Comments by MacRaider4

MacRaider4 20-Mar-14 11:42am View

Without boring you too much, basically what I'm trying to do is write some "dlls" to do some testing for a in-house product update/replacement. There are many applications that access the same data and for lack of better terms functions so instead of having to maintain a lot of code this would help reduce it. Ok that's that...
Back to the "problem" and I've done it before but I haven't done enough consistent C# programming to remember how I did it (nor where :-) ). So Application-A is going to look at the DLL to process information about a person: firstName, lastName, Address... etc. All of those will have single values until we get to Telephone (which will contain a number, status, type, and a few other details) and there can be 1 or more of these. So I guess I'm asking more of a what would be the best practice for creating said list of telephone data. Obviously the calling application needs to know what data to insert into the list, but not to have access to an individual element of said list.

MacRaider4 20-Mar-14 9:14am View

I was over thinking it, hate when that happens... thanks guys!

MacRaider4 20-Mar-14 9:11am View

yeah, that's what I thought...

MacRaider4 21-Oct-11 7:35am View

That would be what I eventually came up with... biggest problem is I was searching on C++ POP3, C++ connect to mail server and the like... Just stuff that comes with exp I guess. Thanks!

MacRaider4 21-Oct-11 7:21am View

Actually I spent over 2 hours searching and found a bunch of examples that were really fragmented and a lot left out some of the important parts, like use winsock2 or winsock. Believe it or not some of us don't know about all the libraries :-) However thank you for the additional help in what to search for

MacRaider4 21-Oct-11 7:17am View

That's fine, but what you said was unfounded. I'll be the first to admit that my C++ exp is limited to school and about 12 months of just reworking/fixing existing bugs. So when it comes to starting from scratch on a project I'm a bit new at it. Coming from a VB and C# background of the last 9 years it's a bit rough getting started at times as there are a lot of things you need to know about that you didn't have to before (again still learning those things). That is why I said point me in the direction of a working example... that way I'd be able to figure out the rest. I completely forgot about the socket portion and that is what was throwing me off.

MacRaider4 20-Oct-11 18:50pm View

To show who the mature person is here, I'm not going to comment. I'll just say re-read what I actually asked.

MacRaider4 20-Oct-11 15:44pm View

Actually at this point I'm talking just regular plain old C++... I have something working but I'm getting some funky results. I'll have some code to post tomorrow with some output. I've gotten a connection at least. Using winsock2 and ws2tcpip. Well at least they are in the example.

MacRaider4 28-Sep-11 12:21pm View

I've made a bunch of changes since, but have left the transaction part... thanks for the conformation though!

MacRaider4 23-Sep-11 11:42am View

Thanks Guys!!!

MacRaider4 14-Sep-11 14:38pm View

haven't had much luck searching, but slugging away with what I have. I'm sure most of it is lack of exp working with Excel. My original project was using access and that took all about about 3 hours to finish, but no they want to be able to view it in excel too (I hate stupid people ;-) ).

MacRaider4 14-Sep-11 12:27pm View

Sorry been busy with 12,000 different things...
ok so we have kinda gotten this to work. However a lot of what we do uses spawn (wspawnlp) of which we are able to get the application to spawn but that "application" isn't able to see the directory so the spawned process isn't inheriting the permissions.
Does this mean we'll have to have the impersonation in each and everything we write that a user may use? Or is there something we're missing with the impersonation?

MacRaider4 2-Sep-11 9:57am View

I'm not seeing anything about Linked Connections in that part of the registry. I checked both as myself and as the servers administrator account.
It's so much fun doing things wrong for so many years and then trying to do things the right way.

MacRaider4 1-Sep-11 12:44pm View

Ok, I figured out one issue and that is if I use the UNC path it does work... I forgot to take out the : after the $ before. The big downside is I'd have to change every instance in every application to the UNC vs the mapped drive letter (pretty time consuming). Any one have any other ideas?

MacRaider4 29-Aug-11 13:49pm View

When in doubt, half ass it :-) Ok, since there doesn't seem to be a easy way to do this. I'm going to hide the drive maps in the group policy, this way the application can still see them and it will hide the drives from about 99.8% of the users on the network. The ones that would know enough how to view the contents are smart enough not to.
Hopefully some day they'll make it so you can assign rights to applications.

MacRaider4 25-Aug-11 7:31am View

I'll give that a look when I get back from a trip, should be sometime this weekend. I'll let you know then if I have any further questions. Thanks!

MacRaider4 20-Jun-11 13:32pm View

Where are you getting this error?

MacRaider4 20-Jun-11 12:40pm View

Actually you would need something to write it on and with... so you may want to start with that :-) At least you choose a language to write it in, so that decision is out of the way.
Joking aside, I agree you would need to provide a bit more info than where should you start.

MacRaider4 20-Jun-11 9:22am View

Well if your thread is only running for a set period of time you can have it loop for that length of time (1 second) and return the last value back to what called the thread.

MacRaider4 20-Jun-11 8:55am View

really?
<pre>
DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn gridCheck = new DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn();

gridCheck.HeaderText = "";
gridCheck.Name = "gridCheck";
gridCheck.Width = 30;
gridCheck.HeaderCell.Style.Alignment = DataGridViewContentAlignment.MiddleCenter;

dgvTest.Columns.Insert(0, gridCheck);</pre>

MacRaider4 20-Jun-11 8:36am View

I'll give you 5 for that...

MacRaider4 20-Jun-11 8:34am View

I think he's asking how to have the bottom row scroll up from the bottom? Lets say there are 15 rows and it can only display 5 at a time... he wants to be able to have that last row scroll to the top so you'd only see the last row in the display? That's what I got out of it at least...???

MacRaider4 17-Jun-11 7:37am View

It's always happy coding... well until you are in the middle of something, get interrupted and then forget what you were going to do... then it's angry coding :-)

MacRaider4 17-Jun-11 7:36am View

I haven't had much time to look into Mono or try it (we are moving here at work next week so are a bit busy). I was looking at the site though, and you have to pay for it? (or was I looking at the wrong thing? due to the move our boss isn't into spending extra money right now).

I think once we move and get settled in, we should finally have some decent time to put towards this project.

As far as isolating functionality from the UI, I've been trying to do that as much of possible with my re-writes. Though it is hard to get in the habit of doing things that way after so years many of doing it the VB 6 way (for lack of a better term (that's where I started VB 5/6)).

MacRaider4 16-Jun-11 13:51pm View

That's the plan here... plus I'm sure in the process of re-writing thousands of hours of code, we'll come across some things we can do better and will have a lot more re-use than there currently is. And as a result it won't be thousands of hours of re-writes.

MacRaider4 16-Jun-11 12:13pm View

From the sounds of it, we'd be writing this for a Windows environment with the goal of moving to Linux in the future. There are really only two of us doing all the programming work, so this is going to take some time.
Though I do think with wine we were able to get our "main" application to run on Ubuntu last year, but it required something for the database connections which we had a trial for (and of course that ran out). I don't remember exactaly what it was but there was some excitement about that. So hopefully I'll get my workstation up and running in a week or so and install Qt and see how it goes.
Thanks for the info guys!

MacRaider4 16-Jun-11 8:35am View

Actually not everything, of the applications we are re-writing about 20% of those are VB 6.

MacRaider4 16-Jun-11 8:34am View

Well everything is currently in MFC C++ from VS 6.0 right now, and we are about 5% of the way into a VS2010 (update, that isn't impressing too many of us at the moment). Plus with the way M$ is going these days we are thinking that maybe making the move to Linux isn't a bad thing (over 90% of all the software we use is made by us, the other 10% is basically Office).

MacRaider4 15-Jun-11 12:14pm View

Thanks for the info, I guess I'll look through the reviews on Amazon, cross my fingers and hope for the best.
As a side note, so something I write in Qt for Linux (lets say an application to update new employee information that a Manger could use vs me doing it directly on the server), I could also use that on windows, just have to create a different exe/install of it?

MacRaider4 15-Jun-11 11:19am View

So Qt isn't just for phones then? I saw Nokia and got a little worried.

MacRaider4 8-Jun-11 6:49am View

Working now, thanks for the info... just needed a little more tweaking.

MacRaider4 8-Jun-11 6:48am View

Figured out my problem, was trying to save time (development wise) and wasn't storing the data in a variable first and then moving it to the text box like I normally do. It appears the one thread was running faster than the textbox update and thus the missing data in the text box. Moved all that to a string and life is good...

MacRaider4 6-Jun-11 14:11pm View

That's kinda working, though I'm getting some funky output, see message in solution 2

MacRaider4 6-Jun-11 14:06pm View

Ok so after some tweaking and using some of the solution from John, I kinda have it working. Though I'm getting some funky output... if I run the code "normally" everything writes like it should... however when I use the timer I get results like:
48 15798
25 19893
1 23391

Where that should be a list of 1 - 65 (the current message count and the size), though the next part where it actually writes the text files, that is correct.
etc....
Writing letter #8
Writing letter #7
Writing letter #6
Writing letter #5
Writing letter #4
Writing letter #3
Writing letter #2
Writing letter #1

similar issue with my other output text
15 Subject: Hospital Daily Reports **Payment File**
12 Subject: Hospital (NEW Self-Pay Accounts) **New Business**
10 Subject: Print Statistics Report
9 Subject: Print Statistics Report
7 Subject: Hospital Daily Reports **Payment File**
6 Subject: Hospital Daily Reports **Payment File**
4 Subject: Print Statistics Report
2 Subject: Print Statistics Report

MacRaider4 27-May-11 14:37pm View

my reason for using ThreadId was just to see what "thread" was doing what. I actually figured out the problem I was having and now it's working as I would hope it to. The bottle neck was actually further up the chain, and unfortunatly one that I'll be stuck with, but not a big deal. I'll actually be able to use the information/knowledge gained here for a step a little further down the line in my current project.

MacRaider4 27-May-11 8:57am View

Ok another update:
ThreadWrapper tw = new ThreadWrapper(fullText, currentMail, ltrCount, totalMessages);
//MailWrite(fullText, currentMail, ltrCount, totalMessages);
ltrCount++;

So I added a break point on the line with ltrCount++ to see what was going on to the best of my limited threading ability (we've all gotta learn some time). I'm noticing a "pause" with the longer writes as it does when I uncomment the call to mailWrite and comment out the top line (running on the main thread only). Maybe I'm expecting too much, but shouldn't it pass the work to the thread along with the variables at that point in time and then go on it's merry way (continuting on in the loop)? Or is there something else I need to do in order to get that functionality?

MacRaider4 27-May-11 7:30am View

Update...
inside the main loop I have
ThreadWrapper tw = new ThreadWrapper(fullText, currentMail, ltrCount, totalMessages);

and then :
internal ThreadWrapper(string fullText, int currentMail, int ltrCount, int totalMessages)
{
Thread = new System.Threading.Thread(Body);
TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter("M:\\**Path**\\emailMessage" + currentMail + ".txt");
// write to the file
tw.WriteLine(Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId);
tw.WriteLine(fullText);

//close the stream
tw.Dispose();
} //ThreadWrapper

This is taking about 22 seconds to process all the files, doing it as part of the main loop takes about 22 seconds so no gain in performance.

Yes I realize not all the variables are being used, I just copied the call I was using which was using them all to make my test faster to run...

MacRaider4 27-May-11 7:26am View

It's got 2 Xeon X5650's at 2.67 and I think that drive is a RAID 10 (maybe 5, can't remember which drive is which off hand) with 15k RPM drives, should be able to handle a few writes at a time...

MacRaider4 26-May-11 15:12pm View

Alright, so I have checked and these are all running on the same thread...
This is in the ThreadWrapper:

writer.WriteLine(Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId);
writer.WriteLine(fullText);

And in each case it was a 9 in the first line for the files.

MacRaider4 26-May-11 14:35pm View

Ok, this is super simplified, however would something like this work on a "much larger scale"?
<pre>
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
tw = new ThreadWrapper("Thread loop", i);
tw.Start();
}</pre>

tw has already been used at this point higher up in the code.

MacRaider4 26-May-11 14:06pm View

As of now it's just running in a single thread, writing 1 file, then the next, then the next.

MacRaider4 6-May-11 7:49am View

Ok, this seems to have done the trick
Dim regExp As New Regex("\." + strExtMonth + "[0-9]{2}$|\." + strExtMonth + "[0-9]{2}\.[a-zA-Z]{3}$")
I no longer get a .401.$$$ or a .401.BAD.$$$ of which I was getting before.

MacRaider4 6-May-11 6:58am View

I forgot about that (the [a-zA-Z]{3}, I'm used to using the \w for alpha characters. Obviously I don't use these enough and probably should start to do more.
Thanks for the tips with the Sytem.IO's I'll definitely look those up. This is the first time I've done any kind of file manipulation like this.

MacRaider4 5-May-11 15:58pm View

I forgot to mention, it doesn't have to be .org just "dot three alpha characters" and not .$$$

MacRaider4 5-May-11 14:52pm View

I changed it to <pre>Dim regExp As New Regex("(\." + strExtMonth + "\d\d$)|(\." + strExtMonth + "\d\d\.\w\w\w$)")</pre> and it seems to work.
the code looks like this
<pre>For Each fileName As String In precFiles
If regExp.IsMatch(fileName) Then
File.Copy(fileName, moveLocation + "\" + fileName.Substring(fileName.LastIndexOf("\") + 1))
intTestCount += 1
BackgroundWorker1.ReportProgress((intTestCount / intCount) * 100, intTestCount)
End If
Next</pre>
Is there a better way of doing this?

MacRaider4 27-Apr-11 15:14pm View

Ok, wasn't sure where to put this so I picked here... I opened the file on my local PC (XP) vs my win 2k8 terminal services sessions with PFE, when I do that I'm seeing the "black boxes" you were talking about. I also noticed that "3 pages" down, that line doesn't have the "black boxes" and is working how we'd expect it to work.

MacRaider4 27-Apr-11 15:06pm View

Those results would be found above....

MacRaider4 27-Apr-11 15:04pm View

I got the value of one of the spaces and it is 32, look above...

MacRaider4 27-Apr-11 14:57pm View

Ok I tried that and no luck, so I did the following MessageBox.Show("a" & strLine(strline1.Length + 1) & Asc(strLine(strline1.Length + 1))) the messagebox pops up with just "a 32" in it.

MacRaider4 27-Apr-11 14:32pm View

I just love when a project is going great and you run full speed into the "progress wall"...

MacRaider4 27-Apr-11 14:30pm View

I've looked the the file in both notepad and programmer's file editor and the best I can tell they are just plain old spaces which is why this doesn't make sense.

MacRaider4 27-Apr-11 14:23pm View

That would be super if it were true, but it's not... I've looked at 15 different text files at this one line and the range is anywhere between 115 and 142 blank spaces between the two groups of strings. Otherwise I could use something along the lines of strLine2 = source.Substring(source.indexof(" ") + 126) of which is how I first had it and when I got the the second letter, I had a problem.

MacRaider4 27-Apr-11 14:17pm View

At this point, if I could just get them split up into the two strings without a ton of blank spaces infront of the second one I'd be happy. Eventually I'm going to have to figure out how to use tabs when writing the line in word, but I figure I need to get my data in order first. But since you asked. It would be something along the lines of strLine1 would be written to the word doc and then on the same line at tab stop 7 (just guessing on the number right now) strLine2 would start.

MacRaider4 27-Apr-11 14:02pm View

good thought and I thought of something similar like the regex idea, but stepping through that code 100+ times for countless lines would take way too much time when you are looking at 66 lines per page time who knows how many pages.

MacRaider4 27-Apr-11 14:01pm View

I checked the txt file and there are no tabs in it...

MacRaider4 27-Apr-11 13:58pm View

It's the same value, just has a few more spaces in it... strLine1 is correct and ends with the last character of the first group, it's strLine2 that is the problem for some reason.

MacRaider4 27-Apr-11 13:49pm View

Just did...

MacRaider4 27-Apr-11 13:41pm View

The problem is I don't know what the first character is going to be, it could be any letter of the alphabet. The only upside is I do know that it's going to be a alpha character. I have also tried just plain .Trim and that doesn't work either.

MacRaider4 26-Apr-11 16:43pm View

Actually I have a lot of that already in there, thus the reason I didn't want to have it in so many locations. So far easier than I thought it would be (still getting used to using classes), only took about 5 min to implement in 2 locations.

MacRaider4 26-Apr-11 16:35pm View

That's what I figured, and using the word object in a seperate class won't cause any issues right? Just have to do all the usual declerations and what not...

MacRaider4 22-Apr-11 13:38pm View

It works... had to do some tweeking and I don't remember what it was off hand from what I had before, but it's now working. Thanks for the help I greatly appreciate it!!!

MacRaider4 22-Apr-11 12:27pm View

The word Doc I'm creating is from a txt file, one file has the text and another has the coordinates of the lines.

MacRaider4 22-Apr-11 11:35am View

Ok the problem I'm seeing is I'm not going to know how many pages there are, so I would have to have a lot of variables set up and possibly many of which will be unused. have I mentioned I really hate word yet? I'll see what I can come up with, with what you have here though.
On a side note, with this method it did stay with the first page (only have it priting the lines once right now, figured I'd get the first page working before I work on the rest)

MacRaider4 22-Apr-11 11:19am View

Finally have some time to work on this, let me see how it is with 2000... looks good though

MacRaider4 21-Apr-11 15:25pm View

Yeah I would have figured that out in about 15 years... way to make that one easy M$. Thank you very much, I greatly appreciate it!!!!!

MacRaider4 21-Apr-11 11:22am View

That Wikipedia page is very helpful, I've been working on a mail reader for a bit of time and that came in really handy.

MacRaider4 20-Apr-11 6:52am View

I actually started it in C# as another portion of it (the project) that I have to do I already have a few classes that I could have used, but no... my boss wants it in VB (because he doesn't know C# and isn't up to learning it). So no I have to re-learn all the stuff I forgot from VB.

MacRaider4 19-Apr-11 14:48pm View

I would have figured that out eventually (yeah right)... thanks guys, figured it was something stupid, but then again it is VB after all. And before I get pounded on for that, I started off in VB and used it for years, it's just been a while. Thanks again!!!

MacRaider4 19-Apr-11 14:42pm View

There doesn't seem a be a % operator in VB.net thus the problem... or is there some other hidden vb function that we should know about?

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