I've been using a simple mouse hook and some accessiblity api stuff to retreive caption under mouse (ObjectFromPoint) and accessibility api for events (ObjectFromEvent).It seems like there is memory leaks with unmanaged callbacks.With the global mouse hook it seems there is 4 - 8k of ram added every time the mouse is just moved even though I only monitor mousedown and mouseup with:
Private Const WM_LBUTTONDOWN As UInteger = &H201
Private Const WM_LBUTTONUP As UInteger = &H202
Private Const WM_MBUTTONDOWN As UInteger = &H207
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And with accessibility it seems there is also memory issues with my code. Is this to do with delegates?I only managed to find one mention on the mouse hook issues which led me in to a dead end.A long shot and maybe not even needed but I was wondering, if these mem leaks can't be stopped, would it free up the memory if I used threads which could be exited and new ones started eg.mem usage 3000k of which 1000k is leaked mem (for round figures) I exit global mouse hook thread and start a new m-hook thread.would this free up the memory? If so, how would i do this, not use threading before.
I have a BackgroundWorker object that I instantiated to perform a DB process on a background thread ansynchronously. I have event handlers for DoWork and RunWorkerCompleted. I can tell that the BackgroundWorker is disposing of itself because I added a message box into the Disposed event handler.Is it necessary to detach the event handlers to ensure that the memory is cleaned up and that there are not memory leaks?
I've noticed that every time I start a new thread in my program, the memory usage jumps about 1000k and it never goes back down. I have ensured that the thread is no longer running, and only one instance of my worker thread is ever running at a time. I am using ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem and ASyncOperation to get stuff done. The program starts using a Sub Main in a module that uses STAThread; I read that using STAThread instead of MTAThread makes it impossible for the Garbage Collector to get in and consider objects for garbage collection. However, when I change the STAThread to an MTAThread, the WebBrowser control in my frmMain cannot be instantiated.
I get this exception:
Code: An unhandled exception of type 'System.Threading.ThreadStateException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll
Additional information: ActiveX control '8856f961-340a-11d0-a96b-00c04fd705a2' cannot be instantiated because the current thread is not in a single-threaded apartment. I do threading with the WebBrowser control, so will using MTAThread fix my problem? If so, how should I partition my code so that the WebBrowser control won't be affected by the above exception? I call the thread repeatedly with a timer (although only one instance ever runs at a time), and my program's memory usage starts at about 5000k and can jump to 300,000k+ depending on many times the thread needs to be called.
I have attempted to understand the behind-the-scenes stuff for Events several times. I must have read at least a dozen articles but there is still some ambiguity in my head.
What is the best way to write functions in Microsoft.NET (VB) to avoid memory leaks. I have always followed this style:
Public Sub TestMemoryLeak() Dim testCon As SqlConnection Try
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Here the connection reference is created before the TRY clause and is initialised after the TRY clause. I believe the connection is always closed and dereferenced even if an exception is thrown. Is this good practice? I see a lot of code that creates references and dereferences in the TRY clause, but this would mean that the memory is not correctly handled if an exception is thrown. Some developers say they don't like to clean up in the finally clause.
How can I write a signed byte (sbyte) to unmanaged memory using VB.NET? I can use Marshal.WriteByte() to write an unsigned byte, but there doesn't appear to be an overload for signed bytes.
I have a structure in VB.NET that has a dynamic array of double as a parameter. I am passing an array of structure (GElement) to a C++ DLL. I tried converting my array of GElement into a block of unmanaged memory, it works in VB.NET but crashes in my C++ DLL. I get the same error just trying to simply pass an array of GElement to my DLL instead of a Intptr.
Here is the error 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000004
Here is my function and structure in the DLL: void _stdcall TestGElement(GElement* ge,long& nbge){ nbge=5; } struct GElement { double Step2D; double Step3D ; [Code] .....
I know it is easier if the array inside the structure as an already defined constant size but that can't be the case here...
Because this is a static event, you must detach your event handlers when your application is disposed, or memory leaks will result.my interpretation is that "detach your event handlers" only means those that i've added using AddHandler? the ones using Handles keyword will be safe right?
I want to check for leaks?This code is run at load of the MDI form.So Gdi and User get set then.This code also runs when a child closes.The counts at closing do not equal those at load.If there is no leaks, should they?If not, why not?Can I do something to make this work?Maybe force GC?
Static Gdi As Integer = 0 Static User As Integer = 0 If Gdi = 0 Then
In VB 2005, I am calling a C++ DLL function that returns the address in memory and size in bytes of a jpeg image. How can I load that jpeg image directly from memory into a picture box in my VB form? I cannot afford to save it to disk first.
Im getting a problem with one of my programs I have made in visual basic.NET where it gives me a memory error when i debug the program in the IDE. the exact error is this: "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt". My program basically has a few forms with text fields on that get their text values from an access database on the same hard drive. Im wondering if im doing something wrong because my program just seems to eat up memory whenever it does anything. For example I have one form that has a combobox on it and when you change the drop down list selection it retreives a few strings from the database and puts them into the relevant text boxes, if you keep changing the selection then the memory usage (in task manager) just keeps going up and up. occasionally I get the error mentioned above when debugging but in my built version of the program it throws an exception everytime the memory usage gets past 49K.
Also I noticed when debugging in the "immediate window" frame I get the following message often:A first chance exception of type 'System. Invalid OperationException' occurred in System.Data.dll...Do I need to somehow be "releasing" the memory that is used to gather data once it becomes redundant?
Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
QuoteSystem.AccessViolationException was unhandled Message="Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt." Source="System.Windows.Forms"
Im designing a web browser and i continue to receive this error after going to about 3 websites it crashes with that error.
i need to pass commands through a C++ dll to vb.net and the other way around. is there some code that needs to be in the C++ dll to make it work? im not good at C++ at all,
I cannot use Visual Basic 2008 at all. When I go to "new project" and choose "Windows Form Application" I get this error.I have tried multiple uninstall/reinstall with no result.A microsoft reply to this suggested that I needed: " .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 " I checked, and I did not have the .netframework 2.0 service Pack 1. When I tried to download and install the above from Microsoft.com, the istaller said that "it was not allowsed" and I was not able to install the service pack 1.
I tried Uninstalling net framework 3.5, 3.0, 2.0 and then reinstalling .netframework 2.0 sevice pack 1; then reinstalling Visual basic 2008 express edition. At the reinstall of Visual basic 2008, .netframework 2.0 sevice pack 1 is unistalled by .net framework service pack 2.When I check the foruims for simiar problems, the formus are mostly for Visual basic 5.0, or other programs that I do not have.
Here is the programs I have installed:
Operating system: Windows XP Microsoft .net framework 1.1 Microsoft .NET framwork 1.1 Hotfix(KB928366) Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2
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All the security updates and hotfixes for Widows XP.
The follow code can be called about 6K times on the server it is run on then gets a out of memory error in the last catch statement. I don't see what is wrong with the code, it works well up until the out of memory..
Public Function AddUserToGroup(ByVal sSamAccountName As String, ByVal sGroupName As String) As Boolean Try Dim returnStatus As Boolean = True[code]......
I have two forms, Form1 and Form2. Form2 has a button to show OpenFileDialog. I call Form2 from Form1 by a button. My startUp Form is Form1. When i start debugging, i press my Form1's button to show my Form2, it shows, but when i click On Form2's Button to show OpenFileDialog it is giving me exception that
"Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt."
When i set my startup Form to Form2 and click Form2's Button to show OpenFileDialog then it shows!
im trying to make a simple wrapper for lua. The only problem so far is that lua only accepts a method in a specific format.Delegate Function LuaC Function(ByVal lua_state As IntPtr) As Integer..That is how lua wants the method to look like. So it only accepts a function that looks like this: [code]
I created a vb.net dll called "WSdll.dll".I compiled it, created a type library (tlb), and registered it globally(gacutil)..It includes a file called wsutils.vb, which includes a namespace called "wsutils".In the namespace, there's an interface (with attribute) called "IWSconnection", and a class called "WSconnection".The interface and class are public, as are all methods and properties.[code]...
I have an application written in .NET 4.0 that needs to load in memory a native DLL (written C). At the moment I am using a P/Invoke call to LoadLibrary passing the path where the DLL is located. This works, but due to the fact that this DLL comes from a DB, I would like to know if it is possible loading it through a stream, avoiding then the necessity to store the DLL somewhere in the filesystem.
I have an application which has been succesfully installed on a number of different client machines.
The problem I now have is that I have been asked to allow third party applications, possibly written in a non .net language set to plug into my application and execute some of the code. Just a handfull of properties and half a dozen methods.
Now I can wrap up these properties/methods, make them public and have them in their own project which will be part of my solution but I have no idea where to go from here.
How do I make this portion of my application accessible to a third party application written in unmanaged code ?
Question: I use an embedded Firebird database in ASP.NET.
Now, Firebird has a .NET wrapper around native dlls.
The problem is, with the ASP.NET compilation and execution process, the dlls get shadow copied to a temporary folder. Unfortunately, only the .NET dlls, and not the native dll.
See [URL] for details.
Now, this makes it necessary to put the unmanaged dll somewhere into the system32 directory (or any other directory in the path environment variable).
Now, I want to change the wrapper/native dll (opensource), so it loads the dlls also if they are only in the bin folder.
Now, my problem is, how can I, in .NET, load an unmanaged dll from an absolute path ? The absolute path is determined at runtime, not at compile-time...
Maybe this is not true ... But how to connect an unmanaged DirectX to VB.NET? For anyone dll I use <DllImport()>, but Unmaged DirectX have interface.... Than I tried use "<ComImport(), Guid(...)...>", but I do not know how to use COM interfaces Maybe I did not really understand COM technolgy... I tried find documentation "how to use com interfaces", but found nothing.
I'm having some trouble finding the syntax for making function calls to unmanaged DLLs in VB.NET. Let's just assume there's a function "Connected" in unmanaged DLL "Connector.DLL". I want to call this function by creating an abstract function call to it.
I've seen some code out there that looks something like [DllImport("Connector.DLL")] Public Shared Function Connect(ByVal intPort) But that syntax doesn't work for me.
I need to call a function in an unmanaged .dll written in C lang from vb.net. The function declaration looks like this [code]Now the behavior of this function is that it copies some data in argument "reply" and returns a numeric value which signals its pass/fail status. How do i pass it a string object so that it can copy data. Following is how i access this function.[code]When the call completes, returned status is absolutely fine but there is nothing in string "str". What is it that i am missing. I'm not sure about the string object that i am passing as argument.
I need to call a function in an unmanaged .dll written in C lang from vb.net. The function declaration looks like thisLONG _stdcall ReadInfo(char *reply);Now the behavior of this function is that it copies some data in argument "reply" and returns a numeric value which signals its pass/fail status. How do i pass it a string object so that it can copy data.Following is how i access this function.
I'm migrating some VB6 code to VB.net,the code contains a structure that contains 1d arrays, 2d arrays, and few other variables.The general outline of the Vb.net structure is as under
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The call to the dll is declared as under Public Declare Sub getState Lib "val.dll" (ByRef state As Test)Elsewhere on this site I realized that we have to "marshal" the structure to allow it to be compatible with the unmanaged code that is about to accept it.However I still receiving runtime errors when running the code, I don't have any clue of how to use the System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal class.What would be the correct way to pass this structure to the dll?EDIT: The original VB6 data type is
What should be the VB signature for the unmanaged function void PopulateBSTR(BSTR outstring)?The function PopulateBSTR does a SysAllocString and populates the string. Note the unmanagaed signature has the argument BSTR and not BSTR*. I can marshal the BSTR string using IntPtr signature when the C++ signature has BSTR* as the argument.
(The unmanaged code is an external dll which I cannot modify but I need to use.)
