Change Byte() To Structs For Readability And Convert Struct To Byte Stream For Socket Send()
Dec 8, 2009
I just converted the following code from c# to vb.net. It is functional and works correctly with my company's firmware/devices. My next challenge. Previous serialport code used much more readable structs which where then converted (after building a packet) into byte() automatically as part of the serialport encoding. (this is my understanding)How could I
1. morph byte arrays 'ToSocket' and 'ToMTP' below into structs and
2. convert into byte array for Socket.BeginSend(byte(),.....) to stream out to remote devices?
Imports System.ComponentModel
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Net.Sockets
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Aug 28, 2009
I am trying to communicate with an external device and i am trying to send a byte array to the external device via sockets but i am always getting a response the message size is too small so i am not sure what i have done wrong. Between the data type there should be no alignment present and all numbers are represented in little endian format. The char array is not null terminated as mentioned in the protocol specifications.I have to send data based on a struct that embeds 2 other struct. So here's my vb.net code for the struct used to convert to byte array and the sending part.[code]
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Mar 31, 2011
I'm working on a licensing system for my application. I'd like to put all licensing information (licensee name, expiration date, and enabled features) into an object, encrypt that object with a private key, then represent the encrypted data as a single text string which I can send via email to my customers.
I've managed to get the encrypted data into a byte stream, but I don't know how to convert that byte stream into a text value -- something that contains no control characters or whitespace. Can anyone offer advice on how to do that? I've been researching the Encoding class, but I can't find a text-only encoding.
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Sep 21, 2010
I've inherited a tested function that processes incoming data from a .NET Serial Port. (Dim RXBuffer as string = serialport1.ReadExisting) I've written a different part of the application that processes a byte array as received from an asynchronous .NET socket.
Is there a way I can convert the byte array into a string as if it arrived from the serial port?
I would prefer to rewrite a very long 'if statement' into byte array functions syntax that look like:
dim b as boolean = IsBitSet(state_buffer(i), j) 'rather than:
dim b as boolean = (Asc(Mid(RXPacket.Pdu, CInt((i - (i Mod 8)) / 8) + 1, 1)) And CInt(2 ^ (i Mod 8))) > 0
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Nov 18, 2010
How could you convert a IntPrt to a Byte Array (Byte()) ?
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Jan 25, 2011
I have a byte array that I convert into a string like so Dim byt As Byte() = New Byte(255) {} s = New String(Encoding.ASCII.GetChars(byte))My question is when I look at the string in a debuger its clearly a normal string but when I compare it to what I know its supposed to be it doesnt equal. So i did a quick check and for some reason its return a string thats the length of 256 characters. So i did a s.trim and it still is 256 characters long.
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May 25, 2012
I am needing to write data to a usb device. The USB device uses a byte array (DataArray() as byte) to store the data. How can I assign a struct object (myStruct(0)) to the byte array. I run into the error "Value of type byte cannot be converted to 1-dimensional array of byte" when I try to cast the struct as a byte.
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Aug 7, 2010
Why does C# define Byte+Byte=Int32 instead of Byte+Byte=Byte like VB?
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Dec 7, 2009
I have a basic confusion between serial port and network TCP communication to devices.
My colleague uses a vb struct as the nice easy to read way to create a packet to send out via a serial port. Like this basic code sample below of his vb.net serial call followed at bottom by my c# tcp beginsend network call.
Can I use a struct as well to call out for my TCP network beginsend? By looking at the signature of BeginSend(Byte[] as the beginning of the signature for that method call to send data to a connected socket, I don't see myself being able to use a struct.
Public Structure PacketRecord
Dim SourceAddress As Integer
Dim DestinationAddress As Integer
Dim Length As Integer
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Nov 11, 2010
I am having trouble with a socket client application written in vb.net using Visual Studio 2005. The client connects to a C language socket server that is running on OpenVMS. The problem that I have is that when the server sends a packet, the client does not receive the last byte (of every packet!). I can dump the packets on the network and the data is all there. My current solution is to keep my socket messages short (247 bytes) and send one extra byte past the end of my data.
I would like to include more information in my messages and I cannot find a way to make this work. If I knew 100% how long the packets will be on the network, I could work around this by including an extra byte in just the right places. However, I don't want to make any assumptions about the length of the packets.
Here is a sample of my client receive code:
Private Sub ReceiveMsg()
Dim nTotalBytes As Integer
Dim nNumBytes As Integer
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Feb 15, 2011
I have an .net application with 2 processes, communicating using a network stream.The protocol consists of a set of commands, some with parameters, which are sent through the stream to the server. The server processes the command, and sends a response.
The protocol for one of the commands looks like this:
[code]...
Usually, this works fine. Very rarely (probably once every few millions of calls), The reading side gets the wrong values. I added code to trace the values sent and received. This shows that occasionally, the reading side gets two extra bytes, with the value 0, which was not sent by the writing side. These extra bytes appear in different places, e.g. in one case they were between i1 and i2; in another they were between the first and second byte of s2. Does anyone have any idea where these 2 bytes could come from? I checked my code, and every place that writes to the stream is traced, so it doesn't look like they are actually written to the stream. It might be worth noting that s1 is always 0, in the current implementation.
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Mar 24, 2010
I am trying to Convert a data field stored as IMAGE ( SQL Server 2000) using Java to a byte array using VB.NET Java uses signed numbers for a Byte array where as VB dosent. Can somone point me to how I can covert java byte array to VB byte array?
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Aug 25, 2010
how to convert byte array to memory stream in vb.net.
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Jun 25, 2009
I try to read a stream and save it as byte array to add it later to zip file.this is the code that I use
Dim totalbytes As Byte() = Nothing
Dim iBytesRead As Integer
Dim sChunks As FileStream = File.OpenRead("c:myfile.wav")
Dim Totalread As Int64 = 0
[code]....
but there is something is not correct,
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Sep 26, 2011
How to convert memorystream byte array to csv file. I have GetExport method that converts rpt file to excelformatted memorystream and then returns that as a byte array. Is there a way to convert this byte array to a csv file? Due to some reasons I can only pass this byte array back to calling function.
Public Function GetExport(ByVal reportID As ReportID) As Byte()
Dim byteArray As Byte() = Nothing
Using expRptDoc As ReportDocument = New ReportDocument()
Dim rptFileName As String = Server.MapPath(ReportCommand.GetXMLReportPath(reportID))
expRptDoc.Load(rptFileName)
[Code] .....
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Mar 1, 2009
I am trying to play video files (atleast wmv, avi) from a byte stream in vb.net.Is it possible to direct this data at a wmp control?I have done this successfully with images & picture boxes, just need help with the video.
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Apr 6, 2011
Objective: Combine byte arrays, read specific sections, and then cut byte array at specified point.
Private Sub DataArrival(ByRef aBot As xyzSocket, ByRef theData As Byte())
Dim RDLength As Int32
If aBot.ReceivedData Is Nothing Then[code]....
I'm not sure if I have this right to begin with because I can't test it without having it completed.
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Dec 18, 2010
I create my algorthm and its finished but there is a problem, it encrypte all text and all text in a file but after decryption when i open my file (a video file)the player show all information about file(duration,size and ect) currectly but it dont play that my program encrypt and decrypt byte by byte and place a asci code in bytes(0 to 255)
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Jul 13, 2012
how to upload file using fileupload control into sql database. I have class where i created insert function and getting info frm the .aspx.vb file
Class File
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Imports System
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
[coe]....
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May 16, 2011
Is it possible in VB to truncate a larger data type ( an int with a value greater than 255) to a smaller one, say a Byte (which only goes up to 255) in a way such that the 8LSBs of the integer are copied to the newly created byte. I have tried this using CType with the following code, however it does not work.
Dim TestByte As Byte = CType(Test, Byte)
Where the variable "Test" is an integer with a value of 419. This code always results in the Overflow exception.
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May 25, 2009
I am sending data to server via TCP IP Connection. I am using a continuous loop at the server end - that accepts new clients and while streams can be read, it reads data stream.
The data is sent from the client with 2 leading bytes of data that represent the size of the packet of data sent and type of data.
My question is: how do I retrieve the size of the data packet and then check that this amount of data has been retrieved?
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May 25, 2009
I am sending data to server via TCP IP Connection. I am using a continuous loop at the server end - that accepts new clients and while streams can be read, it reads data stream.
The data is sent from the client with 2 leading bytes of data that represent the size of the packet of data sent and type of data.
My question is: how do I retrieve the size of the data packet and then check that this amount of data has been retrieved?[code]...
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May 23, 2011
I need to read signed and unsigned 8 bit, 16 bit and 32 bit values from a file stream which may be little-endian or big-endian (it happens to be a tiff file which carries the byte order indicator at the start).I initially started by writing my own functions to read the values and was able to do so for unsigned values. e.g.
Public Function ReadUInt32() As UInt32
Dim b(4) As Byte
input.Read(b, 0, 4)
[code]....
But then I started looking at signed values and my brain broke.As an alternative, I found the IO.BinaryReader which will let me read signed values directly but doesn't seem to have any way to indicate that the data is big-endian or little-endian.Is there a nice way of handling this? Failing that, can someone tell me how to convert multiple bytes into signed values (in both byte orders)?
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Sep 20, 2011
I have 2 byte arrays. I want to merge these two byte array into 1 byte array.Usually, I just create a new byte array with length = byte array #1 + byte array #2. Then copy byte array #1 and #2 to the new byte array.do I have more efficient way to merge 2 byte array using VB.NET and .Net 4?
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Mar 30, 2009
I would like to create a function so that I can pass a string and it will return me the binary value, I will use this later in other parts of the script but I am getting an error that I don't understand.
Private Function ConvertToMD5(ByVal OldPassword As String) As Byte
Dim NewPassword As String = ""
'The string we wish to encrypt
[code]....
On the "Return hashedDataBytes I get "Value of type '1-dimensional array of Byte' cannot be converted to 'Byte'"
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May 6, 2007
I would like to know how to convert a unisgned byte to signed byte
Atm I got this
a
Function readSignedByte() As SByte
'-128/127
Dim b As SByte
[Code]....
it doesn't work one that well works for numbers positive over 127 if lets say ReadByte() has 128 it would give overflow error which I don't want it to give I would like it to overflow the number to negivate value aka its signed value.
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Oct 2, 2010
given my code below, I'm trying to figure out how to create an array of 1 byte containing 7 bits. So the byte in the array would contain 0111111 to correspond to mData_Out's boolean values. How would I change the following code? [Code]
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Mar 14, 2012
I am trying to write some code to get a kinect for windows sample running, which is originally written in C#. I get stuck with translating the following C# code to VB.NET:
byte intensity = (byte)(~(realDepth >> 4));
What is the VB.NET equivalent for the code above? how to translate the "~" code sign.
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Apr 15, 2010
Value type "Byte" cannot be converted into "1-dimensional array of byte"Does anyone know what is missing?
Option Strict On
Private Function MySQLDataReader_GetByte(ByVal Connection As MySqlConnection, ByVal CommandText As String, ByVal Column As String) As Byte()
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Mar 10, 2010
I need to send a number as a byte (0-255).
SerialPort1.write(123)
sends 3 bytes representing the numbers 1 2 and 3. I need to send 1 byte containing 123.
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