Re: Application Interface Options for Integration
If I were the source system vendor I would be implementing webhooks if I cared at all about integration of my application. http://www.entechsolutions.com/hooks-and-sockets-for-web-apps If I were you I would be asking for webhooks. But, maybe, that's just me. I would probably also look at using ZeroMQ if I were going to create middleware for disparate clients. On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Michael O'Dea-Jones mich...@wardyit.comwrote: Hi all, ** ** Scenario: ** ** **1. **Two systems need to be able to communicate via middleware **2. **Source System is ASP.Net 4.0 web application **a. **Has SQL Server Database **b. **Exports via Export tables in SQL database **3. **Destination System is not a .Net application **a. **Has SQL Server Database **b. **Imports via control tables in SQL database **4. **Middleware is .Net 4.0 system with WCF services **a. **Customised .Net plug-ins will be written to ETL from source to destination systems ** ** Current ETL is via SSIS packages and there are issues with sequencing, performance and lack of business rules, logging and alerting. Source System Vendor is happy to implement WCF services to push data to middleware though they need time to upskill. ** ** Could I have an opinion on this idea: ** ** Developer supply Source System Vendor with .Net library which they integrate into the source system. Library has a couple of method calls that submit messages from source system to middleware via WCF. A provider pattern could be implemented in the class library so other clients could supply their own “export” providers. ** ** Pros: ** ** Easy for source system vendor to implement as they don’t have to research and develop WCF solution Costs client less because fewer changes are required to the source system* *** Client gets update quicker Client has the flexibility to update Export Provider any time they like*** * Other Clients could implement non-WCF Export ** ** Cons: ** ** Architecturally it might be better to implement WCF from the start Might reduce operational calls and issue complexity for the Vendor if there is only one way to export data ** ** ** ** Regards, ** ** Michael O'Dea-Jones ** **
Re: OT: windows environment variables not working
If you mean apart from using Tools Internet Options Programs Manage Add-ons Toolbars and Extensions then there is also http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html HTH On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Peter Maddin petermad...@iinet.net.auwrote: Did you follow up on finding which non-Microsoft shell extensions you have installed? ** ** Is there an easy way to discover what shell extensions have added themselves to windows explorer? ** ** I can see Hg Workbench and TortiseHg but not sure what else is there. ** ** *Regards Peter Maddin* *Applications Development Officer* *Path**West Laboratory Medicine WA* *Phone : +618 6396 4285 (Monday, Wednesday,Friday)* *Phone : +618 9346 4372 (Tuesday, Thursday)** Mobile: 0423 540 825* *E-Mail : petermad...@iinet.net.au; peter.mad...@health.wa.gov.au* *The contents of this e-mail transmission outside of the WAGHS network are intended solely for the named recipient's), may be confidential, and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure in the public interest. The use, reproduction, disclosure or distribution of the contents of this e-mail transmission by any person other than the named recipient(s) is prohibited. If you are not a named recipient please notify the sender immediately**.* ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Ken Schaefer *Sent:* Saturday, 10 March 2012 1:29 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* RE: OT: windows environment variables not working ** ** +1 on checking your shell extensions. Not saying it’s the culprit here, but it is the #1 cause of explorer issues that I’ve seen. ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Ian Thomas *Sent:* Saturday, 10 March 2012 9:32 AM *To:* 'ozDotNet' *Subject:* RE: OT: windows environment variables not working ** ** Peter That is strange. The advice I saw (months ago, but I may be able to relocate the website) was that the files causing problems were 1Mb (ie, very large for an index to a simple list of recent activity). Perhaps these are hidden, system files? Did you follow up on finding which non-Microsoft shell extensions you have installed? -- **Ian Thomas** Victoria Park, Western Australia -- *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Peter Maddin *Sent:* Saturday, March 10, 2012 8:59 AM *To:* 'ozDotNet' *Subject:* RE: OT: windows environment variables not working ** ** I followed Ian Thomas’ advice again. Removed all the files in ‘Recent Items’, all of which were very small, rebooted and problem fixed. ** ** At least its fixable if not very annoying. ** ** *Regards Peter Maddin* *Applications Development Officer* *Path**West Laboratory Medicine WA* *Phone : +618 6396 4285 (Monday, Wednesday,Friday)* *Phone : +618 9346 4372 (Tuesday, Thursday) Mobile: 0423 540 825* *E-Mail : petermad...@iinet.net.au; peter.mad...@health.wa.gov.au* *The contents of this e-mail transmission outside of the WAGHS network are intended solely for the named recipient's), may be confidential, and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure in the public interest. The use, reproduction, disclosure or distribution of the contents of this e-mail transmission by any person other than the named recipient(s) is prohibited. If you are not a named recipient please notify the sender immediately**.* *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Peter Maddin *Sent:* Saturday, 10 March 2012 7:55 AM *To:* 'ozDotNet' *Subject:* RE: OT: windows environment variables not working ** ** This has come back to haunt me. ** ** %windir% is no longer resolved again. ** ** Using cmd.exe ** ** Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ** ** C:\Users\PeterMaddinecho %windir% %windir% ** ** C:\Users\PeterMaddin ** ** I am not sure what causes this, but its really annoying. ** ** *Regards Peter Maddin* *Applications Development Officer* *Path**West Laboratory Medicine WA* *Phone : +618 6396 4285 (Monday, Wednesday,Friday)* *Phone : +618 9346 4372 (Tuesday, Thursday) Mobile: 0423 540 825* *E-Mail : petermad...@iinet.net.au; peter.mad...@health.wa.gov.au* *The contents of this e-mail transmission outside of the WAGHS network are intended solely for the named recipient's), may be confidential, and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure in the public interest. The use, reproduction, disclosure or distribution of the contents of this e-mail transmission by any person other than the named recipient(s) is prohibited. If you are not a named
Re: OT: windows environment variables not working
I obviously had IE on my mind, rather than Explorer, but I hope ShellExView helped. AutoRuns may be of use too: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902 Good luck. On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Peter Maddin petermad...@iinet.net.auwrote: Thanks for the link to ShellExView. ** ** I found lots of links to Internet explorer add ons but not windows explorer add ons ** ** For windows explorer there is no Tools Internet Options Programs Manage Add-ons Toolbars and Extensions Unless my visual acuity has declined even further since the last time I looked ( a definite possibility) ** ** Possibly this covers both !? ** ** I have just checked Internet Explorer and most add-ons are disabled except those I would like to keep, i.e. Shockwave flash, RMGetLIcense, Silverlight and Java. ** ** How does one find out what add-ons are windows explorer specific? ** ** *Regards Peter Maddin* *Applications Development Officer* *Path**West Laboratory Medicine WA* *Phone : +618 6396 4285 (Monday, Wednesday,Friday)* *Phone : +618 9346 4372 (Tuesday, Thursday)** Mobile: 0423 540 825* *E-Mail : petermad...@iinet.net.au; peter.mad...@health.wa.gov.au* *The contents of this e-mail transmission outside of the WAGHS network are intended solely for the named recipient's), may be confidential, and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure in the public interest. The use, reproduction, disclosure or distribution of the contents of this e-mail transmission by any person other than the named recipient(s) is prohibited. If you are not a named recipient please notify the sender immediately**.* *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Jason Keats *Sent:* Saturday, 10 March 2012 5:07 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: OT: windows environment variables not working ** ** If you mean apart from using Tools Internet Options Programs Manage Add-ons Toolbars and Extensions then there is also http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html HTH On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Peter Maddin petermad...@iinet.net.au wrote: Did you follow up on finding which non-Microsoft shell extensions you have installed? Is there an easy way to discover what shell extensions have added themselves to windows explorer? I can see Hg Workbench and TortiseHg but not sure what else is there. *Regards Peter Maddin* *Applications Development Officer* *Path**West Laboratory Medicine WA* *Phone : +618 6396 4285 (Monday, Wednesday,Friday)* *Phone : +618 9346 4372 (Tuesday, Thursday) Mobile: 0423 540 825* *E-Mail : petermad...@iinet.net.au; peter.mad...@health.wa.gov.au* *The contents of this e-mail transmission outside of the WAGHS network are intended solely for the named recipient's), may be confidential, and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure in the public interest. The use, reproduction, disclosure or distribution of the contents of this e-mail transmission by any person other than the named recipient(s) is prohibited. If you are not a named recipient please notify the sender immediately**.* *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Ken Schaefer *Sent:* Saturday, 10 March 2012 1:29 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* RE: OT: windows environment variables not working +1 on checking your shell extensions. Not saying it’s the culprit here, but it is the #1 cause of explorer issues that I’ve seen. *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Ian Thomas *Sent:* Saturday, 10 March 2012 9:32 AM *To:* 'ozDotNet' *Subject:* RE: OT: windows environment variables not working Peter That is strange. The advice I saw (months ago, but I may be able to relocate the website) was that the files causing problems were 1Mb (ie, very large for an index to a simple list of recent activity). Perhaps these are hidden, system files? Did you follow up on finding which non-Microsoft shell extensions you have installed? -- Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia -- *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Peter Maddin *Sent:* Saturday, March 10, 2012 8:59 AM *To:* 'ozDotNet' *Subject:* RE: OT: windows environment variables not working I followed Ian Thomas’ advice again. Removed all the files in ‘Recent Items’, all of which were very small, rebooted and problem fixed. At least its fixable if not very annoying. *Regards Peter Maddin* *Applications Development Officer* *Path**West Laboratory Medicine WA* *Phone : +618 6396 4285 (Monday, Wednesday,Friday
Re: EF4 and SQLite monitoring
http://efprof.com/ ? HTH On 18/07/2011, at 17:09, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: On a more sensible subject ... I’ve been building an app that uses Entity Framework 4 and SQLite for the data layer. As I reported a few weeks ago, I’m quite happy with the way the two work together. I guess I must mostly thank the people who wrote the ADO.NET provider which is nicely compliant. It’s nice that EF4 and ORMs generally hide you from the low-level commands being sent to the database, but as a developer, I’d like to know what the traffic is down at the lower level. In code I can eager/lazy load related data, perform complex nested deletes, etc, but I have no idea what’s actually happening under the covers. I can’t find any specific hooks in EF4 or SQLite to help me monitor the underlying database commands, but I’m still looking. Has anyone else looked into this issue? Greg
Re: REST to SugarCRM from .Net
I've no experience of SugarCRM, but a quick search turned up: http://www.sugarcrm.com/kb/system/web/soap-in-csharp/ http://code.google.com/p/candywrapper/ My reading of things is that SugarDev.Net was also using PHP ... http://www.sugarforge.org/projects/sugardevtools/ HTH On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.auwrote: Hi, I'm trying to connect to SugarCRM from .Net. Apparently there is (or used to be a .Net library called SugarDev.Net but that domain/site does not exist any more). The documentation I found is all PHP/curl which I don't mind it's just hard to read. These guys never explain the data structures only the random commands and string building they use in the most ugly string concatenation design possible. Anyone has any experience with talking to SugarCRM? Sample code or links to sample code would be great, otherwise anything will do. Thanks, Corneliu.
Re: REST call (obvious solution)
My guess: http://weblogs.asp.net/wim/archive/2004/04/02/106281.aspx HTH On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: I just realised that I don’t add that extra information manually to the Request, it’s the extra part after the uri. So if I request https://place.com/v1/blahblah then it generates GET /v1/blah/blah HTTP/1.1 ** ** However, now I’m getting this dreaded error: ** ** FAILED: TrustFailure | The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel. ** ** 20 minutes of web searching so far without luck. ** ** Greg ** ** ** **
Re: COM problems in Visual Studio 2010
I tried your code (a week ago) on VS2010, but couldn't get it to fail when running as Administrator on Windows XP 32. What was I doing wrong? :-) On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Scott Baldwin carpenoctur...@gmail.comwrote: Does anyone know if COM Interop has changed in any way in VS2010? I am getting COM exceptions when debugging an existing application in VS2010 when working with IShellItem. These COM exceptions did not occur in VS2008, and I can't find any difference in the code. The exceptions don't actually change the way in which the application works, and don't come up when not in debug mode, but I would like to get to the bottom of why they are occuring. Attached is a minimal VS2010 solution that exhibits the behaviour, any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. -- Scott Baldwin Senior Developer - QSR International http://www.qsrinternational.com blog: http://sjbdeveloper.blogspot.com
Re: COM problems in Visual Studio 2010
I tried running compiled versions and in the IDE and stepping through the code - because I couldn't make much sense of your message. As I said, I encountered no problems/errors/exceptions - so didn't bother responding, then. There are known issues when debugging under a 64 bit O/S, but I don't know if that would cause your problem... http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2010/07/20/the-case-of-the-disappearing-onload-exception-user-mode-callback-exceptions-in-x64/ On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Scott Baldwin carpenoctur...@gmail.comwrote: Jason, the problem is that when running in Visual Studio 2010 in debug mode, it throws COM Exceptions, whereas it did no such thing in Visual Studio 2008. Perhaps the issue only occurs on Windows 7, or perhaps you have break on exceptions turned off. Ian, I have tried it in a 32bit environment, and the same problem occurs, so it's not likely a x64 problem. On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.auwrote: I also tried the code sometime last week, on Win7 64-bit, and (in debug) got the System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException There are a number of similar reports of this COM exception on the web. When poking through the code, I saw exception messages that were something to do with wrong # of parameters – but I haven’t seen nor found an explanation. There is a suggestion that it is a 64-bit Windows problem only. As you say, the test app still works (I have not tried it in XP Mode or on a real XP, but I assume that it does there too). -- Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia -- *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Jason Keats *Sent:* Wednesday, April 27, 2011 10:06 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: COM problems in Visual Studio 2010 I tried your code (a week ago) on VS2010, but couldn't get it to fail when running as Administrator on Windows XP 32. What was I doing wrong? :-) On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Scott Baldwin carpenoctur...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know if COM Interop has changed in any way in VS2010? I am getting COM exceptions when debugging an existing application in VS2010 when working with IShellItem. These COM exceptions did not occur in VS2008, and I can't find any difference in the code. The exceptions don't actually change the way in which the application works, and don't come up when not in debug mode, but I would like to get to the bottom of why they are occuring. Attached is a minimal VS2010 solution that exhibits the behaviour, any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. -- Scott Baldwin Senior Developer - QSR International http://www.qsrinternational.com blog: http://sjbdeveloper.blogspot.com -- Scott Baldwin Senior Developer - QSR International http://www.qsrinternational.com blog: http://sjbdeveloper.blogspot.com
Re: Writing NULL value to MS SQL Database
Try vbNull, rather than DBNull.Value. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Darron and Kerrie dkpritch...@optusnet.com.au wrote: I have just started programming in VB.net. I am recoding an old VB6.0 program to VB.net, and having a problem with setting a database field back to null. The VB6.0 code was: Set rs = OpenTable(select * from tblunits where unit = ' temp ') rs!status = Available rs!eventnum = Null rs.Update I have tried a number of different way in VB.net but always get errors. Here is my current code. Dim sqlda As New SqlDataAdapter Dim SQLcmd As New SqlCommand Dim TableFlag As DataTable Dim drunitstatus As DataRow With SQLcmd .Connection = conn .CommandType = CommandType.Text .CommandText = ( select * from tblunits where unit = ' UnitName ') End With sqlda = New SqlDataAdapter(SQLcmd) TableFlag = New DataTable sqlda.Fill(TableFlag) drunitstatus = TableFlag.Rows(0) drunitstatus(status) = Available drunitstatus(eventnum) = DBNull.value 'This appear to be the problem line eventnum is int32 and allow nulls Dim sCB As SqlCommandBuilder = New SqlCommandBuilder(sqlda) sqlda.Update(TableFlag) The Current error is NullReferenceException was Caught Can any one advise what I am doing wrong? Darron
Re: WPF dialog never displayed
There is an alternative: http://code.google.com/p/retlang/ On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Peter Maddin petermad...@iinet.net.auwrote: I need to display a small wpf windows that shows a progress bar while parsing an xml file and using this to add content to a flowdocument. This is done from within a user control. The dialog sets DialogResult to true if it works or false if an exception occurs. The dialog is working except it is never displayed. What does one need to do so that it is displayed. Code if (LogFilePath != null) { if (parentWindow != null) { var processingDialog = new PleaseWaitDialog(); processingDialog.Owner = parentWindow; processingDialog.LogFilePath = LogFilePath + \\ + logFile; processingDialog.IsForPrinter = false; processingDialog.IntializeDialog(); if (processingDialog.ShowDialog() == true) { logDocumentUserControl.logFlowDocumentViewer.Document = processingDialog.LogDocument; } } } While it functions, nothing is shown. Any clues as to what to do? Also the loaded event in my dialog window is never triggered. (Also posted to the WPF list which is as not active as this one) *Regards Peter Maddin* *Applications Development Officer* *Path**West Laboratory Medicine WA* *Phone : +618 6396 4285 Mobile: 0414 240 307* *E-Mail : petermad...@iinet.net.au; peter.mad...@health.wa.gov.au* *The contents of this e-mail transmission outside of the WAGHS network are intended solely for the named recipient's), may be confidential, and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure in the public interest. The use, reproduction, disclosure or distribution of the contents of this e-mail transmission by any person other than the named recipient(s) is prohibited. If you are not a named recipient please notify the sender immediately**.*
Re: WPF dialog never displayed
The source contains sample apps and unit tests. Study them for enlightenment. I used TortoiseSVN to download it (http://retlang.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/). However, I can email it to you if you want. You can ask questions at: http://groups.google.com/group/retlang-dev On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Peter Maddin petermad...@iinet.net.auwrote: Thanks Looks very interesting. A working demo would be nice. There is a single dll and chm help file. There is a dropbox a presentation which is quite nice. Still it sounds like it might solve a lot of problems Regards Peter *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Jason Keats *Sent:* Friday, 8 April 2011 9:21 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: WPF dialog never displayed There is an alternative: http://code.google.com/p/retlang/ On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Peter Maddin petermad...@iinet.net.au wrote: I need to display a small wpf windows that shows a progress bar while parsing an xml file and using this to add content to a flowdocument. This is done from within a user control. The dialog sets DialogResult to true if it works or false if an exception occurs. The dialog is working except it is never displayed. What does one need to do so that it is displayed. Code if (LogFilePath != null) { if (parentWindow != null) { var processingDialog = new PleaseWaitDialog(); processingDialog.Owner = parentWindow; processingDialog.LogFilePath = LogFilePath + \\ + logFile; processingDialog.IsForPrinter = false; processingDialog.IntializeDialog(); if (processingDialog.ShowDialog() == true) { logDocumentUserControl.logFlowDocumentViewer.Document = processingDialog.LogDocument; } } } While it functions, nothing is shown. Any clues as to what to do? Also the loaded event in my dialog window is never triggered. (Also posted to the WPF list which is as not active as this one) *Regards Peter Maddin* *Applications Development Officer* *Path**West Laboratory Medicine WA* *Phone : +618 6396 4285 Mobile: 0414 240 307* *E-Mail : petermad...@iinet.net.au; peter.mad...@health.wa.gov.au* *The contents of this e-mail transmission outside of the WAGHS network are intended solely for the named recipient's), may be confidential, and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure in the public interest. The use, reproduction, disclosure or distribution of the contents of this e-mail transmission by any person other than the named recipient(s) is prohibited. If you are not a named recipient please notify the sender immediately**.*
Re: Writing NULL value to MS SQL Database
I just tried your example. It had no problem inserting a Null using DBNull.Value. It must be something else causing your problem. Hopefully, I got it right this time - even with a hangover. ;-) On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Darron and Kerrie dkpritch...@optusnet.com.au wrote: I have just started programming in VB.net. I am recoding an old VB6.0 program to VB.net, and having a problem with setting a database field back to null. The VB6.0 code was: Set rs = OpenTable(select * from tblunits where unit = ' temp ') rs!status = Available rs!eventnum = Null rs.Update I have tried a number of different way in VB.net but always get errors. Here is my current code. Dim sqlda As New SqlDataAdapter Dim SQLcmd As New SqlCommand Dim TableFlag As DataTable Dim drunitstatus As DataRow With SQLcmd .Connection = conn .CommandType = CommandType.Text .CommandText = ( select * from tblunits where unit = ' UnitName ') End With sqlda = New SqlDataAdapter(SQLcmd) TableFlag = New DataTable sqlda.Fill(TableFlag) drunitstatus = TableFlag.Rows(0) drunitstatus(status) = Available drunitstatus(eventnum) = DBNull.value 'This appear to be the problem line eventnum is int32 and allow nulls Dim sCB As SqlCommandBuilder = New SqlCommandBuilder(sqlda) sqlda.Update(TableFlag) The Current error is NullReferenceException was Caught Can any one advise what I am doing wrong? Darron
Re: Attaching event to child controls of UserControl
Did you try setting the Form's KeyPreview property to True? I would expect a well-behaved UserControl to handle the ParentChanged event. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I need to catch a Control-Enter keyboard input on a UserControl and any of it's children, but it seems only the actual focused control gets the events. So I looked around the net and didn't find a solution. I came up with my own solution, which involved cycling through all the children and attaching a KeyDown event. public void Init() { RecursivelyAddEvent(this.Controls, 0); } public void RecursivelyAddEvent(ControlCollection controls, int level) { foreach(Control ctrl in controls) { ctrl.KeyDown += EmailEditor_KeyDown; if(level 3) RecursivelyAddEvent(ctrl.Controls, level+1); } } It works, but there must be a better solution? Thanks Noobie Winforms Dude
Re: UDP Broadcasting
I'd try the following: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1096142/broadcasting-udp-message-to-all-the-available-network-cards http://snipplr.com/view/28192/bind-a-socket-including-udpclient-and-tcpclient-to-a-local-network-interface-card-nic/ HTH On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, I’ve got old code that sends UDP broadcasts like this simple skeleton: UdpClient broadcaster = new udpClient(); IPEndPoint ep = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Broadcast, ); Broadcaster.Send(buffer, buffer.Length, ep); We have just found that if there are multiple network cards in the machine then it’s unpredictably broadcasting on the wrong interface and the listeners get nothing. I’m not sure how to code a fix for this. Do I need to do this to get an IPAddress array and then put them all into the Send call? Like this...? string hostname = Dns.GetHostName(); IPHostEntry he = Dns.GetHostByName(hostname); foreach (IPAddress addr in he.AddressList) { // Send with an endpoint set to each addr instead of IPAddress.Broadcast? } I’m not sure if this is the correct technique. Any sockets boffins here know this sort of thing? Cheers, Greg
Re: [OT] VBScript return string runtime error
I believe that wrapping a parameter in parentheses forces it to be passed ByVal - even if you've coded ByRef. And, in VBScript, everything is a Variant (not quite the same thing as an Object) - so you may have to use CVar occasionally. On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Mark Hurd markeh...@gmail.com wrote: I've replicated your problem with a simple VB6 class. I'm not sure of the actual cause but your fix is: id = client.SendRequest((request)) because the working client.SendRequest(request) is really client.SendRequest (request) or Call client.SendRequest((request)). The call corresponding to the original id = line Call client.SendRequest(request) or client.SendRequest request fails with TypeMismatch for me. I assume the problem is VBScript only deals with Objects most of the time, and so doesn't like the original accurate type being passed to the (correct) accurate type, but the () returns the object to Object, which it doesn't mind passing anywhere. -- Regards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.) On 28 November 2010 18:09, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: I’ve been running experiments for almost two hours solid now, making mock functions and passing different arguments and return types in all combinations I can think of. I’ve cleaned my environment, registered, unregistered, etc. Everything works perfectly in unit tests, only in the VBS file I find this specific failure rule: I cannot get a return value from a method call that has a COM object as an argument. Sadly, I can’t just pass primitive types as the arguments to the function, as it takes far too many and some are collections. I think I’ll give up and have a glass of wine. Greg
Re: OT - Mathematical computing
I came across Sage http://sagemath.org/ the other day. It's trying to be an open source alternative to programs like Mathematica - using Python to glue together a collection of libraries. It's been about 15 years since I last played with any mathematical software - in a previous life as a maths teacher - so I can't help further. On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:29 AM, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone do anything of this type? I'm currently playing with MATLAB, and it's pretty fun. There are some things that require a bit of getting used to, but it seems like it's the most used and programmable. We've got Maple at Uni as well, and I certainly prefer that for entering and manipulating equations. I haven't done much with Mathematica, and those are the only programs I'm familiar with. I'm under the impression that a component of the scientific community uses Python; but I suspect that's only because it's more accessible to them than other programming languages (and probably due to some existing math libraries which make things easier). Anyone have any thoughts on the matter? I believe MATLAB has some sort of interaction with Amazon EC2 for running distributed items, which seems very cool, but I'm yet to do anything anywhere near as interesting as requiring that. Interested to hear if anyone has done any work/investigation in this area. -- silky Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being this signature.