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Thank you for the reply, the reason I did not try it is that it is someone in my group that is coding that part and we are doing some "theoretical" coding now and needs to make some design choises.
It turns out that he is using Java and will bind his server with our j# interface, I think that would work as he is not using anything after 1.1 I think.(We will later throw everything in a project in VS.NET)
The thing is that we have alot of references between objects and is wondering about the solution(I've asked something similar before). We tried to go away from our database thinking and have it like this:
Employee has a collection of resources.
Resources has one reference to an employee and one to a Project.
Project has a collection of resources.
This is that we want a client/server solution and how would you solve this problem in "real" life. We can do a simple program without any server or database but we want to make it as real as possible else it feels like we wont learn much.
Before we just had "foreign keys" (project id, employee id) in the resource, but I dont think that is good object oriented coding? But it makes it much easier to send objects to and from a server as we dont need a reference between the objects..but this is bad right?
Thank you for you help
(And what does Microsoft MVP stand for?, you seem to know alot about .NET) 
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Ok thanks, we will try to keep them even though we are having annoying problems with instanceof right now, that is on the level we are  .
But will take your advice and start trying to send objects back and forth from the server/client.
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The reference will still be there, but it will be broken. The reference is actually in IntPtr (pointer), which is really just a memory address. The only way the reference won't break is if object B happens to end up at the same memory address on the server (unlikely), or if you manually tear down the A object on one end, send the data, and manually reconstitute the A object on the other end, thus fixing the pointers.
Now, if A and B are both serializable, and you implement ISerializable in such a way as to serialize/deserialize B as a part of A, then it would be fairly simple to ensure that things are torn down and rebuilt properly.
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Grimolfr wrote:
The reference is actually in IntPtr (pointer), which is really just a memory address.
 Like .NET runtime serialization, the ObjectOutputStream and ObjectIntputStream hook-up the references again. Depending on how the data is formatted to be send across the wire, this has nothing to do with memory addresses. This is no different than what happens with .NET Remoting.
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I shoulda known to stay out of it as soon as I saw J#.
And serialization [i]will[/i] serialize reference pointers instead of the objects they point to in some situations unless you explicitly override the serialization methods.
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I'd be interested to know what situations those are. We've used both SOAP and binary formatting (runtime serialization) in our massive N-tier application I primarily architected and objects to which member fields reference (and what not) are serialized. This is especially true for SOAP where even a byte offset for a child object isn't possible.
In any case, the J# libraries work differently from the .NET FCL and to be honest, I'm really not sure about all that. It's basically a port of the JRE. I answered a question not long ago about java.util.Date. Someone for some reason thought that you could simply cast a DateTime to a Date. Not only wasn't that possible, but they use different epochs (which I remember from Java years and because of a couple recent projects interop'ing Java and .NET at the presentation layer that I developed a couple years ago).
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I've never run into it personally, but I read a forum message (on gotdotnet.com, IIRC) where a guy was serializing an object with SerializableAttribute, and not implementing ISerializable or providing a serialization constructor.
Problem was, the default serialization mechanism would serialize the function pointers assigned to any events. When he deserialized, the pointers were invalid, and caused all sorts of problems.
His actual issue in the post was that the NonSerializableAttribute applies to fields only, and not to events.
This was awhile ago, though. The default serialization functionality may have changed in 1.1 to not serialize event function pointers.
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I see. That would make sense regarding delegates (event handlers). For fields, however, this shouldn't be a problem.
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Is it possible to have a J# client and a Java server and send objects between them?
As it seems now our J# client only seems to handle all objects it gets from the Java server as Strings.
Just wondering if we must throw in the Server in the .NET environment or if we have made some other mistake.
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I need a class that can be seen by multiple running exe's, but have only one instance running. The first program exe that opens will fire up the dll and all others after than will just use it.
I want to use this for a licensing situation. We have several front-end exe's that I want to do licensing for. The dll is going to communicate with a licensing server every few mins. If the server goes down, I want the dll to show a warning and close all exe's attached to it after a few mins.
I've never had to do anything like this before in c# and am looking for a couple of good ideas. I don't necessarily have to use the dll idea either. As long has I can attach a couple of exe's to the same instance of something in memory and catch a close event or message from it, it should work.
Another bad point is that all the exe’s aren’t in .net yet. Some are legacy vb6 still. I don’t know what problems this will entail, but the ideal solution would close them also.
I have evaluated several licensing packages and haven’t found one that will do what I want. The ones I can afford won’t and the ones that will do licensing per company are hugely expensive, so I think we have to roll our own.
If I could find a licensing package for under around 5K that would probably work also. We looked at flex LM but it’s ridiculously expensive. It would do the per company license scheme we want. (Company a buys 10 licenses, company b 100 etc. A can have 10 computers running my software at one instance in time (as many computers installed, just 10 running at one time), b 100 etc.)
Sorry for rambling here
If you need any other info or clarification let me know.
TIA
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DLLs - be they native libraries or .NET assemblies - are always loaded into the process space. This is how execution works.
If you want a singleton pattern in .NET, you can use a well-known singleton object using .NET Remoting. A good place to host this would be in a Windows Service (see ServiceBase).
If your applications aren't all .NET applications, this is definitely a problem.
One thing you might consider is writing a COM+ object with singleton activation. This would make the object available to .NET and native applications, although using it in native applications is a little more difficult. You can read more about COM+ - including how to use it with the .NET Framework - by reading COM+ (Component Services)[^] in the MSDN Library online. You should also read Writing Serviced Components[^] in the .NET Framework and follow the links to class documentation to learn more. You could write this component service in .NET in such a way that it would work for both managed and unmanaged (native) applications and when those latter applications are converted to .NET (if they will be) switch over to .NET Remoting if you like (you would have to, though - it's just a little easier to deploy). This means abstracting the actual licensing code away from the component so that it could be used by either a serviced component or a .NET Remoting object.
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Thanks for the info. I've done several services and a com+ service object. I'll check into using something like that.
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Sorry if this has been asked before: i have a class that i want to move across the network as xml. using the xmlserializer class converts the class to xml however there is some data produced in the final xml that i would rather not have, for example, the first line <?xml yada yada yada ?> i don't need for my purposes and would rather not have this automatically produced. Can i prevent the xmlserializer class from inserting this first line? Also the class that is being serialized to xml ends up with some schema data which again, i don't need for my purposes, Example::
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<OrderRequest xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Control>2.0</Control>
<Header>
<SenderID>1123123</SenderID>
<ReceiverID>39393</ReceiverID>
</Header>
</OrderRequest>
so basically i want the output from the serialization to be like this:
<OrderRequest>
<Control>2.0</Control>
<Header>
<SenderID>1123123</SenderID>
<ReceiverID>9393939</ReceiverID>
</Header>
</OrderRequest>
any help advice is greatly appreciated!!
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The first line is there for a good reason: it tells the other end what version of XML your file is in and what the encoding is. You really shouldn't delete it. It won't affect any XML classes (like an XmlTextReader) on the other end.
Simply using the XmlSerializer, there is no way to remove the processing instruction. If you want to do it anyway (and again I strongly recommend against it - it's not like it's hurting anythig anyway), you'd have to serialize your object graph to a stream (perhaps a MemoryStream), read it back in using a combination of an XmlTextReader and an XmlTextWriter - or use an XmlDocument which can be slow depending on the size of the XML document/fragment - and remove the processing instruction before sending.
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yes i appreciate that information is there for a reason, however, the objects i'm building are simply to organise all the information and insure the end xml is properly formated (according to the receivers format). the receiver is not using .net and i'm not really sure how they are dissecting this xml document.
i'll try your idea and see if i get anywhere. thanks!
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So long as the receiver is XML-conformant it will either utilitize the processing instructions or ignore them. Processing instructions are part of the XML specifications. Why don't you just try it and see? If it doesn't work, you might consider a better XML parser on the receiving end since it wouldn't truly be XML-conformant. Processing instructions are not Microsoft-specific.
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according to them (just phoned) they are and anything not in their specification is ignored. wooohooo. that just saved me hours of typing thanks
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wookie wrote:
the receiver is not using .net and i'm not really sure how they are dissecting this xml document.
If you're not sure, then leave it in. It will actually HELP the receiver to decode the document because your supplying the specific XML version and encoding information. Leaving this out can cause problems between differing systems. Supplying too much information, in this case, is a good thing!
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ok - in it stays.... thanks!
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can i convert a field to checkbox in sql reporting service report how?
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I need to import data from a DBase file in my C# application, but I'm not familiar with the .NET database stuff - can anyone point me in the direction of an article or some sample code?
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Through
System.Data.ODBC namespace.
You could download it from Microsoft. Not sure it they had incorporated it into VS.NET or not.
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please visit this link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odbc/htm/odbc_part_2.asp
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I've got the ODBC namespace, but I don't know what provider string to give when opening the connection to access a DBase file, and then how to actually access the data once I've opened it. There are plenty of examples for SQL, Oracle etc. but nothing specifically for the old DBase/FoxPro format.
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