VS 2008 Collect Details Regarding The Hardware And Software Of A PC?
Jun 27, 2010
How can I collect details regarding the hardware and software, of a PC? As for registration process of the product (my app), I wish to collect the details of that PC and get it saved into my server.When the client request for a new serial key, because of formatting the PC and other reasons, I would compare the PC details and will issue a new serial key based on the result. (small changes in the PC will not be considered)?
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Jan 29, 2011
I have an application (i've been working on for a long time) that has many tabs and controls and quite a few components And a good deal of design code. And a list box that has around 100k items (i had to put a loader to pass the 3-4 seconds while its loading to prevent it from not-responding)I had a few Gc.collect calls in specific places (mostly after many items are added or removed). When my application loads, i call GC.collect only once at the end of the load. The program consumes around 35K memory by the time its loaded. However, i decided to mess around abit (don't worry i made backups)First i started putting gc.collect in some random places, and to my surprise the memory upon loading was observably decreasing. Then I went ahead and put a macro that puts GC.Collect before every End Sub, Exit Function, Exit Sub, and Return value, there is. Basically every block in my application had atleat one GC.Collect.
I fixed some 6 or 7 silly replace errors and compiled. When the program launched, the memory used at the end of launch was 21K!
At first glance that seemed great, but then i realized switching between tabs was VERY glitchy. and adding new lists took around 10x more time than usual (the loader stayed on for around 20 seconds!) And even though the memory looked good, the program was useless like this.Then i decided to mess around differently. I removed GC.Collect from the entire solution. It was no longer called even once.At first glance, when i launched the app it consumed just under 60K memory. That seemed terrible. However i realized something: even though my program in that state showed on taskmanager that it was consuming alot more memory than usual, it seemed like it was lighter than ever! Switching tabs was faster than before, especially every time i go to the tab that has the listbox control with 100k items. Loading items took around 3-4 seconds, but there was no stutter when the list finished loading whereas before it had an evident 0.3s stutter after the items were added.
This was all surprising to me because i thought GC.Collect was first of all, something that it doesnt matter where or how many times you call it. I thought it was just something that should be called at the end of work and i didnt think it would matter if it was called during work.Second of all, i thought GC.Collect only affected resources that are inaccessible, or resources my program is done with. How come the application feels faster when i don't call it?Third of all, i thought the VB CLR does most of the memory cleaning for me, and that GC.Collect was somewhat of a redundant command. It didn't seem so redundant to me at all considering the difference between using it heavily and not using it at all was around 38K in memory usage!
So i guess my questions are:
1) Do I need to call GC.Collect? WhereWhen do i call it?2) Why does calling it affect performance? And where does one draw the line between that memory stat on taskmanager and the program's performance?3) I also decided to run a small test. Why does a blank vb form application require 10K memory? How accurate is that stat shown on the task manager?
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Jul 26, 2009
I have 4 Tables Master And Three Tables Details
how to programming this Technique
This Picture dispaly what i mean http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3981/26072009110315.png
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Apr 17, 2010
I have list of urls that I use a foreach loop on. I want to visit each url with the webbrowser and collect html, but the webbrowser only collects the html of the last url. I think the loop is too fast?
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Dim Collecthtml As String = ""
Dim websitelist As List(Of String) = GetURLs()
[code]....
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Dec 9, 2011
I'm trying to get a details view in ASP.NET to display the details of the logged-in user only. I have been told to use:
select * from STAFF where USERNAME = user.identity.name
I thought this was too simple to be true and I was correct as it shows no data when I attempt to run.
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Nov 13, 2009
I want to get the details of a com port on my machine. To be more precise the com port presents itself in the device manager as:
MyPort(COM3)
I know how to get the name of the port i.e. COM3. Is there a way to get the rest of its description i.e. "MyPort".
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Nov 27, 2009
How can I collect details regarding the hardware and software, of a PC ?As for registration process of the product (my app), I wish to collect the details of that PC and get it saved into my server.When the client request for a new serial key, because of formatting the PC and other reasons, I would compare the PC details and will issue a new serial key based on the result. (small changes in the PC will not be considered)
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Mar 20, 2012
I have a dialogue box that pops-up on a click event which offers the user a selection of three employee types which are selected using checkboxes. These checkboxes have been drag'n'dropped and are in a groupbox, called uiSelectEmployeesGroupBox.
On this click event, I have the following
'some code omitted for clarity
If uiEmployeeDetailsDialogue.uiEmp1CheckBox.Checked Then
mEmployees.Add(New Emp1())
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Aug 4, 2007
All I want to do is grab the IP details of the local machine in VB 2008 (or previous versions) using actual coding and not relying on output from ipconfig/all. I specifically need the subnet mask and gateway of the local machine.
I have found documents on how to do this in C++ using the networkadapter functions which is of no use to me because im using VB. Ive managed to find how to get the local ip address (using winsock or third party control) but nothing more and a few pages on using WMI but all examples are using vbscript rather than the full blown visual basic.
how to do this in vb and have any sample code?
As a network server administrator im confused on why this is so difficult, even in VB.
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Feb 15, 2012
is it possible to get the details of an mp3 file like the Contributing Artist, Artist, Album, Year etc. and display it into a form? I am using the IO namespace and I have almost tried all the methods and properties under my variable.
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Jun 21, 2009
I've found all sorts of threads about extracting file icons, and I'm able to do that no problem, but I would like to also extract some other information from a file (like you can find in the properties window), such as the file description. Are there any commands that are geared specifically toward getting this information?
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Jun 13, 2009
I want to get the detail of all users logged in to my system . I want name of users, status of users, id of users, client name of users, no of applications to a user.
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Feb 11, 2010
I've got a listbox and am using details mode, i'm also looping throgh a database to look at data. how can i add data to my listview and i have 3 coloumns
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Apr 18, 2012
i thought of storing some of the configuration settings in a xml file on a remote linux machine. and vb.net application on the client system has to access and read from it.
i don't want to encrypt and keep the data with in the client system
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Apr 8, 2011
Using VB2008 and Sql. I have one table and two forms. On form1 I have details view of table and on form2 I have DataGridView of the same table. What I am trying to accomplish is when i click on DataGridView is that details view changes and shows data selected in DataGridView.
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Sep 9, 2009
I'm not sure which way to do this, i want to save numerous login user/pass to file i can:1) save to a .txt file2) save to a .xml filethe format i would use for a.txt file would be user|pass, for xml something like:
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Dec 12, 2010
my app is calling a dll that returns SQL details to a bufferred string, here is what i did 6 Dim server As New String(" ", 256) when i use this in sql connection string i get this error: Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 22.
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Jan 24, 2012
My application waits for the user to click twice to draw a rectangle on an image, and use the rectangle to create a clone and save it. Then it restarts with the next rectangle. When I work on a large image (10800x7236) after a few cycles I get an out of memory error. but I still don't understand what's going on, and I would appreciate if some expert out there clarified why it didn't work before and it works now. This is the snippet executed after the user clicks twice, and fails after 5-6 cycles:
[Code]....
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Mar 11, 2012
I currently have code that creates and inserts ~175,000 names into a table.
What is the quickest way to collect a random first and last name? So far I have tried, Reading from two text files where every name is one line it takes ~2:30 minutes Reading from a table with [first][last] columns takes ~4 minutes
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Sep 12, 2011
I have a multi-user app which consists of a Windows form (VS2008), and a SQL Express 2008 database. I'm already detecting if the dataset has changed before the user closes the form so I can prompt them to save their changes. What I'd like to do is to capture the changes they've made, and write them to a database table so that users can track all changes made to each record on the DB.What is the best way to grab hold of the data changes before they're written back to the DB and also grab the original records?
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Nov 18, 2009
I have a SQL server table that has a list of Usernames and a list of points ranging from 1 to 10,000.I want to display the number of points in my VB.NET program from the username given. For example, if I type in "john" in the first box the program will give me a message box saying whatever amount of points "john" has. I'm not really sure about
This is the Table Structure:
Usernames Points
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[code].....
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Jul 27, 2011
I have a class orderItem it is a parent of Product and service class Im adding product or services in a listcollection. How can I cast service or product for retrieving orderitem?
Public MustInherit Class OrderItem
Private m_enuItemType As TypeOfItem = TypeOfItem.None
Private m_strUserID As String = ""
[Code]....
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Jun 12, 2010
I have 4 textboxs in my new form. and each of them, i want the data from the db show in the txtbox.[code]...
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Feb 5, 2009
I collect two sets of data from two different databases, This data is now in two collections. I then join/append the one collection to the other and then put it in to a list view.I really would like to order this list view by the first column without the click event.To make this even harder the First column contains Data that is DateTime and i have found that it orders the items by the day number and not the months or years or time.I have found one way but it then cause's me further agony when doing some checks upon the data within the listview later in my code. This answer is to rearrange the format to "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:SS" then using the listview.sorting = sortorder.
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Mar 11, 2010
i want to create an application that collect data from the rs-232.Someone have a code example with multi rs-232 in thread .I have one pc that have mapping virtual com.
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Dec 31, 2010
What I need to do is have my application check to see if the last hour that was inserted into the database table is equal to the current hour minus 1 hour when it runs. If it is not equal to the current hour -1 then it needs to go back and download the missing data automatically.
The hours go from 1 to 24 with midnight being the 24th hour as you'll see in my code. My problem is I don't know how to code what I'm trying to do.
Here is the current code:
Private Sub HourDownload()
DeleteFileHour()
If OneHour("C:abcd.pfx", "******") = True Then
[Code]....
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Feb 1, 2011
I'm using the .NET SerialPort class to communicate with gauges. Every time a button on a gauge is pressed a reading value is sent over port. The problem I have is that if the gauge button is pressed while the program is off then when the program starts it fires the data received event for that existing data. I don't want this behavior -- I only want to collect readings done after the port is opened.
port = New SerialPort("COM1", 9600, Parity.None, 8, StopBits.One)
port.Open()
port.DtrEnable = True
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(100)
port.ReadExisting()
AddHandler port.DataReceived, AddressOf PortDataReceived
If I don't have the Thread.Sleep then the DataReceived event is fired for the previous gauge data. I'm guessing this is because the ReadExisting doesn't block and so when its called immediately after an open it just reads nothing. So if you call 'port.BytesToRead()' immediately after open its zero. If you call it 100ms after open its non-zero. I guess this makes sense -- it takes time after open to read the existing data. Another option is to call read and set the read timeout but that seems no different than Thread.Sleep except you have to catch an exception...
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Dec 10, 2009
I have a windows app (2.0 framework) that's about 860k in size, just a small db app with a couple of data entry screens and a few reports (Cystal) I noticed that when the app starts the mem usage according to task manager is ~11,000k viewing just one report jumps the mem usage to 56,000k. i thought i could reclaim some of that memory by adding some GC.COLLECT() callls, but no luck. Mem usage stays the same in task manager.
So I made an even smaller test app with two forms....Form1 has two buttons , button1 Opens Form2, and button 2 calls GC.COLLECT()
From 2 contains a datagridview and 1 button. The form load for form2 executes the fill for the dataset that populates the datagridview and the button on Form 2 closes the form.
Here's the code for each form....
CODE:
No matter what I've tried so far I cannot seem to reclaim mem that gets used.
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Aug 11, 2010
I am running into an issue with phrasing the following XML. I need to load the content into a object that is outline in the second code block. I am looking for all items to be Property flags within the Object.
<MigrationType>
<MigrationOption id="1">
<NAME>Project Configuration</NAME>
<DISPLAY>TRUE</DISPLAY>
<PAGE id="1">RequiredItems</PAGE>
[Code]...
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Jul 31, 2011
In my program; I need to collect a sequence of events in a variable of some sort. Each time the Sub is initiated, it should add one random event to the sequence (so that it gets longer each time) and then run through the sequence.This is rather difficult to express.What I'm trying to do, is create a Simon Says game with the four buttons.After the sequence goes through blinking the buttons, the program must then be able to capture the sequence of button presses by the user and match that to the sequence that the program ran.So, I need to be able to keep track of two sequences in a variable. Arrays?
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