Can I change the following code and safely obfuscate it ? or that I must exclude it from obfuscating (e.g. stackoverflow 2555355 obfuscating-asp-net-dll / 2555497#2555497 )
Dim fontNames As New ArrayList
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Me.myCtrlCmbFontName.DataSource = fontNames
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If I use code such as NewName = StrConv(OrigName, vbProperCase) to convert names to proper case, i.e. with initial capitals, I get unwanted results with Irish names like the following:
O'neill instead of O'Neill
O'grady instead of O'Grady
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I'm trying to obfuscate some VB.NET 2003 app.The resulting assemblyes are obfuscated and "run" with some errors.I cleaned all potential reflection problems, but I'm not being able to read the selected value of a combobox.
I load the Combobox using their Datasource properties, using a collection of "VTPair" (a class created by me with 2 properties: one of string type and other of object type to store the value)
This combobox handle pairs like "Male | M" or "Female | F".When trying to see what is selected, I use if mycombo1.SelectedValue = "M" then.This code, after obfuscation, throws me an exception that cannot cast type "XX" to string "M".
So, I changed the code to something more correct, explicitly casting the selected value to String:
if ctype(mycombo1.SelectedValue,string) = "M" then But the error is the same.Debugin my original code, the SelectedValue property is of type "Object" but it is a string.I tried using the ComboBox.SelectedItem property that is also an object but this time what is inside is of type "VTPair" (my own class) and then trying to access its "Value" property (which is of type Object) and trying to cast to string fails again.
Does anyone have an idea to "translate" this piece of code to work OK after Dotfucate it?
I use a standard error handling routine in my methods that looks like the following:
Try
Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor
Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default
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I've developed a product, I now want to protect it from reverse engineering and decompilation, can anyone share some info about this..?I'm looking for the BEST product out there, for doing this, I want to make it a pain to decompile or reverse engineer my product =)Does anyone know of any? or any other products that do other things that can help protect it, for example, I once found a program which converts ALL your .NET exe, into a C++ exe file, so it's not .NET code anymore, fully machine code or something like that (can't find it anymore though).
I thought posting here would be a good idea, since, a lot of you are very experienced with developing products, and perhaps some of you have used obfuscator's to protect them.
Is it bad to use Underscores in Function Names? Can I know the reason why? ie: Function GET_NAME(byval sword as string) as string
View 4 Replieshow to call a stored function in oracle through vb.net.From vb.net should i able to pass the values to arguments of that function without knowing the parameter names?Example: I have a function,Create or Repalce Function Func_Name(param1 Varchar2,param2 varchar2)
Inorder to call this function through vb.net, we need to give
parameterargs.paramtername="param1"
Is there anyway so that i cannot use the parameter name and call the function
If so, what is it? I am using VB 2010, and am relatively new to VB.
View 2 RepliesI need code for the function filesystemobject which gets the text files from a folder when searched for.
View 1 RepliesI have 1 string : abc @#ABC.xyz123ZYX
Now I need to encode the string:
The encoding alphabetic characters,
CODE:
With this string, after encoding, the result is: zyx @#ZYX.cba123ABC
About Function Encrypt and Function Decrypt?
Some programs implement command parameters, Like my favourite computer game - Crysis - has them and windows media player has them.But how could i implement them in VB.NET..I want to have a component of my program built as a seperate exe - so it can be an Optional component.But of course the seperate exe, on load, needs data passing to it.So i need something like Process.start("Componentname.exe", "/StartDL <Suchandsuchastring>)/StartDL will need to call a function, and the string that it uses will be given to the function to initiate a download?
View 9 RepliesI'm trying to get the list of field names for a given table, to turn them into a string which I can to post back as a variable to another function.I've Googled loads of stuff regarding GetSchemaTable but all I seem to be able to output are field parameters, but not the actual value of these parameters (ie ColumnName, which is the one I actually want!)
Found this page; What is the SQL command to return the field names of a table?But all the queries on there give me an error "You do not have access to Table 'Columns'"I feel sure this is pretty simple, can someone give me a little function that will simply give me fieldNames = "fieldName1, fieldName2, etc"I am using a MySQL server and ODBC connections ASP.NET using VB.
I m trying to write a program that is mostly dynamic. This program enables the user to read in several inputs (temperature, pressure .) and perform calculations on those inputs. After that the program sends an integer to an analogue output port. The program automatically determines the number and type of the inputs. It also creates something called a variable handle for each input.This is then saved to an array input_handler(0,x). That array is sized this way input_handler(0 to 1 , 0 to 9)
0= handle (integer)
1= value (integer)
The program dynamically creates a button for every input. There also is a button for every mathematical operator. This way the user can create a function by pressing buttons.This function will be saved to a string. That string will look something like this input_handler(1,0)+ input_handler(1,4)/ input_handler(1,3)Well now Im stuck with a string and VB will obviously just print out that string instead of calculating anything. Is there any conversion I can perform so that string becomes the actual array values?
I am trying to reduce the amount of code I have and make it more maintainable and flexible. (I.E Do it the right way). I have a bunch of (48) Form controls (text boxes) and when I click next on that form I save all their text values to some 48 global string variables. The names of these variables are the same as the Text Boxes but with "_saved" appended to them.
For any given operation instead of having a separate line for each control it's nice to just use a loop. I can easily write some code to operate on each Control (set visibility, enabled etc) by using Me.Controls and a For Each Loop. I can even make collections of fractional groups of the 48 controls. For example, If cntrl.name.startswith("sometext") collection.add or perform some other operation only on that subgroup etc.
I'd like to do something similar with my Saved Public String Variables. For example I would like to do the following loop somehow but don't know how to group Variables together and keep their name in a way where I can define that array or collection on 1 line or just a couple lines.
' But this next line only groups the values
Group_of_string_Variables = {Var1, Var2, Var3, Var4}
For Each Name_of_String_Variable In Group_of_string_variables
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But I can not access the name of a variable or find a way to easily group in key/value 48 different ones without needing much more than 50 lines of code to make either a 2-dim array, a collection, or a hash.
I'm sure someone will tell me I should be doing it a completely different way. That would be ok as long as I don't have to change too much of my other code. I thought of making an object of some kind instead of a variable so I could access 2 object properties- name and value then I could group those objects in a collection as I have done before. But that seems like it would be many more lines of code and I'm not sure it would work.
I don't know if I explained this in my title, this is what i want to do. (In VB on a active server page) I have 5 buttons called but1.....but2. Right now I have the following code to make them invisible
but1.Visible=false;
but2.Visible=false;
but3.Visible=false;
but4.Visible=false;
but5.Visible=false,
Is there a way to access the objects by using a string, example
for(i=i;i<6;i++
items("but"+str(i)).visible=false
I'm using a Microsoft Word form template to create objects in a form programatically, so depending on the information read by the program from the template.
So, I've got some fields where I store formula data for the form, in which I specify that the value for that field is obtained by multiplying other fields in the template. So I store in the string something like this:
"Text1.Text * Text2.Text"
So I need to convert these string values into variable calls to actually operate these values.
The following output produces a string with no closing xml tag. m_rFlight.Layout = m_rFlight.Layout + "<G3Grid:Spots>" + Me.gvwSpots.LayoutToString() + "</G3Grid:Spots>"
This following code works correctly
m_rFlight.Layout = m_rFlight.Layout + "<G3Grid:Spots>" + Me.gvwSpots.LayoutToString()
m_rFlight.Layout = m_rFlight.Layout + "</G3Grid:Spots>" 'add closing tag
What's going on here, what's the reason the first example isnt working and the second is?
The gvwSpots.LayoutToString() function returns a string.
How can I get all the names of the shortcuts icons in the desktop into a String?
Like: Computer, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Internet Explorer....etz.
I tried to use "My.Computer.FileSystem..." , but didn't find a way.
It's just a small calculator project so it's no big deal, but after I had built the project, I wanted to change the project name and all the file names that had that string in it (and all internal references to that string). I had played with this before and knew that it was asking for trouble but I thought, "What the hell, I'll try it again." feeling a bit brash.
Well, everything works fine in debug mode, but there is this DOS window that pops up just before the main form does, and it doesn't go away for the entire debugging session. I think I see that window pop up on all other projects too (if the main form doesn't cover it up completely), but normally, it's only there for a split second.
I am trying to input a very long list of dog breed names into a DB via phpmyadmin, this will take me for ever manualy and I was thinking if I could work out how to write something quick and nasty to create the sql string for each dog breed it would save me so much time. The sql query for each added forum is in the following format:
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string function(s) to change only first letter of string to Upper Case?
View 7 RepliesI want the Function to accept List(Of String), Array & String and similarly return List(Of String), Array & String respectively. The Function simply adds a string (month) to the input collection. I just want to use it for string, array and list with needing to think of conversions.
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I have a DataGridView which populates from an SQL query just fine in default mode
using these table names
[firstName] [varchar](20) NOT NULL,
[lastName] [varchar](20) NOT NULL,
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I have edited the column headers and set the column names to the same values as my table names yet the data is not showing in form load I have set datagridview.AutoGenerateColumns = False I know the data is there if I delete datagridview.AutoGenerateColumns = False then the data is shown with the default headings?
I made project using VB.Net 2005 with multi languages, the first form is MDIParent form with MainMenu and toolbars also there is some changes in properties as righttoleft and text of forms.In my Mainmenu (Menustrip) there is opetion to change the UI Culture and I have already done but I need to change all texts in the form as mainmenu items anf form properties.My quetion is: how can I reload my form again to read the new texts names and mainmenu items names from resx file?
View 8 RepliesI am doing work for a client who has lost the source code for one of their VB.Net WinForms applications. The assembly they have is not obfuscated at all. I am trying to recover as much of the source as I can as C# source and have tried several tools for decompiling assemblies, including Reflector, ILSpy and JustDecompile (all the latest versions), but they all produce code with a huge number of errors in them. Because of the large number of errors in the generated code, I am going to ask about the specific errors (in different questions), get more directed answers and in this way try shed some light on why all the tools are having difficulty decompiling this assembly. This question pertains to the fact that the code generated by all these tools always have a large number of invalid member variables (fields) such as the following:
private short $STATIC$Report_Print$20211C1280B1$nHeight;
private ArrayList $STATIC$Report_Print$20211C1280B1$oColumnLefts;
private StaticLocalInitFlag $STATIC$Report_Print$20211C1280B1$oColumnLefts$Init;
why the generated code has these invalid member variables?
Is there any way to get common control names like Save, Copy or Undo Redo in the user's windows language? (I saw this in some programs which weren't made for my windows language. Also the Yes No Massage Boxes will change...)
View 1 RepliesIf I have a string Metal is hot : Metal length is 5 cm ; Metal is red. I want to get the sub string that is talking about length: hence I want to extract "Metal length is 5 cm".
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I am experiencing a problem when trying to convert a rather large VB6 application into a .Net 2005 application. Everytime I try to convert the project I get the following error: "Upgrade Failed: Exception occurred: Can't use character device names in file names"The weird thing is i have tried to convert the project using .Net 2003 and I do not get the error, it does convert.
View 12 RepliesWhat i am trying to do is call functions from a string that I created The example would be:genoutput is a string I made to concatenate the function calls when a certain combo box item was selected...
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)Handles Button2.Click
Select Case ComboBox1.SelectedItem
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Is it possible to make your own function for a String? So you could do this:
Dim String a = "C:Windows"
if a.Exists then 'do something
Is it possible to make your own .Exists?