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Re: error LNK2019: linker error.....in eVC++ 4.0

Hamid_RT19-Jul-06 20:58

Hamid_RT

19-Jul-06 20:58

did you see MSDN for resolve

whitesky

Re: error LNK2019: linker error.....in eVC++ 4.0

cool_frozen20-Jul-06 23:29

cool_frozen

20-Jul-06 23:29

yeah but that did not help me.......
can u tell some solution?

Re: error LNK2019: linker error.....in eVC++ 4.0

toxcct20-Jul-06 23:34

toxcct

20-Jul-06 23:34

looking at the MSDN[^], they say that :

"To resolve this error, provide a definition for symbol or remove the code that references it"

have you checked this ?

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Re: error LNK2019: linker error.....in eVC++ 4.0

cool_frozen20-Jul-06 23:40

cool_frozen

20-Jul-06 23:40

yeah man i hav checked it but really it is not workingggg

tell me something innovative thing that u know.....else keep quit.

Re: error LNK2019: linker error.....in eVC++ 4.0

toxcct20-Jul-06 23:48

toxcct

20-Jul-06 23:48

hey you...

not only you don't provide enough informations so that we can plainly understand where you problem comes from, but now you're hurting me because i don't help you enough ?

come on !!! who are you to tell me what to do ? do you pay me to help you ? do anyone here give me money to give help on CP ? are you here for long enough to tell me the do and don't of codeproject ?

now, i tell you one last thing. i'm TRYING to help you. if you don't explain WHERE - in the code - you're having the problem (giving a code sample would be great), don't expect anybody to do a miracle only because you're too lazy to find an answer by yourself. i'm ok to help you, but provide valuable infos.

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Re: error LNK2019: linker error.....in eVC++ 4.0

toxcct21-Jul-06 0:05

toxcct

21-Jul-06 0:05

THIS[^] note from the webMaster is definitely for you.

cool_frozen wrote:
WHO THE HELL R U TO SAY ME NOT TO POST ONE MESSAGE MORE THAN ONCE

only a modest CP protector who loves this site and tries to preserve it from some guys who don't respect the rules dicted by the webmaster.

cool_frozen wrote:
SO NO NEED TO TELL ANYONE SUCH THINGS THAT DIRECTLY HURT.........

i did so because you're definitely not trying to understand what i'm explaining to you... see, now, you're shouting... perfectly useless Sleepy | :zzz:

cool_frozen wrote:
THAT IT IS UPLOADED TWICE...THAT WAS THE THING...

well i did it because most newbies on this site don't know the rules and enforces them voluntarily...

cool_frozen wrote:
IT REALLY HURT ME.......

sorry for that, but you hurted me too by not having deleted the message when seeing it's been there twice.

cool_frozen wrote:
WELLL I DONOT WANNNA ANY HELP FROM U.......I WILL DO IT MYSELF

if you wish... that's stupid behavior, but i'm ok with that.

bye sir (and learn controling yourself, otherwise you will get into troubles evertime in your life)

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Re: error LNK2019: linker error.....in eVC++ 4.0

Eytukan21-Jul-06 0:17

Eytukan

21-Jul-06 0:17

cool_frozen wrote:
yeah man i hav checked it but really it is not workingggg

tell me something innovative thing that u know.....else keep quit.

Nonsense. If it's not working for you, get into your room,close the door and scream inside. Inside the forum you need to maintain discipline. First delete the message you have typed in full caps. No one is blind here. Now get lost Dead | X|

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creating setup for application

Tara1419-Jul-06 20:19

Tara14

19-Jul-06 20:19

Hello,

I have developed an application in vc++, mfc using Access as the database connected with DAO.

I have to create a installable version for the application. The setup should have a product key, should create a desktop shortcut and a system tray icon.

I have InstallShield for vc++6. Please can you guide me on how to go about doing this.

In my program, at present I have specified the path where the Access file is. ie. I have given the path as
CString strPath ="C:\\store\\store.mdb"
But when I create the setup file, when the user installes the program, I want the path in which the user has installed the program to be taken as the path for the database.

Does the programming for the desktop icon, system tray icon, and path of database have to be done in my main program itself, or when creating the setup file.

Kindly advise.

Thanks,
Tara

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Re: creating setup for application

Hamid_RT19-Jul-06 21:11

Hamid_RT

19-Jul-06 21:11

In additional you can use form c:\WINDOWS\system32\iexpress.exe

whitesky

Re: creating setup for application [modified]

Tara1419-Jul-06 21:15

Tara14

19-Jul-06 21:15

WhiteSky wrote:
In additional you can use form c:\WINDOWS\system32\iexpress.exe

Thanks.

Please may I konw where do I do the codeing for creating a desktop icon, and the system tray icon? And also the path of the database? Suppose I the set the program to find the path of the exe file and set the path to that would that be a better solution?

Re: creating setup for application

Ștefan-Mihai MOGA19-Jul-06 21:16

Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

19-Jul-06 21:16

Tara14 wrote:
Does the programming for the desktop icon, system tray icon, and path of database have to be done in my main program itself, or when creating the setup file.

I think you need to set the path to the database and to create all that shortcuts from the setup application. So you need to modify the script from the InstallShield. You could try a newer version available on http://www.macrovision.com/downloads/index.shtml[^] for evaluation.

Re: creating setup for application

ThatsAlok21-Jul-06 4:02

ThatsAlok

21-Jul-06 4:02

Tara14 wrote:
oes the programming for the desktop icon, system tray icon, and path of database have to be done in my main program itself, or when creating the setup file.

look for INNO setup!

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Re: creating setup for application

Tara1422-Jul-06 1:04

Tara14

22-Jul-06 1:04

Hello,

I took a look at Inno setup. I have never created a setup file before, so I do not know which one is better. I looks like it is easy to use though, compared to InstallShield.

So the Inno setup will take care of creating the desktop icon and the tray icon. But I still am not sure how to set the path for the database. I mentioned earlier that I could code my program to look in the same folder where the exe file is located and set it as the path. Is that the right solution?

Any help will be highly appriciated.

Thanks,
Tara

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VSS automation problem

stanlymt19-Jul-06 19:59

stanlymt

19-Jul-06 19:59

I'm using VSS interface in my program.
I'm getting the latest version of the file by using Get function in IVSSItemPtr.

IVSSItemPtr vssi;
COleVariant varBuf(strProjectFolder);
vssi = m_vssdb->GetVSSItem( varBuf.bstrVal,0);
vssi->Get( NULL,VSSFLAG_USERRONO | VSSFLAG_RECURSYES | VSSFLAG_FORCEDIRYES | VSSFLAG_GETYES );

The above code works perfectly for me. It gets the latest version. But I'm suffering from biggest disadvantage. Once this function is called it disables my main application. No messages are handled by main window, when the Get function is called. Once that function execution is finished then only Window accepts messages. Till then all the messages are blocked. Even all the threads are suspended. For large folders when we use Get function, it's takes very long time and it's quite annoying that Window gets disabled and all background threads are suspended. Is there any way to overcome it? I wanted to monitor the status of the Get function. Is there any way to run background thread to monitor it? Can we enable the Window to accept messages.

Thanks,
Stanly

Re: VSS automation problem

Steve S19-Jul-06 21:42

Steve S

19-Jul-06 21:42

Why not do it the other way around, and spin off a new thread to perform the get?
Of course, you'll need to coinit your new thread and marshall your interface into the new thread, but that isn't exactly rocket science. Your 'get' thread can post a message when it's complete.

Unfortunately, there don't appear to be any useful events that fire during the get, so you can't "monitor" as such. An alternative would be to handle the recursion yourself in the thread, and have the thread post messages to your UI thread or a window.

The application 'hangs' for a simple reason; the UI thread it isn't pumping messages, because the call hasn't completed yet. When you say the threads are suspended, I'm guessing that none of them have their own message loops.

Steve S
Developer for hire

Re: VSS automation problem

stanlymt19-Jul-06 21:52

stanlymt

19-Jul-06 21:52

Thanks a lot for responding. I tried using thread to perform 'get'. In this case also, once the 'get' function is called application is not responding to any messages even the message loop of each thread. The 'get' completely blocks other messages. I tried using recursion mechanism to 'get' file. There is a major drawback for this method. The performance is affected to a large extent. It's take very long time to get a big folder because it has to recurse to each folders and subfolders. Thats why I thought of shifting to single call mechanism to 'get' whole folder. Can you please help me with this problem?

Thanks,
Stanly

Re: VSS automation problem

Steve S19-Jul-06 22:34

Steve S

19-Jul-06 22:34

It is a lot of work (in terms of CPU time) to get a large folder and any subfolders. If you do it using the SourceSafe UI, time it and see how long it takes - and then compare that with your single get, and if possible, your recursive version.

Doing the automation work can be a bit of a pain, but if your code is reasonable, it shouldn't be that much worse than using the SS UI.

What exactly are your other threads doing, and have you adjusted the priority of them? It sounds like you're just CPU starved, and while SS uses a lot, you should be able to do other things at the same time - I have a snapshot utility that replicates a given SS db to a new SS db (eliminating any history) and I can run other stuff along side it, although I have a P4 2.8GHz cpu ...

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Developer for hire

Re: VSS automation problem

stanlymt19-Jul-06 22:50

stanlymt

19-Jul-06 22:50

I found that the CPU is much lesser(30%) than total CPU available. The single get is much faster than recursive version and also it's faster than SS UI.
It's better than SS UI.
The VSS database is located in remote machine. Is it because of reading from remote machine makes the application to freeze? One thread is to monitor the content of one folder. The control is never reaching this thread, once the 'get' function is called. I tried using timers also, timer event is also not happening. Thanks a lot for your help.

Thanks,
Stanly

Re: VSS automation problem

Steve S20-Jul-06 0:00

Steve S

20-Jul-06 0:00

stanlymt wrote:
One thread is to monitor the content of one folder. The control is never reaching this thread, once the 'get' function is called. I tried using timers also, timer event is also not happening.

How do you know that the thread is not running? Does it have it's own windows and message loop, or are you outputting to a debug window (TRACE/ATLTRACE/OutputDebugWindow)?

The single get will be faster, but then you have to do your own monitoring of progress, which means looking for file change notifications etc. I suggested the recursive version because you said you wanted to have progress notifications, and this would be one way. I'm guessing that the SS UI does it this way, since there aren't events that get fired (at least, not that we get told about!).

It might be the STA that's contributing to the lockups. You could try using CoInitializeEx to get an MTA instead (in both the main thread and the get thread), and see if that helps at all.

When you say timers, do you mean SetTimer(), which will only cause WM_TIMER to be pulled out of the queue, which, as you're not pumping msgs, won't be happening....

Steve S
Developer for hire

Re: VSS automation problem

stanlymt20-Jul-06 0:14

stanlymt

20-Jul-06 0:14

I know the control is coming to that thread because I've put some debug logs which was not printing. I think I'll go for recursive version.
Thanks a lot for your help.

i am unable to understand tis function,plz help

jitenderbansal19-Jul-06 19:51

jitenderbansal

19-Jul-06 19:51

BOOL WriteFile(
HANDLE hFile,
LPCVOID lpBuffer,
DWORD nNumberOfBytesToWrite,
LPDWORD lpNumberOfBytesWritten,
LPOVERLAPPED lpOverlapped
);

BOOL ReadFile(
HANDLE hFile,
LPVOID lpBuffer,
DWORD nNumberOfBytesToRead,
LPDWORD lpNumberOfBytesRead,
LPOVERLAPPED lpOverlapped
);

Re: i am unable to understand tis function,plz help

Sarath C19-Jul-06 20:08

Sarath C

19-Jul-06 20:08

It's understandable from Parameter names

check MSDN
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Re: i am unable to understand tis function,plz help

Hamid_RT19-Jul-06 20:42

Hamid_RT

19-Jul-06 20:42

WriteFile is for write to file and ReadFile is for read from file see

<br />
	CString WriteToFile;<br />
	HANDLE hFile;<br />
	DWORD dwRead;<br />
	WriteToFile="This is a test";<br />
	<br />
hFile=CreateFile((LPCTSTR)"c:\\test.txt",GENERIC_WRITE,FILE_SHARE_WRITE,NULL,CREATE_NEW,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,NULL);<br />
<br />
	DWORD m_dwSize=WriteToFile.GetLength();<br />
	BOOL bResult=WriteFile(hFile,(LPCTSTR)WriteToFile,m_dwSize,&dwRead,NULL);<br />
	CloseHandle(hFile);<br />
<br />
CString strRead="";<br />
DWORD dwReads=0;<br />
	hFile=CreateFile((LPCTSTR)"c:\\test.txt",GENERIC_READ,FILE_SHARE_READ,NULL,OPEN_ALWAYS,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,NULL);<br />
			<br />
	DWORD dwBufferSize=GetFileSize(hFile,NULL);<br />
<br />
	bResult=ReadFile(hFile,strRead.GetBuffer(dwBufferSize),dwBufferSize,&dwReads,NULL);<br />
<br />
MessageBox(strRead);<br />
	CloseHandle(hFile);<br />
/*LPTSTR lpt33;<br />
lpt33=(LPTSTR)LocalAlloc(LPTR,dwBufferSize);<br />
LocalFree(lpt33);*/<br />

And see MSDN

whitesky

Security Descriptor from SID

ragavan19-Jul-06 19:39

ragavan

19-Jul-06 19:39

Hi,
Does any one know how to get a security descriptor from SID . I got the SID of a user using LookupAccontName API. I dont now how to get the security descriptor corresponding to the SID.

Thanks in advance

Re: Security Descriptor from SID

Hamid_RT19-Jul-06 20:43

Hamid_RT

19-Jul-06 20:43

See Here[^] and this[^]site maybe it is some helpful to you

whitesky

Use Ctrl+Left/Right to switch messages, Ctrl+Up/Down to switch threads, Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to switch pages.