Installing a Windows Service

TheMSsForum.com: The Microsoft Software Forum

The MSS Forum ‹ Framework
- Archive
  - Biz
  - MCSE
  - CRM
  - Drivers
  - Framework
  - ADO
  - ASP
  - Compact
  - Forms
  - Dotnet
  - C#
  - VB
  - FontpageGen
  - Excel
  - WorkSheet
  - Exchange
  - Setup
  - Fox
  - Fontpage
  - ASP
  - IIS
  - Entourage
  - Money
  - Messanger
  - PocketPC
  - Powerpoint
  - Project
  - Publisher
  - Excel
  - VB
  - Security
  - Portal
  - Services
  - SQLServerDev
  - SVCS
  - SQLServer
  - VB
  - VC
  - MFC
  - ExcelGen

- Previous
  - 1
    - PropertyInfo.GetValues(...) with Generics / Reflection I am trying to use reflection to get the value of a property using Generics. A sample property is as follows: /// <summary> /// Gets the collection of links rendered at the bottom of the header. /// </summary> /// <value>The links collection.</value> [DefaultValue((string)null)] [PersistenceMode(PersistenceMode.InnerProperty)] [Editor("System.Web.UI.Design.WebControls.ListItemsCollectionEditor,System.Design, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a", typeof(UITypeEditor))] [Category("Appearance")] [Bindable(true)] [ContainsLocalisationKeys(true)] public List<CompanyNameHyperLink> Links { get { return m_links; } } I am reflecting on this property to do some automatic localisation, using a few attributes, etc. I don't seem to be able to get .GetValue working with properties that use an index (Collections, etc.) or Generics, such as the property above. Can someone give me a line of code to get, for example List<CompanyNameHyperLink> from the propertyInfo.GetValue() method? For example (though this won't work): PropertyInfo propertyInfo = myReflectedProperty; // Properly defined elsewhere List<CompanyNameHyperLink> = (List<CompanyNameHyperLink>)propertyInfo.GetValue(this, null); I know that the propertyInfo is a List<> and I know it's attributes (CompanyNameHyperLink) ... it's just the last little piece of pulling the property values out of the PropertyInfo object. Any help would be appreciated, since I've spent hours on this to no avail, Christophe Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116197
  - 2
    - Visual Studion & .NET 2.0 Framework I Have Visual Studio .NET 2003 Is is upgradable for 2.0 Framework? Best regards Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116194
  - 3
    - VB6 App Referencing VB.NET DLL Debug Nightmare HI All, I have a VB6 App and a VB.NET DLL. The VB.NET DLL Is used to call a web service. When I compile the app is works fine but when I try to debug the VB6 Code I get this error message: "File or assembly name GetGantnerTxns, or one of its dependancies, was not found." GetGantnerTxns is the name of the VB.NET DLL This is making the debugging difficult as I have to use msgbox's and recompile. Its driving me nuts! Can anyone tell me if I can sort this out so I can debug properly? Thanks for any help Fred Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116180
  - 4
    - remoting in 2.0 and credentials I can access a remote object that is hostet on my own machine in IIS if I supply default credentials. If I supply the same account data explicitly I run into a 401. Is there something wrong? -------------------------------------------------- IRemotingFacade remFacade; string result = string.Empty; BinaryServerFormatterSinkProvider serverProvider = new BinaryServerFormatterSinkProvider(); serverProvider.TypeFilterLevel = System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.TypeFilterLevel.Full; BinaryClientFormatterSinkProvider clientProvider = new BinaryClientFormatterSinkProvider(); Hashtable props = new Hashtable(); props.Add("port", 0); //this works props.Add("useDefaultCredentials", true); // 1. doesnt work if useDefaultCredentials is set to false //ICredentials login = new NetworkCredential("mfritsch", "mypassword", "mydomain"); //props.Add("credentials", login); // 2. doesnt work //props.Add("UserName", "mfritsch"); //props.Add("Password","myPassword") //props.Add("Domain", "mydomain"); HttpChannel channel = new HttpChannel(props, clientProvider, serverProvider); ChannelServices.RegisterChannel(channel); remFacade = (IRemotingFacade)Activator.GetObject(typeof(IRemotingFacade), "http://localhost/RemotingServer/RemotingType.rem"); object result = remFacade.SaveData(myData ); ChannelServices.UnregisterChannel(channel); -------------------------------------------------- regards Mathias Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116174
  - 5
    - dotNet 1.1 compatibility with 2.0 I have a .Net 1.1 application that starts through internet explorer and uses webservice for data-retrieval. It is an application that runs for 3 years now (so it was first created with 1.0 framework and later compiled with 1.1). To get it running i had to add it to the trusted sites and set security settings of dotnet to full trust. It all worked fine, but now there is a problem with the 2.0 framework. It seems that when i run the application it no longer uses the 1.1 framework, but the 2.0 one, but this causes some SecurityExceptions. I'll post the error below. When i adjust security settings for 2.0 framework (set to full trust like i did with 1.1), the application will start, but there are still some securityerrors that come up in the program itself. Problem is that it is computer dependant, my old pc and our terminal server don't have the problem, my new pc and my clean win xp + sp2 on vmware do have the problem. second problem is that the .net 2.0 configuration is only available when vs2005 is installed, so on my vmware i can't even adjust the settings... need some help with this... here is the exception: ************** Exception Text ************** System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission, mscorlib, Version= 2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed. at ToerStTruiden.mdiMainApp.PreLoad() at anaXis.dotNet.ObjLib.aXbaseForm.aXbaseForm_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl() at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl() at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage (Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) The action that failed was: InheritanceDemand The type of the first permission that failed was: System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission The Zone of the assembly that failed was: Trusted ************** Loaded Assemblies ************** mscorlib Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll ---------------------------------------- IEExecRemote Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/IEExecRemote/2.0.0.0 __b03f5f7f11d50a3a/IEExecRemote.dll ---------------------------------------- System Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0 __b77a5c561934e089/System.dll ---------------------------------------- ToerStTruiden Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0 Win32 Version: n/a CodeBase: http://www.eyes-e- tools.net/sinttruiden/application/ToerStTruiden.EXE ---------------------------------------- anaXis.eBoX.ObjLib Assembly Version: 1.0.1.1 Win32 Version: n/a CodeBase: http://www.eyes-e- tools.net/sinttruiden/application/anaXis.eBoX.ObjLib.DLL ---------------------------------------- anaXis.dotNet.ObjLib Assembly Version: 1.0.1.1 Win32 Version: n/a CodeBase: http://www.eyes-e- tools.net/sinttruiden/application/anaXis.dotNet.ObjLib.DLL ---------------------------------------- System.Windows.Forms Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0 __b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Drawing Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0 __b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll ---------------------------------------- Microsoft.VisualBasic Assembly Version: 8.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Microsoft.VisualBasic/8.0.0.0 __b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll ---------------------------------------- anaXis.dotNet.ClassLib Assembly Version: 1.0.1.1 Win32 Version: n/a CodeBase: http://www.eyes-e- tools.net/sinttruiden/application/anaXis.dotNet.ClassLib.DLL ---------------------------------------- anaXis.eBoX.ClassLib Assembly Version: 1.0.1.1 Win32 Version: n/a CodeBase: http://www.eyes-e- tools.net/sinttruiden/application/anaXis.eBoX.ClassLib.DLL ---------------------------------------- System.Configuration Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0 __b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Xml Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0 __b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Data Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_32/System.Data/2.0.0.0 __b77a5c561934e089/System.Data.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Web.Services Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Web.Services/2.0.0.0 __b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Web.Services.dll ---------------------------------------- 8v_hwxt_ Assembly Version: 1.0.1.1 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0 __b77a5c561934e089/System.dll ---------------------------------------- qcpbhwwv Assembly Version: 1.0.1.1 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0 __b77a5c561934e089/System.dll ---------------------------------------- 3xoy4vzn Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0 __b77a5c561934e089/System.dll ---------------------------------------- ccp96s8j Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0 __b77a5c561934e089/System.dll ---------------------------------------- wewo-q42 Assembly Version: 1.0.1.1 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0 __b77a5c561934e089/System.dll ---------------------------------------- Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116173
  - 6
    - Convert RTF to PDF (C#) I got the following problem: an RTF is loaded and stored in memory in a form of a byte array. I need to convert it to a PDF without the necessety to store it on the disk (i.e. I need either byte array or a stream). I tried to use TX Text Control which works fine except that it does not convert the barcode that appears in RTF to the PDF correctly. TX Text Control support said that it is a serious issue and they are working on it. Meanwhile I need a solution. Most of the converters that I found were either applications of themselves, or tools that can be used from the code but require actual physical files. Could anyone please recommend a tool that can be used from C# and can convert an RTF to PDF without storing files on the disk. Thanks Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116171
  - 7
    - Partial classes not good OO design Does Microsoft even bother involving developers anymore in their process of developing new "features"? I've spent about four hours with VS2005 now and can't believe the list of problematic improvements I've generated in that short time. Then I run across this partial class feature. What a mind bending stupid idea. This isn't an object oriented concept at all - it's very much akin to using a preprocessor to insert code. The ability to "hide" code is pretty much covered by the OO model - it's called encapsulation. Hiding UI code is the reason given for this "innovation". What happened to patterns such as MVC? Even a UI helper class would be a better idea. UI code could have been placed in a generated class which is then included as a member in the developer's "business" logic class. At least there would be a clear separation of function with this approach. Splitting code for a single class into multiple files is such an obvious, bad, hack. It seems to me the last resort to solving a programming problem is to change the underlying language specification. What a horrible precedent to set. Microsoft language "architects" ought to be really ashamed of themselves for permitting this feature to be added to the .Net language syntax. IMHO, Mike O'Shea Logicalis Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116168
  - 8
    - Problems using Directory.GetFiles Hello, I am having some difficulties using Directory.GetFiles. I have a directory with contains: file1.fmt file2.fmt file3.fmt file4.fmt_ file5.fmt_ When i use Directory.GetFile(directory, "*.fmt") i returns all the filenames instead of just the .fmt files. Is there a function i can call that only returns the filenames with the extension i specify? Thank you Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116162
  - 9
    - Collections: Does 'Add' make a deep copy? Hi All, When I 'Add' an 'object' to a System.Collection (ArrayList, HashTable,...) does it just put a 'reference' to the object in the Collection, or is it a 'deep copy' (a new instance of the object)? SteveH Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116157
  - 10
    - Running an exe from another application I need to start execution of an exe in a command line fashion from a Windows application. Is there a way to do this using the framework, or do I have to instantiate the WScript.Shell somehow? Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116155
  - 11
    - 2.0 Configuration. How do I abstract usage of WebConfigurationManager vs ConfigurationManager? Why did MSFT feel they had to separate the two? What if I am writing a class in an assembly that could be used by either an ASP.Net app or a Winforms app? I don't want to have each look for the data in different ways. I want to abstract that. Couldn't they have used a factory that returns an IConfigurationManager or something like that? Thanks CZ Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116154
  - 12
    - IpcChannel Is it possible to specify more than one authorizedGroup for IpcServerChannel ? Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116149
  - 13
    - Windows groups Does anyone know how I can get the list of all available groups in Windows XP ? Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116148
  - 14
    - IPC security problem (.NET remoting) I have a problem for my IpcClient to connect to my IpcServer. I get "Access denied" message. It appears that the solution is to write this: dict["authorizedGroup"] = "Everyone"; This works fine on my computer at work. The problem is this is not working on my home computer. It is a Windows XP french edition. The group "Everyone" does not exists. Isn't it possible to remove security from the Ipc engine so it will allow access to every group ? Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116146
  - 15
    - Deployment problem Hi When I added a shortcut to the desktop folder it did work but the icon is not the icon of the application is there a way to change that T.Y. Sam Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116142
  - 16
    - Serialize List of objects as XML Hello, I have a list of objects that I want to serialize as XML and save it as user setting. The objects are of type of the following class. [Serializable] public class SourceFolder { public SourceFolder(string path, bool controlled, bool includesSub) { this.path = path; this.controlled = controlled; this.includesSub = includesSub; } public string Path { get { return path; } set { path = value; } } public bool Controlled { get { return controlled; } set { controlled = value; } } public bool IncludesSub { get { return includesSub; } set { includesSub = value; } } private string path; private bool controlled; private bool includesSub; } In my settings object, I have a property of type List<SourceFolder> that I assign my object list before saving. Unfortunately, the only output in the file user.config is the following: <setting name="SourceFolders" serializeAs="Xml"> <value /> </setting> When I add the attribute SettingsSerializeAs(SettingsSerializeAs.Binary) to the settings property, it works, but the list is serialized binary what I do not want. Visual Studio 2005 help states that .NET framework is able to serialize lists of any object to XML stream. What am I doing wrong that it does not work for me? When I use List<string> instead of List<SourceFolder>, it works fine, but not with my class. Regards, Jens Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116141
  - 17
    - Binding HttpListener to a free port Hi, When providing the HttpListener with a list of 'prefixes' to respond to there doesn't appear to be an option for binding to an arbitrary freely available port, and if there is then there doesn't seem to be a mechanism for discovering that port by the calling code. I'm happy to be proven wrong here but given this situation, the obvious approach now would be to programatically query the OS for a list of used and/or available ports, and to pick one of the available ones. This may introduce the problem of a port being allocated in the time between querying the OS and binding to the port, but I can handle that exception and keep trying until a successful bind occurs (hopefully!). Am I going about this the right way? Is there an alternative to HttpListener? I suppose I could revert to using HttpListener and perhaps re-using the provided HTTP classes for handling the HTTP protocol? Thanks in advance for any help, Colin Green Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116139
  - 18
    - TransparencyKey vb.net 2005 on form works only on developing machine. Hi all, Setting the transparency key on vb.net 2005 form (I randomly chose the color yellow), works great on my machine, meaning i set the form's background color to yellow as well, and it becomes transperent. Deploying my app on 3 other machines, i fould out the yellow background shows on their app. I was reading about the the color quality bug (16,24,32 bit), and thought of it has a problem. But checking all machines, all including mine were set to 32 bit. So why does it not work, and is there a workaround. Thanks in advance, Eli Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116138
  - 19
    - ConfigrationManager Problem Hi, I am trying to call the new ConfigurationManager class but all I get is "does not exist in the current context". I can substitute with System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings and all seems to be fine. Any ideas? here is the actual code protected string ConnectionString { get { if (ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["Timer"] == null) throw (new NullReferenceException("Invalid Connection")); string connectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["Timer"].ConnectionString; if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(connectionString)) throw (new NullReferenceException("Invalid Connection attempt") else return (connectionString); } } Thanks Steve Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116136
  - 20
    - XSD.EXE vs System.Xml.Serialization problems I'm using the System.Xml.Schema and System.Xml.Serialization objects to generate XSD dynamically and then the CSharpCodeProvider to generate classes. When using xsd.exe with the "/dataset" switch it generates just what I want. When I do it through the framework I get the equivalent of xsd.exe with the "/classes" switch. I don't seem to be able to find where I can programatically set the option for class vs dataset. This must be possible, this is surely how xsd.exe is doing its work. What am I missing? Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116135
  - 21
    - Connection is busy with results for another hstmt Hello: I'm using a connection in a web page to connect to SQL Server throught an ODBC driver, but from time to time and witthout using DataReaders (I return data in Datatables) I get an error like this: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Connection is busy with results for another hstmt Anyone can help me? The connection is unique for each page I call. Thanks Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116129
  - 22
    - TextRenderer problem Hi, I'm creating a control that overrides ListView and so I'm working on redrawing everything myself with some changes here and there... But I'm having a problem with drawing the text inside the rectangle on LargeIcon mode... I thought I'd finally discovered the solution with TextRenderer but this still doesn't give the correct results. Here's the code I'm trying to use (item is a ListViewItem) Rectangle text_rect = item.GetBounds(ItemBoundsPortion.Label); TextFormatFlags formatFlags = TextFormatFlags.WordBreak | TextFormatFlags.HorizontalCenter | TextFormatFlags.Top | TextFormatFlags.EndEllipsis; if (item.Text != null && item.Text.Length > 0) TextRenderer.DrawText(dc, item.Text, item.Font, text_rect, item.ForeColor, item.BackColor, formatFlags); The problem is that its still not exactly what the original ListView displays... ie I'm displaying: ___________ | some | | really long | original ListView displays: ___________ | some really | | long text | Surely it should fit inside the bounding box if its using the GDI draw method and I'm using the bounding box thats returned to me from the ListViewItem itself? Any ideas? thanks Kris Wragg Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116124
  - 23
    - Getting a file's ContentType I would like to be able to get the ContentType of a file programmatically (for example, I want *.txt files to return "text/plain"). I could not find a way to do this using VB.NET's classes, but I am also somewhat new to using the System.IO namespace for anything other than text files and the pure basics, so I could very well have missed it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Nathan Sokalski njsokalski@hotmail.com http://www.nathansokalski.com/ Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116115
  - 24
    - Customization In Web Application All, Using VS 2005, C#.NET, SQL Server 2005, W2K3. We are developing a web application that would be shared by numerous customers for information management. Some of those customers want variations on the usual form layout. For example, we have a form where the user can enter their dependents information (parents, siblings, spouse, kids, etc.), but we know one of our customers wants to include additional information on that form that none of the other customers would use (company specific insurance coverage). Based on our experience with our C/S version of the product, we can expect to see many more requests like this. There are 3 ways to do this that I see. 1. Create a separate web application for that customer and host it on a different web server. 2. Add the custom fields to the single web application but hide the extras based on the customer using it. 3. Allow the customer to add the fields themselves and store them for just that customer. Pros and cons that I see. 1. Quick to implement, but costly in new infrastructure, and would end up difficult to maintain. 2. Still relatively quick to develop, and uses existing infrastructure, but would create complex forms. 3. Difficult to develop, but would use existing infrastructure and wouldn't need extra maintenance. Personally, I'd like to use 3. That is... Design the application so that each form includes standard fields, but a customer can add new labels, textboxes, drop-down combos, lists, etc., themselves and doing so doesn't require us to change any code or the database schema. While this would be a no-brainer in an C/S application, it gets a little more difficult in a web app since the only client they use is a browser. Any thoughts? Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116111
  - 25
    - Re: Graphics.PageUnit problem... (spelling checked.. ;-( I have to do some WYSIWIG rendering. Because I need to know exactly where is what and have to have the same output on both the screen and the printer I decided to change my Page unit to Inches. As I was testing my first thought was to draw red outline of some relevant rectangle. And here I had my 1st encouter with those infamous Windows strangeness.... Even though I had set my line width to 0, GDI+ draw 1 inch thick rectangles... What's that? How could I fix that? Below is a code sample showing the problem, just try it: big rectangle: ========================== protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e) { base.OnPaint(e); e.Graphics.PageUnit = GraphicsUnit.Inch; using (Pen pen = new Pen(Color.Red, 0)) { pen.Width = 0; e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(Pens.Red, 0, 0, 8.5f, 11); e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(Pens.Red, 1.5f, 1.25f, 5.5f, 8.5f); } } Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116107
- Next
  - 1
    - Graphics.PageUnit problem... I have to do some WYSIWIG rendering. Bacause I need exactly where is what and have the same output on the printer I decided to change my Page unit to Inch. As I was testing my first though was to draw read outline of some relevant rectangle. And here I had my 1st encouter with those infamouse Windows strangeness.... Even though I had set my line width to 0, GDI draw me 1 inch thick rectangle borders... What's that? How could I fix that? Below is a code sample: ======================= protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e) { base.OnPaint(e); e.Graphics.PageUnit = GraphicsUnit.Inch; using (Pen pen = new Pen(Color.Red, 0)) { pen.Width = 0; e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(Pens.Red, 0, 0, 8.5f, 11); e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(Pens.Red, 1.5f, 1.25f, 5.5f, 8.5f); } } Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116106
  - 2
    - How install cab file on background based in mobile device? Dear experts, I try to install a cab file by code, I use P/Invoke can do it.But its a problem , if the programe has installed in Pcoket PC,there is a prompt saying "An older version of the application already exists. Do you want to reinstall?". Is there some method to let this messagebox dont show?This is say that the setup screen does not display. My os is windows mobile 5.0 Thanks and Regards, collysun Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116105
  - 3
    - Rewrite ... This post is mostly for discussion. Why rewrite in .NET? Just a general discussion not related to any specific details. I was just looking to see what reasons developers are looking to, to help decide whether they should rewrite their app in .NET. What are the trends being observed of Microsoft when it comes to .Net? How much longer will COM objects live on? How stable is the Framework? If the goal is to maintain a software package for the next 10 years, would that make a differnce on the decision? What if a rewrite would take approximately 2 years, would that affect when you decided to do a rewrite? Are their any security benefits? I am looking for opinions, but also links to facts that can help support your case. I'm hoping this can become a good discussion. Thanks Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116103
  - 4
    - How install cab file on background based in mobile device Dear experts, How install cab file on background based in mobile device? This is say that Setup screen does not display. Os is windows mobile 5.0 Thanks and Regards, collysun Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116102
  - 5
    - ??? MethodInfo Props are Wrong (or Docs are Wrong) ??? Hi everyone, I hope you can comment on this -- I'm pretty darned sure that either some of the MethodInfo properties are wrong or the Microsoft documentation is wrong. Please have a look at the program below. It attempts to print out the accessibility (i.e., "visibility") of each method in the class. I've included the program along with its output. The Microsoft documentation for MethodInfo tells us that the IsAssembly property "Gets a value indicating whether this method can be called by other classes in the same assembly." Okay, great. Public methods can certainly be called from other classes in the same assembly, right? Not according to the program below. The output indicates a public method cannot be called from other classes within its assembly because the IsAssembly property is false. There are other inconsistencies in the output as well - for example, an internal method cannot be called from a subclass in the same assembly. Read the Microsoft documentation very carefully. You'll see that the IsPrivate and IsPublic properties refer to the accessibility of the member itself. For example, m.IsPublic indicates whether or not m is public. In contrast, IsFamily, IsAssembly, IsFamilyAndAssembly and IsFamilyOrAssembly indicate whether the method in question can be called from a method with that accessibility. For example, m.IsAssembly indicates whether m can "be called by other classes in the same assembly". This is distinctly different from saying that m has internal accessibility. So, certainly any public method can "be called by other classes in the same assembly", right? Not according to the output below. It's very inconsistent and the property values are inconsistent with what the documentation says they should be. I guess you can look at this as either the MethodInfo properties are wrong or the Microsoft documentation is wrong. I guess I'm just a stickler. --------------------- using System; using System.Reflection; class Program { private static void Main(string[] args) { Type t = typeof(Program); MemberInfo[] members = t.GetMembers(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly); foreach (MemberInfo mi in members) { Console.WriteLine(mi); MethodInfo methodInfo = mi as MethodInfo; if (methodInfo != null) { Console.WriteLine(" Private: " + methodInfo.IsPrivate); Console.WriteLine(" Public: " + methodInfo.IsPublic); Console.WriteLine(" Assm: " + methodInfo.IsAssembly); Console.WriteLine(" Fam: " + methodInfo.IsFamily); Console.WriteLine(" Fam & Assm: " + methodInfo.IsFamilyAndAssembly); Console.WriteLine(" Fam | Assm: " + methodInfo.IsFamilyOrAssembly); } Console.WriteLine(); } } // main() protected void ProtMethod() {} internal void InternalMethod() {} public void PublicMethod() {} protected internal void ProtInternalMethod() {} } // Program() ------ OUTPUT ---------- Void ProtMethod() Private: False Public: False Assm: False Fam: True Fam & Assm: False Fam | Assm: False Void InternalMethod() Private: False Public: False Assm: True Fam: False Fam & Assm: False Fam | Assm: False Void PublicMethod() Private: False Public: True Assm: False Fam: False Fam & Assm: False Fam | Assm: False Void ProtInternalMethod() Private: False Public: False Assm: False Fam: False Fam & Assm: False Fam | Assm: True Void .ctor() Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116099
  - 6
    - Outlook Mail Drag & DRop It's so simple to get an attachment from Outlook by drag & drop. Why shouldn't be the case with a complete mail. Has some one an idea what's in the Drag & Drop Data behalve a unuseful filename, and some headers that interest nobody. How can we retrieve the message file of the dropped item ? As items are converted into .MSG files when dropping messages into the explorer. Thanks Laurent Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116098
  - 7
    - Overridden GetProperties() of ExpandableObjectConverter not called! In a custom ExpandableObjectConverter I have overridden GetPropertiesSupported (always returns true) and GetProperties. The class to which this TypeConverter is applied has only public properties and it should be accessed via a PropertyGrid. However, GetProperties is never called! By overriding some more methods and setting breakpoints inside those overrides I have found out that all overrides are being called correctly, except for the one GetProperties. Trying to catch any first chance exceptions doesn't come up with any results, since there aren't any exceptions thrown. Thus the desired expanding and minimizing of the object's properties isn't possible. Any ideas how to make GetProperties being called? Thanks Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116096
  - 8
    - Script for building/debugging services I have found services debugging to be a big pain. One reason is because the play button in VS is worthless for this kind of application. So I wrote this scripts that will execute for an app whose name ends on Service, it will lookup the debug directory, Stop the service copy the executables and restart the service. Now there is a lot of room for improvement. But I thought I'd share and maybe someone out there will improve on it. It also executes when the app has just been built, so you only need to attach to the process instead of hitting the arrow. Or maybe I am missing something; and there is no need for this at all. To make this work you need to open the Macro editor on the menu it is: "Tools/Macros/Macro IDE ...". There you can edit the MyMacros template. Public Module EnvironmentEvents #Region "Automatically generated code, do not modify" Private Sub BuildEvents_OnBuildDone(ByVal Scope As EnvDTE.vsBuildScope, ByVal Action As EnvDTE.vsBuildAction) Handles BuildEvents.OnBuildDone Debug.main() End Sub End Module Public Module Debug Private fullexepath As String = "C:\Program Files\My company\My app" Sub main() Dim _project As EnvDTE.Project _project = DTE.Solution.Projects.Item(1) If _project.Properties.Item("Title").Value.ToString.EndsWith("Service") Then Dim _process As Diagnostics.Process _process = Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe", "/c ""net stop TNAEventService""") _process.WaitForExit() Dim OutputPath As String OutputPath = _project.Properties.Item("LocalPath").Value.ToString() OutputPath += _project.ConfigurationManager.ActiveConfiguration.Properties.Item("OutputPath").Value For Each OutputPath In Directory.GetFiles(OutputPath) Dim fi As FileInfo = New FileInfo(OutputPath) Dim vFileStream As FileStream If File.Exists(fullexepath + "\" + fi.Name) Then If Not Directory.Exists(fullexepath + "\old") Then Directory.CreateDirectory(fullexepath + "\old") End If File.Move(fullexepath + "\" + fi.Name, fullexepath + "\old\" + fi.Name + "." + Now.ToString("yyyymmdd hhmm")) End If File.Copy(OutputPath, fullexepath + "\" + fi.Name) Next _process = Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe", "/c ""net start TNAEventService""") _process.WaitForExit() End If End Sub End Module Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116093
  - 9
    - Effort/Time in migrating 1.1 to 2.0 Hi, wanted to know what people have experienced in terms of effort+time in migrating your apps to 2.0 from 1.1? Are there any case studies on msdn? I couldn't find any.. how well did it go with you all? days? weeks? months? we have a mid sized external app using mcms, a small asp.net app for internal use, a small console app, and a webservice.. we will migrate if it's a relatively small investment.. otherwise, we will stick with 1.1 for at least a year more as we have lots of integration projects coming up.. my idea is that upgrading now will be cheaper than doing the upgrade AFTER making the apps larger.. but that's me.. thank you Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116086
  - 10
    - windows media player Hi, How can I (remotly) control my windows media player. like the logitech software. like: windows media player is playing a list of songs. run my exe, and the next song is player. I can't find some information about it. thank you Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116085
  - 11
    - Aborting startup of a Windows Service I'm in the process of writing a Windows service, however I've encountered an odd problem. In my service class in the overridden OnStart method I want to abort the startup of the service should some error be encountered. I've tried throwing an exception and tried calling the default OnStop method, but the service controller still reports the status as Running. What is the correct way to abort or exit the startup of a service ? Thanks in advance Steve Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116074
  - 12
    - .NET 2.0 MMC Config problems I have 2 windows 2000 Server and 1 windows 2003 Server machines used for IIS apps. All 3 have the .NET 2.0 Framework. On my local workstation I have a ".NET Framework 2.0 Configuration" MMC snap-in. One none of the above servers (and Im logged in as a member of the Administrators group) does that snap-in show or is there something similar in the Administration tools - although there is a 1.1 utility. I saw a posting to remove a registry key and then run aspnet_iis, but that didnt make a difference. And I need to access the GAC through the utility. Thanks, Mark Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116072
  - 13
    - Create System.Console from a winforms app Is there a way to create a System.Console from code. I periodically have a WinForms app that needs to open a console window for progress tracking. Thanks, Mike Ober. Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116070
  - 14
    - problem with COM Object Wrapper or with Remoting... which one? Hi, I have a web project in VS 2005 and I'm using a wrapper to work with a COM object. this object must work in a remoting environment. So we've done a simple console app to give us the access to the remote object. In our test web app, everything works fine... if we copy paste all the code from the test app to the real app so we can have exactly the same thing in each one, the real application raise an exception on the first call I do after the "new MyObject()" line. My first guess would be that the problem comes from the remoting, but I use exactly the same config file than the test app. The wrapper was in Framework 1.1, so I converted it to 2.0, I don't know if it can change something, but for now, it does not work. Does someone have an idea of what it would be? I mean, even with the same code and the same config file. Is there a setting or something like it that could cause the problem? Thanks ThunderMusic Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116068
  - 15
    - GAC - What's using my assembly How can I determine what is consuming a particular assembly that's in the GAC. (There's an assembly of ours that's not letting me delete it from the GAC. It's COM exposed and so could be used be either COM or .NET) Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116066
  - 16
    - DateTime Ticks/Milliseconds Question (possibly Thread.Sleep () related - ?) Hi, Slightly dim question, possibly. I dunno. When i run the following c#: for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) { System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine (DateTime.Now.Millisecond.ToString ()); System.Threading.Thread.Sleep (1); } I would expect the output to increment by at least 1 every line (since I am asking my thread to sleep for 1 millisecond). The output generated, however, looks like this: 627 409 409 409 424 424 440 440 440 456 456 456 456 (etc) surely this is impossible? I also noticed a similar thing when using Ticks instead of Milliseconds Is there something im missing? I thought maybe it was something i hadnt encountered before to do with thread scheduling (ie: none others to be scheduled, so its not sleeping), but if i change the interval to 100ms there is a visible (and seemigly regular) pause, and the output number increments by slightly more than 100 each time round. If anyone can shed some light on this i would be grateful - I'm now wondering if its something to do with the clock speed of my PC...? Thanks, Chris Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116061
  - 17
    - capture application output Hi, How can I capture the text output of a console app? For example, I would like to capture the outpur of "qwinsta" Thanks. Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116059
  - 18
    - How to kill a terminal server session (VB.NET) Hi, Is there a way to kill a Terminal Server session from vb.net? I have to constantlly access our servers to reset ureser that get hung. I would like to have a web interfave that I can access via my PDA/Phone. It dose not have to be a wab page that does this. I could write to a queque that is read by a windows servrice on the TS server and then reset the user. Thanks. George. Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116058
  - 19
    - PadLeft ? What difference it make if the argument to this function carries an integer whose value is less than the length of the string object Hi, I came across a doubt on the String.PadLeft Method.The doubt is this -- What's difference it make if the argument to this function carries an integer whose value is less than the length of the string object For example in the sample code below(VB.NET) I could not see any difference Dim str As String str = "BBQ and Slaw" Console.WriteLine(str.PadLeft(5)) ' Displays "BBQ and Slaw". Console.WriteLine(str.PadLeft(15)) ' Displays " BBQ and Slaw". I could not notice any difference with the output of str.PadLeft(5) and the original str string.Both carries the same message "BBQ and Slaw" Can any one tell me what is the use of this particular function if the padleft paramater is less than the length of the string. Reny Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116056
  - 20
    - Maintaining Sessions HttpWebRequest I'm having problems to maintain a session with a remote server using HttpWebRequest in .NET v2 I read a page using, which gives me data and holds it in a session. (classic ASP) The second request I need to use data from that session with the new data I provide from ASP.NET. My problem is that both requests appear to have a seperate Session; asp.net <- classic asp session-related data (session 1) asp.net -> classic asp session-related data + asp.net data (session 2 opened) Instead of sharing one; asp.net <- asp session-related data (session 1) asp.net -> asp session-related data + asp.net data (session 1) Is there a way to force the same session being used by the ASP.NET page? The code I currently am using, but isn't hooking back to the first session: public class Remote { public static string GetRemoteHTML(string ContentURL) { try { // Get HTML data HttpWebRequest wreq = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(ContentURL); wreq.KeepAlive = true; if (HttpContext.Current.Cache["ASPSESSION"] != null) { //string Cache = HttpContext.Current.Cache["ASPSESSION"].ToString(); //string CName = Cache.Substring(0, Cache.IndexOf("=")); //string CValue = Cache.Substring(Cache.IndexOf("=") + 1, Cache.IndexOf(";") - Cache.IndexOf("=") - 1); //CookieContainer Cookies = new CookieContainer(); //Cookie Cookie = new Cookie(CName, CValue); //Cookie.Path = "/"; //Cookie.Domain = ContentURL.Substring(0, ContentURL.IndexOf("/",8)); //Cookies.Add(Cookie); //wreq.CookieContainer = Cookies; wreq.Headers.Add("Set-Cookie", HttpContext.Current.Cache["ASPSESSION"].ToString()); } HttpWebResponse wres = (HttpWebResponse)wreq.GetResponse(); System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Cache.Insert("ASPSESSION", wres.Headers["Set-Cookie"].ToString()); Stream streamResponse = wres.GetResponseStream(); StreamReader streamRead = new StreamReader(streamResponse); string responseString = streamRead.ReadToEnd(); streamResponse.Close(); streamRead.Close(); return responseString; } catch(Exception e) { throw e; } } } Is there something I'm overlooking? Tim Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116054
  - 21
    - QUERY: Adding more JS/DOM attributes to DataGrids I know that JavaScript lets us add: ondragenter, ondragover, ondragleave, ondrop events to normal HTML table td tags. This lets us do highlighting of table cells/rows, and capture drag & drop events. So to handle ondrop we can use JavaScript: this.OnDrop = function(obj) { obj.parentElement.style.backgroundColor = "white"; var strData = window.event.dataTransfer.getData("text"); this.InsertRow(obj.parentElement.rowIndex, strData); window.event.cancelBubble = true; } The obj is the object that was dropped onto. So obj.parentElement is the tr element, etc. Does all tr elements implicitly have a rowIndex member which contains the row number of the table? What am wondering is how can one add the ondrop="" attribute to a table which was generated from a DataGrid? If it is not possible adding JavaScript/DOM attributes to DataGrid's generated tables, then is there any way to capture these window.events and knowing exactly which DataGrid table row/cell it was dragged onto? I was told to look for "DataGrid Overviews" at 4guysfromrolla.com but could not find anything about it. Not even google.com could help. Is there no drag and dropping support for ASP.NET datasource tables? Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116053
  - 22
    - Managed Component on IIS Hi, What is exactly a Managed component on IIS? I don't really know what this IIS has to do with the Managed Components. Do you always need IIS for Managed components? Are there other ways? Won't it be bad for performance using IIS? Thanks for any help our hints, Pieter Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116052
  - 23
    - Regular epressions with .net forward slash "/" character Afternoon all, Can somone help with this regular expression problem VB sample below Dim RegexObj As Regex = New Regex("") RegexObj.IsMatch( "<start field=fred col=2 />", "\x2f" ) Returns false with no match. This is a simplified example trying to end my capture onthe "/>" but the forward slash seems not be working. Thanks Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116048
  - 24
    - RadioButtonList .NET 2.0 Breaking Change Can anyone shed any light on this issue. We were generating HTML outside of a HttpContext in 1.0 and 1.1 by building a control structure the calling RenderControl on the parent. There has been a change to RadioButtonList Render method that causes a null reference exception when Render is run without a HttpContext. if (!base.DesignMode && !this.Context.Request.Browser.Tables) This isn't listed in the breaking changes and I have never read that you can't render controls without a Context. Anyone know a work around for this? Is it a bug or by design? Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116046
  - 25
    - web pages help Hi, I'm a developing a web application. One of it's requirements is that if the users try to downlaod the web apges, they shouldn't get the relevnt css files of the web page.. how can I acheive this? any good sites????. Tag: Installing a Windows Service Tag: 116045

I have created a windows service, and can happily install it and run
it, but this involves manually running the InstallUtil command line
tool for each installation.

Can this not be automated to run from within my MSI?

Thanks

(vb.net, vs.net 2003, .net 1.1, windows xp sp2)

Top

Re: Installing a Windows Service by Michael

Michael
Thu May 11 11:43:56 CDT 2006

Hello SiJP,

Use ServiceInstaller class for this. See MSDN for more info

S> I have created a windows service, and can happily install it and run
S> it, but this involves manually running the InstallUtil command line
S> tool for each installation.
S>
S> Can this not be automated to run from within my MSI?
S>
S> Thanks
S>
S> (vb.net, vs.net 2003, .net 1.1, windows xp sp2)
S>
---
WBR,
Michael Nemtsev :: blog: http://spaces.msn.com/laflour

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not
cease to be insipid." (c) Friedrich Nietzsche

Top

Re: Installing a Windows Service by arthernan

arthernan
Thu May 11 14:15:37 CDT 2006

>Can this not be automated to run from within my MSI?

Yes it can, in VS 2005 it's actually pretty straight forward. Here is
the link I found

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317421/en-us

It's actually a good article; Then the problem is debugging the service
because it needs to be running to be debugged. So you almost need to
stop the service, replace the executable, and restart the service.
Which can be pretty tedious and error prone when you debug. I made
another post on that.

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework/browse_frm/thread/06bf8a513cbcb5d8/5b955850f68387ad#5b955850f68387ad

Top