I used the ideas from this post to create a custom collection of my custom class, so that I would be able to easily sort my collection. My project uses binary serialization to save everything (well the important stuff anyway) to a file. The problem is that my custom collection now breaks the serialization.I can't seem to figure out how to get the custom collection to serialize![code]
View 10 RepliesCan I save an array into my .bin file then read the array again just like a string or Integer??
View 2 RepliesI'm creating an application that uses several "multi-leveled" structures (structures within structures within structures....) to store reference data.
<Serializable()> Public Structure ControllerType
Public Attributes As ControllerAttributeType
Public Description As XCData
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Three questions:
1) Is the "CloneObject" function solution able to be used in my application?
2) If it is, what is the fix for the XCData typed objects?
I would like to handle the progress of binary serialization / deserialization of files to show a "loading" progress bar to the user but I cant't find a solution to do that.
View 6 RepliesI am sending some data in a Serialized Structure across a TcpClient Stream to a Client. Now, sometimes the results get through, other times however, it does not. I've noticed this is true when the data I'm sending gets rather large. The server locks up at sending it and can't continue on.I'm sending this structure:
<Serializable()> Public Structure SearchResults
Public Property Results As String
Public Property Search As Boolean
End Structure
When Results gets kind of big (say, 411,000 characters in length), the server fails to send it, I get no error, and I end up timing out completely. If I connect via localhost", I get it instantly, so I know my code works. My problem is I've sent different structures with more data (2 million characters) way faster (nearly instantaneously) across the Internet (not localhost) in less than half a second.
Private Sub SendMessage(ByVal message As Object)
Try
SyncLock m_Client.GetStream
BinFormatter = New Binary.BinaryFormatter()
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I'm using custom serialization and when the xml is generated it's putting the class name as the root element
Example:
<MyClassName>
<MyIntendedRootNode>
<ObjectType>
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I'm invoking the serialization by calling xmlserializer.Serialize(writer,Me) so I'm sure that has something to do with it.I've tried putting XMLRoot onto the class, but I think as vb is compiling this partial class with its aspx page, it's either overwriting this property or ignoring it entirely.I'd like to just tell it to either throw away everything it has and use a different root element.
How to serialize a collection to a binary file?
Structure MainServerInfo
Dim Name As String
Dim IP As String
Dim Uname As String
Dim Pass As String
End Structure
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I need to avoid serializing an Event class member because when the event is handled by an object that is not marked as Serializable the serialization will fail.
I tried using the NonSerialized attribute on the Event class member but it fails to compile. This line of code:<NonSerialized()> Public Event PropertyValueChanged()
produces the following error: Attribute 'NonSerializedAttribute' cannot be applied to
'PropertyValueChanged' because the
attribute is not valid on this
declaration type.
Public Event PropertyValueChanged() ' compiles but needs the extra handling described below
Is there another way to avoid serializing Event members? This is not a problem if the event is not handled and I can work around it by cloning the objects (and ignoring the event) before serializing them. Just wondering if there is a better way.
I have a custom collection class that I would like to pre-populate with data from the database. Basically it would search for "submembers" that are related to the "member" data record using the "member"'s primary key id.
I figured the best way to do this would be in the constructor of the class, but I am not so sure now. The collection class does not have any properties (the member class does).[code]...
I'm implementing some custom serialization (to byte array), and have run into a problem handling circular references.Example:
Class A
public MyBs as new List(of B)
End class
Class B
public MyParent as A
public MiscInt1 as integer[code]....
If I know that an instance of B will only ever be serialized through the serialization of an instance of A, then I can handle the setup of the MyParent reference from the instance of A and not even record that information inside the byte buffer for the instance of B.This doesn't feel quite right, but it might be the best solution.
i am studying and now working with Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition. I am working on my project regarding "Serialization". I wanna to start my working with "System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary" namespace because i am working on serialization project. I know by default IDE dosen't import it. So i went to add it in my project at "Add reference dialog" but i still unable to find out this namespace.
View 1 RepliesMy application's binary serialization was working well up to today (this is not a released app yet - still in development). I have a "Project" class that is the top-level class of a hierarchy of other classes related to its function. And before you think it, yes, all of those classes are marked as serializable. Infact, they all were being serialized before today.
I have one event on the Project class that assists in informing when the project's save status has changed (i.e. new, modified, saved). This event was added today along with some events on the other classes that filter up to the Project class (the project needs to be told when its objects have been modified). I unfortunately added all of this at the same time so I can't provide any incremental details as to when it stopped working, but when I try to save the project through my binary formatter it tells me that my main form is not marked as serializable. Well, yeah... of course it isn't! it shouldn't need to be because there is no member of my classes that even mentions the form. But for some reason handling the Project's event on the form triggers this error.
Serializing the form is not a solution. Neither is not being able to handle my Project events. If I comment out the handler it works fine -- and I don't even have to remove the WithEvents keyword on my form's Project variable. Now that I write that I'm speculating that it may have to do with the event being raised as a result of the serialization (occurs when the save button is clicked).
I'm creating something that has save files. For the most part, it's just saving objects with 4 values.[code]...
View 3 RepliesI've been using XML serialization for a while, and today I realized something really odd. If I have a new line right after a "dot" (.), when i deserialize, I lose the dot. Has anyone ever had this happen to them? The following is my serialization code:
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I'm having a problem with this code in the highlighted line(*); getting the error in the heading.
Dim htmlarraylist As New List(Of iTextSharp.text.IElement)
htmlarraylist = *HTMLWorker.ParseToList(New StreamReader(tempFile), New StyleSheet())*
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I have created a Dictionary class (MyDictionary for the example). I am currently trying to pass MyDictionary into a function, filter it into a new instance of MyDictionary and pass this new instance into another method. When I am attempting to create the second instance from the filtered first instance of MyDictionary via Lambda Expressions and the ToDictionary Method, I am getting the following error:
Unable to cast object of type 'System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.Int32,System.String]' to type 'MyDictionary'. I have simplified the example and recreated it in LINQPad and am getting the same error.
Here's the simplified version of my code:
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What's really the point in using the former?It's hard to use linq if I used the former. I have to convert that to an array first which is difficult because there is no (asarray) function.I think I would change all of my code that's using System.
Collections.Specialized.StringCollection to System.Collections.Generic.List(Of String)
I am making a FlowLayoutControl panel which the user can edit by dragging controls onto it in any required order. The controls are mainly (subclassed) Buttons and (subclassed) TextBoxes, plus perhaps a few labels. There might easily be several hundred of them interspersed at random. I need to be able to save the FlowLayoutPanel and/or its list of controls to a file, and then restore the whole thing again later when needed.If I am not mistaken, this will involve serialization -- a subject about which I presently know next to nothing. I have tried trawling the web for introductions and relevant examples, but I am suffering from information overload. There is so much written about serialization that I don't know where to start.As I can't spend too much time on this, I'm hoping there is some simple way through all the complications. Can anyone here explain, or point me to, the basics needed for saving a control like my one?
View 5 RepliesOkay, this actually relates to some work I'm doing that I already have something in place. So if a change is necessary down the road, I'm in no hurry... But I did a dangerous thing and began reading. As I began reading about ways to stream file data, I became curious as to when it is a good idea to one method or the other.
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I am using the following methods to serialize objects into xml:
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I have created a huge monster based on generic objects and the BindingList. It is a web app that has users, security rights and restrictions, as well as the business logic to persist to the database. I have been using inProc sessions but each user creates about 50 megs of memory. I was initially told that would not be a problem, that a few users it at any time, and the items in the collections were supposed to be lot smaller, but I digress. For the amount of processing that the app has to do in real time, and for how it manages the data, the data it produces is 100%.
The speed and performance has been superior, but the only problem was it was on a box that was used for alot of other applications and it would run out of memory. I have since put it on Server 08 and have placed the Serializable attribute on all classes. I get a an error how ever when the web app tries to serialize the session. I get the feeling that there is an unsaid concensus that inheriting from BindingList is not supported by .net sql or state server session handling.
I've been having this niggling issue that's been driving me nuts. Maybe there's something I'm not doing quite right, I don't know. I'm hoping someone with more experience on the subject can show me a better way or just confirm this with a "Jenner, you're not nuts, that's just the way you need to do it".The problem is this. Every time I try to use LINQ to enumerate a Collection, and for this example, I'll use a Collection of TreeNodes in a TreeView control; I get an error of:
Option Strict On disallows implicit conversions from 'Object' to 'System.Windows.Forms.Treenode'.
for the following
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is there any collection in vb.net which store object as byref and not byval.
View 4 RepliesI have two experimental web services. One is an asmx contained within a .net web application. The other is a WCF service library being invoked from the web application.The asmx basically does everything I need, but I think WCF would be better, except that it doesn't do anything as I would expect after fiddling with the asmx service.For example, the same method behaves differently in each:
' ASMX
<WebMethod(BufferResponse:=True, EnableSession:=False)>
Function Test(aObject as Object) as Object
' object will have been successfully serializaed into a dictionary
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how to find a value in the System.Collections.Generic.List.I have:
Private ids As New List(Of Byte())
ids.add(New Byte(){&HA8,&H0F})
ids.add(New Byte(){&HFF,&H03})
ids.add(New Byte(){&H10,&H00})
I would like to find for example: &H10,&H00 in that list and if there isn't the stuff I wan't to find then how do I know that?
I am trying to solve an issue in my application where the following exception is occurring: there is already an open datareader associated with this command which must be closed first. I am using TableAdapters, which maintain their own DataReaders, and everything seems to work fine unless I am interacting with one of my background workers.
In my code, I shadow the Item property of my collections so that I can retrieve the actual data from the database if needed. Here is a sample:
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Now each reference to the Item get property instantiates its own DataAdapter, so I am confused as to how the same DataReader will ever be used in this scenario. Is there something I am missing? All the TableAdapters do in fact use the same connection object, but I wouldn't think that would be a problem
I have a client sending data to a server using a Serialized Structure. I get a rather...nasty stack trace message that I can't begin to figure out why it's doing what it is. Here's that Stack Trace:
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I have this code, to read image (saved as varbinary(max) in database):
Private Sub ReadImage()
Dim connection As New SqlConnection(strConnectionString)
Dim command As New SqlCommand("SELECT [Image] FROM z1 WHERE x=1 AND y=1", connection)
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But it isn't very convenient code. It reads bytes from table, save them to file, and finally open file as image.How can I read it directly to image, without saving as file?
I was wondering if I could somehow binary coding, if not all coding of a file.In Visual Basic 2008, I use this method:I click a button on a form, I browse the file, I select itand then I click open and it fills a RichTextBox with 1 and 0's in binary form.. You know, drag a .exe file into notepad and you get random jiberish and inunderstandable characters.Well, this method does just that, BUT! It's waaaay to slow
Dim input As New System.IO.FileStream("File to get binary from.exe", IO.FileMode.Open) 'Create a new File Stream
Dim bytes() As Byte
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Is there a way to convert byte values to binary so i can read the values from the bits themselves? I have some byte whose values are 00 09 and I'd like to convert the values to bits to be like this : 0000 0000 0000 1001. Then I'd like to read the value of first 2 bits and the remaining 14 bits separately.
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