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13-Jul-09 22:49

Did you try to debug and see what are the values being inserted in the database.

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Search PDF for text

Ajay Dalvi13-Jul-09 21:48

Ajay Dalvi

13-Jul-09 21:48

How do I search for text in PDF through C#.Net.
Is there any API for it?
Pls respond ASAP..

Nagy Vilmos13-Jul-09 22:00

Nagy Vilmos

13-Jul-09 22:00

Chris has asked us to be play nice and not shout at stupid questions. So...

What have you tried so far?
I found a lot of pdf components for the .net framework by searching for read pdf .net in google.
The approach to search fro the string would be to extract the text from the pdf - through whichever component - and then search the text.

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Manas Bhardwaj13-Jul-09 22:34

13-Jul-09 22:34

Nagy Vilmos wrote:
Chris has asked us to be play nice and not shout at stupid questions. So...

I know, sometimes they try to test your patience.

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Luc Pattyn14-Jul-09 1:38

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14-Jul-09 1:38

Nagy Vilmos wrote:
Chris has asked us to be play nice and ...

you're willing to try... Big Grin | :-D

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Manas Bhardwaj13-Jul-09 22:35

How to date lock for a setup build in VS2008 professional edition?

13-Jul-09 22:35

try this[^]

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svt gdwl13-Jul-09 21:35

svt gdwl

13-Jul-09 21:35

1. When I make a Setup of a project today (i.e.,14 July, 2009), how to lock that setup such it should not work ofter some days(consider after 20days, i.e., 3 August, 2009).

How can make this?
2. If the setup is installed on a PC today, it also should not show its effect after 3rd August, 2009, eventhough it is not uninstaled?

How can lock the setup according to date or no.of days?

Re: How to date lock for a setup build in VS2008 professional edition?

Manas Bhardwaj13-Jul-09 22:37

13-Jul-09 22:37

You can write the installation date in a persistent place (registry, file, database etc.) during the installation. You should be able to do this a Custom Action[^]
Every time your application starts check this date and do a validation.

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Curved Form

satsumatable13-Jul-09 21:29

satsumatable

13-Jul-09 21:29

Hi,

Using GDI32 dill i'm trying to build a form with curve, it works fine, as i've mentioned FormBorderStyle as NONE it is appearing entire screen and hides system task bar. How to avoid this?

<br />
<br />
Screen screen = Screen.PrimaryScreen;<br />
<br />
Region = System.Drawing.Region.FromHrgn(CreateRoundRectRgn(0, 0, screen.WorkingArea.Width - 60, screen.WorkingArea.Height - 60, 20, 20));<br />
<br />

Re: Curved Form

Henry Minute14-Jul-09 0:08

Henry Minute

14-Jul-09 0:08

What in particular do you want to avoid?
'appearing entire screen' or 'hides system task bar' ?

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process.startinfo

arkiboys13-Jul-09 20:19

arkiboys

13-Jul-09 20:19

Hi,
Is this correct?
I am not sure why I get unknown username or bad password.
Note that the login and password I enter are both correct.
Is there something wrong with the way I am setting the username and password?
Thanks

private void CheckLogin()
{
System.Diagnostics.Process process = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
process.StartInfo.FileName = "cscript.exe";
process.StartInfo.Arguments = strScriptPath;
process.StartInfo.WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
process.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;

process.StartInfo.UserName = "myusername";
System.Security.SecureString strPassword = ReadPassword("password");
}

public static System.Security.SecureString ReadPassword(string password)
{
System.Security.SecureString secPass = new System.Security.SecureString();
for (int i = 0; i < password.Length; i++)
secPass.AppendChar(password[i]);
return secPass;
}

Re: process.startinfo

Curtis Schlak.13-Jul-09 20:58

Curtis Schlak.

13-Jul-09 20:58

It doesn't look like that you're setting the password on the process.StartInfo.Password property....

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Re: process.startinfo

arkiboys13-Jul-09 21:30

arkiboys

13-Jul-09 21:30

This is what I am doing now but still get the same error:
process.StartInfo.UserName = "username";
process.StartInfo.Password = ReadPassword("password");
Any thoughts please?

Re: process.startinfo

Curtis Schlak.14-Jul-09 13:28

Curtis Schlak.

14-Jul-09 13:28

Is the account that you're using a domain account? If so, you might need

process.StartInfo.UserName = "domain\username";

for it to work properly.

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-deKorvin on uncertainty

Get BIOS Date

rhtbhegade13-Jul-09 19:52

rhtbhegade

13-Jul-09 19:52

HI Experts,

I want to get the BIOS date in my project.Inspite of change in the date from the "Date and Time Properties" the date that i want is the date in the BIOS.

himanshu256113-Jul-09 20:23

himanshu2561

13-Jul-09 20:23

Hi Try this
<pre>
            RegistryKey RK = Registry.LocalMachine;
            RK = RK.OpenSubKey("HARDWARE\\DESCRIPTION\\System\\");
            Object Date = RK.GetValue("SystemBiosDate");
            string ss = Date.ToString();
</pre>

himanshu

Fred 3417-Oct-09 0:34

Fred 34

17-Oct-09 0:34

very good answer thanks.
only mention to use these 2 lines b4 them

using System.Security.Permissions;
using Microsoft.Win32;

Tamer Oz13-Jul-09 20:34

Tamer Oz

13-Jul-09 20:34

You can quety WMI with System.Management Namespace

Here is an example. ReleaseDate property is what you are looking for

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
     List("Select * from Win32_BIOS");
 }

 private void List(string query)
 {
     ManagementObjectSearcher m = new ManagementObjectSearcher();
     m.Query = new ObjectQuery(query);
     foreach (ManagementObject mo in m.Get())
     {
         foreach (PropertyData pd in mo.Properties)
         {
             if (mo[pd.Name] != null)
             {
                 if (mo[pd.Name] is string[])
                 {
                     foreach (string s in (string[])mo[pd.Name])
                     {
                         MessageBox.Show(s);
                     }
                 }
                 else
                 {
                     MessageBox.Show(pd.Name + ":" + mo[pd.Name].ToString());
                 }
             }
         }
     }
 }

rhtbhegade13-Jul-09 20:59

rhtbhegade

13-Jul-09 20:59

i could not find the system.management namespace
please help......

Tamer Oz13-Jul-09 21:05

Tamer Oz

13-Jul-09 21:05

Have you tried adding reference to a .net library and search that list for System.Management.

System.Management dll is in .net since 1.1 version.