Comments by Christopher Smit (Top 102 by date)

Thank you for the reply. I am not using a button, I am using a Textbox and Password box. They do not have to look exactly the same, but I just need the image and the textbox/passwordbox as one item. I achieved this with the Textbox, but the same styling cannot be used with a passwordbox, so I need a better route.

For anyone else having the problem. What solved it for me was this. Seems like when I publish as ClickOnce, it does not work. But when I created my own installer with NSIS it worked successfully without having to change any code. Can't tell you what it is, but problem is definitely ClickOnce.

This is causing it not to start up, but not giving any errors. The splash screen is just loading forever. So I added an error reporting message and the error I am getting is "an attempt to attach an auto-named database for file xxxx failed.A database with the same name exists, or cannot be opened or it is located on a UNC share.

This has to be because SQL is not running yet. As far as I can tell. Because as I said, the moment I try running it while the pc is already started, it works

@Apex95, that is not a bad idea. I will test it. I think you can maybe post it as an answer, if it works I will accept it.

@Kevin, I am using a SQL database. I will try the method provided by Apex. This should be good enough for the pause/testing that you are talking about?

I ended up going with the following:

var Send = new Thread(() => { value = _viewModelAPI.SendDailyBirthdayMessages(); });
Send.Start();

but it still locked up my form. I then noticed that I added Thread.Sleep(2000); in my method and upon removing that, the form no longer locked up. Thanks!!

Thank you for clarification. Threads seems intimidating, showing a lot of different ways of doing it across the internet. I tried doing simply Thread autoSend = new Thread(_viewModel_API.SendMessagesToListOfClients());

But I am clearly missing the entire logic behind this as nothing is sent. (Well at this point it should only pop up a message for testing)

I have found a way to add this column without losing data. When i restore my database that contains the data I run the alter table command on the database while the application is running. I then backup the database again and the column is added to the table and data is still there. Is this a correct way of doing this or can it cause problems later on? The alter command is not in my code. I run it manually with visual studio sql server data objects.

Yes, sorry I see what I typed wrong.. Clients is the table and name, surname, number are columns. I am using SQL. When I backup as above with only name and number it works. I then add the surname column and restore the old database. It copies over the new one and then surname does not exist anymore..

It is the correct password. I have never used any other passwords and according to the previous logs, that was the password that I used. I can't think of any other password because I NEVER change my password for anything...

I understand that. But what other options do I have? I need to upload a new release and creating a new keystore obviously will not work as the certificates would differ. I do not want to unpublish the app as I have users on it already. There has to be a way to resolve this. There were never any warnings regarding this. I just need a way to access it then to change the password and remove the special character. ANYTHING...

Okay this is embarrasing, but it is working... Thing is, the image was not being resized to fit the picturebox after retrieving from the database, and it has a white background... see where I am going with this? lol You code works fine.. thank you very much and sorry for the stupidity. lol

There is only one row of data... However I tried the suggestion but it does not work. The image that is being saved to the database is the same image and details that should be retrieved. The details are retrieved correctly, it is only the image that remains blank

The program is suppose to only read one row. There cannot be more than one row of details for the specific gym. Could this pose a problem when it comes to the image?

The value does start with 0xFF........

Okay your solution sorted out the exception, so I will accept the solution. However when I try to display the image again the picturebox just shows a blank white image. Do I also maybe have an error in my code there? Sorry this is my first time working with images in databases. I usually only saved paths to image files and displayed them... lol

My app is sending the email without a mail client and should not use a mail client. But I am using a gmail email and account to send the email where I want to use an email address from my own domain for example address@mydomain.com instead of address@gmail.com. I do not want user input so this solution won't work for the current task, but thank you

Okay, let me try and explain. You know when you normally scroll then the last element will be at the bottom of the screen above where the screen ends. However if you have your keyboard on the screen then the element will be above the keyboard. So the new "End of screen" becomes the top of the keyboard. This is the same with my layout. The keyboard is the new "End of screen", but my EditText and my Button is fixed above the keyboard. So the last element is displayed just above the keyboard, but hidden under the EditText and Button.

Hope you get what I am trying to say?

I am able to scroll using the LinearLayout, however I cannot scroll all the way to the bottom so some elements are still hidden?

Is there a way to maybe fix the LinearLayout of the EditText and Button to the screen so everything is able to scroll from under it? I do not really know how to ask this question? All I know is the elements are able to scroll until where the keyboard ends, but then the element that is at the bottom is still under the EditText and Button (But scrolled from under the keyboard.)

Okay, the screen is now scrollable, but only up until the keyboard. I cannot scroll the elements from under the EditText and the Button. So I am scrolling it but it stays under the EditText and Button. I think I have this entire layout wrong.

You are right, I just checked and saw that it works if the form is not an MDI child.

I have found the error, The form is an MDI child and that is why the shadow is not displaying.

I will try looking at sequence and maybe see if I can find something wrong.

I have improved my question and added the code from the working form. Maybe you can spot something?

Both projects are running on the same computer.

I am using Windows 8.1

The code and form settings on both projects are exactly the same, so I do not get why one project is working and the other is not. However, the project that works has its form being generated by code. EVERYTHING on the form. Nothing is being added with the designer. Could this make a difference? I just don't get how it could?

That seems near impossible... Lol you wouldn't happen to know how the "Nike Running" app is calculating when the user is running? Or maybe, can I use the accelerometer just to start the timer and the track whether the user is stil moving using geolocation? Like I said I am really new to Android so I need any simple alternative..

How do I detect these frequencies and amplitudes? I am very new to android development. This is my very first project and I have only been coding in this language for a month now.

Now that you mention it, the systems that are working has office installed and the two that are crashing, doesn't... The font used in my application is Rockwell.. I will just change the font then.. Thank you

The process shows up in the task manager and then disappears after about 5 seconds. See my comment above about the Event Viewer

Okay I checked the log viewer. it shows there is an Application error and a .NET runtime error.

The application error says "Faulting Module Name: KERNALBASE.dll"

and the .NET Runtime says "Description: The process was terminated due to an Unhandled exception" the stack is showing "at System.Drawing.Font.CreateNativeFont()
at System.Drawing.Font.Initialize(System.Drawing.FontFamily, Single, System.Drawing.FontStyle, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit, Byte, Boolean)
at System.Drawing.Font.Initialize(System.String, Single, System.Drawing.FontStyle, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit, Byte, Boolean)
at System.Drawing.Font..ctor(System.String, Single, System.Drawing.FontStyle, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit, Byte)
at Minc_SMS_Console.Main.InitializeComponent()
at Minc_SMS_Console.Main..ctor()
at Minc_SMS_Console.Program.Main()"

I also see another Error stating "Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file."

That is exactly my problem. I am not getting any error message. That is why I am asking if someone has ever had a similar problem where an application just won't open and does not give any error.

I changed my Connection string to:

public static string sConnStr = "Data Source=.;Integrated Security=true;AttachDbFilename=" + AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "Database\\db_sms_console_data.mdf;User Instance=true;";

and it seems to work. But only when running in visual studio. Now deploying the application on any system even my own it gives the following error:

An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file xxxxx failed. A database with the same name already exists, or specified file cannot be opened, or it is located on UNC share.

So for every client downloading my application, they also need to install SQL Server? This is a 14MB application that will need to be accompanied by 200mb or more? Anyway, Let me try it. thank you

Okay. database is attached to my project.. Project is published and installed on the independent machine. Now it won't connect. What am I missing?

The application will be installed on an independent machine. No server. So it should use localhost. What am I missing here?? Running it on my computer works. But running it on the other machine it doesn't. The other machine has SQL Server Express installed even, but still not working.

Thank you for your assistance! +1

Not a bad idea. So all the person needs is a text file with a bunch of numbers. Thank you.

Upload not necessary. If it can just go through the CSV that would also work.

I have never used CSV files before so I need help with uploading it/reading it and iterating through the numbers. I will be able to send the message from there. I just need a way for me to get all the numbers one after the other.

I am using panacea mobile since I am a reseller for them.

What I meant with at the top at all times, was that when the second form is closed the main form should not be hidden behind open applications on my computer. When I use the default message box this does not happen, but when I use my custom message box, the form is hidden.

Oh Sorry.. I'm writing a Winform. Don't have much knowledge on the WPF.

The listbox control where users can select an item from the list of items. Its just marked as "ListBox" under "Common Controls" in Visual Studio. I figured that would be the best way to display the list of birthdays?

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, but that link is giving me a PDF file that is only explaining why I should use MySQL....

No database on server. Everything should happen on the user's local computer.

Haha I am very confused by the whole installing the database along with the application and have a hard time trying to explain what I am trying to do. But yes the database should be predefined. The user shouldn't even have to worry about anything, to him the database does not even exist. I'm pretty new to the database development in C#. I only know about databases when it comes to PHP. So I'm still trying to learn. If my database is only a predefined database that the user doesn't even need to know about, how do I do this? A guide that teaches me how and why would be much better than just code or something that does the job for me. So would really appreciate a good explanation :) Thanks so far

Well to tell the truth I'm not sure what is necessary? I just want the tables to be there when the person installs the program on his computer. So that he can begin using the program right and the data in the software is stored as it should be. So basically the program is installed and along with that I want the database structure I suppose to be installed as well for the data to be stored. How do I do this? and what am I trying to do based on the question you asked?

I think I figured it out. It might have something to do with the update of MySQL... I notice that I do not get the error when I swap column values where both columns have values higher than 0. If one column has a value of 0 then I get the error. I never got it before, but I do now so I will have to try and change the code so that it swaps the values differently in case a 0 is found. :)

Exactly... This is very strange to me.. Everything worked fine, then I updated my MySQL on my computer, but I'm sure it still worked after that, tonight when I tried to debug again and check if I could find any errors, this suddenly started to happen. I mean it's not possible? If no code was changed, how can it just stop??

Hahaha wow... That's embarrassing... Anyhow, it still won't work.. :( I have the charset set to utf-8 and VARCHAR(5)....

I am able to set the CHARSET to utf8, I cannot type VARCHAR(n) at all. Where do I get the DB Engine version and what is the difference?

Sorry for late reply... Build 6.0.7.11215

Do you know if there is an alternative to NVARCHAR in some versions?

I cannot find NVARCHAR... I'm using MySQL Workbench 6.0

No One??

I have accepted the solution for you. Well deserved buddy. :)

Can't believe I missed that! Thank you so much, man shows what staring endlessly at coding for hours does to you. haha Thank you, friend.

Please see the update of my question for my code, maybe you can see something I do not?

Can you explain however, how the database tables are being created using script? Why don't I receive an error there?

I tried to see where I made a mistake, But it connects to the database without problem, and my database is created on the server through script, without giving any errors. I have changed nothing else except for the database details from local to live

Yes, they are on same server, It is Linux based hosting and the execute() statement does various tasks like select data from database, update data, delete data, insert data. In this particular script it retrieves the data from the database of all administrator accounts, checks whether the info entered by user match any of the rows and then if true, logs in the user to the administrator page. This is working wonderfully on localhost. Cant figure out what went wrong now.

I just want to create it for educational purposes. I was talking to a friend the other day who is really frustrated with his employees browsing on social networks and worst of all downloading. Here in South-Africa, internet is expensive, so unnecessary downloads should be avoided. So I thought it interesting to see if I could actually learn about how to stop this. Programs like eScan Antivirus, has this type of system set up, but they do not disable downloads.

Smashing! :) Thank you. So this term will explain how a client computer communicates with a server computer and then act according to the laws set out in my program running on the server?

Worked like a CHARM !! Can't believe I missed something so simple! Thank you very much my friend.

I'm sure you have heard of commission junction. Let's say you have a business and I'm an affiliate of yours, and your website link is on my website. When someone clicks on that link it goes to your website and that person's IP or SOMETHING is stored somewhere so that you can see that it came from me #1. and #2. who the client is. Some of those sites store cookies for 60days to give the affiliate a 60 day window in which the client must use their services. Do you understand the way this works? and if you do can you maybe explain how they do this? Thank you for your time so far though! +1

I understand this. But won't I also need to track the IP of the client? Because once I know that said client came from one of my affiliates and that client uses my services I will need to give the affiliate commission. How do I see that the refid and the client IP should go together?

Thank you. But how do I install my database with my application?

The default font for a C# application is Microsoft Sans Serif 8.25pt. I am not sure what you mean by English software?

Thank you.. :) I did that except I did not write the "Application.StartupPath +" part... :)

Thanks for your time,
Chris

Thank you for the answer. This works! :) However I found a faster and easier way. I do not know if this is good coding practice, but i just threw the song in the bin folder and changed my URL to @"song.mp3"

Worked like a charm.. lol I might receive some errors in future, to which case I will fall back to your suggestion. :)

Thank you for your time,
Chris

I have :) Enjoy your day

Regards,
Chris

I found a way to do it by simple using <iframe> tag. But that is not what I want to do.. So I will go with the Rewrite instead.. Thanks for the help :)

More closely to what I am looking for would be something like a cloak. There should be NOTHING after the http://www.mydomain.co.za/

Just that.. Is that possible? Thank you for the tip on rewriting though :)

Sorry for the re-post, need answers.

Error:
Error 38 Web deployment task failed.(Remote agent (URL http://www.myWebsite.co.za/aspnet_client/MassCalc/MSDEPLOYAGENTSERVICE) could not be contacted. Make sure the remote agent service is installed and started on the target computer.) The requested resource does not exist, or the requested URL is incorrect. Error details: Remote agent (URL http://www.myWebsite.co.za/aspnet_client/MassCalc/MSDEPLOYAGENTSERVICE) could not be contacted. Make sure the remote agent service is installed and started on the target computer. An unsupported response was received. The response header 'MSDeploy.Response' was '' but 'v1' was expected. The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. 0 0 myApplication

I have only tried publishing it with one-click publish. It only worked when I used "localhost" as my Service URL.

I am asking again because the previous information only got me far enough to get it up and running on the localhost. I am looking for answers from someone who can tell me HIS steps to deploying and not only giving me a link to a MS website.

I am trying to contact my hosting service. I have supplied what I believe is the URL.

I am mainly a PHP developer and find this ASP.NET very difficult to deploy into my PHP website.

Thank you.. This helped me to run the application on the localhost. Do you by any chance know how to upload it to a server? I receive the following error.

Error 38 Web deployment task failed.(Remote agent (URL http://www.myWebsite.co.za/aspnet_client/MassCalc/MSDEPLOYAGENTSERVICE) could not be contacted. Make sure the remote agent service is installed and started on the target computer.)
The requested resource does not exist, or the requested URL is incorrect.
Error details:
Remote agent (URL http://www.myWebsite.co.za/aspnet_client/MassCalc/MSDEPLOYAGENTSERVICE) could not be contacted. Make sure the remote agent service is installed and started on the target computer.
An unsupported response was received. The response header 'MSDeploy.Response' was '' but 'v1' was expected.
The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. 0 0 myApplication

This is our first ASP.NET project. So we are quite new to it. When we received the website the application was under aspnet_client on the server. We are looking into moving the updated application onto the server to implement into our website.

I am quite new to IIS and how to deploy ASP.NET

All help is greatly appreciated,
Chris

It is something to do with the compatibility view of IE. Can you tell the browser to run in compatibility mode when the page loads?

What I meant was.. My friend had made a site and a hacker by the name of fiofa fado or something like that had hacked the site and changed the content of the page.. He deleted all script files and created new ones only keeping some of the files and modified it.. I am wondering how he did this as we have to rebuild the entire website and the client is not happy about what happened.. On the hacked site the hacker left us a simple message stating that we should implement better security on our website.. I have read that content can be hacked and source is changed where hidden links are added to redirect an unsuspecting user to another page rewarding the hacker for his "referral".. A genius move, but a headache for me.. This particular hacker has hacked three of our published sites.. So I want to know how he is doing it an how I can prevent him from doing it again..

Regards,
Chris

I have it solved.. Instead of calling a function from the functions script I simply added the entire function in the page that should display the data. I then print the table of data in the while loop.. :) Thanks for your help..

I now get it to display the messages like this:

Message 1(under message 2)

Message 2

OR

Message 2(under message 1)

Message 1

This does not make sense to me.. But like I said I'm still new to this..

But it does? I have a match in the database? So shouldn't the number of matched rows be one?

I thought it might be disabled, but then how am I connecting to the database in order to store the data on register, which works fine.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, like I said I am still a student :P

But either way, I am currently able to retrieve the data, which is good enough for me at the moment. :) Thank you for your answer

Regards,
Chris

I am using Apache, but have solved the problem. Thank you ! :)

We are not allowed to use any IDE's for this project and are required to create the weblog entirely with Notepad++ so you can imagine my frustration.

Anyway I have resolved my error... The sql statement should be:
$sql = "SELECT * FROM user_information WHERE user_email = '$email'";

Who knew... lol and then I also noticed that my $statement->bind_result(); had an 's' which made it bind_result(s)..

But thank you for your answer!

Regards,
Chris

It is a windows forms application.

The path I specified to the application is "../../Admin/AdminPass.txt"
This works perfectly in debugging..
Should the path be different in deployed state?

The above error is what I am seeing?

The error message is : Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately.

Could not find a part of the path
'C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\YCOZGQO3.6RP\Admin\AdminPass.txt'.

How exactly do I use OpenHardwareMonitor with my application?

Is that efficient?

Yes :) Any ideas?

Like I want the temperature to keep updating as the program runs. It shouldn't only retrieve it and then keep it as is.. It must keep reloading so to say so that the temperature keeps updating.

Hope you understand what I'm trying to say.

I've done a little research.. How do programs like CPUID get the Temperature for the CPU?

Well that sucks.. Would have been pretty epic being able to do that.. Thanks anyway :)

Is there really NO WAY to do this? I mean there must be something... Right?

Double temp = Convert.ToDouble(obj["CurrentTemperature"].ToString());

This line shows the following Execption.

ManagementException was unhandled - Not Found