the forum,this is my first message, and I hope that my English is understandable (I'm Italian)....I've developed a WIndows Service using VB.net 2.0; this service executes a routine every 4 hours... I would like load a dll (without entry point) at run time and when the operation is terminated, I would like unload that. I think that I've to create a new AppDomain and to load my DLL into this, but I don't know the good way to do it.
View 9 RepliesI'm in the process of trying to create a new appdomain to load plugin dll's, then unload the new appdomain so I can update the plugin dll's without having to exit the main application. There are many, many examples out there and it looks like it should be fairly straightforward, however I'm having a problem where the main application is loading the plugin dll's along with the new appdomain. Of course this is a problem because I cannot overwrite the plugin dll's if they live in the main appdomain. Based on the examples I've seen the code below should only load the plugin dll into the new appdomain, however for some reason it also loads into the main appdomain.
Dim oDomain As AppDomain = Nothing
Dim oSetup As New System.AppDomainSetup()
With oSetup
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The IDPAPlugin interface is in a seperate project that both the plugin dll and the main application reference.
I have created a form in which i am loading thousand of records. so i want to display a progress bar.Actually i am moving from MDI main meny to some other form so when i click that menu item i want to progress bar till my total records are not loaded.
View 3 Repliesi would like to have a shared function in a separate class file to address the form location . but i dont know how can i get this to work. if i use this below code in my form its working . but i cannot move this to a class file.
Shared Sub Formlocation()
Me.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.Manual
Me.Location = Screen.GetWorkingArea(Me).Location
End Sub
How do i load the Main form of a WPF so that a seperate thread goes and gets data from the database while the form is in an apartmentstate? (drag-able / movable) I Know this is possible with opening a new window from your main form like this :
Private Sub openOrderWindow()
Dim OrderWindow As Orders = New Orders
OrderWindow.ShowDialog()
End Sub
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I've tried putting MyBase.ShowDialog() and .Show() and .9000+ other things The only benefit I've got out of using a seperate thread to load from the databse is i can see the screen right away (as oppose to it being a transparent box until it loads) but i cannot move it around or minimize it?is there any way to make it Movable while it loads?
I created a telephone number form where the user enters the telephone number in a text box as (nnn) nnn-nnnn. The first 3 digits in parenthesis are the ISD code, the next three are the area code and the last four are the local number. I need to separate out these three fields of the phone number and display in three separate text boxes labeled appropriately. Now, suppose the user enters the phone number in a text box as a continuous string of 10 digits, where the first three represent the ISD code, the next three represent the area code and the last four represent the local number. I'm lost as how to change this string into the form (nnn) nnn-nnnn. This is what I have
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I have a TabControl object on my form with many tabs created in code (TabPages) and my problem is that the same objects that are in the initial TabPage needs to be in the other TabPages created in code, I have this done in code when the user clicks the 'New Tab' menu option, however the same code is used for any new tabs created. The problem created here is that I have an event against one of the objects that appear in the other TabPages, but because the same code is used to create any new tab pages, the event will only work on the newest tab page, if that makes sense? By the way these objects that appear on the other TabPages are properties at the top so events can be handled against them in the respective subroutine.
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I'll get straight to my problem - I'm currently coding in Visual Studio.I have a table (countries) with the columns ID | Name. The table is filled with around 28 records.I also have a form with 4 combo boxes (set up as 1,2,3 & 4) that I want the user to select. These combo boxes will display the names from the table countries. I then want to use the selected names in the combo boxes to Insert into their corresponding ID into another table. For example England would have the ID 1, USA the ID 2 etc.So, is it possible to have separate combo boxes that will give separate ID values but using the same table? At the moment I can't seem to find a solution.Eventually the form will have more than 4 combo boxes so I don't want to use separate bindingsources for each combo box.
View 5 Replieshave created a new AppDomain with a unique name. But i do not want to store that name during the whole application runtime.So i ask you guys if it is possible to get that created AppDomain by name back.
Sub Main()
AppDomain.CreateDomain("TestDomain")
End Sub
so How do i get the AppDomain with the name "TestDomain" back so i can unload it later without storing that AppDomain globally?
What is AppDomain.CreateDomain
View 2 RepliesI have an ApDomain that is running a Main Routine, for example:
Public Sub Main() Implements Interfaces.IScript.Main
For a as Integer=1 to 99999
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Can you have more than one AppDomain in a process Or more than one process in a AppDomain? What about threads? I was always told there were many threads in one process and one processor has many processes. How does App Domains fit into this picture?To me, it seems like its the same concept with a different name??
View 1 RepliesFirst, I changed my ILS function to be simply: Public Overrides Function InitializeLifetimeService() As Object Return Nothing End Function
Then I included this in my Program as well as A. As Timiz0r pointed out, Form inherits MarshalByRefObject, so I didn't have to include a Inherits statement on my main class (which already inherited Form). This was the big thing, because I didn't include it originally. Next, I changed my AppDomain setup to be:
Dim _ADomain As AppDomain = AppDomain.CreateDomain(Name)
Dim item As New A
item = CType(_ADomain.CreateInstanceAndUnwrap(GetType(A).Assembly.FullName, GetType(A).FullName), A)
With these changes I can now use separate instances of the DLL COM object as desired.
Original Question I am writing an application that creates a list of objects, each referring to a DLL, and each object placed in its own AppDomain to keep the instances of the DLL from interfering with each other. Taken another way:Program maintains a List(Of A)A is created as an instance of AppDomain using CreateInstanceAndUnwrap Each A refers to mirror.dll, which is including in the application's references
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I keep getting a "System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException" in my application while loading a not-defined assembly (AKA: Plug-in loading.)Even if I turn Serialization on for that plug-in, then it will fail once again. I've been looking around and couldn't find a good tutorial about it..
So all together: How to load an assembly using AppDomain?
I have done a lot of research on the memory leaks present in the WebBrowser control, and the following thread (http:url]...) told me that the only real way to reclaim the memory eaten up by WebBrowser is to load the control in a separate appdomain.I went ahead and did this, but when I unload the AppDomain that the WebbBrowser is created in (using AppDomain.Unload()), the memory is still not freed. I am looking at the Private Bytes of the process in Task Manager (which is accurate and what I'm interested in) to confirm this. The memory usage stays at 50MB+ instead of its default 5MB.Here is my code:
Form1.vb
Imports System.Reflection
Public Class Form1
Private ad_WBInst As AppDomain[code].....
I'm kinda new here, and I didn't know what forum to put this in, so I just put it here. I wanted to load an assembly to an Application Domain, use it, then unload it when I'm done with it. The assembly uses too much memory. The problem is: After I unloaded the assembly, the memory used is not getting freed. I was watching the performance all the time. The available memory increases only after I close the whole application. And that assembly is the only thing that uses a lot of memory in my application. Here's the code I used to load and unload the assembly: How can I free up the memory without closing my application. The memory was suppose to get freed up by simply unloading the assembly that uses it much.
View 2 RepliesI have an Addin for MS Excel which needs a singleton to share data amongst modules.Depending on the version of Excel (2003, 2007, 2010), and how Excel was started, it calls my addin from different, unpredictable AppDomains, which prevents the classic singleton approach.Creating a custom AppDomainManager won't work because Excel has already created the AppDomains before the addin is called.
Linking to mscoree to enumerate domains breaks the addin registration process (and I really don't want that anyway); there doesn't seem to be any other way of enumerating, so that isn't an option either.The only solution that I've found is to use remoting. Here's my test rig:
Imports System.Runtime.Remoting
Imports System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels
' Remeber to add reference to System.Runtime.Remoting DLL[code].....
Once everything is running, access to the singleton takes ~100µS, which is perfect. I can live with the ~400mS the first time each AppDomain is initialised. The problem is at startup, where the remoting invocation takes ~2.5 seconds.
I need to get the information of all the appdomain created in given process?
View 4 RepliesI have a service application that randomly stops without any errors in my log or in the event application log. I believe that there could be an unhandled exception somewhere in the code so I set up the AppDomain.Unhandled event to catch any exceptions. While trying to induce unhandled exceptions I have found that this event is not always fired. I added the following code to my service's Shared Sub Main method (but I orginally had it in the OnStart method and was seeing mostly the same thing)
Dim currentDomain as AppDomain = AppDomain.CurrentDomain
Add Handler currentDomain.UnhandledException, Address of MyHandler
Is it possible to handle exceptions on the AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException callback? I want to do the following:Show my own "an exception hasoccured" dialog, with a "Send Report"button After the user dismissed thebox, I want to close my app, but I donot want to Windows default crash dialog "Theapplication needs to close" box toshow up.
View 2 RepliesI have created an application domain, using which i am executing an .exe file.So the command window does open which has the title as file name. I want to hide the command window.
Dim newAppDomain As AppDomain = AppDomain.CreateDomain("", AppDomain.CurrentDomain.Evidence, AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetupInformation)
newAppDomain.ExecuteAssembly(IO.Path.Combine(Offic eAddInConfig.Instance.BinPath & "Core", "file1.exe"))
Here a command prompt will be opened which need to hide.
how to create a stable plugin architecture. Stable because I plan on opening up plugin creation to the public but I dont want a sloppy coded plugin to take down my whole application.
So I thought of using an AppDomain per plugin and I did a little seaching. But it seems that even using a temp AppDomain to load plugins and then unloading it once all assemblies have been inspected raises complexity allot and I was planing on using an AppDomain per plugin.
I feel the gained stability (if there is any at all) may be raising the complexity so much the app will never be done..
Is there another way to both create a stable application and at the same time making it extensible?
I cases where the host calls a defined function via say IPluginInterface I guess I can pack a whole lot of try catch blocks around that call but what if a plugin insisted of a timed routine that would run continously without being invoked from the host other that a starting call to StartPluginService or something like that?
If I include a plugin like that in the default AppDomain and it blows up I sure will blow my own foot off right?
Is it possible to read the GUID from the Assembly without actually loading it in the current App Domain.
Normally Assembly.Load loads the DLL into the app domain. I just want to read the value. The description of the GUID is
'The following GUID is for the ID of the typelib
' if this project is exposed to COM
<Assembly: Guid("DEDDE61CD-928E-4ACD-8C25-3B8577284819")>
The main thing is I don't want to lock the file so that there are no errors 'Another process is accessing the file' error.
I published my VB 2008 Express application and installed it on a test computer. The test computer has .NET 3.5 on it, but does not have any Visual Studio development programs on it (I think this is the best way to really test it before sending it to other users. It works fine.The application reads some data from a text file. Every few days, I need to update this text file and send it to the user. (I do not want to republish everything, and I do not want to run a web server.) I naively (??) designed things so that this would be done by attaching the new text file to an email and sending it to the user. The user would simply (?) save this attachment to the same directory as the .exe was in (the application directory). In the old days, there would have been an .exe file in some folder like c:Program FilesDavewareMyprog.exe. And my .txt file would be right beside it.In the code, I have used
System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory() & "MyDataFile.txt"
in various places where I use a Streamreader and Streamwriter to access it. But I've now sent an 'update' email with the .txt file to the test computer, and proceeded to save the attachment, and then realized I'm stuck. I can't find any directory that looks like it might be a good old application folder. In fact, there are references to my application all over the place, in very ugly looking paths.Now I think I'm in trouble as I read the MSDN on BaseDirectory, which starts out:"Gets the base directory that the assembly resolver uses to probe for assemblies".Is there any way I can do things as I designed it? I can think of some work arounds, like try to hard code some folder off c: that has nothing to do with where the .exe is etc, but putting it in the 'application folder' seems so much easier and wouldn't require knowledge of which drive the .exe ended up on etc. on the user's computer.
I have a few forms that have a lot of really intensive updating along with a great deal of user interface (text boxes, button clicking etc) Is it possible to open a separate form as a separate UI thread from the start up form that called it to "show" or open or whatever the new method might be?
View 6 RepliesI want a rich text box to display public variables like (pizza toppings links etc that have been selected in other forms) these variables have declare in a module. But I want the rich text box to display these variables as soon as the screen loads ( a on form load event) if you know what I mean.
View 1 RepliesI would like to load a default created image at start. But seems to not be working on form load any ideas.[code]
View 5 RepliesWhenever i start my form (window application) and link from one form to another, my data doesn't load but when i close the respective form and open it again , it appear. Can i know where is my problem ? Thx in advance. Here's the code snippet :
Private Sub AccessControl_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim sqlstring As String = "select * from depttable"
Dim connection As New SqlConnection(db.cs)
Dim dataadapter As New SqlDataAdapter(sqlstring, connection)
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I Want A Web-Browser (WebBrowser1.Navigate [url]) to navigate to a direct site witha .txt file so the text appears in the browser. ok that works.
When Form1 Loads I want To Use This But It Wont Work WebBrowser1.Navigate[url] but it will only work if form1 contains WebBrowser1.Navigate[url] and button1 = TextBox1.Text = WebBrowser1.Document.Body.InnerText.
Final Question How Can I Get Form1.Load To Do Both Operations
i want to separate bellow lines by ; using vb.net
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sigTs=16
CIC=100,7FFF7FFF
LinkSet=001
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