I'm a hardware/software developer and prefer to keep my source files on an external USB drive or thumbdrive. The problem I've been facing for years it seems is when I try to save these files. When I save a file and then compile I occasionally get syntax errors on lines that don't even exist in my source. For example it will complain about line 83 when my source file is only 80 lines long. Lets say I have the file open in a particular editor (I prefer Programmers Notepad or Notepad++) and see only 80 lines... I can save but then if I pop open the same file in parallel using something like Wordpad sure enough... I see the extra lines and it looks like the last few lines of real code got munged and then appended to the end of the file.
At first I thought it was the editor but have found that no matter what editor I use it happens fairly frequently. I recently upgraded to a new laptop and OS (From Win7 to Win10) and lo and behold the same problem exists here. Tried different USB drives/sticks.... same deal. Am I missing something??? This problem has been driving me bonkers! :P
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Embed a part of a solution that accidently got linked from outside
I am not fully aware how all parts of a VB.net solution are interlinked.
When I wanted to work at home, I put files on a USB stick to continue there.
That didn't work at all.
Now my work is like a fallen cup: I got all parts but they don't work together anymore.
I can only build the project when the USB stick is connected.
Every attempt to get the file back onto the desktop PC has failed.
What can I do to get the file onto the desktop computer so the USB stick is no longer needed?
What I tried: copy manually (not working) and ADD EXISTING ITEM (not seen by Visual Studio)
I have a client who needs to ensure that the system cannot be compromised from a 'disgruntled employee' - ie taking a copy of the 'front end' (the data is not a problem, it is the actual workings and coding that needs to be secured.
The current system is too large to make an ACCDE file (40,000kb).
I have tried reducing, compacting etc. No Joy
I also tried creating a brand new copy and re-importing all modules and objects. No Joy
I then tried creating a blank database with only 1 form and some code to undertake the importing of the objects. The code worked fine.
The file with just the form and code worked in creating the ACCDE file but the code then failed to run as it is 'transferring objects' and ACCDE files will not allow that.
Are there any alternatives to solve the original problem?
Thank you
When you are creating ACCDE file, be sure to check if project is compilable:
After this, you'll get errors, that prevents you to create ACCDE file.
Other point is that if you are using other files as source libraries (through References), then you should compile them also. ACCDE would accept only ACCDE files as Access files as library sources.
Anyway, just try first solution, it should help you as I think. Because 40 Mb - not a size for ACCDE. Only limitations I know: not more than 1000 objects in database, not more 2 Gb database size for 32 bit Access.
Van Ng - Thank you.
I missed the obvious - after checking if the project using 'Compile Project...' I found some old, redundant code that I had left in with a variable that had not been declared.
I have fixed that and it compiled.
Problem Solved - many thanks.
Issue
I'm having some really odd compile issues using Visual Studio 2013 and it's really disrupting my teams workflow.
The issue is hard to explain but I will provide screen shots and code snippets to help people understand the problems we are facing.
We have a project that we recently moved to VisualStudio 2013 from 2010 and upgraded it to .Net 4.5, the project is a ASP.net Web Forms project.
The code compiles and runs but oddly when I change any of the class files sometimes even just adding a comment 'Test Comment it fails to compile.
The errors shown in the error window are all wierd and the IntelliSense shows errors in the wrong place, some of the errors are even completly off. An example is _To is not defined in the line Dim _Town as String or in the same line 'ring' is not defined which is oviously part of the word String
ScreenShots
Here are some of the errors after I added the failing code at line 44 and then commented it out and re-compiled
What I've tried
I've tried to change the files line endings and make sure they are all Windows CR+LF, I've tried snooping in the build output nothing I can really see to help me.
I even brung the solution down from source control on another machine to test and it had the same issue. It didn't actually compile properly at all on the new machine but I don't know yet if these two issues are related.
I had the same issue as yours, and also the same scenario (I had upgraded a very old VB.NET project to a 2013 project).
The issue seem to be related to file encoding. I don't know the exact cause, but it might be having multiple files with different encoding (In my case, some files were ANSI, other files were UTF-8 w/ BOM).
If you aren't sure about having files with different encoding, open them in Notepad++. You should see the file encoding in the bottom-right corner.
At first, I have convert the offending file to ANSI to see if this will resolve the problem. I opened the offending file in Notepad++, selected Encoding-Convert to ANSI, Saved, Encoding->Encode In UTF-8 without BOM, Saved and Reloaded the file in VS. Now the project compile successfully.
However, I didn't want to do this every time I changed the file, (since VS convert it back to UTF8), therefore I copied all the old files (In my case they were 4 files only) to a temporary directory, deleted the files from VS and created new files with the same name, and I copy/pasted the content into each file. Now all my files are in UTF8, and I am no longer having this issue.
The solution is to either convert your files to ANSI as UTF8, or convert them to UTF8 (This seems to be the default encoding for newly created files in Visual Studio, so I suggest converting them to UTF8)
If you have a lot of files I think you can try to convert them to UTF8 using Notepad++.
Regards.
I recently recovered a 1.5TB external HDD that crashed. The program I used to recover the files was Active Undelete Enterprise, it's excellent. When the files were successfully recovered they were all saved with a .efs extension so files looked like mydocument.docx.efs. At first I thought they were encrypted and needed to be decrypted, I spent 10 mins on it and realized I just need to remove the .efs from the entire filename and the mydocument.docx works perfectly. Problem is now I have over 55,000 files within hundreds of folders where I need to simply remove the .efs after each file. Does anyone know how to do this?
From a command prompt window, navigate to the top level directory where these files reside.
Type the command
DIR /S/B >>filelist.txt
This command will give you a bare format file listing of the current directory plus all nested subdirectories without any extraneous information. The list will be contained in the text file named "filelist.txt" or whatever else you choose to call it. I would then use this text file in a text editor to convert every line of text from, for example,
C:\Users\dlucas\.gimp-2.8\mathmap\file1.png.efs
to
rename c:\Users\dlucas\.gimp-2.8\mathmap\file1.png.efs file1.png
to give a simple example of a file that I just found on my system using this method.
You will need to use a text editor with a columnar editing capability since you have to modify som many files. Old programmer's editors such as CodeWright made this really simple while modern editors such as Eclipse or Notepad++ make this a little more difficult and may require a columnar editing plugin, depending on version. You basically have to make a columnar copy of all of the text in the file, and then paste the copy off to the far right - far enough that a second column of filenames and paths won't overwrite any of the existing file names and paths. You can then use columnar editing features to select and delete the path names of the text in the 2nd column since the rename command requires that the 2nd argument be simply the base filename and extension without the path information. You can use the columnar editing features to prepend every line with "RENAME ". If you attempt to do this without columnar editing features, you will find it slow going!
An alternate way to do this is to use a command formed from a "regular expression" to create the rename command. If you are not familiar with "regular expressions", ask a programmer friend as this is not an easy topic to learn from scratch. If you are familiar with regular expressions, this is probably the simplest way to perform this task. I haven't used them in many years and no longer recall the exact syntax to use or I would tell you myself.
Regardless of what kind of editor you use, the goal is to turn this ASCII file list of paths and filenames into a batch file (simply rename file1.txt to file1.bat when you are finished editing). You can then run the batch file by typing file1.bat at a command prompt.
I have just run into this same problem myself using the same really wonderful tool that you used. I am writing this while waiting for the undelete program to finish. That it restores files with this extra extension seems very anti-intuitive so I will look for an option to make it not do this when it finishes. If I find one, I will post a new answer here that is more specific to this tool. Otherwise, I am going to have rename all kazillion files just as you had to.
You experienced this problem because the disk that you recovered your files to "does not support encryption", according to the Active# UNDELETE documentation. The documentation offers no further explanation of what kind of disks support encryption, etc.
They offer a Decrypt command that restores the file's proper names as a post processing step. Unfortunately, this requires that you "include" each and every file to be decrypted, with no support for wildcards and parsing subdirectories so that is a non-starter, in my opinion given that both of us have hundreds of thousands of files to be renamed.
I did find that by selecting a normal fixed (non-removable) hard drive as the destination of the recovery effort, that the resulting files do not end up encrypted (i.e., they are recovered with the proper file name and extension). I originally chose a large USB based flash drive and the files were stored in their "encrypted" state (not really encrypted, but possibly potentially so and thus they give the .efs extension). Of course, this meant that I had to run the command all over again after switching to a regular hard drive (takes about 16 hours to recover 80GB worth of files due to presence of many sector CRC errors).
I need to edit an executable file from shoutcast, sc_serv.exe. If I just open this file in notepad, and save again without editing anything, after trying to run the program I get the message:
Program too big to fit in memory
How do I open and save the executable without interfering with its operation?
Thank you.
You can't just blindly edit an EXE, especially not with Notepad.
If you're trying to edit the admin interface for SHOUTcast, the best thing to do is proxy its returned data through PHP, or something else server-side, to create your own interface. I've done this, and found it to be fairly straight forward.