Server / Service That Communicates With Multiple PCs
Feb 24, 2012
I am hoping to get some advice on a project that I am wanting to work on. I have never done a web service/windows service or anything along the lines of what I am thinking so I would like some advice from some more experienced developers.I will be using VS2008 and VB.NET. My company currently mostly works in .NET 2.0 for our commercial application, but since this will be used mostly in house I would be able to use .NET 3.5 if suggested (am just not overly familiar with the additional features in .NET 3.5).What I would like is to have a server/service that communicates with multiple PCs. I want to create an application/web page (not familiar with web development so would probably start out as a winform app and possibly move to a web app to consume the service) that would query the web service/remoting service/whatever to retrieve information from each of the PCs (track the version of the application that is running, retrieve log files, push an update program to the PC (to be run manually)).
Not being too familiar with this type of scenario I was thinking something to the effect of:Each PC run a Windows Service that monitored the local PC. When something changes (software update installed?), tell the web service that the new version is installed.A service (web service? remoting server? other?) running on a PC that would be the interface to the windows service (not sure how the web service would talk to the Windows service without the Windows service initiating, though, unless it is also running a server) on the individual PCs. The service could request an update from the PCs (get the software version, request a file). The service would also be able to push an update program to the PCs to be run manually.
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Oct 12, 2010
I'm not sure if this is where I should post as to this is my first time on these forums. But, I am creating something that communicates to a server, and on the server part it's giving me troubles, and I am confused on how to fix it. I did rip the code off some where online.The line that I am getting the error "Warning2'Public Sub New(port As Integer)' is obsolete: 'This method has been deprecated. Please use TcpListener(IPAddress localaddr, int port) instead.[URL].. on is this line:
Dim tcpListener As New TcpListener(portNumber)
Imports System.Net.Sockets
Imports System.Text
Module Module1
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Aug 23, 2009
I am trying to write an app that communicates with a server that was written in C. Not knowing C at all so i have some problems understanding the messages in c-style struct format that i need to send from the vb.net side.
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Dec 19, 2008
Basically, I have an app that communicates with a server. I need a way to monitor all the sent and received packets that are being transmitted through the app. I've been killing myself the past two days trying to figure a way to hook into ws2_32.dll to monitor these packets but I can't find a way!
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Jul 13, 2010
In my application, I've built an object that communicates with an OPC server and whenever the value of a certain OPC item changes, it logs all the OPC items to a database. This all works beautifully. However, I'm having a problem with disposing of the instances of this class. Whenever I want to remove an instance of this class from the application, I'm dereferencing the object (objDevice = Nothing) and letting GC take care of the rest. I've inserted breakpoints and am monitoring to ensure that the object is dereferenced (it is).
Problem is, even after the object has been dereferenced and is CONFIRMED to be equal to Nothing, the object is still logging data to the database. I'm still trying to get a handle on disposing of objects properly, but most everything I read tells me to dereference and let Garbage Collection take over.
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May 3, 2011
When you create a Windows Service, you create a list of the services you want to start. The default is this:
ServicesToRun = New System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase() {New Service}
Can you have multiple instances of the same Service class (that bind to different addresses or ports), like this?
ServicesToRun = New System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase() {New Service("Option1"), New Service("Option2")}
Or will that cause problems? Should we use two different classes instead?
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Oct 15, 2011
I have a question regarding the dataset usage in Reporting Services. I have a stored procedure which returns multiple select statements (result tables), and I created a Dataset in Reporting Services 2005 with this stored procedure. The problem is that I can not reference the second or third result table, and I can only use the first select statement fields. Is this the limitation on Reporting Services Dataset or is there a way to use multiple table results in one dataset?
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Jun 5, 2009
I want to make a program that can communicate with other programs, Like a tcpserver/client.But i don't know where to start. I want the user to be able to submit several urls to pictures on the internet and for other users to be able to view those pictures. How can I do this?
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Jan 8, 2010
I have been struggling to find a solution for this problem. What I need to do is build a server application that accepts tcp client requests from different clients running on same port say:1003. I experimented by using asynchronous mode call backs etc. but it disconnects once connection is established and does not respond for further requests from the same client.
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Nov 9, 2011
I Have a problem with vb.net. Basically I created an application that communicates via system.net.socket. on the server side of client connect, and a thread checks whether there are new incoming data. if there are data, puts them in a few tread declared variables, together with the "index" of the server. once this is done through "INVOKE" calls a routine that checks the incoming data andperforms an operation based on the data. I'll see what I do not work
Dim returndata As String = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(data)
TextBox1.Text = ("DATA : " & returndata & "Socketindex =" & socketindex.ToString & " Index=" & index.ToString)
But that does not appear in the texbox, appears only "returndata", the rest c 'is same thing with the messagebox, individually, can display a messagebox with variable,but when I try to make a messagebox that displays them together, the texbox same thing!
And the same thing if I want to compare them with each other, for example
if index
= 0 then msgbox ("OK")
It does not work ...
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Jul 18, 2009
I am using Visual Basic Express 2008 to write an application that communicates with a Digi Watchport/D sensor. This is an IR sensor and I checked the manual for the commands to send to it. In order to get the distance, it say to send the sensor the command D<CR>. Here is my code so far...
Option Explicit On
Option Strict On
Imports System.IO.Ports
Public Class Form1
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Every time when i click the button, I get the timeout exception error message.
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Jan 9, 2012
I create a new web service in VS and I create a function that return a value This the code of my function
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Mar 28, 2010
How do I restart an installed SQL Server service? I've used that code for this, but it didn't worked. I think it won't find the exact service name. So it doesn't work.
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Apr 18, 2011
I have inherited a .NET 4 VS2010 solution consisting of a WinForms app and a web service. I don't have access to a server that's running a copy of the web service but I have to run, debug, upgrade and test the project that accesses the web service as well as the web service code.Later, I also want to quickly switch between a deployed web service and the code in my local projectWhat's the best strategy for changing the projects so I can make changes to both projects, test locally, deploy the web service then test against that? If I find issues, I want to switch back to "local" mode to debug.
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May 13, 2009
how to publish or consume web service at my server?how to reference web service from different web forms? i have a webservice it works fine at local host. i need to upload web service on my website which is written in visual basic 2008 asp .net and my website is written in c# asp .net. how do i reference web service in my c# page.
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Oct 6, 2011
I have a service installed. I would like to install this service (but with different features) twice on the same server but cant as the second service recognises it as the first. How could i avoid this?
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Oct 25, 2011
I have a solution in VS 2010: a WCF Service Library project ("NotifyService") and two Windows Forms projects, one for a server ("NotifyServer")and one for a client ("NotifyClient"). My goal is to have a duplex WCF service that will notify any number of connected clients when the server pushes out a notification. The clients do not need to communicate to the server except to subscribe and unsubscribe from the server's updates. However I seem to be running into problems nailing down the InstanceContext.
Here's the code for the WCF service:
<ServiceContract(
CallbackContract:=GetType(INotifyCallback),
SessionMode:=SessionMode.Required)>
[Code].....
Since I'm setting everything up through code, there are no app.config files. The problem I'm having is that my Subscribe method is never called. When debugging, I get an error after stepping through that line (not an exception) that says "Unable to automatically step into the server. The debugger failed to stop in the server process." When I go back to my server form and click the button designed to raise an event on the callback clients, it steps into the NotifyService class but the _callbacks list is empty, meaning the Subscribe method either never ran, or it never ran on that instance.
I have fought with this for almost a week. This is nearly an identical copy, at least on the service-side, to what was described here, and I've compiled that and it works.
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Oct 28, 2010
I have developed several Windows Services applications which all use SQL server. In some occasions, the customer shuts down the server and then restarts it the following morning. But then, my service is started BEFORE SQL Server starts and, of course, fails.
In which order are the services started ?
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Oct 14, 2011
I have created a self hosted service with a proxy Service and Contracts
Namespace ECDBDatabase.Service
Public Class DatabaseService
<ServiceContract(Name:="DatabaseService", Namespace:="net.tcp://localhost:9010/ECDBDatabase.Service")> _
Public Interface IRPMSDatabaseService
<OperationContract()> _
Function GetHandover(ByVal Username As String, ByVal Password As String) As DataSet
End Interface
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Mar 21, 2011
I've got a webservice called Converter.asmx and I've just noticed that on the remote server I basically can't connect to it. The error that I get: "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:49792" and the error occurs where I'm calling the web service (second line below).
Dim webservice As New localhost.Converter
results.InnerHtml = webservice.ParseData(txtInput.InnerText, options)
On my localhost it works fine. How can I change the webservice so that it'll work on the remote host as well?
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Dec 4, 2009
I have a windows service written in .net framework 2.0. This service installs and runs perfectly fine on both XP and windows server 2003.We have a new 2008 box that we are migrating over to, so need to get this windows service up and running.When i try to 'start' the windows service on the 2008 machine, i get "Windows could not start the <service> service on local computer. Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion."I have searched everywhere looking for an answer, and all I could find was a fix attributed to .net framework 1.1 for this same error. That; however, is not applicable here, as the service was written in 2.0.
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Apr 22, 2012
I have an android application that is creating a JSONArray with:
List<String[]> sqlist = MySQLiteHelper.selectAll();
JSONArray jsArray = new JSONArray(sqlist);
Which is calling
public static List<String[]> selectAll()
{
List<String[]> list = new ArrayList<String[]>();
Cursor cursor = db.query(TABLE_BREADCRUMBS, new String[]
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Oct 16, 2008
I have created a self hosted service with a proxy
Service and Contracts
Namespace ECDBDatabase.Service
Public Class DatabaseService
<ServiceContract(Name:="DatabaseService",
[code].....
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Aug 31, 2010
I created a windows application service that runs every 20 seconds to collect data from avaya cms and then dump it into a database. I did this using a timer. Since I had to have access to the clipboard to get the data and parse it, I had to be in STA. Unfortunately,just putting the STA before the Main() (or any other sub) did not keep the service in single thread mode. So I had to create a new thread and join it like so:
Public Class CMS
Protected Overrides Sub OnStart(ByVal args() As String)
Timer1.Enabled = True
Timer1.Start()
[code]....
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May 17, 2012
I am writing a service to get a count from a table on an SQL server. THe SQL box is in the same domain, and the service is runnign under the same account as the SQL box.
The box service is running on is Win 2008 in the domain. The interesting thing is that when I use this same code and run a normal EXE on that server, it runs no issues. In a service it crashe with:[code...]
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Jun 14, 2010
I recently reimaged my PC and regrabbed one of our projects from Source Safe. In our solution we have a web service that normally runs on a server, however we can build the webservice on our localhost for debugging as well. However, now whenever I grab the project from source safe it is building the webservice as a website instead of a developer web server.
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May 15, 2009
i am looking into web services to be used for a windows forms application that i want to connect to my website and return data from my database. One thing i am concerned about is security. I have only played with web service a little bit but it seems to allow direct access to it by url and then run the service, showing the results in the browser. i guess i could set it up to accept a password in the code. i guess really if i have to pass in the query criteria to the sql from the application then showing the records in a browser should not be a problem. in my web application for the site i can keep all my web services in the app_data folder for no browser access.
i just need some advice in this area. goods, bads, other options if better. i don't have a full grasp on working this way from a client side windows application.
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Dec 24, 2010
I have a windows service application that is meant to interact with SQL server database (INSERT, UPDATE, ETC). The windows service application is also multi-threaded.I created an "App_Data " folder to keep my database and used app.config file for connection information, etc.
After installing and starting the service, nothing happens, the database doesnt get updated, etc.
Has anyone ever written a windows service application that interacts with a database? Kindly advice me on how to overcome this problem..
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Jul 14, 2011
i have a Windows service that is hosting a WCF service through net.tcp and this is working great. I have also created a WCF service application. I am trying to add the net.tcp service reference to the service application. Then I add it to the GAC that goes ok but if I try to RegAsm the WCF service application to allow it to be called from Server.CreateObject I get the error:
Warning: Type library exporter encountered a type that derives from a
generic class and is not marked as
[ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None)]. Class interfaces cannot be
exposed for such types. Consider marking the type with
[ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None)] and exposing an explicit
interface as the default interface to COM using the
ComDefaultInterface attribute.
It does not work. I have tried to call it through a class library but this does not work either as the end point is not set correctly.
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Mar 26, 2009
I use VB.net to create a Windows Service . its job is to connect a server ( for exemple \10.10.10.10ox named P: and collect files .but the problem is the result of mapping the server ( Dir P: = "" ) return nothing i don't find my files !!!Do i have to use the ftp in windows service ?? because when i use a windows form apllication there is no problems and I find all the files
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