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Is there any way that i can make clone of hard drive c to mu external one by using c# code?
can anyone help me with guideline or opensource software which has the desirable method.
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Ummm, maybe a something like, File.Copy ? 
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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I wouldn't attempt it with managed code.
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I'm asking how to do it not should I do it.
can anyone please provide me with any clue
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Beside using File.Copy (as mentioned) use methods like Directory.GetDirectories and Directory.GetFiles. Maybe recursive programming will help you out as well..
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But if no one thinks you should, no one will tell you how.
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You can try xcopy-tool./[^]
Thanks
Md. Marufuzzaman
I will not say I have failed 1000 times; I will say that I have discovered 1000 ways that can cause failure – Thomas Edison.
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Clonning a partition is not an easy task, and by far an easy one to do with managed code.
If you want to do a full clone then your aim is to understand partition descriptors, file and folder descriptors and all the stuff that goes behind a file system when it acceses a partition. Why it is necessary to understand them, simple you can't just rely on the file system of an os and there are lots of existing partition types.
If you want just to copy all the files from a partition to another you must keep in mind that critical files opened by the operating system and/or applications are not readeable (nor writable) unless they are closed (or opened under special conditions).
ps: partition != hard drive 
I have no smart signature yet...
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You're not going to do it in managed code. In the simplest form you can do this, it requires that Windows isn't running since there will be plenty of areas of the disk that will be locked and unavailable to even be read.
I wrote an app to do this way back in 1991, written in C and running from a DOS boot floppy. I was duplicating hard drives for the mass production of "laptop" computers for Prudential Insurance. Every machine has a standard DOS/Windows/software load that had to be on about 450 machines.
For those keeping score, Ghost came out 2 years later in 1993. Yeah, there's my  moment! ...had I only known there was a market...
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I have a treeview where many treenodes belonging to different parent nodes may represent the same object, so if a user updates a text for such node, it should also trigger an update of text for all other nodes representing the same object. For instance if I have nodes representing school classes (math, english...) each class node has student nodes with student name as text, so numerous classes can contain the nodes with same student name. If I change students name under one parent, it should update it under the rest. I would assign the student object to nodes tag, but how would I trigger a text update?
thanks
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There are a number of ways.
Ideally, the student class has a ToString or similar method that is used to format the text for the node.
Then you can enumerate the nodes, updating the text. You can probably make that quicker by checking to see if it's the updated record. And you should probably do that on a thread.
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I do not have a collection of other nodes that need to be updated, so cannot enumerate. This is a form treenode, not web, so there is no updateOnDemand property. I was thinking of doing this on text update - calling tag object method that in turn calls treenode's method to update the text. this way, a single node text update would trigger text update for all nodes tagging the same object. Is there a better way?
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xilefxilef wrote: I do not have a collection of other nodes
The tree has a collection of all the nodes -- enumerate them, updating as necessary.
You can use memory rather than CPU to maintain your own collections, but I'd start with the simple way first.
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Right, it has all nodes, but this way I need to enumerate through all of them and find the ones I want to update. I was talking about an event that would trigger an update without having to enumerate through the whole tree. I would override TreeNode.Text property to point to tagged object's text property, but strings are immutable and if I change tagged object's text property, it would do nothing to nodes text.
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That would be good if it can be done, but I don't know that it can (or can't) be done. I was thinking of having the student class have an OnChanged event (or something) that a specialized TreeNode could hook onto.
Failing that, you could have a class that associates a student with a bunch of nodes.
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Yes, event triggered by tagged class is probably the best solution, but keeping a node list in tagged class is also good.
thanks.
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xilefxilef wrote: is also good.
It's just more memory-intensive, I'd prefer to try the CPU-intensive solution and then decide whether or not it provides good performance
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Hello, I'm beginner in C# and trying to make a GUI program. I'm making a program to play Sudoku, I've few classes, some functions and interfaces but problem is I can't get how should I update my GUI. I want a program that could update GUI for every action taken within class. Is it doable without touching functions in my classes just by inheriting the main form class ?? How could I do it and what is the best way of updating a GUI from a different class. Could I pass my user control directly to update GUI.
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The normal way in a WinForms app would be to perform all the painting in a Paint handler, and calling Control.Invalidate() whenever said Control needs a repaint.
BTW: calling Control methods has to be performed on the main (aka GUI) thread.
I have a basic animation example here[^]; the principles are the same if you don't want an actual animation.
Out of curiosity, what is you Sudoku app going to do: generate puzzles, solve puzzles, act as a board game where the player solves the puzzle and the app checks, ...?
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I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
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Hi guys... anyone know how to use the DataGrid from the WPF toolkit? I've looked it up in the MSDN but the examples they show don't seem to work.
I've got a filled DataSet object from a MySQL database and I want to display the contents in the DataGrid. The MSDN says I just have to use the DataContext property and set it to the DataSet but that's not working.
Anyone have any ideas?
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You might want to post this question in the WPF forum instead.
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hello,
i cant understand why the following code var ans = _textL.Skip(listBegin).Take(150);
doesnt work (the sublist 'ans' size is 0)
_textL.count = 155000
thanks
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And what is the value of listBegin?
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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Not sure what you're getting at here. I think the 2nd example doesn't even need or use
int? _someValThatNeedsSetting;
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