i want to use some api's in my software . Other than api there is no other way .
I want to learn more about win32 api . Can some one tell me
And what is the difference between Native api and normal api
I wrote a VB code to call a sp in sql server 2005, which returns a recordset as follows:Dim objRecordset As ADODB.Recordset Set objComm = New ADODB.Command
Set objRecordset = objComm.Execute If Not objRecordset.BOF And Not objRecordset.EOF Then
Set objRecordset = objRecordset.NextRecordset I need to continue to get next recordset since there are many select statements inside the sp which I need to get the data. The code works fine when I create the DSN using SQL Server but it does not work when using the connection string or SQL Server Native Client DSN. It either breaks at Set objRecordset = objComm.Execute ( connection string )or at If Not objRecordset.BOF And Not objRecordset.EOF Then(SQL native client )
I have worked on this for a couple of days now and could not figure it out.Is this a bug in SQL Native Client or something related to some configuration on the database side? IS there a way I can change the connection property to get this working using SQL native client or connection string?
What is the difference between using the 'array' class in VB and just declaring an array like normal. In other words, what is the difference between:
Dim numOfTicketsPerDay As Array
Dim intNumOfTicketsPerDay(6)
As Integer
Is there any preference of when one should be used over another?
What's the advantages of the above types of dll? Is there any other type?
View 1 RepliesWhat's native code? And native dll?
Can i create a native dll using vb.net?
I have an external database that is feeding information to me. One saves their data as native GUID format and my other data source supplies standard .NET GUID format string. Is there a tidy way to convert from Native GUID to GUID Structure? Also is there any validation bit to determine if a provided value is a Native GUID or not? I can't seem to find any if there is one. The difference is as follows:
typedef struct _GUID
{
DWORD Data1;
WORD Data2;
WORD Data3;
BYTE Data4[8];
} GUID;
Data1, Data2 and Data3 get their byte order reversed but Data4 remains the same, see [url] for more info.
I have a vb6 project in which I use a dll library to do some tasks. For that, I add a module which declares all functions of that library such as:Declare Function myFunction Lib "abcdapi.dll" (ByVal hVar1 As Long, ByVal hVar2 As Long) As Long When I call this function (and many other similar) I'm able to do the work and correct Long pointer is returned. But when I try to do the same thing by VB.net (by importing the same library using dllimport and calling the same function), I get no result. although it does return some pointer but that doesn't produce correct result.
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I need to convert a windows service written in .NET into native code, independent of the .NET framework. I've looked into using NGen to do this, but couldn't figure out how to use it. Essentially, I would like to take my windows service, run it through *insert app here* and have it bundle together all of the dependent dlls from the framework into their native code equivalents, so the service is installable without the framework.
View 13 RepliesI'm using VB.Net 2008, and I'm having difficulty finding information on how to detect the presence of the SQL Native Client components. I would like to detect their presence on a computer, and then find the version of the components.Does anyone have any information?
View 4 RepliesI'm looking at a small remoting project in VB.NET. Initial research turns up references to msrdp.ocx which my Windows 7 Ult system doesn't have; a filesystem search on the same platform turns up MsRdpWebAccess.dll which doesn't appear to be well documented; finally hunting through COM references in Visual Studio turns up rdpencom.dll labeled "rdpcomapi 1.0 Type Library" which seems to be best documented via personal developer blogs (which isn't encouraging but is a lot better than other options).
My goal is a lightweight remoting application I can deploy to Windows 2000 Client/Server, WinXP x86/x64, Win2k3 Server, Vista x86/64, and Win2k8 Server.Is there anything DotNET Native I can use instead of one of these COM libraries? Is one of these COM libraries better for the job overall than others; and then am I going to have platform-specific compatibility issues if I don't provide support for more than 1 of them in my app?
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View 1 RepliesI'm writting an application that needs to connect to a postgres 9 database. I'd rather not use any 3rd party drivers like NPgsql and the like. I'd like a driver that comes with the visual studio.I tried to create a data connection from the IDE with .NET framework provider for Ole DB and the provider was "microsoft jet 4.0 OLE DB Provider" and it didn't work.
View 5 RepliesA DLL file contains some images inside PNG resource type.
I can view the PNG images in softwares like Resource Hacker, Anolis Resourcer & Resource Tuner. Check this screenshot of Anolis Resourcer for more details:
how do I get the PNG image no. 5220 from the DLL file and put it inside a PictureBox? I don't think APIs like LoadImage or LoadBitmap will work.
In a previous post [URL].. I needed to change how the values of an object's properties were displayed. In my case, I wanted to change how the native System.Drawing.PointF structure was displayed. If you check the post, it was resolved by using a TypeConverter.Now, my next question is how do I give existing properties attributes? For example, the System.Drawing.PointF structure has three properties: X, Y, and IsEmpty. I would like to give the X and Y properties descriptions. Also, I would like to hide the IsEmpty property, i.e., Browsable(False).
View 3 RepliesI'm creating a VB.Net Windows Form Application. Apologies if this is not clear as I'm still new to .Net. This consists of a text box and a gridview.The user is able to write SQL code in the textbox, click run and see the results in the gridview.It uses a SQL DataAdapter and the fill method to a datatable to populate the gridview.My problem is that I need to know the SQL datatypes for each column in the data table (NOT the .net ones). I.E SQL Server 2008 data type 'Date' is stored as System.Datetime in the datatable. I need to know if the SQL Server datatype is 'Date' or 'Datetime'.
View 2 RepliesI have a file called CalcProg.DLL written in Delphi which is used in Plaxis. I am planning to write a VB.net wrapper for this DLL. The problem is that I don't know what function names there are in the DLL. I was wondering if there was a wrapper generator so I could input a DLL and the generator generates a dummy CalcProg.vb with the function names so I could have a VB class that does something like this:
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To do some testing with MPIR, GMP, the .Net Bigint module and other math libraries I've recently written a small program which allows me to create random sequences of numbers with a certain amount of precision: Always this amount of digits in front and behind the comma, no starting/ending zeroes. While it might not be the most elegant of code, it really blew my mind when I found out my application was running up to 10 times faster with Mono under Ubuntu 10.10.While the code is not elegant and in Basic, it was developed by me in about an hour's work and it serves the purpose: To generate dependable huge datasets consisting solely of preconfigured numbers before or after the comma. To get a general idea the UI's posted here:[code]Eliminating IO by not writing to IO but just to a List instead Eliminating an "if" path which checks if the random before/after float character is checked.Disabled progress reporting in general which causes the backgroundworker to not report any progress.Play around with the amount of symbols, theres very little difference between just getting 1 random character or getting 15 per record.I'm at a loss to what causes my program to run so slow under Windows/.Net compared to Ubuntu/Mono. I'm only a "half programmer", which means: I'm a Bussiness and ICT student who mainly focusses on human ICT, and the Microsoft Platforms certainly have lead on that, however such a huge performance hit compared to Linux for this soul and simple program really gives me a cold chill when it comes to my favourite platform.
View 3 RepliesI have a function that is exported by a C library with the following signature:
extern "C" BOOL Func()
The function is declared in VB.NET code like this:
<DllImport("mylib.dll", CallingConvention:=CallingConvention.Cdecl)>
Private Shared Function Func() As Boolean
End Function
The problem is that I get an ExecutionEngineException when I call the function from .NET code.
Given that BOOL is typedef'd as int in this C code, should the declaration be different? If so, how should I be declaring this? As Short or Int32? Do I need to marshal the return value?
We are working with an existing native application (most likely written in VB) that loads assemblies and calls methods with "Late Binding." We do NOT have access to its source code. We want to implement this interface in C#, and have the native application call our C# assembly. Is this anything we have to do beyond matching the method names and method signatures to make it work?
View 2 RepliesI have a component that I have built that includes a webbrowser control. I don't know if that is important, so I mention it anyway.
When I put the control into my form everything is fine,however, when I debug the application I get the following cryptic message:
COMException crossed a native/managed boundary
Error HRESULT_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.
Private m_MouseOverListBox As Boolean = False
I need to write software that will do a lot of math. Mostly it will be matrix multiplication with integers to compute DCT. How much faster should I expect the code to run in native c as compared to VB .Net? Factor of 2, factor of 10, factor of 1000...?
View 3 RepliesI am migrating project from .net 3.5 to .net 4.0 and faced the following issue. There are 2 DllImport statements:
<DllImport("hid64.dll")> _
Public Sub GenerateHardwareID( _
<MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray, SizeParamIndex:=1)> ByVal Buffer As Byte(), _
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Is this the most straight forward way to return a typed collection?Here's the key line of code which returns a implicit type of IEnumerable that used to manually loop through to manually recreated a TYPED collection. Is there any native LINQ way to return a typed sorted collection without this recreating of the collection? [code]
View 2 RepliesIn .NET you can mark certain methods as obsolete so that developers are alerted when they attempt to use the deprecated method.
<Obsolete("Do not call this method.")> Private Sub FormerMethod()
The thing is you can only do this within classes you control. What do you do when you want your developers to avoid using certain methods on classes provided natively in .NET or by a vendor?
For example, what if you want your developer to prefer some custom extension method on DataTable rather than Select. I'd hate to have to define a custom version of the DataTable class if only to deprecate Select. That would leave us having to police whether or not the custom table was being used.
is there any native net code to convert BMP/JPG/GIF/PNG to JPG and adjust quality(if JPG),cropping and get output size?the code below just convert BMP to X, and no quality or cropping option(this code from freevbcode).
Public Function ConvertBMP(ByVal BMPFullPath As String, _
ByVal imgFormat As ImageFormat) As Boolean
Dim bAns As Boolean
Dim sNewFile As String
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I got this chunk of code off the internet, i think the sample program was called "store images and files on sql server" i added the delete routine, so it is a little better than when i found it, but it opens pictures in big picturebox at the very last line, i was wondering if there's a way to call windows photo editor or something newer instead of the form it's calling
View 6 RepliesI'm am amateur but avid computer programmer. I have been trying to find the best ways and methods to design my own webbrowsing program, like so many others individuals, using Visual Basic 2008.
A few things are a mystery to me, such as how to replace the native contextmenustrip (cms) of a Microsoft WebBrowser (imported AXWebBrowser, not to be confused with the standard WebBrowser control in VB) with the contextmenustrip of my own design.
I've searched Google, MSDN, and other potential knowledge bases to no avail.
Allow me to repeat, I am not using the VB-standard "webbrowser" control that comes pre-loaded in VB. What I am using on my Form is an "AXWebBrowser" control, a reference to the Microsoft WebBrowser that I have added myself. It has much better functionality, as far as I am concerned.
how to replace the contextmenustrip for the AXWebBrowser?
Does anyone use NGen to generate native images of their assemblies? I have always been quite puzzled by NGen because all MS articles that describe it basically make it sound like it has quite a few advantages compared to the disadvantages. Basically it looks like it will improve the speed of your application in most cases but if that is the case then why doesnt everyone use it all the time?or maybe they do and its just me that has not really used it much.The Native Image Generator (Ngen.exe) is a tool that improves the performance of managed applications. Ngen.exe creates native images, which are files containing compiled processor-specific machine code, and installs them into the native image cache on the local computer. The runtime can use native images from the cache instead using the just-in-time (JIT) compiler to compile the original assembly.
View 15 RepliesSo in a lot of frameworks there is usually some base type that you tend to extend a lot because well, it is what enables the "visual" aspect of the framework. Here in .Net it's the Control/Form... you tend to be inheriting these frequently for different things, and despite the suggestions otherwise, the team always agrees to extend explicitly and forget about composition.So now say you want to create some relationship between all of these... just a simple interface that uncovers some basic properties that all your forms and controls should have. In this case lets call it 'IProjControl'
Code:
Public Interface IProjControl
Property ProjControlId() As String
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So this interface is something you expect all your windows and dialog boxes and other some other controls implement. They all don't extend the same exact type, they all just happen to be controls.In there lies the problem... you want to enforce the contract with this interface that not only is it a 'IProjControl', but it's also a 'Control'. But we can't exactly have our interface extend Control (that doesn't make sense), and there isn't an 'IControl' interface to require implementing.
So the method I've always used is something like this:
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Public Interface IProjControl
ReadOnly Property ProjControlComponent() As Control
Property ProjControlId() As String
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(if there is actually a language/compiler specific feature that allows you to require an interface implementation to be implemented by a class extending a specific type... please, do tell... but I highly doubt there is because for all intensive purposes that sounds weird).
I have a NET (version 3.5) Class Library written in VBNET 2008 (on Windows 7 x64) that will at times display a WinForm. The class lib will be used in Excel, and I want to set the NET WinForm to be a child of the Excel Application window. If I weren't using NET, I would just call the SetParent API function, but I can't seem to get this to work since WinForms (I assume) don't have a HWnd suitable for SetParent. I'm sure this is possible, but I just can't find the right properties and methods. The WinForm will be shown modelessly so the user can switch back and forth between Excel and the displayed WinForm.
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