C# - What Could Cause System.Timers.Timer.set_Enabled Property To Throw A System.NullReferenceException
Apr 4, 2012
Here is the stack trace:
2012-03-16 19:15:09Z E System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at System.Timers.Timer.set_Enabled(Boolean value)
at System.Timers.Timer.Stop()
Here's the code:
Timer declared as private member variable.
Private _myTimer As System.Timers.Timer
Initialize timer method.
[code]....
The timer has to have a value or else the Timer.Stop() call would be throwing the exception. This is a sporadic error and I'm just trying to see if anyone has experienced this before or if anyone has any ideas of what could be causing it. It is occuring in a WinForms application in the event handler for the Elapsed event of the Timer, but it is only occuring sporadically on the users computer. I haven't been able to reproduce the error myself.
I need an accurate timer to interface a Windows application to a piece of lab equipment.I used System.Timers.Timer() to create a timer that ticks every 10 msec, but this clock runs slow. For example 1000 ticks with an interval of 10 msec should take 10 wall-clock seconds, but it actually takes more like 20 wall-clock sec (on my PC). I am guessing this is because System.Timers.Timer() is an interval timer that is reset every time it elapses. Since it will always take some time between when the timer elapses and when it is reset (to another 10msec) the clock will run slow. This probably fine if the interval is large (seconds or minutes) but unacceptable for very short intervals.Is there a function on Windows that will trigger a procedure every time the system clock crosses a 10 msec (or whatever) boundary?
UPDATE: System.Timers.Timer() is extremely inaccurate for small intervals.I wrote a simple program that counted 10 seconds several ways:
Interval=1, Count=10000, Run time = 160 sec, msec per interval=16 Interval=10, Count=1000, Run time = 16 sec, msec per interval=15 Interval=100, Count=100, Run time = 11 sec, msec per interval=110 Interval=1000, Count=10, Run time = 10 sec, msec per interval=1000
It seems like System.Timers.Timer() cannot tick faster that about 15 msec, regardless of the interval setting.Note that none of these tests seemed to use any measurable CPU time, so the limit is not the CPU, just a .net limitation (bug?)For now I think I can live with an inaccurate timer that triggers a routine every 15 msec or so and the routine gets an accurate system time. Kinda strange, but...I also found a shareware product ZylTimer.NET that claims to be a much more accurate .net timer (resolution of 1-2 msec). This may be what I need. If there is one product there are likely others.
I have a problem with the Timer class in that there is a chance that a timer would fire right before you call Dispose() since you will probably call Dispose() from some other thread. You may have something like:
Public Sub TimerTick() Handles itsTimer.Elapsed Do Something End Sub
And then from somewhere else in the code, when your app is done, you call
itsTimer.Dispose()
The only way I can think of doing this is:
Public Sub SomeMethod() SyncLock(itsTimer.SynchronizingObject) itsTimer.Dispose()[code]...
This is not a great thing to do esp. since I am holding a lock on an object I am disposing. I can create my own lock and syncLock on that but is there a simple way?
I'm creating a multi-threaded application (although it is not at the moment) which will be connecting to a large number of sockets. I've noticed when a connection cannot be made the connect timeout is rather large, so I am trying to make my own. Here is what I have come up with...
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click CreateSockets(2) AssignSockets(0, "192.168.31.2", 80, False, False) 'shouldn't connect AssignSockets(1, "192.168.1.1", 80, False, False) 'should connect
[code]....
Looking at the timeoutOccured() sub, you can see I'm unsure of how to specify which index to set. Efficiency is important since this will be housing a lot of connections at once. Something else that just came to mind, would .theTimer.Stop reset the tick value on the timer?
There is a problem with standard System.Timers.Timer behaviour. The timer raise Elapsed event with some interval. But when time of execution inside Elapsed event handler exceed timer interval then thread pool begin queuing event handling. This is a problem in my case. This is because with my Elapsed event handler I fetch some data from database and doing something with it and finally save results back to database. But data handling should be provided only once. So, is there a way to prevent from queuing elapse events for System.Timers.Timer.
As illustration for this issue you can consider next test program:
[code]...
2) Second way is about SynchronizingObject, but it is a valuable only for Windows form application or required additional development of code for implementing object that would be implements ISynchronizeInvoke interface. More about this way you can find here
I am using timers in a windows service and facing problem that anytime some exception happens ( say i unplug LAN wire from my computer ) service stops running, What i am expecting is that service should keep on running as i am catching generic exception which should catch the exception on one tick event and again work (next tick)when i plug in LAN wire (i am plugging/un plugging ) LAN wire as this service is reading database from LAN so i want to replicate a failover scneario)
When I run my app at first its keeps time accurately for the first minute or so there after it starts loosing seconds, and by the end of the day its minutes behind.I've created a class called ServerTimeTimer that has a timers.timer object that elapses every second and adds a second to a dateTime variable, and a property to retrieve the date time.[code]
Why does System.Xml.XmlDocument.LoadXml method throw System.Net.WebException ?if MSDN was right, LoadXml should at most give me a System.Xml.XmlException.Yet I have weird exceptions like:The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly.
Dim document As New XmlDocument document.LoadXml("<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ""-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"" ""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd""><x></x>") MsgBox(document.LastChild.Name)
I want to check if an IP address can be resolved to a hostname.I figured I would use System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry as System.Net.Dns. GetHostByAddress is shown as obsolete in VS2008.
However,if I specify an invalid IP address to System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry the HostName property equals the IP address I gave. If I use System.Net.Dns.GetHostByAddress it, rightly, gives a resolution error.I don't mind continuing to use System.Net.Dns. GetHostByAddress but is there any way to have System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry throw an error if the IP address cannot be resolved to a hostname (other than by checking if the IP address given equals the hostname returned, I mean)
I Have just been watching a video on throwing Exceptions. Are you supposed to throw System.Exceptions from within your custom classes. to the calling code, Which other way can they communicate. I have read in several places it is bad practice to throw SystemExeptions.
In this code, DirInfo.FullName is sometimes null. So I put this code inside a Try Catch. Although it works fine but I see a System.NullReferenceException in Immediate Windows. I just want to prevent it.
So tried:
If DirInfo.FullName IsNot Nothing Then Me.Tag = DirInfo.FullName
If DirInfo.FullName <> Nothing Then Me.Tag = DirInfo.FullName
If DirInfo.FullName <> "" Then Me.Tag = DirInfo.FullName
But I still get this System.NullReferenceException! How should I check DirInfo.FullName so I prevent this exception?
Function GetHtml(ByVal url As String, ByRef web As WebBrowser) As String
Dim WebString As String Dim myURI As New Uri(url) web.Url = myURI WebString = web.Document.Body.InnerHtml Return WebString End Function System.NullReferenceException
I thought that creating a simple system service under VB .NET would be a piece of cake. Boy, was I wrong. First, I find general postings through Google that say you should use the Windows.Forms.Timer. Then, I found conflicting information that says you have to derive the timer from a timer class through code to make it work. Then, people are reporting all sorts of trouble using the various types of threads available. I can't debug threads using the VS 2010 Just-in-Time debugger for obvious reasons (although, I don't know if there is an alternate method to doing this).My project is an application launcher (similar to cron) that will fire off periodically within a certain amount of seconds. I am trying to use the Process.Start() method. I have a Beep() function as the first instruction, and the Process.Start, along with a Process.WaitForExit method to make it block as the last instruction. I had my code doing this through timers, but now I am starting to use threads. No difference in execution. The over-ridden OnStart method does kick off (as I am certain through debugging), but nothing ever happens when starting the service in production, as if it were ignoring all my code. Putting loops and logic in the OnStart method yields a process that won't start. I know it is a threading issue, but I also know it must be mandatory to use threads. I am now dumbfounded as to how to make this work. I am curious to know the solution.
In addition to the service class, I have a ServiceInstaller and ProcessInstaller implemented that I copied verbatim from MSDN.Here is some of the code I am trying to work with. Note that this simply reflects the current state of my code in trying to implement the logic within a thread instead of a timer (which to me would be optimal):[code]
I have a MyDataGridView.DataSource = MyDataSet.Table(0) and the AllowUserToAddRows = True Once the user have finished typing in the column zero I have to check if they didn't type invalid stuff. It have to be numeric and 4 chars long.
the code is:
Private Sub Result_CellEndEdit(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewCellEventArgs) Handles Result.CellEndEdit If e.ColumnIndex = 0 Then
[code]....
And it is not all the time, but depending on how quick and stupid (i'm expecting stupid users, as usual) I click on the previous row or the AddNewRow row I get a the damn System.NullReferenceException on my If line:
If Not (IsNumeric(Result.Rows(e.RowIndex).Cells(0).Value) And Result.Rows(e.RowIndex).Cells(0).Value.ToString.Length = 4) Then I'm really not in the mood of just put a Try Catch, as it looks like bad programming in this case. I've already tried a couple variations with "is nothing" but no success?How could test it won't cause a Null exception before testing the row value?
i have a code that grabs an image from a site, this works fine and it does get the image fine, but every now and again my internet runs slow and it takes a while for the image to pop up thus causing the error:[code]How would i make it display the msgbox if it returns NullReferenceException error ?
i have a small problem with my code that only happens every now and again.Im using multi threading on this and every now and again i get this error: System.NullReferenceException was unhandled Message="Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
Some times the program completes perfect with no errors and sometimes i get the above error.When i get the error there is always 1 item left in the list but when it completes perfect no items are left.Again this error does not appear every time, only every now and again. For example i had to run my program like 20 time to get this error, 19 times it worked perfect with no errors and 1 time with this error.
This is my first ever post in this wonderful forum. I am new to vb.net programming. Given below is a piece of code which throws a system null reference exception at the end of the loop. I am unable to figure out the problem. "drledger" is null at the end of the loop. Even though i am able to catch the exception what can be done to avoid the null reference exception.
Private Sub btnSalesExport_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSalesExport.Click Dim iRowMax As Integer
i have this code in my btnsave..it can detect conflicts but after that a dialog box saying: An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in AppointmentSchedulingClient.exe
Additional information: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. and it points to the green one below.
If Val(cbostart.Text) > Val(cboend.Text) Or Val(cbostart.Text) = Val(cboend.Text) Then MsgBox("Error in time.", MsgBoxStyle.Information, "MESSAGE")
I have a program that will print dwg and idw drawings to different printers. from our drawing vault we kan use a plotbutton which creates a pcf-file (text file) and copies the drawing to a specific location. the program reads the pcf file which contains the max printsize for the drawing, who is printing it, nr of copies, location of the drawing. all data is written to or read from a small database. as long as there are drawings the printing goes fine, they are listed in a datagridview on the form. As soon as the last record is removed from the datagridview I get the following error[code]...
I have been trying to figure out the source of error in my application. What this function (GetConcentrations()) is to display data from my database onto a DataGridView. The function is called in the PageLoad but works fine but when I call it in another Sub, I get this error.
Here is the code:
Private Sub GetConcentrations() Dim conString As String = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("dbAsthmaConnectionString").ConnectionString Me.dataAdapter = New SqlDataAdapter("Select * from tblConcentrations", conString)
From previous experience I had been under the impression that it's perfectly legal (though perhaps not advisable) to call extension methods on a null instance. So in C#, this code compiles and runs:
// code in static class static bool IsNull(this object obj) { return obj == null; }
[code]....
The debugger stops right there, as if I'd called an instance method. Am I doing something wrong (e.g., is there some subtle difference in the way I defined the extension method between C# and VB.NET)? Is it actually not legal to call an extension method on a null instance in VB.NET, though it's legal in C#?
I'm trying to run a simple database and im getting a "System.NullReferenceException" error ) & "Additional Information:Object reference not set to an instance of a object" .
txtItemName.Text = rowCurrent.Item("ItemName") <-- highlighted in yellow
Code is as follows:
vb.net Imports System.Data.OleDB ---------------------------------------------------- Public Class Form1
I am in great trouble, I have a project on visual studio 2008 and I getting connectionstring using ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("connestionstring") .ConnectionString. this project have a app.config file which contain
I get this message each time I run the appA first chance exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in <Applicaton>I have isolated the key Subs which seem to upset it, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is about it that's upsetting it. I have used On Error Goto etc for the time being, which gets around it but I would like to solve it rather than jumpver it.Err.Description returns "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."My sub looks like this:
