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Hello fellow code poets,
I am attempting to sign an assenbly with a strong name the VS.NET way using the KeyFileAttribute in the AssemblyInfo.cs file.
I have read over MS documentation in the Framework SDK, Knowledgebase and the commented instructions in the AssemblyInfo.cs.
And of course all three sources show you something a little different.
This is the basics of my error:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;328379&Product=sql2k
I have tried to use these three examples I was given and they have all failed.
[assembly: AssemblyKeyFile(@"..\\..\\tempKey.snk")]
[assembly:AssemblyKeyFileAttribute("tempKey.snk")]
[assembly: AssemblyKeyFile("..\\..\\tempKey.snk")]
I have placed the key in the project directory, Visual Studio Projects/Project directory and in the bin and I am still failing it seems to get the right location.
Can any one help? 
Thanks.
Jarrad D.
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Make sure you have generated a key and put it in the projects directory using
sn.exe -k KeyFile.snk Keep this file safe and do not share it.
Also, when using the literal specifier "@", do not escape your backslashes like you are in the first example. The location of the file is relative to the build path. VS.NET builds everything relative to bin\(Debug|Release) by default, so your first and third examples are correct (assuming the key pair file is generated correctly). The third will not work unless building your project from the project directory (possible using the csc.exe command-line compiler).
Just as a side note, it doesn't matter where you put assembly attributes, so long as they're part of a source file being compiled into your assembly.
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Thanks for the help Heath.
The tempKey.snk is my key and I have tried all my examples having put my key in the bin\ it still will not compile without the errror.
Any other ideas?
Thanks.
Jarrad
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The bigger question was about how it was generated. Did you use "sn.exe -k filename"? It has to contain at least the private key. "-k" will generate a key pair, which contains the public and private key.
Also, what exactly is the exception you're getting? Specifics are always more helpful. 
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In my first post I linked to a MS KB article that contains the compile error I am receiving.
"Cryptographic failure while signing assembly '...\WindowsApplication1.exe' -'Error reading key file 'key.snk' -- The system cannot find the file specified."
I did use the -k when creating my key.
Thanks again.
Jarrad
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Just to isolate if the problem is with the file, or with the file location, try to put the full file path ("c:\\project\\blablabla\\tempKey.snk").
Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet.
-- Bruce Schneier
By the way, dog_spawn isn't a nickname - it is my name with an underscore instead of a space. -- dog_spawn
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Daniel,
It was with literal location. I got it to work. Is it normal to use ("c:\\project\\blablabla\\tempKey.snk")? In the examples it made it sound like this ex. [assembly: AssemblyKeyFile("..\\..\\tempKey.snk")] was what told the compiler to look for it in the bin.
Anyway thanks.
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No, this tells the compiler to look for it in the second parent directory above the build directory, which is bin\Debug or bin\Release. That means that "..\\..\\" is the directory with the project file (.csproj, for a C# project, for example).
If you can, it's often better to use a relative path so that you don't have to worry about where you copy the project directory to and having to keep the same structure (which is especially important when managing the code using a version control system like Visual SourceSafe or CVS.
The directory structure should look like this if you use "..\\..\\KeyFile.snk" in your [assembly: AssemblyKeyFileAttribute]:
Project Directory
+-bin
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| +-Release
| +-MyApp.exe
+-AssemblyInfo.cs
+-Form1.cs
+-KeyFile.snk
+-MyApp.csproj
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Thanks again for all the great information.
You guys have been very helpful.
Hope I can return the favor sometime.
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Hello,
I managed to use several network Windows API inside C# code with DllImport (such as GetAdaptersInfo) but the GetIfTable seems to be a little bit different.
My problem is that i need to obtain the data in the MIB_IFROW structure and it gets filled with zeros instead of the corect information.
Here is the source code of a simple console application where the problem occurs:
<br />
using System;<br />
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;<br />
using System.Runtime;<br />
<br />
namespace ConsoleApplication1<br />
{<br />
public class Win32Import<br />
{<br />
public static uint ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED = 50;<br />
<br />
public const int MAXLEN_IFDESCR = 256;<br />
public const int MAXLEN_PHYSADDR = 8;<br />
<br />
public const int MAX_INTERFACE_NAME_LEN = 256;<br />
<br />
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet = CharSet.Ansi)]<br />
public struct MIB_IFTABLE<br />
{<br />
public uint dwNumEntries;<br />
public MIB_IFROW table;<br />
};<br />
<br />
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet = CharSet.Ansi)]<br />
public struct MIB_IFROW<br />
{<br />
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValTStr, SizeConst = MAX_INTERFACE_NAME_LEN)]<br />
public string wszName;<br />
<br />
public uint dwIndex;<br />
public uint dwType;<br />
public uint dwMtu;<br />
public uint dwSpeed;<br />
public uint dwPhysAddrLen;<br />
<br />
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = MAXLEN_PHYSADDR)]<br />
public byte[] bPhysAddr;<br />
<br />
public uint dwAdminStatus;<br />
public uint dwOperStatus;<br />
public uint dwLastChange;<br />
public uint dwInOctets;<br />
public uint dwInUcastPkts;<br />
public uint dwInNUcastPkts;<br />
public uint dwInDiscards;<br />
public uint dwInErrors;<br />
public uint dwInUnknownProtos;<br />
public uint dwOutOctets;<br />
public uint dwOutUcastPkts;<br />
public uint dwOutNUcastPkts;<br />
public uint dwOutDiscards;<br />
public uint dwOutErrors;<br />
public uint dwOutQLen;<br />
public uint dwDescrLen;<br />
<br />
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = MAXLEN_IFDESCR)]<br />
public byte[] bDescr;<br />
};<br />
<br />
<br />
[DllImport("kernel32.dll", EntryPoint = "CopyMemory")] public extern static void<br />
CopyMemory_Int(<br />
ref uint Destination,<br />
ref byte Source,<br />
int Length<br />
);<br />
<br />
[DllImport("kernel32.dll", EntryPoint = "CopyMemory")] public extern static void<br />
CopyMemory_MibIfrow(<br />
ref MIB_IFROW Destination,<br />
ref byte Source,<br />
int Length<br />
);<br />
<br />
[DllImport("iphlpapi.dll")] public extern static uint<br />
GetIfTable(<br />
byte[] pIfTable,<br />
ref uint pdwSize,<br />
bool bOrder<br />
);<br />
}<br />
<br />
<br />
class Class1<br />
{<br />
[STAThread]<br />
static void Main(string[] args)<br />
{<br />
uint nBufLen = 0;<br />
uint nError;<br />
<br />
nError = Win32Import.GetIfTable(null, ref nBufLen, true);<br />
if (nError == Win32Import.ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED)<br />
{<br />
return;<br />
}<br />
<br />
byte[] IfTableBuffer = new byte[nBufLen];<br />
nError = Win32Import.GetIfTable(IfTableBuffer, ref nBufLen, true);<br />
if (nError != 0)<br />
{<br />
return;<br />
}<br />
<br />
uint dwNumEntries = 0;<br />
int byteCount = 0;<br />
<br />
Win32Import.CopyMemory_Int(ref dwNumEntries, ref IfTableBuffer[byteCount], 4);<br />
byteCount += 4;<br />
<br />
Win32Import.MIB_IFROW pIfRow = new Win32Import.MIB_IFROW();<br />
Win32Import.CopyMemory_MibIfrow(<br />
ref pIfRow,<br />
ref IfTableBuffer[byteCount],<br />
Marshal.SizeOf(pIfRow)<br />
);<br />
byteCount += Marshal.SizeOf(pIfRow);<br />
}<br />
}<br />
}<br />
If you are familiar with these C# API calls and think you can help me , you're welcome. Many thanks!
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First, use the out keyword instead of ref in the first parameter of GetIfTable to avoid having to instantiate the structure. Not a big deal, but it is the correct declaration.
Also, you're MIB_IFROW structure is incorrect. First, the first string member is a WCHAR - a wide character (2 bytes). Therefore, your CharSet in the StructLayoutAttribute should be set to CharSet.Unicode. The UnmanagedType.ByValTStr will then cause the marshaler to use what the CharSet in the StructLayoutAttribute declares, namely a Unicode string (an array of WCHARs).
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It works!
I didn't thought that this mistake would be the reason of the problems.
But it's logic as Unicode and ANSI characters don't have the same size.
Thank you very much!
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I'm using a MonthCalendar control in a C# winforms application and have discovered that if you click the text above the calendar which displays the year, two scroll buttons appear to allow you to scroll through the years. The up button scrolls into the future and a new date is selected as each year is scrolled. The down button scrolls back in time, but instead of selecting a single new date, a date range is selected. Does anyone know of a method/property that can be adjusted to turn off this behaviour for the down scroll button? Thanks.
Chris Meech
We're more like a hobbiest in a Home Depot drooling at all the shiny power tools, rather than a craftsman that makes the chair to an exacting level of comfort by measuring the customer's butt. Marc Clifton
VB is like a toolbox, in the hands of a craftsman, you can end up with some amazing stuff, but without the skills to use it right you end up with Homer Simpson's attempt at building a barbeque or his attempt at a Spice rack. Michael P. Butler
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If you don't want a range of dates to be selectable at all, set MonthCalendar.MaxSelectionCount to 1. If you only want a single date selected while changing dates, you could handle the MonthCalendar.DateChanged and select only the MonthCalendar.SelectionStart date.
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Heath Stewart wrote:
set MonthCalendar.MaxSelectionCount to 1.
I have the property set to a value of 1 already. I expect that this is a subtle bug I've stumbled across. The odd part is that for two seemingly similar actions, year/scroll-up or year/scroll-down, the control behaves differently.
Chris Meech
We're more like a hobbiest in a Home Depot drooling at all the shiny power tools, rather than a craftsman that makes the chair to an exacting level of comfort by measuring the customer's butt. Marc Clifton
VB is like a toolbox, in the hands of a craftsman, you can end up with some amazing stuff, but without the skills to use it right you end up with Homer Simpson's attempt at building a barbeque or his attempt at a Spice rack. Michael P. Butler
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Chris Meech wrote:
I have the property set to a value of 1 already. I expect that this is a subtle bug I've stumbled across.
Hmm, you might be right. You could take a look at the Month Calendar Common Control (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/commctls/monthcal/reflist.asp[^]) that the MonthCalendar encapsulates. Perhaps there's something you can do by extending the MonthCalendar and overriding WndProc to handle notification messages, though I don't really see any off-hand that would help, unfortunately.
Have you tried the method of handling the DateChanged event and simply setting the SelectionEnd to SelectionStart? It's a bad hack, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
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Heath Stewart wrote:
Have you tried the method of handling the DateChanged event and simply ...
I'll probably end up doing that, as this is purely a cosmetic kind of issue. I got bigger fish to fry at the moment as I try and get a WebService to connect and run queries from an Oracle database. But thanks for the suggestions.
Chris Meech
We're more like a hobbiest in a Home Depot drooling at all the shiny power tools, rather than a craftsman that makes the chair to an exacting level of comfort by measuring the customer's butt. Marc Clifton
VB is like a toolbox, in the hands of a craftsman, you can end up with some amazing stuff, but without the skills to use it right you end up with Homer Simpson's attempt at building a barbeque or his attempt at a Spice rack. Michael P. Butler
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I am redesigning the UI for one of our data editors. I have an Infragistics ListBar main panel on the left(Dock=left), a slider (Dock=left), and a control area where the different edit controls are dynamically constructed(Dock=fill).
At design time I also added a second panel for groups. That panel and its' slider are Dock=left and marked Disabled, NOT Visible. I have one button on the main panel for opening the group selector whenever the editor wants to group items into a manageable group. I have tried numerous ways to make this group panel appear...all in vain. Here is my last attempt:
this.controlArea.Dock = DockStyle.None;
this.controlArea.Size = new Size(10, 10);
this.groupDisplay.Enabled=true;
this.groupDisplay.Visible = this.groupDisplay.Visible=false?true:false;
this.groupDisplay.Size = new Size(3, 453);
this.grpSplit.Enabled = true;
this.grpSplit.Visible= this.grpSplit.Visible=false?true:false;
this.controlArea.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
this.Invalidate(true);
The panel does not become visible no matter what!!! Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Michael
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Of all the senses I could possibly lose,
It is most often the one called 'common' that gets lost.
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You have a problem here:
this.groupDisplay.Visible = this.groupDisplay.Visible=false?true:false; You're setting Visible to false, not testing it. For that, use the == operator. In fact, just dump it all together and toggle the value with the following expression:
this.groupDisplay.Visible = !this.groupDisplay.Visible;
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DOH!
Guess I shouldn't code with only 4 hours of sleep. 
Thanks Heath
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Of all the senses I could possibly lose,
It is most often the one called 'common' that gets lost.
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I would like to add "panels" to my application which behave like the Visual Studio .NET IDE "ToolBox", "Solution" and "Properties" "Panels". These panels have a tab when retracted, and when your cursor goes over them they expand out, and retract when your cursor moves off of them. Or you can click the pushPin and they remain expanded. Does any one know the control these are built on? Does anyone know of any source code examples?
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There used to be the Magic Library which provided a free control that had that type of behaviour. However, they are now charging $300 for it!
Infragistics controls also provide the capability.
In both cases, they deployed a manager that handled all of the paint events and causing the sliding, tabs, etc. Then for magic you just add a form to the manager and in the Infragistics control you just right click a control and select Add to Tab.
So that gives you a general direction they took.
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Of all the senses I could possibly lose,
It is most often the one called 'common' that gets lost.
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Hi,
I am showing a form creating user profile where it asks for passwords. When he searches for a user the password that is shown is MD5 encrypted, now if he clicks update the encrypted password is again encrypted as I don't know how to find if the password displayed is already a MD5 encrypted string or not.
Any suggestions !?!
Thanks,
Paul
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You could either store a value that dictates whether the password is already hashed. For instance, some clients have a "Remember password" (or similar) option. This value would be stored in the registry or a file along with the hashed password. Check this value and, if set, don't hash the password again.
You could also determine if the length of the string is 32 characters in length, although this is not the best test since some users might have passwords that long (doubtful, but possible). You could, though, limit the password length to something less than 32 characters, so that if you get a "password" that is 32 characters long you know it is already hashed.
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Hi there,
Is it possible to separate declarations and implementations in C#? 
like for C++ I want to separate the declarations of the classes in a header and implementations in a cs file...
Thanks. 
bouli.
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