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Some reading here[^] should help you out.
The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it.
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Why do I feel that beginners are Slaughtered at msdn?
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Try the second and third links here[^].
Always: Google first
CodeProject next
MSDN - when all else fails. 
The best things in life are not things.
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That's because MSDN is reference material, and not learning material
Very good for finding out the specifics of a function; not so good for learning about the function.
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See this[^] introductory article.
/ravi
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I'm using StrCmpLogicalW to logically compare strings. My signature is:
[DllImport("shlwapi.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
public static extern int StrCmpLogicalW(string x, string y);
seems like its kind of working, but I see that its giving me random results when trying to sort doubles (as strings).
1 ===> 0.883266340175621 <-> 0.842264196854649
that seems like its right, but then a second later I get:
1 ===> 0.842264196854649 <-> 0.91145355364217
that seems wrong. Obviously 0.91 is greater then 0.84. I'm thinking StrCmpLogicalW isn't liking that the 2nd string is shorter.
Can't really special case this since its in generic code that uses LINQ expression trees to get property "x" from objects and then does .ToString() on them for passing into StrCmpLogicalW.
Any ideas?
-- Modified Friday, June 3, 2011 5:05 PM
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Seems like the second comparison is failing because the string is shorter... thats a stupid bug in StrCmpLogicalW :p.
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I agree, as a number obiously we would expect .91 to be larger than .84. but as a string the shorter one is smaller.
That being said I'm not sure the best way for you to fix it
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning.
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just shooting in the dark and could be WAAY off base here, but could you maybe trim the strings to be the same length? or would that hurt your comparison to much due to loss of data?
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning.
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Well, I was originally thinking of trimming the strings to the same length, but that would screw things up because I could get something like 0.5 and then I don't want to trim 0.92323923423 to 0.9. I could go the other way and pad out the 0.5 to 0.500000000, but I don't want to display it like that  .
My list control was doing sorting generically by property name. I.e. column1 sorts on "Name", column2 sorts on "Age", etc. So I just added a "custom sort callback" property to the column and
if it has one specified, it calls that instead of StrCmpLogicalW with raw object(s) instead of the ToString()'ed version and the implementer of the callback can decide how to compare them. In this case, I just typecast to doubles and use the <, == and > operators.
Still, the StrCmpLogicalW thing irks me because the whole point of that function is to take numbers into account .
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StrCmpLogicalW() is what Windows Explorer uses to sort file names in the "logical" order, i.e. it gives
a1a, a2a, a3a, ..., a9a, a10a, a11a, ...
so it looks at a string as containing digits and non-digits; in scans left-to-rigth; for the non-digits it compares a character at a time, by char value; for digits, it calculates the integer value and compares that. It does not know about decimal points, thousand separators, minus signs, etc.
As a result 0.842264196854649 is the number zero, a period, and the number 842264196854649, and the latter one is larger than 91145355364217 by about a factor of 9.
You should not use StrCmpLogicalW() here; why don't you just use string.Compare() (OK for positive numbers only!)? and of course, the clean approach would be using numbers, not strings.
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Yeah, I have filenames, so thats why my control defaults to using StrCmpLogicalW as the default sorter. As I mentioned in another post, I added support for a custom comparer for each column, so what I'm thinking is that I should default to string.compare() and the user (of the control) can override for the filename columns or other columns they want logical sorting on. That should improve sorting performance since I'm thinking string.compare() is faster then StrCmpLogicalW() .
But great explanation on why it works how it does. I gave up trying to figure that out and just implemented the custom callback so they can sort as doubles or whatever if they wish.
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IMO it isn't hard at all to implement StrCmpLogicalW() or something similar that would understand signed numbers, thousands separators, decimal points, doubles, even engineering notation if that is what you want. Long ago I made an exact replica of StrCmpLogicalW() as I was creating an Explorer clone and wanted identical sort order; only later I figured the StrCmpLogicalW() function was available to all.
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they improve readability. CP Vanity has been updated to V2.3
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Are there asynchronous code designs for a server and a client using TcpListener and TcpClient including asynchronous data read/write?
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If you don't mind using WCF, you can get the async for free (along with several other benefits).
/ravi
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No, I need to use TcpListener and TcpClient in .NET assembly for windows forms.
I'm intrested in correct usage of begin accept, read, write for server and begin read, write for client.
Also correct server shutdown, socket exception handling etc...
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There's always MSDN[^] of course 
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Documentation encourages to use TcpListener and TcpCllient classes.
I've seen those samples with a server getting back data from a client, sending back response and closing it.
I'm intrested in a server handing many clients connected and client connected to many servers architecture.
There should be some ready described solutions to avoid common mistakes.
e.g. in BeginRead callback there is a missing zero byte call back which occurs if client connection is lost
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Wow, this seems to be a good candidate for WCF! The WCF service doesn't need to be hosted in a server app - you can use it much like you'd use TcpListener and TcpClient.
/ravi
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Well I'm developing according to domain-driven design DDD and was going to write a service for server and client.
What is the advanatage of WCF over ordinary .NET sockets apprach?
I need several services running on the same machine each with a different port.
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WCF provides the plumbing for easily:
- building a configuration (port, transport, security) driven client/server system
- implementing both sync and async client APIs
- adding hooks (e.g. custom compression) before data is sent/received
- implementing logging and instrumenting traffic
- implementing handshaking (full-duplex) communication and transacted communication
- embedding the server in any type of host host (GUI app, console app, web app, Windows service)
If you haven't had the opportunity to use it, I recommend giving it a try. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by its power and ease of use! Here are a couple of links that should get you up and running quickly:
/ravi
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Thanks, but I'm not sure that is suitable for my design.
I'm coding video surveillance application, server runs video capture and sends captured frames to connected clients.
There can be any number of clients connected to a server and a client can be connected to any number of servers.
There are video capture service and video data transfer service (the server).
As the frame is captured video capture service invokes send method from the video data transfer service which sends the frame to all clients connected.
WCF as I understood provides service contract and public methods to call.
In that case I need to add WCF logic to video capture service and declare public method as e.g. GetRecentFrame(). And a client needs to call that method.
I do not want to combine video capture and video data transfer services.
As video capture service is running on despite the fact if someone is connected to transfer it a frame. And network connection may be slow, video capture service may get 10 frames in a time 1 frame is finished with the transfer to the client.
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Ah. I now understand why you prefer to be lower in the network stack.
/ravi
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Chesnokov Yuriy wrote: I've seen those samples with a server getting back data from a client, sending back response and closing it.
I'm intrested in a server handing many clients connected and client connected to many servers architecture.
There is no multiple/multiple architecture, it's always one server/many clients. The fact that your browser can open multiple pages is due to having multiple clients, that each request data from a different server.
Chesnokov Yuriy wrote: There should be some ready described solutions to avoid common mistakes.
The All-in-one samples refer to the same page[^].
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I don't know if it counts as a design pattern but my sockets library[^] may be of some use to you (either to use it or to look at the code to adapt for your own solution). I don't use asynchronous writing (writing is de facto asynchronous, as it writes to the local buffer immediately, so you only need to use the methods if you want feedback), but I do use asynchronous accept and read and handle the various ways in which it can go wrong unexpectedly.
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