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Re: PHP version of Code Project forums Jon Sagara4-Dec-02 20:00 Jon Sagara 4-Dec-02 20:00  Nope, not yet. That's next on the to-do list. Jon Sagara When I want something, I just go out and buy it. That makes me a go-getter. -- My sister Suggestions needed for testing an ASP.NET control Paul Ingles4-Dec-02 3:13 Paul Ingles 4-Dec-02 3:13  This is in regard to my CountryListBox ASP.NET control article here on CP: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/CountryListBox.asp[^] The most intensive part of the search is performed by MaxMind's supplied CountryLookup class (which in turn accesses the GeoIP.dat file -- the IP database). Mind you, this could be ported to SQL Server and searched through SQL statements. Anyway, I want to get some kind of test with regards to how efficient the file access is, what kinds of loads can be expected etc. There are two disk I/O intensive operations: 1) Loading of the countries from a text file 2) Search of the GeoIP database Is there any kind of behind-the-scenes file caching in Windows 2000/XP? Anyway, I'm going to run some load tests on my machine (only XP Pro -- limited incoming connections I believe?) to see how it handles, but was wondering if anyone had any general strategies as to how to go about testing it? Things to watch out for etc.? Thanks for your help -- Paul "If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation." - David Brent, from "The Office" MS Messenger: paul@oobaloo.co.uk Sonork: 100.22446 Re: Suggestions needed for testing an ASP.NET control Michael Dunn4-Dec-02 10:35 Michael Dunn 4-Dec-02 10:35  Paul Ingles wrote: Is there any kind of behind-the-scenes file caching in Windows 2000/XP? Sure, all versions of the OS maintain a disk cache. If the file isn't too big (like, under 1MB), you can map the whole file into memory at once and then do your searches. That lets the OS handle the entire I/O process, as opposed to reading the file into your own buffer a chunk at a time. --Mike-- "Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things."   -- Silent Bob 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm bttlxeForum 2.0 ASP forum test David Wulff3-Dec-02 19:36 David Wulff 3-Dec-02 19:36  I am a few weeks away from releasing a new major release of my bttlxeForum software with (finally) full support for SQL Server amongst others (spell check anyone?), and am looking for as many kind people as possible who can test it for me by installing it themselves. Just follow the link at the bottom of this message and tell me which OS, version of IIS, which database type/s you could test, etc, and I’ll e-mail you the zip file in the next couple of days. In summary the main enhancements to the current version (1.0.2) are: - Full SQL Server compatibility out of the box. - Support for most phpBB themes (it can use the style sheet and images, but not layout information), or of course you can supply your own template as before. Yes, this means no more ugly blue and pink by default! - A handful of security fixes, some minor and some that I am ashamed even made it through testing on the last version. - Admin scripts re-haul – visually and functionally. - Automatic upgrading. The scripts can automatically detect if they are out of date and allow you to download the latest update with one click. Currently you will be given a zip file, but I’m toying with the idea of physically updating the scripts on the client’s server - good or bad idea? It would of course be prompted and explained first. - Database upgrade script (Access and SQL Server) that will reformat the Forum table’s data to allow for any printable character to be used in the forum names, descriptions, etc. Allows you to keep using existing database. - Optional spell checker component. Register the component on the server and set a variable and you will be able to spell check your messages before submitting them. Not currently registered on my web server. If you will be able to install the software on a web server to test it (I highly recommend not using your company’s web server without permission if you want to retain your job), then click here [^] to fill out the simple form. If you can’t install the scripts I still want to hear from you though – if you can think of features you’d like to see or can spot anything wrong with the user end of the scripts please tell me (e-mail or reply here please don't use the forums themselves till this version is released unless it affects the previous version). No one gets money and no one gets xmas cards from me, but you’ll get plenty of good karma from helping me and the people out there using these scripts. David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk David Wulff Born and Bred. Re: bttlxeForum 2.0 ASP forum test Roger Wright3-Dec-02 19:59 Roger Wright 3-Dec-02 19:59  Thanks, David. I've never gotten your first several versions to work, but that's only because I'm too stupid to figure out what I need to modify in the config file to make it play with my system. One of these days I'll figure it out David Wulff wrote: you’ll get plenty of good karma from helping me and the people out there using these scripts. And I'll get a great free education! Thanks, buddy! You're a good soul, despite your fondness for ruminants... "My child was Inmate of the Month at Mohave County Jail" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City, AZ Ideas Needed (No Hard Work To Be Done) -- AKA -- Collaboration on CAMEL - CPU Identifier voodoopriestess26-Nov-02 9:26 voodoopriestess 26-Nov-02 9:26  Heya, I've managed to add many new and interesting items to the CAMEL - CPU Identifier. These include PCI hardware detection, Dhrystone & Whetstone benchmarking and several other things... The problem: I cannot think of any more! I would like people to suggest random ideas and perhaps something will be implemented. There is a prize for this: the authors of any ideas that are implemented into the code will be given a free copy of the final release version. YES! FREE! If you want to see the latest version - check out: http://www.voodoo-magic.net/files/camel/camel_171.msi Thanks, Iain ---- "I would be careful in separating your weirdness, a good quirky quantum weirdness, from the disturbed weirdness of people who take pleasure from PVC sheep with fruit repositories." Re: Ideas Needed (No Hard Work To Be Done) -- AKA -- Collaboration on CAMEL - CPU Identifier Roger Wright3-Dec-02 20:09 Roger Wright 3-Dec-02 20:09  You've already included just about everything that anyone might need - well done! - why not toss in a free horoscope reading to help a user to gauge his/her odds of success? Seriously, I haven't yet installed your product, but I've been following its development as best I can. From what I can see, you've done a great job, and should enjoy a good measure of success with it. I'm curious though - what caused you to build such a product? Was there nothing available on the Web that could provide the information you wanted? Were you frustrated by the inadequacies of the tools provided by Microsoft? Or were you just curious to see what you could discover on your own? "My child was Inmate of the Month at Mohave County Jail" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City, AZ Help test a new CP SearchBar! Michael Dunn23-Nov-02 11:49 Michael Dunn 23-Nov-02 11:49  I'm working on a COM-based CP web service reader, so that other folks not using .NET can have an easy way to get the data from the service. Even the VB guys. I also have updated the SearchBar to use the reader and display the latest articles and comments in the browser, as the first app to test the reader. So if anyone is interested in helping test it out, download test build #1 (168K). Installation instructions: Unzip the ZIP file anywhere you like. If you already have the SearchBar, you can unzip to the SearchBar's directory. Register the EXE by running CPWebSvcReader.exe /RegServer Register the DLL by running regsvr32 CodeProjectToolbar.dll In IE, click View|Toolbars|The Code Project SearchBar to activate the SearchBar. In the SearchBar's Site Links menu, the top item is a TEST submenu (just so you don't forget this is a TEST ), with three items to view the latest Lounge topics, articles, and forum comments. Note that the first time you use one of those commands, it will be sloooooowww since the reader has to grab a lot of data from the service. Choosing one of those items will show the corresponding list in the browser. Feel free to bang on it and try to break it. Known issues are: Slow startup time. If you change your online state while the COM server is running, it will not adjust to the new state. Please send any comments, suggestions, and bug reports to this address. --Mike-- Thing #9 to say when mad at work: "Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble plastic is cheap. You choose." Just released - 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm Re: Help test a new CP SearchBar! Kant23-Nov-02 13:26 Kant 23-Nov-02 13:26  Do we need to uninstall the previous version first? Kant The likelihood of a program crashing is in direct proportion to the number of pointers used in it. Re: Help test a new CP SearchBar! Michael Dunn23-Nov-02 15:03 Michael Dunn 23-Nov-02 15:03  No, you can replace CodeProjectToolbar.dll with the new one. --Mike-- Thing #9 to say when mad at work: "Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble plastic is cheap. You choose." Just released - 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm UPDATE: New build Michael Dunn24-Nov-02 18:37 Michael Dunn 24-Nov-02 18:37  Test build #2 (168 KB) is now available. This build fixes handling of HTML/XML escapes like & so that the text shown in the browser has the correct characters. (Before, a quote in an article title appeared as " in the list) There is also a new feature in the latest articles list: Each article has its new/updated/moved/unedited flags listed. --Mike-- Thing #9 to say when mad at work: "Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble plastic is cheap. You choose." Just released - 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm UPDATE (again): New build Michael Dunn25-Nov-02 19:01 Michael Dunn 25-Nov-02 19:01  Yes, another new build. Test build #3 (130K) There's an article in the list at this moment that has an elipsis character in its description, and that was breaking my handling of the XML (it went through a couple of ANSI-Unicode conversions just so I could use CString, and the resulting string ended up making MSXML choke). Since that ended up not working, I keep the XML in Unicode the whole time now, and I bit the bullet and read the string docs to find the equivalent of CString::Replace(). Also fixed: The toolbar DLL is now about 110K smaller after I ditched fstream. As always, bug reports, Xmas cards, and suggestions to this address. --Mike-- Thing #9 to say when mad at work: "Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble plastic is cheap. You choose." Just released - 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm Re: UPDATE (again): New build Kant26-Nov-02 17:49 Kant 26-Nov-02 17:49  Hi, Build 2: Everytime when I tried to select any entries under the TEST menu. Error creating web service reader. Build 3 : With this new build, when I tried to use it first time it crashed IE. Second time, it took really long time to get the "Latest Comments" Third time, it came pretty quick. Is there any log, which can help you with? Overally pretty good so far. Kant Sonork-100.28114 Re: UPDATE (again): New build Michael Dunn26-Nov-02 18:56 Michael Dunn 26-Nov-02 18:56  The web service has been up and down this whole week (side effect of the server trouble over the weekend, I guess), so any weirdness can be attributed to that. COM methods are synchronous, so the SearchBar can't process messages - taking a long time with no UI response is what I'd expect in that case. Having said that, it shouldn't crash IE. If you can repro the crash, please give me the module name and address of the crash. --Mike-- Thing #9 to say when mad at work: "Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble plastic is cheap. You choose." Just released - 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm Re: UPDATE (again): New build Kannan Kalyanaraman4-Dec-02 19:43 Kannan Kalyanaraman 4-Dec-02 19:43  While fetching info' from the web service, how about displaying a hour glass or some other way of informing user that somethings happening behind the scenes. Also, just a small doubt, does creating a separate thread (if you havent done already) for checking the webservice will solve the issue. How does it work behind the firewall. So far it has worked only once, for Lounge posts. I tried article and it hanged. Also, once I'm switching away from the page from where I clicked, until it completes the process I'm not able to get back to that page. Whats the role of the exe(com server ). Sorry I asked more questions than testing your stuff. Will give it some more try. Cheers Kannan Re: UPDATE (again): New build Michael Dunn5-Dec-02 4:20 Michael Dunn 5-Dec-02 4:20  Hi Kannan, thanks for taking the time to try out the reader In the latest build (#4) I've put in a progress indicator along with a Cancel button, so you won't be totally stuck if the reader hangs. The EXE has the code that communicates with the web service, and it's a COM server that contains a coclass used by the SearchBar. The coclass has methods to return the latest newsflash, articles, etc. As for working with a firewall, I use the MS XML parser to download the XML feeds, and the parser is supposed to handle all the HTTP communication. I don't have a firewall here so I can't do any testing with that situation, unfortunately. --Mike-- "Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things."   -- Silent Bob 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm Dummy Message 2 Tim Smith20-Nov-02 15:24 Tim Smith 20-Nov-02 15:24  ditto Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art. Dummy message Tim Smith20-Nov-02 15:24 Tim Smith 20-Nov-02 15:24  Just to push off the trashed header message Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art. Any up for a test? georgiek5019-Nov-02 11:30 georgiek50 19-Nov-02 11:30  If anyone want to test the new version of my movie cataloging software just follow this link: http://www.movietrack.0catch.com/MovieTrack3_0.zip Re: Any up for a test? joan_fl19-Nov-02 11:35 joan_fl 19-Nov-02 11:35  Im in the process of making something very simular.. Though its web enabled. I just got finished mkaing infinte sub categories, and movies in multiple categories. If your doing the same with categories.. mind showing me your database schema? Re: Any up for a test? georgiek5019-Nov-02 11:47 georgiek50 19-Nov-02 11:47  Actually my application is a cataloguer but not as much as a movie record keep. It lists the essential categories eg. action, drama, comedy, but the specialty of the application resides in knowing who has borrowed your movies, who you are going to borrow movies from, etc. Feel free to download it and try it out. I haven't found that many bugs in it recently and hope that it might be bug free but I want to wait at least another month before I throw it on the net, since the previous version out there has SO MANY bugs. I would like to see your app if you have a homepage. Re: Any up for a test? joan_fl19-Nov-02 11:56 joan_fl 19-Nov-02 11:56  My app isnt even beta yet. Im thinking I'll have something up in a week or so. Though its tough with the holidays coming to find time for anything When I do, I'll try to remember to email you a link. It will be in my "things to do list" Re: Any up for a test? georgiek5019-Nov-02 12:02 georgiek50 19-Nov-02 12:02  sure, i hear that...I take it you are talking about thanksgiving...turkey...gravy...haven't had that in six years...how I miss it! Re: Any up for a test? joan_fl19-Nov-02 12:06 joan_fl 19-Nov-02 12:06  georgiek50 wrote: take it you are talking about thanksgiving...turkey...gravy Turkey, Christmass shopping, catching colds.I'm from Florida (hence joan_FL) so I have all my snowbird friends & relatives visiting every other week too. It's been non-stop the last month. Testers needed for anti-spam software LukeV18-Nov-02 8:22 LukeV 18-Nov-02 8:22  Hey guys! 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