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Life of application

quocbao9-Jun-04 21:55

quocbao

9-Jun-04 21:55

How to write a application that the user can only use 3 times.
I'm waiting for you.
Thank you.

Re: Life of application

Alex Getman10-Jun-04 1:24

Alex Getman

10-Jun-04 1:24

Maybe you shoud make a config file and also store some counter values in registry. On load your program should increment value in registry and if it's > 3 then your application should delete your file.

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Re: Life of application

Wackatronic10-Jun-04 4:55

Wackatronic

10-Jun-04 4:55

Alex Getman (leTaon) wrote:
then your application should delete your file

Bad practice to delete from a user's PC without notification or prior notification that after # uses the app will delete itself.

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Re: Life of application

Dave Kreskowiak10-Jun-04 4:56

Dave Kreskowiak

10-Jun-04 4:56

Weak. Very weak. There is nothing to stop the user from unstalling the app, deleting the registry keys and files you leave behind and then starting all over again. Or even just put the older values back into the registry and files.

Copy protection like this is nortoriously difficult to write. Google for "time limited software protection" and you'll come up with a bunch of results on libraries and packages that can be used in your project.

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The file associated with FileStream

Meysam Mahfouzi9-Jun-04 21:40

Meysam Mahfouzi

9-Jun-04 21:40

The only way of associating a file with a FileStream object is thru its constructor, It means if I want to change the file name associated with some FileStream, I should re-instantiate it, doesn't it? Do you know any better way to do that?

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Re: The file associated with FileStream

Heath Stewart10-Jun-04 4:25

Heath Stewart

10-Jun-04 4:25

A FileStream is tied to a native file handle, so yes, you must reinstantiate it. This is also why you should call Dispose on the FileStream when you're done. The file handle is a native type and unmanaged. Calling dispose closes that file handle. If you don't call Dispose, the file may remain locked until your application is closed.

Changing the file to which a FileStream object reference is not supported because of this fact. You can reassign the variable to a new FileStream, but that would reference a different object (and if you didn't call Dispose before changing the reference, you've just lost the ability to dispose it so that the native file handle is released).

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How to add image property to UserControl?

luming11223344559-Jun-04 21:38

luming1122334455

9-Jun-04 21:38

I define a class based on UserControl
UserControl has no Image property ,I add one like this

public class mycontrol : System.Windows.Forms.UserControl
...
private Image m_image;
...
public Image Image
{
get
{
return m_image;
}
set
{
m_image = value;
}
}
I putted it into visual studio toolbox,In design time ,I load a picture , but Can't unload it and set it back to none.
for example , a button has the image property , if I want get this image out , just set the property to "" in property grid,then the button's Image change to none,how does it works?

it's my image property define wrong ?

Re: How to add image property to UserControl?

partyganger10-Jun-04 3:10

partyganger

10-Jun-04 3:10

Set the Image to null, that works for me (Try it with a button, asign an Image and add a click event that sets the Image property to null, the Image will disappear). If not, try calling the control's Invalidate() or Refresh() fucntions, since those will force the COntrol to repaint itself.

Re: How to add image property to UserControl?

Heath Stewart10-Jun-04 4:20

Heath Stewart

10-Jun-04 4:20

The Image class itself is attributed with the ImageConverter, which takes care of this automatically for you. There's nothing you really need to do. You could attribute your property with [DefaultValue(null)], which will allow you to right-click and select "Reset".

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Re: How to add image property to UserControl?

luming112233445510-Jun-04 14:37

luming1122334455

10-Jun-04 14:37

Thanks you, That's just what I want.

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send mail

ChangAli9-Jun-04 21:06

ChangAli

9-Jun-04 21:06

hi i want send mail from my program to next email ,for example Anzerato@hotmail.com ,but i can't,and error is :

System.web.HttpExeption:could not access 'CDO.Message'object.--->System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException:Exception has been thrown by the target of an invoction.--->System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException(0x80040213):the transport failed to connect to server.
.
.
.

my program is :

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();<br />
mail.From = "alichangizi@Hotmail.com";<br />
mail.To = "Anzerato@hotmail.com";<br />
mail.Subject = "Site Error";<br />
mail.Body = "OK";<br />
mail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html;<br />
MailMessage();<br />
try<br />
{<br />
   SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "localhost";<br />
   SmtpMail.Send(mail);<br />
}<br />
catch(System.Web.HttpException ehttp)<br />
{<br />
   Console.WriteLine("{0}", ehttp.Message);<br />
   Console.WriteLine("Here is the full error message output");<br />
   Console.Write("{0}", ehttp.ToString());<br />
}<br />

Re: send mail

Heath Stewart10-Jun-04 4:16

Heath Stewart

10-Jun-04 4:16

For one, you need to have the CDO component installed. The easiest way on Windows 2000, XP, and Windows Server 2003 is to install the SMTP services. Also, the SMTP server must relay for a particular domain. In your case, you must relay for hotmail.com.

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Re: ListView

myNameIsRon9-Jun-04 20:44

myNameIsRon

9-Jun-04 20:44

Hi,
I was wondering if you can set a hidden value (would this be called a SelectedValue?) to each row in ListView? I'm populating the ListView from a DataSet. I want to be able to click on a row and have a form come up and ask for edit/delete this row (which would really update the DataSet and then reload the ListView to show the changes). Of course in order to do this, I need to have a corresponding ID for each row in the ListView that's retrievable from the selected row.

Thanks,
Ron

Re: ListView

Alex Getman10-Jun-04 1:29

Alex Getman

10-Jun-04 1:29

I faced with this problem not so long... Well, I created a hashtable and set keys from 0 to ListView.Count, and values were set just like in ListView, and on_klick I looked through hashtable and delete item that I need.

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Re: ListView

Serge Lobko-Lobanovsky10-Jun-04 2:08

Serge Lobko-Lobanovsky

10-Jun-04 2:08

Hi Ron,

Each ListViewItem has a Tag property which can be used for storing anything you need. In your case you could associate an ID or a datarow object with it.

Regards,
Serge (Logic Software, Easy Projects .NET site)

Re: ListView

myNameIsRon11-Jun-04 19:54

myNameIsRon

11-Jun-04 19:54

Thanks Serge!
Works great!

Ron

Access first form's control from the second form.

Titan59-Jun-04 19:27

Titan5

9-Jun-04 19:27

I created two forms: MainForm has a textbox tbBox1. I clicked a button btnOpen to open the second form (named Form2). Now I want to get or set the value of tbBox1 from the second form by clicking a button btnAccess. How can I do it? The MainForm was opened by the standard "Application.Run(Form MainForm);" and the second form was opened by "Form2 a = new Form2(); a.Show();" in btnAccess's OnClick event. I have made tbBox1 public but I couldn't access the instance of MainForm. The MainForm class' instance (an object) has no name when opened from Application.Run. Please help. Confused | :confused:

Re: Access first form's control from the second form.

fayth9-Jun-04 19:54

fayth

9-Jun-04 19:54

1. in form2, declare a member System.Windows.Forms.Form pForm;
2. overload the Form2's constructor
public Form2(System.windows.Forms.Form aForm)
{
pForm = aForm;
}

now you can acess Form1 like this.
pForm.xxxButton.Text = "test";

try it.

nhi

Re: Access first form's control from the second form.

fayth9-Jun-04 19:56

fayth

9-Jun-04 19:56

of course,when you create Form2 in form1 ,you should pass itself to the form2's contructor like
Form2 frm = new Form2(this);
frm.Show;

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nhi

Re: Access first form's control from the second form.

palbano9-Jun-04 19:56

palbano

9-Jun-04 19:56

Make a function in your second form that takes a Form1 object as a parameter. Then pass "this" as the parameter from the first form

Form2 a = new Form2();
a.myFunction(this);
...

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Re: Access first form's control from the second form.

Titan511-Jun-04 21:51

Titan5

11-Jun-04 21:51

Thank you all. I got it work now. I declared the textbox in MainForm as public so that Form2 can get to it. Thanks again.

Running size of Windows Form App.

David Horner9-Jun-04 19:05

David Horner

9-Jun-04 19:05

Right now I'm writing a wallpaper changing application to run in the systray. The application works great. The app went together really quickly and easily using the .NET framework. However, since it is a systray app.... I want it to be as small as possible in memory.

Just running the app (not even connecting to the web or working with GDI+ for imaging) it sits at about 12M in memory with 5M virtual memory. This is the release version of the code.

Is there anything I can do to reduce the footprint? I liked the speed of development, but I don't know if it is worth almost 20M in memory.

Thanks,
Dave

Re: Running size of Windows Form App.

palbano9-Jun-04 19:51

palbano

9-Jun-04 19:51

Take a look at System.Diagnostics.Process.MaxWorkingSet and MinWorkingSet properties.

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Re: Running size of Windows Form App.

David Horner9-Jun-04 21:09

David Horner

9-Jun-04 21:09

Thanks, I looked but the min is set to 204,800 and max is set to 1,413,120. I'm not exactly sure what these values are expressed in... bytes, KB,megs, pages, something else?

It doesn't look like they are that large. How do I change the values?
When I try to set the value I get a:
Cannot implicitly convert type 'int' to 'System.IntPtr'.

Thanks again,
Dave

Re: Running size of Windows Form App.

Heath Stewart10-Jun-04 4:01

Heath Stewart

10-Jun-04 4:01

That's the .NET Framework for you. Depending on what Types you use, the defining assemblies are loaded into memory. This can produce a large footprint, and there's really nothing you can do about it.

As far as setting the MaxWorkingSet, you have to assign it new IntPtr(someIntOrLongValue), since the property type is an IntPtr. You should read the documentation about the Process.MaxWorkingSet property. You can only set this to a value that still allows all the assemblies to be loaded into memory.

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