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GAC / Reference / VStudio

23-Jan-04 4:53

There are a few ways that assemblies are found. First, the CLR will read from <runtime> section of the .config file and see if you've configured any paths for bound assemblies. The application will then use assemblies in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC), starting with native (pre-JIT'd) assemblies first, then the other assemblies (those not pre-JIT'd). Assemblies are then used out of the application directory (the directory where you .exe executable is located), followed by any additional subdirectories configured in the <probing> section of you .config file.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconhowruntimelocatesassemblies.asp[^] for more detailed information.

You can also handle the AppDomain.AssemblyResolve event and specify from where the assembly should be loaded (for example, from a different path, across the Internet/an intranet, or even from some Stream), but it's typically better and easier to maintain to work with the CLR and and let Fusion (the assembly binder) do its job.

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.21
GCS/G/MU d- s: a- C++++ UL@ P++(+++) L+(--) E--- W+++ N++ o+ K? w++++ O- M(+) V? PS-- PE Y++ PGP++ t++@ 5 X+++ R+@ tv+ b(-)>b++ DI++++ D+ G e++>+++ h---* r+++ y+++
-----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----

dabossuk23-Jan-04 2:25

dabossuk

23-Jan-04 2:25

We have an assembly that is in the GAC, but it’s a .NET component that is used inside visual studio itself. Ie it’s a .NET assembly control you drag onto a windows form application. I am trying to install the assembly on a remote machine (installshield devstuio 9) and get it to show up as a reference automatically in vstudio2003. How can I automatically add a reference to Visual studio in an installer / registry hack / command line that links to an assembly in the GAC? Without having to browse for it from the GAC.

Thanks

paul@lightbulb.co.uk

Re: GAC / Reference / VStudio

Heath Stewart23-Jan-04 4:44

Multiple InternetExplorer objects' DownloadComplete event

23-Jan-04 4:44

For some weird reason, VS.NET doesn't see assemblies in the GAC. You have to add a registry key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\.NETFramework\AssemblyFolders (see the existing ones for examples). Add the path to the assemblies outside the GAC, though it would be good to add the assemblies to the GAC, too, since it bolsters versioning and - if you ngen then (pre-JIT / generate native code for the target machine) - they'll be much faster to load.

So, the project that references those DLLs will link against the assemblies outside the GAC (the ones in the path that you added to the registry key above) but when you run the application, they'll use the assemblies out of the GAC.

profoundwhispers23-Jan-04 0:07

profoundwhispers

23-Jan-04 0:07

First of all, Heath, I'd like to thank you so much for contributing so much to this community. Man, I've opened the C# page, and all the threads I saw were answered by you! Now I'm saying this regardless of whether you answer my question or not. Although I might become nasty if you don't!!! Just kidding Smile | :)

Say I have a number of InternetExplorer objects (say 3). Say I have all of them attached to one DownloadComplete event, which does the following:

// First, save the document's source to a string for processing.<br />
// Second, actually process this string, and update a database.<br />

1- When I do InternetExplorer.Navigate2(...) any page, this does not stop the code execution, correct? In other words it sort of starts in a different thread?

2- Should I be taking any measures to prevent the DownloadComplete from being accessed while it's already executing? In other words: what happens if one InternetExplorer object finished downloading the document, started executing the code attached in the event handler, and while it's executing it, another InternetExplorer finishes and tries to execute it?

My God, I really sound dumb to myself, I'm sure some people look at this and sigh! Again, thank you for answering.

Sammy

"A good friend, is like a good book: the inside is better than the cover..."

Re: Multiple InternetExplorer objects' DownloadComplete event

Mazdak23-Jan-04 2:20

Mazdak

23-Jan-04 2:20

I think it is safer to start a new thread in that event and do lock and unluck for that string that you process it,cause even each handler run on seprate thread if you have some public variable that changed there it will cause problem or uncorrect data. I hope I was clear.

Mazy

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Re: Multiple InternetExplorer objects' DownloadComplete event

profoundwhispers23-Jan-04 4:17

profoundwhispers

23-Jan-04 4:17

No, I'm sorry, I really didn't get what you meant. May you please illustrate with code?

Sammy

"A good friend, is like a good book: the inside is better than the cover..."

Re: Multiple InternetExplorer objects' DownloadComplete event

Mazdak23-Jan-04 4:34

Mazdak

23-Jan-04 4:34

uhmm,let me explain . Imagine you have a public variable named a. You have two thread than wants to change this value, then what will happend? I'm not sure in the situation that you register one method as an event handler for two control this will happend too.It is called Thread Synchronization . You can see this article to understand more and search CP for other information about threading for more info and samples:

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/eventsthreadsync.asp[^]

Mazy

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Re: Multiple InternetExplorer objects' DownloadComplete event

Heath Stewart23-Jan-04 4:42

Re: Multiple InternetExplorer objects' DownloadComplete event

23-Jan-04 4:42

Mazdak's idea may work, but another way is to use the lock keyword (or handle synchronization yourself) against an instantiate object (nothing special, you could even lock against the Type):

private void InternetExplorer_DocumentComplete(...)
{
  lock (this.GetType())
  {
    // Do stuff
  }
}

And, yes, Navigate2 is an asynchronous call, hence the need for a DownloadComplete event (as well as other similar events for each element and the document while being parsed).

profoundwhispers23-Jan-04 4:53

profoundwhispers

23-Jan-04 4:53

Thank you Mazdak.

Heath Stewart wrote:
lock (this.GetType())

Why the .GetType()? Shouldn't I obtain a lock against the event sender (of type InternetExplorer)?

Sammy

"A good friend, is like a good book: the inside is better than the cover..."

Re: Multiple InternetExplorer objects' DownloadComplete event

Heath Stewart23-Jan-04 4:58

23-Jan-04 4:58

You have to lock against the same object (for example, the Type of the current object will always be the same) otherwise the lock doesn't make a difference. Take a look at the System.Threading namespace, specifically the Monitor class (which the lock keyword compiles down to like the following):

Monitor.Enter(syncRoot);
try
{
  // Do synchronized stuff.
}
finally
{
  Monitor.Exit(syncRoot);
}

If the object called syncRoot is different for every call, the monitor will lock against different objects and will not block pending requests to enter the synchronized section.

There are two things you should take into consideration when choosing an object to lock. If you want a method (especially a static method) to be synchronized, lock against a static object (such as the Type, which is recommended, but you can use a static object reference as well). If you want methods to be synchronized only for a given instance, lock against an object member of the instance of your class.

Help with Collections

crushinghellhammer22-Jan-04 18:19

22-Jan-04 18:19

This might take a few words to explain, so please bear with me if you will:

I'm chopping the data of a .WAV file into segments each of length 256 samples. After this segmentation is done, let's say I have N segments. My N by M multidimensional array is called WaveSegments[N,M].

Now, I want to display each of these segments in a UserControl I've made, and want to cycle through the segments by means of an up/down control.

So, for example, clicking once on the up control would change the number from 1 to 2, and the display would change from the samples of WaveSegment[1] to WaveSegment[2].

It seems that using collections would ease coding tremendously, but I seem to be running into any number of syntactical problems.

Could somebody please demonstrate to me how I could do this?

Thank you.

Heath Stewart22-Jan-04 18:49

22-Jan-04 18:49

Actually, using any kind of IEnumerable or IListSource would be great. You can data-bind the collection to the up/down control and use the CurrencyManager.Position property to adjust the position. For more information about data-binding properties and data sources, see Control.BindingContext and CurrencyManager. This would save you from the mess of handling all this yourself. When used correctly, other controls bound to the data source are updated when the position of the current element in the data source is changed.

At any rate, what are the "syntactical" problems? For ease, extend CollectionBase and override the methods (or implement new methods with strongly-typed params that call the CollectionBase's methods) and most of the rest of the work is already done (which uses an ArrayList to back the elements).

crushinghellhammer22-Jan-04 19:32

22-Jan-04 19:32

Heath, thanks a lot for your post.

I'm new to programming, and started with C# as that's the language of choice at my company.

Could you give me a code snippet showing how to implement this?

Thanks!

Heath Stewart22-Jan-04 19:35

22-Jan-04 19:35

No need - see the documentation for the CollectionBase class in the .NET Framework SDK (just type "CollectionBase" (without quotes) in the Index) and you'll see an example. Be sure to read the documentation - if not skim it over to see what's available in the base class library - especially when starting out.

crushinghellhammer22-Jan-04 20:25

22-Jan-04 20:25

Thanks Heath,

Will get back to you if I run into problems.

crushinghellhammer23-Jan-04 7:36

23-Jan-04 7:36

Heath, I went over the CollectionBase documents, but I guess it's just not very clear to me.

I've included some of my code below and it would be great if you could help me out.

// Code for class WaveformSegment.

public class WaveformSegment
{
// First we need an object of class "WavFile" to read the contents of the file.
// All data is accessed through objWaveToSegment.Data[]

public WaveFile objWaveToSegment;

// Now we obtain the filename of the file we chose

private string m_FileOpened;

public string FileOpened
{
set { m_FileOpened = value; }
get { return m_FileOpened; }
}

// We now formulate a method to extract the information we need

public void ChopIntoSegments()
{
// Obtain access to the data in the .WAV file
objWaveToSegment = new WaveFile( m_FileOpened );
objWaveToSegment.Read( );

// Definition of multidimensional array WaveSegments
int[,] WaveSegments = new int[17,256];

for(int i = 0; i < 17; i++)
{
for(int j = 0; j < 256; j++)
{
WaveSegments[i,j] = objWaveToSegment.Data[(i*64) + j];
}
}

} // End of ChopIntoSegments()

Heath Stewart23-Jan-04 8:21

23-Jan-04 8:21

You're not overriding the functionality of the CollectionBase like you're supposed to. See the class documentation itself for an example at the bottom of the page.

crushinghellhammer23-Jan-04 7:44

how to embed excel and pdf into winform ?

23-Jan-04 7:44

Heath, I went over the CollectionBase documents, but I guess it's just not very clear to me.

I've included some of my code below and it would be great if you could help me out.

**************************************************

// Code for class WaveformSegment.

public class WaveformSegment
{
// First we need an object of class "WavFile" to // read the contents of the file.
// All data is accessed through
// objWaveToSegment.Data[]

public WaveFile objWaveToSegment;

// Now we obtain the filename of the file we chose

private string m_FileOpened;

public string FileOpened
{
set { m_FileOpened = value; }
get { return m_FileOpened; }
}

// This function performs the segmentation

public void ChopIntoSegments()
{
// Obtain access to the data in the .WAV file

objWaveToSegment = new WaveFile( m_FileOpened );

// Read() is a function in another file, that reads the data in a .WAV file

objWaveToSegment.Read( );

// Definition of multidimensional array
// WaveSegments

int[,] WaveSegments = new int[17,256];

for(int i = 0; i < 17; i++)
{
for(int j = 0; j < 256; j++)
{
WaveSegments[i,j] = objWaveToSegment.Data[(i*64) + j];
}
}
// End of ChopIntoSegments()

**************************************************

Now, I want to write a class SegmentCollection. Here is what I've written so far

**************************************************

public class SegmentCollection : System.Collections.CollectionBase
{
public SegmentCollection()
{}

public void Add( WaveformSegment WaveSegments )
{
this.List.Add( WaveSegments );
}

public int IndexOf( WaveformSegment WaveSegments )
{
return this.List.IndexOf( WaveSegments );
}

public virtual WaveformSegment this [int Index]
{
get
{
return (WaveformSegment)this.List[Index];
}
}
**************************************************

Is this right so far, and how do I access each individual segment?

Thank you.

Xpeive22-Jan-04 16:14

Xpeive

22-Jan-04 16:14

I want to display and print excel and pdf in winform ,how to do ? thx.;)

Xpelive

Heath Stewart22-Jan-04 18:42

22-Jan-04 18:42

For the simple drag-n-drop method which generates the RCWs (COM interop assemblies) is to custom your toolbox. Open your toolbox (contains the design objects like a Label or a Button), right-click and select "Customize Toolbox" or "Add/Remove Items" (depending on version of VS.NET). Find the "Adobe Acrobat Control for ActiveX" and "Microsoft Office Spreadsheet Version", where Version is 9.0 or higher (introduces the Office Web Components, or OWC).

If you want to host an actual Excel Spreadsheet like Excel does, you'll either have to dig deep in Active Document Containers and implement several redefined COM interfaces in a class to contain the Active Document (which describes Word docs, Excel sheets, and many other formats), or wait for .NET 2.0 which introduces the ActiveDocumentContainer which already does this, but you'll still have to worry about hosting the toolbar (at least for now in the alpha stages). This can be difficult as well. The OWC edition of Excel already has the toolbar built-in and contains custom design commands.

For the Acrobat control, you can specify a src for the PDF document, either at design-time or at runtime.

Xpeive23-Jan-04 16:34

Xpeive

23-Jan-04 16:34

First,thank you for your help.
I wanna know how to use "Microsoft Office Spreadsheet" to open a exist excel file and print it. Is there code sample ?
thanks.

Xpelive

Heath Stewart23-Jan-04 17:52

23-Jan-04 17:52

You actually don't need to embed the Excel control to do this: there's two very simple ways of doing. The easiest is to do something like this:

ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo();
psi.UseShellExecute = true;
psi.FileName = "C:\path\to\spreadsheet.xls";
psi.Verb = "print";
Process.Start(psi);

You can further hide the application window by setting psi.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden.

You can also reference the Microsoft.Office.Excel primary interop assembly (you can generate them yourself, but it's better to use the official ones from http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnoxpta/html/odc_oxppias.asp[^]) and print the spreadsheet. This uses an out-of-process automation server (Excel.Application) to load and print the document:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application excel =
  new ApplicationClass();
Workbook wb = excel.Workbooks.Open(this.filename, 0, false, 5,
  "", "", false, XlPlatform.xlWindows, "", true, false, 0, true,
  false, false);
 
object missing = Missing.Value;
wb.PrintOut(missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing,
  missing, missing);
 
excel.Quit();

Xpeive23-Jan-04 22:59

Xpeive

23-Jan-04 22:59

I also want to PrintPreview the excel, I use Microsoft web browser control as a container.the code:

private AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser WB;
...
string strFileName = @"file:///E:/Sample.xls";
Object refmissing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;
WB.Navigate(strFileName, ref refmissing , ref refmissing , ref refmissing , ref refmissing);

private void WB_NavigateComplete2(object sender, AxSHDocVw.DWebBrowserEvents2_NavigateComplete2Event e)
{
Object o = e.pDisp;
Object oDocument = o.GetType().InvokeMember("Document",BindingFlags.GetProperty,null,o,null);
Object oApplication = o.GetType().InvokeMember("Application",BindingFlags.GetProperty,null,oDocument,null);
Excel.Application eApp =(Excel.Application)oApplication;

_Workbook workbook = eApp.Workbooks.get_Item( 1 );
object missing = Missing.Value;
workbook.PrintPreview( missing );
}

when running "workbook.PrintPreview( missing );" it raise an
error "HRESULT Error: 0x800A03EC"

What happen and how to solve it ?
Thanks for your help.

Xpelive