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Re: how to get a list of all avilable controls in a namespace

4-Sep-07 5:21

I am working on a Project i am now a bit stuck as i want to show a list of controls from a namespace and display the selected control;
as visual studio does, as soon as we add reference to the library(dll) the controls are shown in tool box .
at first I am trying to get all controls from System.Windows.Forms

Any hint or link will be helpful

Thanks And regards
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led mike4-Sep-07 5:39

led mike

4-Sep-07 5:39

Perhaps using Reflection

Re: how to get a list of all avilable controls in a namespace

Amar Chaudhary4-Sep-07 6:55

Re: how to get a list of all avilable controls in a namespace

4-Sep-07 6:55

Thanks for the direction

I am getting Lot of types in MScoreLib.dll
but there is no "System.Windows.Forms"

code I used is
using System.Reflection;

on form load event

 Assembly a = Assembly.Load("MScorlib.dll");
 Type[] types = a.GetTypes();
 foreach (Type t in types)
 {
     //if (t.IsClass)
     listBox1.Items.Add(t.ToString());
 }
 MessageBox.Show(listBox1.Items.Count.ToString());
// MessageBox.Show(types.Length.ToString());

do you have any idea about this
Thanks And Regards
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Amar Chaudhary4-Sep-07 7:00

Re: how to get a list of all avilable controls in a namespace

4-Sep-07 7:00

Amar Chaudhary wrote:
Assembly a = Assembly.Load("MScorlib.dll");

When i pass System.windows.forms.dll instead of MScorlib.dll
it throws a file not found exception

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Giorgi Dalakishvili4-Sep-07 7:18

Giorgi Dalakishvili

4-Sep-07 7:18

Amar Chaudhary wrote:
When i pass System.windows.forms.dll instead of MScorlib.dll
it throws a file not found exception

It is located at %SystemRoot%\Microsoft.net\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Windows.Forms.dll

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Re: how to get a list of all avilable controls in a namespace

led mike4-Sep-07 7:28

led mike

4-Sep-07 7:28

Amar Chaudhary wrote:
When i pass System.windows.forms.dll instead of MScorlib.dll
it throws a file not found exception

GAC assemblies require more than just the DLL file name, like version, maybe culture. Try doing some research on MSDN to get the details.

Re: how to get a list of all avilable controls in a namespace

Amar Chaudhary4-Sep-07 19:44

RegEx help for a RegEx Newb

4-Sep-07 19:44

Assembly a = Assembly.LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms");
Type[] types = a.GetTypes();
foreach (Type t in types)
{

    listBox1.Items.Add(t.ToString());
}
MessageBox.Show(listBox1.Items.Count.ToString());

this is giving result but with warning

Warning	1	'System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadWithPartialName(string)' is obsolete: 'This method has been deprecated. Please use Assembly.Load() instead. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=14202'	E:\important\Articles for code project\Theme Applier for windows forms\EasyUI\UIApplier\UIMaker\ControlBrowser.cs	31	26	UIMaker

I am looking more into it Thanks for your help

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flipdoubt4-Sep-07 5:04

flipdoubt

4-Sep-07 5:04

Can someone help me write a regular expression that will return a string from the beginning of the input string up until a certain string is reached? I know how to do this without regular expressions, but I want to use a regular expression so users can modify the format later.

Also, can someone recommend a good tutorial for using regular expressions to accomplish this kind of task using .NET?

Thanks.

Christian Graus4-Sep-07 5:11

4-Sep-07 5:11

www.expresso.com, or search for Expresso on this site. It's a program that helps you build and test regex. Also, the regex book from O'Reiley is pretty awesome.

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flipdoubt4-Sep-07 5:14

flipdoubt

4-Sep-07 5:14

But there is RegEx in general and then there is .NET's flavor of RegEx. Are you recommending the O'Reilly book for .NET?

Christian Graus4-Sep-07 6:04

4-Sep-07 6:04

The O'Reilly book covers the different flavours in depth.

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Joseph Guadagno4-Sep-07 5:14

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4-Sep-07 5:14

I use http://regexlib.com/CheatSheet.aspx for Regular Expressions. There is also a "free" application to test .NET Regular Expressions http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/default.aspx#regexd.

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DavidNohejl4-Sep-07 6:03

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4-Sep-07 6:03

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ed^nrgc4-Sep-07 5:38

ed^nrgc

4-Sep-07 5:38

If I understand you correctly, it would be a simple case of creating a regex string of something like "^(?<mymatch>.*)"+ sMyTerminatorString. Then check the matches for mymatch (or whatever you name it).

C# Generics - Using operators with generic objects

Skippums4-Sep-07 12:12

Skippums

4-Sep-07 12:12

Look into RegexOptions.MultiLine to change whether "." matches newlines as well...

myRegex = new Regex("^.*?(?=myStringThatDelimitsTheEndOfTheMatch)");

Match m = myRegex.Match(sampleString);

if (m.Success) {
m.Value; // this returns only the part of the match
// that occured prior to your delimiting string
}

funkymint4-Sep-07 4:28

Re: C# Generics - Using operators with generic objects

4-Sep-07 4:28

I have the following function:

public bool getOperatorResult<T>(string operatorType, T operandA, T operandB)
        {
            //If the operands are boolean values.
            if (typeof(T) == typeof(bool))
            {
                System.Object obj = operandA;
                bool a = (bool) obj;
                obj = operandB;
                bool b = (bool) obj;
                switch (operatorType)
                {
                    case "or":
                        return (a || b);
                    case "and":
                        return (a && b);
                    case "equal":
                        return (a == b);
                    case "notequal":
                        return (a != b);
                    default:
                        return false;
                }
            }
            //If the operands are number values.
            else if ((typeof(T) == typeof(int)) || (typeof(T) == typeof(double)))
            {
                //Do something similar but for both int and double
            }
        }

This code works but just does not look right to me. Also in the second part where I look for numbers, I don't know how I can cast to either int or double. Any ideas

If I try to directly put in:

switch (operatorType)
                {
                    case "lessthan":
                        return (operandA < operandB);
                    case "morethan":
                        return (operandA > operandB);
                    case "lessthanequalto":
                        return (operandA <= operandB);
                    case "morethanequalto":
                        return (operandA >= operandB);
                    case "equal":
                        return (operandA == operandB);
                    case "notequal":
                        return (operandA != operandB);
                    default:
                        return false;
                }

I get compiler errors:

Operator '<' cannot be applied to operands of type 'T' and 'T'
.....
.....

Christian Graus4-Sep-07 4:43

Re: C# Generics - Using operators with generic objects

4-Sep-07 4:43

Can you constrain your accepted types in order to enforce that they are comparable ?

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funkymint4-Sep-07 4:54

Re: C# Generics - Using operators with generic objects

4-Sep-07 4:54

I need to accept bool, string, and numbers (int's and doubles).

DavidNohejl4-Sep-07 6:09

DavidNohejl

4-Sep-07 6:09

They all implement IComparable, don't they? Just use the where T:IComparable constrain in your generic method. Or perhaps use IComparable<T>.

Re: C# Generics - Using operators with generic objects

Urs Enzler4-Sep-07 4:55

Urs Enzler

4-Sep-07 4:55

Why do you use generics at all?

Wouldn't it just be simpler to do something like that:

public bool GetOperatorResult(string operator, bool a, bool b)
{
   // do bool stuff
}

public bool GetOperatorResult(string operator, int a, int b)
{
    // do int stuff
}

and let the runtime decide which overload should be called?

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Re: C# Generics - Using operators with generic objects [modified]

funkymint4-Sep-07 5:32

Re: C# Generics - Using operators with generic objects

4-Sep-07 5:32

I did think about this but I would have to create a function that does the same thing for every different type of number (int, double, long, etc....). Is there a way to get around this?

Also, I want to be able to pass in operands of type Object.

Thanks in advance.

-- modified at 11:42 Tuesday 4th September, 2007

funkymint4-Sep-07 5:51

Re: C# Generics - Using operators with generic objects

4-Sep-07 5:51

How about if I created a function which takes operands of type Object and then calls other overloaded functions:

public bool getOperatorResult(string operatorType, System.Object operandA, System.Object operandB)
        {
            if (operandA is bool)
            {
                return getOperatorResult(operatorType, (bool)operandA, (bool)operandB);
            }
            else if (operandA is double)
            {
                return getOperatorResult(operatorType, (double)operandA, (double)operandB);
            }
            else if (operandA is int)
            {
                return getOperatorResult(operatorType, (int)operandA, (int)operandB);
            }
            else if (operandA is long)
            {
                return getOperatorResult(operatorType, (long)operandA, (long)operandB);
            }
            else if (operandA is string)
            {
                return getOperatorResult(operatorType, (string)operandA, (string)operandB);
            }
            else
            {
                return false;
            }
        }

public bool getOperatorResult(string operatorType, bool operandA, bool operandB)
        {
            switch (operatorType)
            {
                case "or":
                    return (operandA || operandB);
                case "and":
                    return (operandA && operandB);
                case "equal":
                    return (operandA == operandB);
                case "notequal":
                    return (operandA != operandB);
                default:
                    return false;
            }
        }

Christian Graus4-Sep-07 6:06