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Changing anything the designer creates and uses is likely to cause such problems. If you want to continue to use the designer, I recommend that you click the Advanced [...] button under the Configuration category in the PropertyGrid while your connection is selected and add an entry for the connection string to the appSettings section of your Web.config file. This is more robust anyway. If you decide, for example, to move your .mdb out of your web application, you can easily change the connection string to reflect that. Since you're using the OLE DB client for ADO.NET, you could even change the connection string to use a different provider (provided that all your ADO.NET code would work with a different one, which is usually fine for most OLE DB providers).
The designer shouldn't complain and croak now.
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report viwer sql reporting services in code?
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I don't have a lot of experience with SQL 2000 RS yet (we'll be looking more into it in the future when we redesign quite a bit of our codebase), but I did watch the MSDN TV video, Developing Applications Using SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services[^], and I believe this was discussed. IIRC, you can pass parameters via GET or POST data, as well as set parameters using the object model (the managed classes and their members).
More information should be available in the RS documentation.
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yes i got it using the url which was easy but took some finding. I think sql reporting services very good i was getting too many bugs from crystal reports and gave up. but sql is very clean. I do need to get more info on the object way of doing it through the reporting web service. I would like to emigrate my family to the USA and good links on finding a sponser for wrok?
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Hi,
I have a main application (Main), from which i can launch two different applications (App1 or App2). I each case i am minimizing the main (Main) application to trash. But on exiting the applications (App1) or (App2), is there any way to restore the window of the main application without double clicking on the Trash icon. I have a requirement to do so. Can somebody help me on this?
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The other applications will need a reference to the switchboard. You'll either need to use .NET Remoting in order to show/hide forms or use Windows messaging. At least, those two would be the easiest ways. You could create some protocol and use a socket connection, but .NET Remoting wraps all that rather nicely.
So, if the switchboard registered a WKO (well-known object), the other applications could call remote methods on that WKO. The implementation of that object (having a reference to the main Form) could call Show and Hide when appropriate, or change the WindowState to minimize it to the task bar (not trash, unless you're talking about some specific region within your application) or restore it.
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Thanks a lot for the immediate reply. I am a little confused as the main application is a .NET application and for the rest, one writeen in VB and the other in VC++. As the intention behind this usecase is to switch to only one of the application at any instance of time.
There is an executable called 'Interoperator' written in VB to which the main application passes instruction like the context information and the application code (App1 or App2).
I have minimized the main application to the task bar(used the ShowinTaskbar property and set it to false), however i do not know how i can send a message back to the main application window to restore it once the applications (App1 or App2) are closed.
private void App1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized;
this.ShowInTaskbar = false;
Trash.Visible = true;
}
Can this scenario be handled without having to do anything with modifying the applications as such by a generic design pattern (Switch board)that acts more like a window manipulator?
Harihara Subramanian
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You didn't mention the other applications weren't .NET applications. Since this is the C# forum - a language targeting the CLR - one can only assume. You should be more specific next time. 
You could call FindWindowEx, passing NULL as the first param to use the desktop window's HWND. Find your switchboard by title or classname. That will return you the HWND for your application (an IntPtr in managed code), which you can pass to the ShowWindow API.
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Thanks again. ShowWindow API displays the Window only when it is present in the Task bar. It is not able to launch the window that is not present in the Task bar.
The following code snippet is what i used.
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
public static extern long ShowWindow(Int32 hwnd, Int32 ncmdShow);
private void App1_Exit(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
p = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("Framework");
ShowWindow(p[0].MainWindowHandle.ToInt32(),1);
}
However in the main application while launching the other applications i used the below mentioned code
private void App1_Launch(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized;
this.ShowInTaskbar = false;
}
both the API FindWindowEx and the usage of process to find the handle returns a 0 (zero) when the window is not shown in the task bar. Kindly help me in this regard.
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First of all, both parameters of ShowWindow should be IntPtrs. These are native ints, which are processor-dependent - just like the IntPtr (32 bits on a 32-bit CPU/OS and 64 bits on a 64-bit CPU/OS).
Also,don't blindly access p[0]. If, for some reason, the process wasn't found an IndexOutOfRangeException or NullReferenceException (depending on what GetProcessesByName returns when a process isn't found) would be thrown.
Getting the Process is no problem. The reason is the MainWindowHandle is returning IntPtr.Zero is because it doesn't currently have one - the main window is invisible. Either don't remove it from the task bar (via ShowInTaskbar) or try something else.
You could use a mutex and signal it. Any application can use them. C/C++ and .NET have support already (C/C++ through APIs, obviously, and .NET in the System.Threading namespace - which actually uses the same C/C++ APIs internally). With VB (by which I assume you mean VB6, since VB.NET uses the same .NET FCL as C# with only a slightly different syntax) you'd have to declare these native functions.
When the switchboard starts, you create two mutexes (one for each app, or you could use one with a counter) but don't request initial access. When an applicatio starts, you wait on the mutex (to be signaled). When the other applciations exit, you signal the mutex and the switchboard could make itself visible. You could do this in a loop if you wanted, if a user can switch back and forth.
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I have an idea, but not skilled enough to implement in code. It goes like this, the main application which is a .NET assembly will override the Wndproc method. Tha applications will send a user defined message to indicate that they are done while dieing. The Wndproc will handle this message and take appropriate action.
Will this work? Kindly help me.
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Simple override WndProc and define a const with your message value like so:
private const int WM_USER = 0x0400;
private const int WM_USER_SHOW = WM_USER + 1;
protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
{
base.WndProc(ref m);
if (m.Msg == WM_USER_SHOW)
{
ShowInTaskbar = true;
Show();
}
}Your other applications should send this message (using SendMessage) using the same message value (0x0401). The problem is that to send the message to the application, you still need a valid Window Handle. Why, then, did I post the code above? To show you what it would look like if you had a valid Window Handle (HWND) for your application.
You might instead consider using the NotifyIcon component to "minimize" your application to the system tray ("systray" - where the clock is and possibly other icons). It would still maintain a valid Window handle so that messages to your systray icon are handled by your application. See the documentation for the NotifyIcon component in the .NET Framework SDK for more information. There's also several articles here on CodeProject about it and some alternatives.
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If anyone is interested, this is a link to a document at Microsoft's Patterns and Practices - Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability[^].
The document is a HUGE guide (about 1,120 pages) full of tips, samples, howto's, and checklists for improving the performance of your code using ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Web Services, ... This doc isn't just for professional coders either. The Noobies can get a bunch of information out of it too. Just reading Chapter 12 on 'Improving ADO.NET Performance' can answer a bunch of the recurring questions on the forums.
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Hiya
Does anyone know how to search for all directories on the C:\\ for a server??
I have a web server on a remote machine and need to list certain directories on that machine. I do have full permissions to the machine.
Have tried this:
foreach (string d in Directory.GetDirectories("\\ip address\\C:\\"))
{
MessageBox.Show( d.ToString() );
}
Thanks.
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You need to use the admin share, C$ (\\SERVERNAME\C#). Recursively enumerating the files will be quite slow remotely, however. You might consider - if possible - using .NET Remoting or some other remote technology to tell the server to search it's own hard drive (much faster) and report back to you the results (whether you're filtering or not, whatever fulfills your requirements).
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Thanks for that. Only need to search for Directories not files.
Will look into it.
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Could you actually show me how to use this while I am considering other options.
Have tried:
foreach (string sDir in Directory.GetDirectories("ip\\C$:\\"))
{
MessageBox.Show( sDir.ToString() );
}
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I did: \\SERVER\C$. You could also use \\IP\C$. Don't use a colon ( . That's the admin share for a drive, which Windows NT establishes for each local drive automatically. And you don't need to call sDir.ToString because it's already a string.
foreach (string dir in Directory.GetDirectories("\\SERVER\C$"))
Console.WriteLine(dir);
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I'm writing a WinForms application that needs to update its user area on change of resolution by the user. I've overriden the WinProc method of my main form so that I can monitor the changes of the resolution and do what I need to do. Its body looks like this:
private const int WM_DISPLAYCHANGE = 0x007E; // this is the message notifying that the display resolution has been changed
protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
{
base.WndProc (ref m);
if(m.Msg == WM_DISPLAYCHANGE)
{
MessageBox.Show("Width: " + Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width + "\n" + "Height: " + Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height);
}
}
The problem is that the Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds property doesn't work properly the first time the resolution is changed by the user after the application is started. It returns the previous resolution of the display. Here comes the strange part: all the following changes work fine.
I've tried using the Microsoft.Win32.SystemEvents.DisplaySettingsChanged event but the result is the same. Is there a way to get this right?
10x
K.
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Works fine for me using SystemEvents.DisplaySettingsChanged. If something else is wrong, you could always use the Message.LParam split into low- and high-order bits that describe the new horizontal and vertical resolution, respectively. The new settings are packed and passed as the LParam property of the Message struct.
Also, you could save yourself a lot of typing like so:
MessageBox.Show(Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Size.ToString()); Just a suggestion.
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The thing with the low- and high- order bits works!!! I'm happy now Thanks a lot!
Btw, the DisplaySettingsChanged event handling shows always one and the same resloution - i.e. the resolution after the first change, which I find rather strange. Unfortunately, I cannot currently test the app at resolutions different from 800x600 and 1024x768 as I work on a 15'' LCD and this is all I get out of it
10x once again,
K.
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What version of .NET are you using? I've looked at the IL for 1.0 and the SystemInformation and Screen classes actually handle the SystemEvents.DisplaySettingsChanged event and reset their cache. If, when you get the property next, the cache does not contain data the respective data is obtained, cached, and returned. Somethings definitely wrong there. The monitor would also have little to do with the resolution. You might check for newer drivers, although such a small LCD - and no offense meant - might only be possible to go to 1024x768.
One thing to keep in mind to make your code more portable from 32- to 64-bit processors: use the IntPtr.Size static property to get the byte-width of a native int (which is processor dependent). Shift bits accordingly.
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Hi,
I want to implement a class in C#, such that one instance of that object should be alive if there are threads using it. If no thread is using it, then delete the object.
So that the next time, any thread needs this class, it should again be created.
It could have been classic singleton, if it would have been alive throughout.
But the hitch is that i need to kill/delete the object when i determine that there is nobody else using it...
Is Locks/mutex is the way out along with reference count.
Could some body throw some light..
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You could use a Singleton, combined with a Semaphore. Use a GetInstance() method and a ReleaseInstance() method. Increment/decrement the semaphore in these methods, and whenever your instance count reaches zero, release your internal singleton pointer and let the garbage collector have it.
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You could use either .NET Remoting or a ContextBoundObject to do this as well. You can register a well-known object as a singleton in .NET Remoting with a lifetime of X number of some time unit. When no other objects reference that object, the .NET Remoting infrastructure disposes the remoting object.
With a ContextBoundObject and a custom proxy (using the ProxyAttribute - see the .NET Framework SDK documentation for more information and an example) so that you do the same thing without worrying about registering well-known objects.
Your custom proxy could, for example, catch the IConstructionCallMessage. In that case, you either create an instance of your object or return an existing instance. This object can still take advantage of the .NET Remoting infrastructure, such as the lifetime management services. See the ContextBoundObject.InitializeLifetimeService method documentation (inheritted from and defined by MarshalByRefObject) in the .NET Framework SDK for more information.
Using a ContextBoundObject would probably be the easiest way to acheive what you want. This way, your client code can still new the class without knowing whether it receives a new or existing instance, and you can use AOP (Aspect-Oriented Programming - see Aspect-Oriented Programming / Aspect-Oriented Software Design[^] by Marc Clifton on this site).
You could use mutexes to solve this problem with a singleton pattern, but then your calling code is required to increment and decrement the reference count (like with COM, though ATL helps aleviate that). With an AOP approach, you don't need to worry about it. The .NET Remoting infrastructure takes care of this for you and you can always override certain methods and implement the right interfaces (like ILease and ISponsor) to change this behavior if you want (or return null from InitializeLifetimeService to keep the object alive indefinitely). It's definitely worth checking out.
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