Error while exporting TXTextControl as PDFA or XML - vb.net

i gain a strange error: 'This feature is not available in the TX Text Control Standard or Professional version. The TX Text Control Enterprise version must be installed.' when I try to save the TXTextControl object with .Save function in .pdfa, .xml and other formats. The error comes when I explicit the StreamType parameter in the .Save function. It seems I have not all the format offered by TXTextControl.
Error comes in this line for example:
TXTextControl.Save(dir, TXTextControl.StreamType.XMLFormat)
or
TXTextControl.Save(dir, TXTextControl.StreamType.AdobePDFA)
I searched online but I can't find references to this error and for TXTextControl enterprise or professional version.
There 's actually different versions of TXTextControl? How can I verify what version I have?
Thanks.

Using TXTextControl.GetVersionInfo().Level should tell you what level you have (as per ProductLevel property)
If you look at the Features page and open up the Supported Formats section under "Features in Detail" then you can see which formats your product level supports.

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syncfusion.pdf.pdfException"Could Not Find valid signature (%pds-).'

string docuAddr = #"C:\Users\psimmon\source\repos\PDFTESTAPP\PDFTESTAPP\TempForms\forms-www.courts.state.co.us-Forms-PDF-JDF1117.pdf";
byte[] bytes = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(docuAddr);
PdfLoadedDocument loadedDocument = new PdfLoadedDocument(bytes, true);---blows here
PdfLoadedForm myForm = loadedDocument.Form;
PdfLoadedFormFieldCollection fields = myForm.Fields;
not sure what I have done wrong here, but the PDF file is opening, either in a browser or a fileexployer window. so it has to be me, guessed at most of this, all you very smart folks, I could use your gray matter. forgive my stupidity.
The reported exception “could not find valid signature (%PDF-)” may occurs due to the file is not a PDF document. We suspect it seems the other format files are saved with the “.pdf” extension. We could not open and repair this type of document on our end, we have already added the details in our documentation,
Please find some of the following corrupted error messages that cannot be repaired:
UG: https://help.syncfusion.com/file-formats/pdf/open-and-save-pdf-file-in-c-sharp-vb-net#possible-error-messages-of-invalid-pdf-documents-while-loading
If you want to find this type of corrupted document, Syncfusion PDF Library provides support to check and report whether the existing PDF document is corrupted or not with corruption details and structure-level syntax errors.
UG: https://help.syncfusion.com/file-formats/pdf/working-with-document#find-corrupted-pdf-document
Blog: https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/post/how-to-find-corrupted-pdf-files-in-c-sharp.aspx
KB: https://www.syncfusion.com/kb/9686/how-to-identify-the-corrupted-pdf-document-using-c-and-vb-net

RavenDb: Document Refresh feature does not run at nor after the specified time by #refresh flag

I need to mark documets as expired after some time and therefore I am trying to use #refresh feature to re-run subscription and to compute my 'expired' flag. I know there is 'Document expiration' feature but this one removes data which I don't want.
I have turned Refresh feature in settings and added #refresh UTC datetime in metadata for required documents. For example I added manually this document:
{
"Name": "My data",
"#metadata": {
"#collection": "Testing",
"#refresh": "2021-04-30T07:41:35.4845961Z"
}
}
It looks like I am facing non deterministic behavior - sometimes refresh is processed sometimes not. I tried with different combinations of times and set through code or via Raven Studio.
Refresh interval is set to refresh but still says "in less than a minute"
I am using
Community license (Document refresh not mentioned here, but I don't see it mentioned for any other licenses as well)
community license extensions
tried more vresions of RavenDB with same result (5.1.7. was looking more promising as it worked for some time but after a while stopped):
4.2.111 server/studio version in Docker on Windows 10
5.1.7 server/studio version
C# RavenDB.Client 5.1.6
Did not find related issue in bug tracker
https://issues.hibernatingrhinos.com/issues/RavenDB?q=document%20refresh
Any ideas what to check or what might be the case?
EDIT: After turned logging into console I found some error log. It looks like
RavendbProject, Raven.Server.Documents.Expiration.ExpiredDocumentsCleaner, Failed to refresh documents on RavendbProject which are older than 05/17/2021 09:48:47, EXCEPTION: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
RavendbProject | at Sparrow.Server.ByteStringContext`1.From(String value, ByteStringType type, ByteString& str) in C:\Builds\RavenDB-Stable-5.1\51024\src\Sparrow.Server\ByteString.cs:line 1297
RavendbProject | at Raven.Server.Documents.DocumentPutAction.PutDocument(DocumentsOperationContext context, String id, String expectedChangeVector, BlittableJsonReaderObject document, Nullable`1 lastModifiedTicks, String changeVector, DocumentFlags flags, NonPersistentDocumentFlags nonPersistentFlags) in C:\Builds\RavenDB-Stable-5.1\51024\src\Raven.Server\Documents\DocumentPutAction.cs:line 190
Also worth mentioning is that my document was stored in ClusterWide transaction and thus I can see in one of my documents corresponding flag:
"#flags": "FromClusterTransaction",
My current suspicion is that it may happen that one of these documents prevented other documents from being refreshed. After deleting cluster-transaction document, other documents in collection were refreshed
The bug related to document that was added via cluster transaction, the workaround for now would be to not use cluster transaction.
I have opened an issue on bug tracker,
https://issues.hibernatingrhinos.com/issue/RavenDB-16710

How to convert certain C# code to VB.NET

I've been googling around around and read this article
C# How to get SQL Server installation path programatically?
and this is exactly what i need in VB.NET , however i'm not good in translating this code into VB.NET Code. So, any help would greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Note : I'm using SQL Server 2005 and Visual Basic 2008
While the question was originally titled about retrieving SQL Server's installation path, I felt it was more about a code translation problem (the solution already existed, just not in the right language).
But then I thought that the method in the original code was fairly blunt.
Evan provided you with what I assume is a workable translation of the existing solution. But probably a much easier way to perform this specific task - assuming you just need to find the installation path for an instance you're already connected to, and assuming that a user who can read the registry will also have VIEW SERVER STATE permissions - is to issue this simple query against the DMV sys.dm_os_loaded_modules from your program:
SELECT name
FROM sys.dm_os_loaded_modules
WHERE name LIKE '%sqlservr.exe';
This will give you something like this:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.SQL2012\MSSQL\Binn\sqlservr.exe
You have some parsing to do, depending on exactly what you're after (e.g. do you want to stop at MSSQL, or Binn?), but this is much easier than reading the registry or other methods that are out there IMHO.
I just used a code converter ... There are only basic things that need to be changed ..
Using sqlServerKey As RegistryKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server")
For Each subKeyName As String In sqlServerKey.GetSubKeyNames()
If subKeyName.StartsWith("MSSQL.") Then
Using instanceKey As RegistryKey = sqlServerKey.OpenSubKey(subKeyName)
Dim instanceName As String = instanceKey.GetValue("").ToString()
If instanceName = "MSSQLSERVER" Then
'say
Dim path__1 As String = instanceKey.OpenSubKey("Setup").GetValue("SQLBinRoot").ToString()
path__1 = Path.Combine(path__1, "sqlserver.exe")
Return path__1
End If
End Using
End If
Next
End Using
If you were to just read a quick article on C#, you would notice that strings are declared differently, and minor syntax discrepancies exist such as foreach vs for each
You can read here for some more common differences.
I use a very good (offline) tool, called Convert .NET Free
It's from www.fishcodelib.com
Here's a direct link to the latest release (as of 19/04/14) Size: 2.06MB, File: Zip :
[Direct Link]
Hope this is of some use ;)
P.S. This software requires .NET Framework 4.5.
This almost never fails! :) Good Luck
http://www.developerfusion.com/tools/convert/csharp-to-vb/

Crystal reports 11 RDC (COM API) displays printer dialog even when I tell it not to prompt

I'm using Crystal Reports 11's RDC (COM) API to print. My code looks like this:
HRESULT res = m_Report->SelectPrinter(b_driver, b_device, b_port);
if (FAILED(res)) return res;
// For these calls, the #import wrapper throws on error
m_Report->PutPrinterDuplex(dmDuplex);
m_Report->PutPaperSize(dmPaperSize);
m_Report->PutPaperSource((CRPaperSource)pdlg->GetDevMode()->dmDefaultSource);
if (m_Report->GetPaperOrientation() == crDefaultPaperOrientation)
m_Report->PutPaperOrientation(crPortrait);
VARIANT vfalse;
VariantInit(&vfalse);
vfalse.vt=VT_BOOL;
vfalse.boolVal=0;
res = m_Report->PrintOut(vfalse);
However, at the end of all this, crystal reports still shows its own printer selection dialog - but only for some reports, it seems. Why does crystal reports show a print dialog even when I pass false for promptUser? And how, then, can I suppress crystal reports' internal printer selection dialog and force it to use my values?
Edit: Whoops, CR11, not CR9.
Some further information:
The reports that work properly (ie, do not show the print dialog) are generated internally using the RDC API; we create a new report object, import subreports into it, then print the result. No problem there.
The reports that do not work properly (ie, force the print dialog to open) have been created with a previous version of crystal reports; however, opening and saving the report does not seem to help.
Sample reports in the Crystal Reports installation directory show the same problem.
I tried reproducing with VBScript; however, the result was that nothing was printed at all (no dialog, no nothing):
Set app = CreateObject("CrystalRuntime.Application.11")
Set report = app.OpenReport("C:\Program Files\Business Objects\Crystal Reports 11.5\Samples\en\Reports\General Business\Inventory Crosstab.rpt")
report.PrintOut(True)
rem Testing with a True parameter to force a print dialog - but no printout and nothing appears (no error either though)
First, let me preface that I'm not a C/C++ programmer, so I'm not able to test the code--my interaction w/ the SDK has been with the VB and .Net interface over the years.
I found the following code from BO's devlibrary:
// A dummy variant
VariantInit (&dummy);
dummy.vt = VT_EMPTY;
HRESULT hr = S_OK;
// Specify the path to the report you want to print
_bstr_t ReportPath("c:\\Program Files\\Business Objects\\Crystal Reports 11.5\\Samples\\En\\Reports\\General Business\\Inventory.rpt");
_variant_t vtEmpty(DISP_E_PARAMNOTFOUND, VT_ERROR);
// Instantiate the IApplication object
m_Application.CreateInstance("CrystalRuntime.Application.115");
//Open the Report using the OpenReport method
m_Report = m_Application->OpenReport(ReportPath, dummy)
//Print the Report to printer
m_Report->PrintOut(dummy, dummy, dummy, dummy);
Does it work? It should print the report with its 'default' printer settings and without prompting.
You wrote:
However, at the end of all this,
crystal reports still shows its own
printer selection dialog - but only
for some reports, it seems.
Generally speaking, I've found that Crystal tends to ignore commands to suppress dialogs if it thinks something is missing. I've found this to be true with the parameter dialog. Perhaps it apply to this situation as well. I would ask what is different about the reports that cause the dialog to be generated. There is a 'no printer' option that can be set. Perhaps this is the common thread.
Do you have access to the VB6 IDE? If you write the equivalent commands using VB6's interface, does the prompting occur?
You might also investigate using the CRPE32.dll instead of the report-designer control. To be honest, I don't know if the RDC wraps the CRPE DLL or is an entirely-separate code base.
Turns out it was a bug in my code after all - I'd previously put in a wrapper for the RDC API to fix certain other bugs we were having; due to the large number of methods in the IReport interfaces, I wrote a script to generate pass-through stubs for the methods I wasn't interested in. Turns out that script was passing in bogus values for parameters with default values. Oops! Fixing the wrapper code fixed the bug here.

MSBuild and IgnoreStandardErrorWarningFormat

I'm trying to write a MSBuild project that will generate html documentation using doxygen. I couldn't find anything about that on the net except for one example, which seems incomplete; it doesn't parse doxygen warnings.
I found that MSBuild's Exec task has parameters like IgnoreStandardErrorWarningFormat and CustomWarningRegularExpression. What is the "Standard Error/Warning Format" and what kind of REs are allowed in these properties?
Edit: ah, "Inside the Microsoft Build Engine" wrongly describes it as property in .NET 3.5, where it is actually from 4. No use for me...
The standard msbuild error/warning format is described here.
In a nutshell, the format is:
MSBuild recognizes error messages and warnings that have been specially formatted by many command line tools that typically write to the console. For instance, take a look at the following error messages - they are all properly formatted to be MSBuild and Visual Studio friendly.
Main.cs(17,20): warning CS0168: The variable 'foo' is declared but never used
C:\dir1\foo.resx(2) : error BC30188: Declaration expected.
cl : Command line warning D4024 : unrecognized source file type 'foo.cs', object file assumed
error CS0006: Metadata file 'System.dll' could not be found.
These messages confirm to special format that is shown below, and comprise 5 parts - the order of these parts are important and should not change:
Origin (Required)
Origin can be blank. If present, the origin is usually a tool name, like 'cl' in one of the examples. But it could also be a file name, like 'Main.cs' shown in another example. If it is a file name, then it must be an absolute or a relative file name, followed by an optional parenthesized line/column information in one of the following forms:
(line) or (line-line) or (line-col) or (line,col-col) or (line,col,line,col)
Subcategory (Optional)
Subcategory is used to classify the category itself further, and should not be localized.
Category (Required)
Category must be either 'error' or 'warning'. Case does not matter. Like origin, category must not be localized.
Code (Required)
Code identifies an application specific error code / warning code. Code must not be localized and it must not contain spaces.
Text (Optional)
User friendly text that explains the error, and must be localized if you cater to multiple locales.
The format is fully documented in the MSBuild source code here.
I can't find docs on it right now, but I think the standard error format is something like
.*(\d+(,\d+(,\d+,\d+)?)?)?: error .*:.*
.*(\d+(,\d+(,\d+,\d+)?)?)?: warning .*:.*
examples:
c:\somefile.txt(10,20,10,30): error CMD1234: blarg
c:\somefile.txt(10,20): error CMD1234: yadda yadda
c:\somefile.txt: warning ARG5678: blah blah