, you'll have to use a command-line switch. You can find more information about this in the documentation for the Installer.Context property. You use some code like the following in your derived Installer class to get parameters passed to it from installutil.exe or from Windows Installer:
string value = Context.Parameters["SvcName"]; If you want to use this in an MSI package (Windows Installer), you can pass the command-line option based on an MSI database property that can be set by msiexec.exe when installing the package. For more information about that, see a previous thread I replied to: http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/forums.asp?msg=711576&forumid=1649&XtraIDs=1649&searchkw=custom+action+windows+installer&sd=10%2F17%2F2003&ed=1%2F15%2F2004#xx711576xx[^].
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Hi...i need what my subjust states, and have no idea how to get their...Short of creating my own listview from scratch...does anyone know any solution to this? (c#)
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dang...it doulbe posted and i cant delete cause of some forum bug saying i used a differant account to make this lol.
anyhoo when i said sort, i mean scroll
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Hi...i need what my subjust states, and have no idea how to get their...Short of creating my own listview from scratch...does anyone know any solution to this? (c#)
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The first thing is to understand that the ListView class in .NET encapsulates the List-View common control in Windows, as do most controls in the System.Windows.Forms namespace, so doing things like this will typically required that you extend ListView, override WndProc, and handle notification messages. Some Windows programming background will be helpful. You'll also want to know how to P/Invoke native methods. You can find more information in the documentation for the DllImportAttribute in the .NET Framework SDK.
You'll have to handle the drawing of each subitem by handling the NM_CUSTOMDRAW notification message. That will give you a struct (which you'll have to create, namely the NMLVCUSTOMDRAW struct). From information in that you can adjust the starting location of your text (though you'll have to draw it yourself, though that's not hard) and then paint the icon you want next to it. You'll have to figure out how to store that image information, though, be it an index into an ImageList or an Image itself. You could extend ListViewSubItem although you'll have to worry about casting each time.
Note that this may sound like a lot of work (and I'll admit it's not trivial) but it sure beats making your own list view control from scratch! There's a heck of a lot more to worry about than this. In the grand scheme of things, this approach is easy.
If you reply to this, I can send you some old source that shows some examples of owner-drawing. Though not specific to your requirements, it should give you some insight.
Again, be sure to read about the list-view common control at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/commctls/listview/reflist.asp[^] and read about P/Invoking at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconconsumingunmanageddllfunctions.asp[^]. Again, some Windows programming experience will be helpful.
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Wow that owner-drawing stuff sounds tasty...Be most appreaciated :P
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Hi there,
I have this little problem which is of pure cosmetic nature, so it doesn't really affect the application, but it would be something I'd really like to have. I searched around and couldn't find a solution for this anywhere, so I hope somebody in here knows the trick. The problem does also apply to any other .NET application, but since my application is written in C#, I post it here first:
My appplication has a nice application icon and opens several windows, which also all have this application icon. Everything looks fine in the windows taskbar, until the moment when the taskbar grouping function of WinXP kicks in. Then the group icon for my application suddenly is the default empty application icon, and the group button itself doesn't have any text, but just states the number of windows grouped, for example "3".
When I click on the group button, every item in the list has the nice application icon, but it seems that the group icon comes from somewhere else, as well as the group button text. Since other applications still have their icon even when the windows are grouped, this property must be able to set somewhere.
I read in a newsgroup that the group icon comes from SystemIcons.Application, which in fact is the empty default windows icon that I see, but this property is read-only, so there is no way for me to confirm that this icon is really used, nor can I change it to my application icon.
In case it is still not clear what I mean to the following to reproduce the problem: Open a new .NET project (C# or VB doesn't matter) and add a second dialog, then add a function in your main dialog that opens up the second dialog when clicking a button or something like that. Edit the App.ico resource so that the icon looks different and make both your windows use this file as the application icon. Now execute the application and press that button that executes your function to open more windows until the taskbar is full and WinXP groups the icons. Then you should be able to see the effect.
In case it is still not clear, I can also post a screenshot, but for the moment I'll just hope that someone is able to understand what I mean.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Sascha
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Set the static property Application.SafeTopLevelCaptionFormat for the group text. As far as the icon goes, I'm frankly surprised this isn't working correctly since Windows should be using the top-level form's icon. The only thing I can think of is to make sure you're using the Application.Run static method to launch your main form.
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I have what should be a simple problem, but I'm not able to figure it out.
Suppose I have a 5 by 10 array. I populate the array, and now want to display this on a form.
The array is populated in a separate codefile, which passes the array to the main form file.
When I click on a button, I want to be able to see each row of the array i.e if the array is:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 etc etc...
Clicking the button once should give me
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Clicking again should give me
11 ... 20
and so on.
How do I make this happen? I have a label named "labDisp" and a button "btnShow" on the form.
Thank you.
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Easy - an array is a valid source for a repeater ( and that's all you need here, so why use anything heavier ? ), so store the index you're up to in viewstate, then grab the array you need from the array of arrays and make it the data source for a repeater.
Ooops - forget that if you're not doing a web page. Instead, just pass the arrays to a datagrid.
Christian
I have drunk the cool-aid and found it wan and bitter. - Chris Maunder
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In your form class set up a member variable like:
private int currentIndex = -1;
In your button click event handler:
currentIndex++;
if (currentIndex==5)
currentIndex = 0;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for(int i=0; i<9; i++)
{
sb.Append(arrayObject[currentIndex, i].ToString());
sb.Append(" ");
}
labDisp.Text = sb.ToString();
I'm assuming your array is called "arrayObject" since you didn't mention it anywhere.
--Colin Mackay--
EuroCPian Spring 2004 Get Together[^]
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I am using the C# code below (found here: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/dotnetcolorpicker.asp) to override the cursor/arrow keys so I can use them for my own devices.
protected override bool IsInputKey( System.Windows.Forms.Keys keyData )
{
bool bIsInputKey = true;
switch( keyData )
{
case Keys.Left:
break;
case Keys.Right:
break;
case Keys.Down:
break;
case Keys.Up:
break;
default:
bIsInputKey = base.IsInputKey(keyData);
break;
}
return bIsInputKey;
}
This does not appear to work, I have set keypreview on the form to true, that does not help.
I have tried this code in a dummy app and it works fine, and I have placed a break in the above code to see if the override is ever run - it isn't. There must be something in the rest of the code or a property that is stopping this.
Does anyone have any suggestions???? I am new to C# and have banged my head against the wall all day on this one!!!
Many thanks in advance
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I have managed to deduce some more on this, it appears that a series of buttons within a groupbox on the form are taking the key inputs as their own.
I have duplicated this in another simple form, by turning the tabstop property for each to 'false' it prevents this behaviour.
Unfortunately the same is not true for my actual application!!!
seriously busting my head over this now...
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Hey
I'm looking for a good book covering distributed .NET programming. Not a book that introduces .NET/C#, men covering the subject.
Hope some of you might help.
Best regards
Rasmus
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You could try ".NET Remoting" from MS Press, McLean, Naftel & Williams.
Should do the trick.
"Je pense, donc je mange." - Rene Descartes 1689 - Just before his mother put his tea on the table.
Shameless Plug - Distributed Database Transactions in .NET using COM+
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i found this book useful
Microsoft .NET Distributed Applications: Integrating XML Web Services and .NET Remoting
by Matthew Macdonald
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