Tag: General Programming

Dll not getting copied to bin directory in Visual Studio

Hi,

In one of our projects we were referencing custom assemblies that were part of the same solution. However those assemblies were not getting copied to the bin directory of the project upon building the project.

We had also set property Copy Local as true for those class library projects.

The reason for this was as we were adding those assemblies in GAC.

“ VS.NET will copy the dll to the bin directory if your system cannot find the dll in the GAC.”

After removing those assemblies from GAC it added those dlls in the bin.

The helpful thread

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3548731/visual-studio-2010-add-reference-is-copying-dll-to-bin-directory

Hope it helps..

Fixed – Cannot obtain value of local or argument as it not available at the instruction pointer, possibly because it has been optimized away while debugging in Visual Studio

Hi,

Was facing this the above issue while trying to debug the code. The debugger was getting attached properly but it wasn’t showing values for the variables.
Unchecking the following option in the class library project properties fixed the issue

 

 

This helpful post.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sburke/archive/2008/01/29/how-to-disable-optimizations-when-debugging-reference-source.aspx

Bye..

 

How to Read the InfoPath content and extract the attachment using XMLDocument in C#

The InfoPath form:-

The namespace and the field1 that is node that contains the attachment

Sample Code:


XmlDocument myDoc = new XmlDocument();
myDoc.Load(@"C:\test\form.xml");

// specify the name space
XmlNamespaceManager ns = new XmlNamespaceManager(myDoc.NameTable);
ns.AddNamespace("my", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/myXSD/2014-07-12T15:29:09");

// the node that contains the attachment
XmlNodeList nl = myDoc.SelectNodes("/my:myFields/my:group1/my:group2/my:field1", ns);
foreach (XmlNode n in nl)
{
string s = n.InnerText;
byte[] b = Convert.FromBase64String(s);
int nameBufferLen = b[20] * 2;

// file name buffer to get the filename with extension
byte[] fileNameBufffer = new Byte[nameBufferLen];

for (int i = 0; i < nameBufferLen; i++)
{
fileNameBufffer[i] = b[24 + i];
}
char[] charFileName = UnicodeEncoding.Unicode.GetChars(fileNameBufffer);
string fileName = new string(charFileName);
fileName = fileName.Substring(0, fileName.Length - 1);

// byte array for the remaining content
byte[] fileContent = new byte[b.Length - (24 + nameBufferLen)];

for (int i = 0; i < fileContent.Length; i++)
{
fileContent[i] = b[24 + nameBufferLen + i];
}

FileStream fs = new FileStream(@"C:\test\" + fileName, FileMode.Create);
fs.Write(fileContent, 0, fileContent.Length);
fs.Close();

}

Hope it helps..

 

 

 

 

Generate a C# class from an InfoPath form

To generate a C# class from change the extension to .cab from .xsn.

Open and copy the content of cab file to a separate folder

Open the Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt and run the XSD.exe to generate the class

 

Hope it helps…

HashSet with Custom Class in C#

Check out this wonderful post on understanding HashSet

http://dotnetcodr.com/2014/01/08/using-hashset-in-net-to-allow-unique-values-only/

http://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2012/10/18/merge-collections-without-duplicates-in-c

 

The Message box will show the count as 2.

HashSet will remove the duplicate entry.

Bye

Remove the extra commas from the string using C#

Suppose our string is in following format


string input = “Test1,, Test2,,,,,”;


string result = Regex.Replace(input, “,+”, “,”).Trim(‘,’);


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4405703/remove-extra-commas-in-c-sharp

Bye.

Fixed – Visual Studio 2012 getting crashed on attaching debugger

Hi,

VS 2012 was repeatedly getting crashed when attaching debugger for debugging the plugins.

Tried out unsuccessfully so many things suggested over the internet, however the only thing that worked was installing the VS 2012 update 4

http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=39305

Hope it helps.

Change log4net logging level programmatically

Hi,

We had one requirement in which we wanted to change the logging level of log4net programmatically based on the value passed.

Suppose this is how we have configured log4net in our application.


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
 <configSections>
 <section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net"/>
 </configSections>
 <log4net>
 <appender name="RollingLogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
 <file value="TestLog.txt"/>
 <appendToFile value="true"/>
 <rollingStyle value="Composite"/>
 <datePattern value="yyyyMMdd"/>
 <maxSizeRollBackups value="10"/>
 <maximumFileSize value="10MB"/>
 <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
 <conversionPattern value="[%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}] [%p] [%c:%L] - %m%n"/>
 </layout>
 </appender>
 <root>
 <level value="DEBUG"/>
 <appender-ref ref="RollingLogFileAppender"/>
 </root>
 </log4net>
<startup><supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/></startup></configuration>

The sample code for changing the log level


namespace SampleLogApp
{
 using System.Reflection;

using log4net;
 using log4net.Core;
 using log4net.Repository;
 using log4net.Repository.Hierarchy;
 using log4net.Config;

public partial class Form1 : Form
 {

 private static readonly ILog logger = LogManager.GetLogger(MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);
 private List<Person> lstPerson;

 public Form1()
 {
 InitializeComponent();
 // configure the log4net logging
 XmlConfigurator.Configure();
 }

private void btnStartLogging_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
 foreach(Person person in lstPerson)
 {
 // set the logging type depending on person
 SetLoggingLevel(person.LogType);
 logger.Debug("Debug: " + person.FullName);
 logger.Info("Info: " + person.FullName);
 logger.Warn("Warn: " + person.FullName);
 logger.Error("Error: " + person.FullName);
 }
 }

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
 lstPerson = new List<Person>();
 lstPerson.Add(new Person() { FullName = "Abhinav Ranjan", LogType = "Debug" });
 lstPerson.Add(new Person() { FullName = "Nirav Pancholi", LogType = "Info" });
 lstPerson.Add(new Person() { FullName = "Shobhit Bhatnagar", LogType = "Error" });
 }

/// <summary>
 /// Sets the logging level.
 /// </summary>
 /// <param name="logType">Type of the log.</param>
 private static void SetLoggingLevel(string logType)
 {
 Logger currentLogger = (Logger)logger.Logger;
 currentLogger.Level = currentLogger.Hierarchy.LevelMap[logType];
 }
 }
}

The output in TestLog.txt

[2012-04-16 00:17:27] [DEBUG] [SampleLogApp.Form1:39] – Debug: Abhinav Ranjan
[2012-04-16 00:17:27] [INFO] [SampleLogApp.Form1:40] – Info: Abhinav Ranjan
[2012-04-16 00:17:27] [WARN] [SampleLogApp.Form1:41] – Warn: Abhinav Ranjan
[2012-04-16 00:17:27] [ERROR] [SampleLogApp.Form1:42] – Error: Abhinav Ranjan
[2012-04-16 00:17:27] [INFO] [SampleLogApp.Form1:40] – Info: Nirav Pancholi
[2012-04-16 00:17:27] [WARN] [SampleLogApp.Form1:41] – Warn: Nirav Pancholi
[2012-04-16 00:17:27] [ERROR] [SampleLogApp.Form1:42] – Error: Nirav Pancholi
[2012-04-16 00:17:27] [ERROR] [SampleLogApp.Form1:42] – Error: Shobhit Bhatnagar

The helpful post

http://geekswithblogs.net/rakker/archive/2007/08/22/114900.aspx

Hope it helps.

Rename Domain in Windows Server 2008

Hi,

I was assigned the task of renaming the domain. This post was extremely useful.

http://www.shariqsheikh.com/blog/index.php/200804/how-to-rename-a-windows-server-2008-domain/

I’ll put few of the steps from that post here 

“From the command prompt, I started out by running rendom /list which outputs an XML file (Domainlist.xml) to the directory where rendom resides. You edit that file to change your domain configuration to the new domain name. i.e ForestDNSZones, DomainDNSZones, Netbios name. See referenced link for details.

After you have modified the file you can run rendom /showforest which shows you the future configuration, verify and make changes if necessary.

Upload the changes you have made in the XML file: Run rendom /upload

Verify readiness of Domain Controller(s): Run rendom /prepare

Execute domain rename instructions: Run rendom /execute

After thats finishes up successfully, you should also run GPFIXUP tool to fix up GPO references to your old domain name.

Here is an example :

C:\Users\Administrator>gpfixup /olddns:08r2.lab /newdns:mcts.lab
Group Policy fix up utility Version 1.1 (Microsoft)

Start fixing group policy (GroupPolicyContainer) objects:
……..

Start fixing site group policy links:
.

Start fixing non-site group policy links:
….
gpfixup tool executed with success.

C:\Users\Administrator>gpfixup /oldnb:08r2 /newnb:mcts
Group Policy fix up utility Version 1.1 (Microsoft)

Start fixing group policy (GroupPolicyContainer) objects:
..
gpfixup tool executed with success.

Lastly, run rendom /clean”

Bye..