I'm currently working on an app using javascript which has a recursive function. I would like to use console.profile in order to inspect it, but I can't find exactly how to get the output of the profile session.
I start my session with the following;:
console.profile("sessionName")
But the following doesn't log anything to console on my machine:
console.profileEnd("sessionName");
The following doesn't seem to catch anything either
var d = console.profileEnd("sessionName");
How should it be done?
You should use the Visual Studio 2012 profiler with Debug\Start performance analysis paused, and then unpause it from the point in your program you wish to take a profile.
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I am the IT department of a Non-Profit organization. I have a question today which might be too specialized for this forum and I hope I do not waste my time writing it up. We are using Blackbaud's 'Raiser's Edge' (RE) Software (written in VB6 and VB.net as far as I know) to keep track of our membership and donations. We have an MS Access application (have been using it since before we got RE) to process donations and for now I want to keep it and only do minor changes to adapt it to the new software.
The MS Access program is now doing a few calls to the RE API which work great. To login and establish a connection I have to create a new 'REAPI' object and use it for other API calls. That REAPI object has a method called: SignOutOnTerminate which needs to be set to TRUE when creating that object. It is supposed to kill all connections to RE once my application closes. There is no regular .close method.
Once I create the object I can do work as many times as I want and there is no problem at all as far as I can see.
However when trying to close the application or set the object to nothing (Set REAPI = Nothing) Access crashes immediately (It fades out and I get the message that Windows is looking for a solution to the problem. Then Access closes and restarts itself.)
It is more annoying and unprofessional then hindering production but I want to fix it.
The App was developed on Windows 7 64-bit with Access 2010 32-bit. It was tested on Windows XP with Office 2003 or 2007 machines (32-bit) and behaves the same way.
I have posted this problem already on 2 Blackbaud forums and tried a suggested a work around which did not work (kill the process with a shell command and then set the object to nothing). Hopefully I will get more answers soon.
I tried to just exclude the SignOutOnTerminate when creating the object. But got the same behavior.
I looked in the Event Manager --> Application Log and found the Crash. It reported that access crashed because of this dll: C:\Windows\System32\MSVBVM60.dll (It is actually located in the SysWos64 folder as it is a 32-bit application).
Looking up this error I found some suggestions to replace it with an earlier version of the dll, the one which ships with XP. I found a file and tried the suggestion but it still crashed. The error log reported the older version number as faulting so I registered it correctly.
I also created a case with Blackbaud but the rep did not know what the problem is and did not have MS Access installed. He is trying to get his support team to install it for him so he can test and investigate this error.
The last suspicion I have is that the API is causing the error and my code is fine.
But before I make this assumption and until I get my answer from Blackbaud I want to do a final check, but I have run out of ideas for further trouble shooting and resorted to pose this problem in this forum.
Any Ideas?
I realise that this is an old thread and if you have solved this by now then that is great. However this is a known issue with The Raiser's Edge API. If you use .NET with RE's API (which is COM based) there is definitely some resource that is not cleaned up properly. At one point I suspected that it was something to with making use of RE's graphical interface i.e. by calling the regular login method to log you into RE. However even if you log in to RE using the "as a server" method supplying the user name and password it still crashes on exiting the application.
We have an installer that sets up credentials in RE. The installer is in .NET and accesses the RE API. We now show a message just before the end of the application telling users to ignore the impending crash... Not a great solution by any means.
In my winrt app, I am trying to update the live tile based on polled URIs. There is currently no update happening and I can't figure out how to troubleshoot. There are numerous scenarios that could be breaking things but i can't seem to find anyway to get insight into potential errors.
The TileUpdateManager seems to be a bit of a black hole that absorbs information but never lets it out.
Does anyone know of how to view errors from the TileUpdateManager?
If it interests anyone, here is my update code:
TileUpdateManager.CreateTileUpdaterForApplication().EnableNotificationQueue(true);
PeriodicUpdateRecurrence recurrence = PeriodicUpdateRecurrence.HalfHour;
List<Uri> urisToPoll = new List<Uri>();
urisToPoll.Add(new Uri(#"http://livetileservice2012.azurewebsites.net/api/liveupdate/1"));
urisToPoll.Add(new Uri(#"http://livetileservice2012.azurewebsites.net/api/liveupdate/2"));
TileUpdateManager.CreateTileUpdaterForApplication().StartPeriodicUpdateBatch(urisToPoll, recurrence);
To expand on Nathan's comment, here are two steps you can take to troubleshoot:
Enter your URI straight into a browser to see the results that are returned, and inspect them for being proper XML. As Nathan points out, your URIs are returning JSON which will be ignored by the tile update manager. As a working example (that I use in Chapter 13 of my HTML/JS book), try http://programmingwin8-js-ch13-hellotiles.azurewebsites.net/Default.cshtml.
If you feel that your URI is returning proper XML, try it in the Push and Periodic Notifications Sample (Scenarios 4 and 5 for tiles and badges). If this works, then the error would be in your app code and not in the service.
Do note that StartPeriodicUpdate[Batch] will send a request to the service right away, rather than waiting for the first interval to pass.
Also, if you think that you might have a problem with the service, it's possible to step through its code using Visual Studio Express for Web running on the localhost, when the app is also running inside Visual Studio Express for Win8 (where localhost is enabled).
.Kraig
I've hit a bit of a roadblock, and I'm hoping someone can help!
I've written a metro application that serves as a unit test runner, and I now need to be able to call this application headlessly so that it can be used for validation in the build process. The way the metro app works is it runs a bunch of unit tests, generates an XML file that contains the test results, and displays the results to the user.
Ideally, I would have a simple script that would run the metro app, execute the tests, exit the app, and then have the ability to read the results in the generated XML file. Is this possible, and if so, what's the best way to do it?
Here are some more specific questions:
How can one start a metro app headlessly, and in the metro app is there a way to detect this so that it does not wait for user input?
Is it possible to access files within the package of a metro app from an outside process?
EDIT - A workaround would be to create a custom Visual Studio test runner and then find a way to run the tests automatically with each build. I know this can be done within the IDE, but I'm not sure if there's a way to do this with a script.
I imagine you've long since moved past this problem, but for the sake of anyone else looking to do this, I got it to work without too much hassle. To execute a Metro app in an automated/headless fashion, I wrote a simple desktop command-line utility that takes the name of a metro app and makes use of the IApplicationActivationManager interface to launch it. I can then call that utility from a script.
The second argument to that inteface's ActivateApplication method is a string that gets passed in to the activated app, kind of like command-line arguments. It shows up as the Arguments property of the LaunchActivatedEventArgs that is received by the app's OnLaunched handler. The default implementation of OnLaunched in the Visual Studio template projects passes this value to the MainPage when it first navigates to it, where it comes through into the OnNavigatedTo handler as the Parameter property of the NavigationEventArgs. You could catch it in whichever place is more convenient.
My launcher utility passes a hard-coded flag through there, as well as forwarding its own command-line arguments. That allows the top-level script to pass arbitrary data down into the Metro app. The app can use that data to realize that it's running headless and run its tests. It can spit out whatever kind of result data you like into one of its folders (like its LocalFolder), which a desktop app can then read from %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\APPNAME\LocalState. I setup my launcher utility to wait for the result files to appear after launching the app, and then use them to determine its own exit code. The launcher utility can't kill the app afterward, but the app can kill itself when it's done via CoreApplication.Exit.
That setup worked great for a while, but a problem that I'm running into now is that the app isn't always launched to the foreground, and the runtime will suspend/terminate the app after it hasn't been the foreground app for some amount of time (currently ~10-15 seconds). So any tests that take too long won't work with this approach, barring some workaround that I haven't discovered yet (which I was searching for when I came across this question).
I doubt you'll be able to do it.
It's the same sort of problem as trying to run a WPF app headlessly, but harder since you'd also have to deal with the Metro sandbox security model.
P.S. Happy to be proven wrong!
No, sorry. You hit a wall with your first requirement of a script that runs the Metro application in "headless" mode in the first place. Your second requirement would be your next wall. One application cannot see, let alone monitor, another application/thread/process. Then your third requirement is also impossible. Files inside an application are isolated. It sounds to me like you found a good candidate for a desktop app. Having said that, don't mistakenly think that you can't have a companion Metro application that is your dashboard. It's just the execution core can't be hosted inside the WinRT sandbox.
I'm starting to develop an extension which must interact with an external application. I can run the external application as described here, but I do not see a way to get any feedback. The only information I get is the exit status, while I need to read the application output, as it would appear on a terminal (stdout). Is there a way to do this?
After running the nsiProcess, loop while checking the isRunning attribute. When it stops running, check the exitValue attribute. As I understand it, this may behave differently on different platforms, but I did use it successfully on Windows.
Is it possible to write a key logger in Visual Basic.NET? Is this the right language to be using?
So far, I've gotten a console app to read input and append to a file.
1)How can I make a .NET program "catch" all keyboard input?
2)How do I make a process not show up in Task Manager?
This is not for a virus, but rather a parental control program for a specific clientele. No malicious intent here.
You need to set a Keyboard Hook.
This is extremely difficult and is not possible on 64-bit editions of Windows.
If you're really doing this with consent, this shouldn't be necessary.
Here's a sample of how to write a key logger in .net. http://www.scratchprojects.com/2008/09/csharp_keylogger_p01.php
Your best bet for making it not show up in Task Manager is to make it look like something that belongs. Call it "svchost.exe". :-)