Comments by codetowns (Top 27 by date)

Yes, delayed retry on exception is a good idea. I would go the database route if the shared folder was always on one server but it isn't so I guess I would have to install it on all machines for this to work. Anyway many thanks Zoltán.

Thanks Zoltan. Apologies if 'logging' isn't the word - I am pretty much self taught so have a few gaps in my knowledge!

Yes, I have file sharing already setup and I have implemented FileSystemWatcher to flag file changes. I'm really only after a very basic method and am loath to go down the database route at the moment.

I had a basic implementation of this working by creating/deleting 'check' files in the shared folder. The problem is it produces file sharing exceptions from time to time.

Is there a way around file sharing exceptions in a Windows network?

Many thanks Sergey. I think the hint helps me and your suggestions on copying methods is valuable.

Fantastic Richard!

It worked first time and is MUCH faster.

Many thanks for your help!!!

Many thanks - two good ideas !

Many thanks - two good ideas !

Thanks so much for taking the time to look at it Mike-MadBadger. I'll sit down and see how your code works and incorporate it.

Cheers all!

That's great. (I didn't realise you could use a FirstODefault Method).

Many thanks 7681169 !!!

Well thanks for that. Strangely they compile from the "play" button at about the same speed. It is running the bin\Release\EXE that has the delay.

One thing I have noticed and perhaps I should have mentioned is that Visual Studio sometimes complains that a customised control I am using (from x86 times) should be built for the target x64 processor. All appears to work fine in the EXE but could this be what is slowing down the Release version?

Anyone know what would VS need me to do to the control?

Thanks for the replies. Well I fear you are both seeing my ignorance but I would like to do both if possible. I am unsure how to capture the textbox caret from the code I linked to and would also welcome any advice of how the character position could be captured without editing (with I guess some sort of mousemove event?).

Yes, many thanks for that link!

I've now got it searching in halves until it finds a point. Failing that it knows the two nearest ones for interpolation.

I was unaware of that 'points.where' function - interesting. As the straight line method was needed anyway (as you said y = mx + c)I decided to do the binary search method in the end. Thanks for the reply!

Apologies and thanks for the reply.

It is sorted low to high in Y but is not uniform. X has a range of around + 50 to - 50. So it is something like:

15,1
25,3
-15,5
-17,6
5,9
10,21
etc.

I tried the array.find but it appeared to me that the predicate function only took a point (and not the required Y without a public variable), and also would fail on a missing Y. It sounds stupid I know but I guess this is my problem of being self taught! Perhaps there is a suitable array method?

I have stumbled across that website before and will revisit, thanks. Interesting about the image being upside down. I assumed that point 0,0 would be the first bit in the first byte of array Eachbyte. Is that not right then?

Thanks for the reply Yvan. The Hex representation is new to me. Maybe I should have shown that I was looking at the CurrentByteBit of EachByte(CurrentByte) to see if it was on. The output still doesn't resemble the original for some reason though.

Well I think you are all correct but looking at what I have now, it is very difficult to factor stuff out without causing a lot of problems. In the future I plan to design more classes but may put up with what I have done so far - Partial Classes and a Module may help I guess.

Strangely, although the problem isn't particularly unusual (large image editing and vector capture program), I find it very difficult to imagine how to use Class-based objects over Subs and Functions. Perhaps that is the danger of being self taught !?

Thanks Philippe. A good idea as currently mine are all over the place. Thanks for the links below too.

Thanks Marcus. I will work out how I can subdivide into separate classes.

Many thanks John! I'm self-taught (from scratch) over the last 6 months and I guess I have been putting off rationalising the code which is currently way over 1000 lines. I guess I'll have to read up on Partial Classes.

Thanks for the replies. I will now attempt to write something for this.

In the end I used the extrapolation formula from Wikipedia and all is well with it. Am very pleased and am learning all the time. Cheers!