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Hi all,
I need to generate a check sum string from visual basic and pass to a Java implemented class according to the specification.
the requirement from user spec is saying that the check sum string should base on the following formula.
e.g. (Username + UserId + Transaction Amount + Transaction Date).
suppose I have the above parameters, but how can I generate the MD5 checksum string from VB?
can you provide an example? is it using Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider ?
P.S. I need to genereate the checksum as a STRING.
thanks
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See if this[^] helps.
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thanks for your reply, Abhinav
However, I'm not generate a checksum from a file stream.
firstly, i get a combination string from the parameters and by the formula I will get
string org_str = "JOHN_C2182_20102009"
I need a method to generate a checksum string from the above "org_str"
do you have other example?
thanks
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There is an infinite number of definitions for "checksum". All that is basically required is the same data always returns the same checksum, so you could take an algorithm as simple as summing all of the individual bytes, up to wherever your imagination brings you. If MD5 is involved, you still have to decide how your original data would be presented to it, and how the resulting bytes would be converted to the output format your system wants.
Without a detailed description of the algorithm used on one side, you'll have a very hard time coming up with a matching implementation for the other side. Having one side implemented in either .NET or Java should allow you to peek into the code (using Reflector for .NET, JAD for Java) and create the same stuff again in e.g. VB.NET
If, not clear, you need VB, not VB.NET, then I don't know MD5 implementations are readily available.
modified on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 7:49 AM
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Yes, Ok, I know this is a common problem, but I've read through a lot of similar threads and still can't seem to see what I'm doing wrong. 
Some fresh eyes might see what is probably staring me in the face.
I've written the following sub to insert a record into an SqlCe database DataTable called BRDataTable.
On executing sqlInsert.ExecuteNonQuery() near the end of the code, I get an error message "There was an error in a part of the date format.".
I've put a breakpoint at sqlInsert.ExecuteNonQuery for debugging, and checked the contents of sqlInsert.CommandText, which is:
"INSERT INTO BRDataTable VALUES('Test', '13/01/2010', '', '', '1', '7', '0', '0')"
I've also tried setting CurrentRecord.WhenReady as DateTime instead of just Date, giving the following CommandText, but I still get the same error:
"INSERT INTO BRDataTable VALUES('Test', '13/01/2010 11:08:40 AM', '', '', '1', '7', '0', '0')"
I've double checked, and the DataType for the second column in the DataTable is definitely set to DateTime.
Thanks in advance.
Paul
Private Sub AddCurrentRecordToDatabase()
'#####################################################
'# Add the contents of CurrentRecord to the database #
'#####################################################
'Make a connection to the database
Dim sqlConn As New SqlCeConnection(sqlConnString)
'Set up the insert command
Dim sqlInsert As SqlCeCommand = sqlConn.CreateCommand
sqlInsert.CommandText = "INSERT INTO BRDataTable VALUES('" _
& CurrentRecord.Name & "', '" _
& CurrentRecord.WhenReady & "', '" _
& CurrentRecord.Address & "', '" _
& CurrentRecord.Notes & "', '" _
& ConvertBooleanToBit(CurrentRecord.Reminder) & "', '" _
& CurrentRecord.DaysWarning & "', '" _
& ConvertBooleanToBit(CurrentRecord.Acknowledged) & "', '" _
& CurrentRecord.Age & "')"
'Execute the insert command
sqlConn.Open()
sqlInsert.ExecuteNonQuery()
sqlConn.Close()
End Sub
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Have you tried with date formatted mm/yy/dddd?
Just a thought...
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
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Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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Thanks for your reply Andy_L_J.
I got it to work by formating the date as "yyyyMMdd" 
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Ok, I've got it working by formating the date component of my CommandText as "yyyyMMdd", but I don't really understand why I had to do it this way.
Most of the threads I read regarding similar problems talked about formating the date as;
"MM/dd/yyyy"
or
"MM dd yyyy"
or
"MM.dd.yyyy"
or
"MM-dd-yyyy"
or
"dd/MM/yyyy"
etc etc
None of these worked though. Only "yyyyMMdd" worked.
This doesn't line up with my regonal settings either. We have the date format as "dd/MM/yyyy" here in Australia.
Can anyone give a good explanation why only "yyyyMMdd" works? 
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Paul Hasler wrote: Can anyone give a good explanation why only "yyyyMMdd" works?
yyyymmdd is the best date format in my books... it means all dates come out in date order when you return them in a query.
yyyymmdd is a standard to get around the horrors that we all have faced (I'm sure) back in the old days when someone would insert a date like "03/04/95", and depending on regional settings you would get 3 April 1995 or 4 March 1995.
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Google for "vb.net parameterize query" and you'll find that, done without all the string concantentation, this would not have been a problem at all.
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Thanks Dave! I Googled your suggestion and it was a bit of a revelation!
Someone needs to find the button marked PURGE on that "little black box with the flashing red light" that is the internet.
I've obviously only been mucking about with SqlCe for a week or so, and as a noob most of my searches for tutorials etc seem to have come up with the old dinosaur methods, so I assumed that's how it's done.
Parameterization is SO much cleaner and useable!
Cheers again.
Paul
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This might be more of a framework issue, but since the code is VB....
We have a large application, written in VB.Net 3.5 and running on Vista systems using the Aero interface. During long processes, we show a form that displays continuing progress, like this:
Label1.Text = String.Format("Completed: {0}%", CInt((Count / Total) * 100))
Label1.Invalidate()
Me.Invalidate()
Application.DoEvents()
This works just fine, until the user turns to another task and a different window covers the progress form. At that moment, the form stops being updated. Moving the covering window away does not cause the form to start updating again, and the result is a useless box that taunts us, making us guess if it is almost done or stalled at 20%. A similar problem occurs with other forms of feedback such as progress bars and status controls.
Any suggestions?
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TechBearSeattle wrote: Any suggestions?
yes. stop abusing DoEvents() and organize your app the proper way: GUI stuff in the main thread, everything that takes (or might take) more than 30 msec in one or more separate threads, possibly ThreadPool or BackgroundWorker; and all painting in paint handlers.
Here is some literature for you:
animation1[^]
crossthreads1[^]
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Thanks, that was awfully helpful. Perhaps now you could provide references on how to retrofit a massive legacy application to make use of multi-threading? I'm sure I can find a few months to dedicate to the project.
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I am surprised by the combination large+legacy+VB+Vista.
I don't have a reference for retrofitting such beast.
Can you break it up in smaller modules (possibly different processes) and redo the GUI?
Probably a total redesign is in order.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: I am surprised by the combination large+legacy+VB+Vista.
Damn you beat me to it 
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Sorry for the sarcastic response above; friends should not let friends post while uncaffeinated.
The application itself is more than 10 years old. It was originally written in VB4, was latter translated into VB6 and, starting about two years ago, translated into VB.Net 3.5. This is the database front end used by the home office of a mid-size brokerage firm and has gone through EXTENSIVE rewrites over the years to accomodate changes in federal regulations and the ignorant whims of Point-Haired Bosses. The EXE of the original, as delivered by the team of contractors, was 1028kb; the most recent VB6 version is 2844kb. Because of the number of cards that make up this mission critical house, I have been very reluctant to make wholesale changes in the code.
In summary, the application is a big, steaming pile sitting on my desk.
In the most recent version (the one in VB.net 3.5) there were some organizational changes. The visual interface (forms, etc.) and central application pieces are in one project, the core functionality and custom components are in another project, database functionality is in a third, and projects exist for interfacing with our document imaging system, our reporting system and our back-office employee management system (don't ask why that was folded in,) all tied together into a single solution. Some order was imposed on the database module, forced largely by the switch from RDO to ADO.Net, but by and large, the code was merely translated rather than redesigned from scratch like it should have been: we simply did not have the time and resources to do that.
It should be possible to redesign the main project to make use of multithreading, but that leads to a rather more substantial problem: my company does not pay for tech training, so I would have to do it on my own and I don't know squat about multi-threading. I'd like to think that I am a pretty competent programmer, but that is never something I've had to do before. Contracting is not a realistic option, as my boss tends to higher whoever has the lowest fee and does not ask my opinion before inking the contract.
I was really hoping that there was a simpler solution.
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Well by lack of any other option you might try to refresh the form and the controls individually.
No guaranty that it will work haven't try'd it.
Other than that you could try to make sure no other form can be displayed over that one.
Again a very bad solution and not sure if it will work.
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if (big if) you have a clear separation between GUI stuff and everything else, then you could use just two threads: the main thread for GUI stuff, one new thread for everything else including database accesses, networking, computations, whatever. All you need then is a good interface between those two, so the back-end can remain what it is and read and write data structures getting/passing information to the front-end GUI. It is not really hard, however there are many ways to do it wrong, and depending on the number of forms/screens you currently have, it may be huge.
You should not attempt this on a big app right away; take your time to get something small to work, so you really understand it and then can judge for yourself.
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Ah, well. Multithreading is something I've been wanting to learn, as it would help in a number of other apps I have to maintain. I just have to work out a way to make this enough of an issue so the PHBs allocate the time and resources I need to get this worked out. (Insert evil smiley here.)
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I'm guessing that's sarcasm.
TechBearSeattle wrote: how to retrofit a massive legacy application
Legacy? with vista Aero interface and vb.net 3.5???
Luc is correct if you want this form to keep updating you'll have to put your code into a separate thread and stop using doevents().
TechBearSeattle wrote: I'm sure I can find a few months to dedicate to the project.
If the project had been designed correctly from the start you wouldn't be in this kind of trouble now.
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Alas, yes: this is a legacy system running on Vista with Aero. See my post above.
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using VB6 and Crystal Report10, Report X contains subreport Y and Z (e.g)
When i click button, it gives error as
"Query Engin Error 'Error Code: 0x800a0e78'
Source Adodb.RecordSet
Description: Operation is not allowed when the object is Closed"
NOTE: When i use break point and parse line be line, then it works fine.
My Code is as:
Public Function ShowNELogReport(ByRef rsNELog As ADODB.Recordset, ByRef rsPower As ADODB.Recordset, ByRef rsSystemStatus As ADODB.Recordset, ByRef rsRequirement As ADODB.Recordset)
Dim Report As New rptLogMain
On Error GoTo Err
With rsNELog
If Not (.BOF Or .EOF) Then
.MoveLast
.MoveNext
'Report.Database.SetDataSource rsSearchReport
Report.Database.SetDataSource rsNELog
Debug.Print Report.Database.Tables.Item(1).Name
'Report.ReadRecords
Report.Subreport1.OpenSubreport.Database.SetDataSource rsPower
Report.Subreport2.OpenSubreport.Database.SetDataSource rsRequirement
Report.Subreport3.OpenSubreport.Database.SetDataSource rsSystemStatus
crViewer.ReportSource = Report
crViewer.ViewReport
Else
MsgBox "Record Not Found", vbInformation
Unload Me
End If
End With
Exit Function
Err:
MsgBox Err.Description
End Function
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hi.. I m working in VB in Visual Studion .Net. In my project I have two forms. I m declaring a public array in form1 which i want to use in 2nd form (form2) also. On form1 i have a button which when clicked form2 will be shown. I want that contents of array in form1 should be acessible in form2 also. But i m facing the problem that how to open form2 on button click in form1 and use array of form1 in form2.
So, Is there any solution for this???
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