I'm very new to web programming with MVC so i dont know how to call a method, for example, every hour and also on command. (Method is supposed to fetch files from an FTP server, skip the already parsed files, and parse the ones that havent been into objects and insert them in a database)
I know if i were using WindowsForms i'd probably be using Timer.Tick Events, WPF would use the DispatcherTimer class, but a web server is a whole different ball game so could somebody please point me in the right direction?
Ive been reading about Web services, WCF? Some event driven thing?
All i have right now is an MVC3 project, a database, repositories using EF, the whole works..
Thanks in advance!
The simplest way would be to use the Task Scheduler to access a particular URL in your site on a given interval.
I.E. Make use of something that already works very well as a general purpose mechanism on your platform... rather than unnecessarily reinventing for a specific use.
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Currently, I am working with SAP Business One SDK. I took some project from another team. This project is a SOAP web service. It has been written in ASPX technology, anyway another team used standard DI API library. This is the main problem with this solution because it causes a lot of problems with memory leaks.
In source code after every operation when DI API is called I try to use Garbage Collector, but unfortunately, it is not enough.
The web service is hosted on IIS and I had to set an option that for some time restart it. I know it is not the best solution, but it works. Obviously, that way generates many problems.
I have a question about it. Does any reasonable solution exist? Or I will have to rewrite source code using DI Server?
I have read a lot about this, I found some articles on the Internet. Please do not put any links in comments, because I am quite sure that I have read them.
Every time you use a DI API object you have to release it. Otherwise, it will stay in memory and it will cause the memory leak you mentioned.
The correct way to release them is to use ReleaseComObject. Remember that if the object is null you will get an exception so check it first.
if (oDocuments != null)
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(oDocuments);
Currently i'm working on a security monitoring app that continuously monitor new processes created.
For that im using wim and event watcher, witch works fine in VB.NET.
But there are 2 features that im missing.
I need to monitor process API calls, and I've been searching the web like mad, and come up empty.
Basically i need to monitor process WaitForSingleObject, LoadLibraryA, CreateProcessW and WriteProcessMemory. And registry access/changes as well.
Im hoping this can be done without a system wide hook, but form what i can find, it cannot be done via WMI.
So the question is, how to, and what can i do with managed code.
I'm gonna focus on the second point as i don't have experience on your first.
For checking if a process is signed i am using the sigcheck.exe from Mark Russinovich, because of the various methods it uses to verify files. Some are catalogsigned, some have the key embedded, there is iirc another weird method. There is no easy way to do it yourself. Had weird false detections with trying self-built methods to cover all possibilities. Hope that info helps
I'm working on something that needs to install files periodically into a folder in /Library.
I understand that in the past I could have used one of the Authenticate methods but those have since been deprecated in 10.7.
What I've understood from my reading so far:
I should create a helper that somehow gets authenticated and have that helper do all of the moving tasks. I've taken a look at some of the sample code, including some involving XPC and one called Elevator but I'm a bit confused.
A lot of it seems to deal with setting up some sort of client / server model but I'm not sure how this would translate into me actually installing my files into the correct directories. Most of the examples are just passing strings.
My question simply: How can I create my folder in /Library programmatically and periodically write files to it while only prompting the user for a password ONCE and never again? I'm really not sure how to approach this and there doesn't seem to be much documentation.
You are correct that there isn't much documentation for this. You'll basically write another app, the helper app, which will get installed with SMJobBless(). Not surprisingly,
the tricky part here is the code signing. The least obvious part for me was that the SMAuthorizedClients and SMPrivilegedExecutables entries in the info plist files of each app are dependent on the identity/certificate that you used to sign the app with. There is also a trick with the compiler/linker to getting the info plist file compiled into the helper tool, which will be a single executable file, rather than a bundle.
Once you get the helper app up and running then you have to devise a way to communicate with it since these are two different processes. XPC is one option, perhaps the easiest. XPC is typically used with server processes, but what you are using here is the communication side of XPC only. Basically it passes dictionaries back and forth between the two apps. Create a standard format for the dictionary. I used #"action", #"source", and #"destination" with 3 different action values, #"filemove", #"filecopy", and #"makedirectory". Those are the 3 things that my helper app can do and I can easily add more if necessary.
The helper app will basically setup the XPC connection and event handler stuff and wait for a connection and commands. The commands will just be a dictionary so you check for the appropriate keys/values and do whatever.
I can provide more details and code if you need more help, but this question is 9 months old so I don't want to waste time giving you details you've already figured out.
Hoepfully someone can shed some light on a problem - I am trying to listen to\intercept all windows messages generated by an application and dispose of certain types, for example Notify or Gesture messages.
I have been reading articals on how to do this using the Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms.MessageWindow and creating a class which inherits this, overrides the WndProc method but I have been unalbe to get this start listening\watching the message queue automatically when the application starts.
I know it is possible to do this with the OpenNetCF framework and the Application2 namespace however I would prefer not to use 3rd party software at the moment - no offence to the OpenNetCF guys.
Hopefully this makes sense. Also, i am using C#2.0 and Windows Mobile 6.5.
Thanks for your help,
Morris
The solution, then, is pretty simple - all you have to do is spend your time duplicating what the Smart Device Framework code is doing.
You need to create your own message pump via P/Invokes to GetMessage, TranslateMessage and DispatchMessage (it will look just like it does in C). Use this pump instead of calling Application.Run (so there can be no calls to Application.Run in your application).
Inside that new message pump insert your filtering logic.
I would want to program something where you upload a file on the one side and the other person can download it the moment I start uploading. I knew such a service but can't remember the name. If you know the service I'd like to know the name if its not there anymore I'd like to program it as an opensource project.
And it is supposed to be a website
What you're describing sounds a lot like Bit Torrent.
You might be able to achieve this by uploading via a custom ISAPI filter (if you use IIS) -- all CGI implementations won't start to run your script until the request has completed, which makes sense, as you won't have been told all the values just yet, I'd suspect ISAPI may fall foul of this as well.
So, your next best bet is to write a custom HTTP server, that can handle the serving of files yet to finish uploading.
pipebytes.com I found it :)