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• OFM 11g: Implementing OAM SSO with Forms

  - by olaf.heimburger

  There is some confusion about the integration of OFM 11g Forms with Oracle Access Manager 11g (OAM). Some say this does not work, some say it works, but.... Actually, having implemented it many times I belong to the later group. Here is how. Caveat Before you start installing anything, take a step back and consider your current implementation and what you really need and want to achieve. The current integration of Forms 11g with OAM 11g does not support self-service account creation and password resets from the Forms application. If you really need this, you must use the existing Oracle AS 10.1.4.3 infrastructure. On the other hand, if your user population is pretty stable, you can enjoy the latest Forms 11g with OAM 11g. Assumptions The whole process should be done in one day. I assume that all domains and instances are started during setup, if you need to restart them on demand or purpose, be sure to have proper start/stop scripts, I don't mention them. Preparation It goes without saying, that you always should do a proper backup before you change anything on your production environment. With proper backup, I also mean a tested and verified restore process. If you dared to test it before, do it now. It pays off. Requirements For OAM 11g to work properly you need a LDAP repository. For the integration of Forms 11g you need an Oracle Internet Directory (OID) configured with the Oracle AS SSO LDAP extensions. For better support I usually give the latest version a try, in this case OID 11g is a good choice.During the Installation and Integration steps we use an upgrade wizard that needs the old OID configuration on the same host but in a different ORACLE_HOME. Installation vs Configuration With OFM 11g Oracle introduced a clear separation between Installation of the binaries (the software) and the Configuration of the instances (the runtime). This is really great as you can install all the software and create new instances when needed. In the following we adhere to this scheme and install the software first and then configure the instances later. Installation Steps The Oracle documentation contains all the necessary steps for the installation of all pieces of software. But some hints help to avoid traps and pitfalls. Step 1 The Database Start the installation with the database. It is quite obvious but we need an Oracle database for all the other steps. If you have one at hand, fine. If not, just install at least a Oracle 10.2.0.4 version. This database can be on a different host. Step 2 The Repository Creation Utility The next step should be to run the Repository Creation Utility (RCU). This is a client application that just needs to connect to your database. It can be run on any host that can reach the database and is a Windows or Linux 32-bit machine. When you run it, be sure to install the OID schema and the OAM schema. If you miss one of these, you can run the RCU again to install the missing schema. Step 3 The Foundation With OFM 11g Oracle started to use WebLogic Server 11g (WLS) as its foundation for all OFM 11g installation. We therefore install it first. Depending on your operating system, it might be possible, that no native installer is available. My approach to this dilemma is to use the WLS Generic Installer for all my installations. It does not include a JDK either but if you have both for your platform you are ready to go. Step 3a The JDK To make things interesting, Oracle currently has two JDKs in its portfolio. The Sun JDK and the JRockit JDK. Both are available for a number of platforms. If you are lucky and both are available for your platform, install both in a separate directory (and not one of your ORACLE_HOMEs) each, You can use the later as you like. Step 3b Install WLS for OID and OAM With the JDK installed, we start the generic installer with java -jar wls_generic.jar.STOP! Before you do this, check the version first. It should be 1.6.0_18 or later and not the GCC one (Some Linux distros have it installed by default). To verify the version, issue a java -version command and make sure that the output does not contain the text gcj and the version matches. If this does not work, use an absolute path like /opt/java/jdk1.6.0_23/bin/java to start the installer. The installer allows you to specify a path to install the software into, say /opt/oracle/iam/11.1.1.3 for the OID and OAM installation. We will call this IAM_HOME. Step 4 Install OID Now we are ready to install OID. Start the OID installer (in the Disk1 directory) and just select the installation only step. This will install the software only and does not configure the instance. Use the IAM_HOME as the target directory. Step 5 Install SOA Suite The IAM 11g Suite uses the BPEL component of the SOA Suite 11g for its workflows. This is a pretty closed environment and not to be used for SCA Composites. We install the SOA Suite in $IAM_HOME/soa. The installer only installs the binaries. Configuration will be done later. Step 6 Install OAM Once the installation of OID and SOA is done, we are ready to install the OAM software in the same IAM_HOME. Make sure to install the OAM binaries in a directory different from the one you used during the OID and SOA installation. As before, we only install the software, the instance will be created later. Step 7 Backup the Installation At this point, I normally do a backup (or snapshot in a virtual image) of the installation. Good when you need to go back to this point. Step 8 Configure OID The software is installed and now we need instances to run it. This process is called configuration. For OID use the config.sh found in $IAM_HOME/oid/bin to start the configuration wizard. Normally this runs smoothly. If you encounter some issues check the Oracle Support site for help. This configuration will also start the OID instance. Step 9 Install the Oracle AS SSO Schema Before we install the Forms software we need to install the Oracle AS SSO Schema into the database and OID. This is a rather dangerous procedure, but fully documented in the IAM Installation Guide, Chapter 10. You should finish this in one go, do not reboot your host during the whole procedure. As a precaution, you should make a backup of the OID instance before you start the procedure. Once the backup is ready, read the chapter, including every note, carefully. You can avoid a number of issues by following all the steps and will succeed with a working solution. Step 10 Configure OAM Reached this step? Great. You are ready to create an OAM instance. Use the $IAM_HOME/iam/common/binconfig.sh for this. This will open the WLS Domain Creation Wizard and asks for the libraries to be installed. You should at least select the OAM with Database repository item. The configuration will also start the OAM instance. Step 11 Install WLS for Forms 11g It is quite tempting to install everything in one ORACLE_HOME. Unfortunately this does not work for all OFM packages. Therefore we do another WLS installation in another ORACLE_HOME. The same considerations as in step 3b apply. We call this one FORMS_HOME. Step 12 Install Forms In the FORMS_HOME we now install the binaries for the Forms 11g software. Again, this is a install only step. Configuration starts with the next step. Step 13 Configure Forms To configure Forms 11g we start the Configuration Wizard (config.sh) in FORMS_HOME/bin. This wizard should create a new WebLogic Domain and an OHS instance! Do not extend existing domains or instances! Forms should run in its own instances! When all information is supplied, the wizard will create the domain and instance and starts them automatically.Step 14 Setup your Forms SSO EnvironmentOnce you have implemented and tested your Forms 11g instance, you can configured it for SSO. Yes, this requires the old Oracle AS SSO solution, OIDDAS for creating and assigning users and SSO to setup your partner applications. In this step you should consider to create every user necessary for use within the environment. When done, do not forget to test it. Step 15 Migrate the SSO Repository Since the final goal is to get rid of the old SSO implementation we need to migrate the old SSO repository into the new OID structure. Additionally, this step will also migrate all partner application configurations into OAM 11g. Quite convenient. To do this step, you have to start the upgrade agent (ua or ua.bat or ua.cmd) on the operating system level in $IAM_HOME/bin. Once finished, this wizard will create new osso.conf files for each partner application in $IAM_HOME/upgrade/temp/oam/.Note: At the time of this writing, this step only works if everything is on the same host (ie. OID, OAM, etc.). This restriction might be lifted in later releases. Step 16 Change your OHS sso.conf and shut down OC4J_SECURITY In Step 14 we verified that SSO for our Forms environment works fine. Now, we are shutting the old system done and reconfigure the OHS that acts as the Forms entry point. First we go to the OHS configuration directory and rename the old osso.conf  to osso.conf.10g. Now we change the moduleconf/mod_osso.conf  to point to the new osso.conf file. Copy the new osso.conf  file from $IAM_HOME/upgrade/temp/oam/ to the OHS configuration directory. Restart OHS, test forms by using the same forms links. OAM should now kick in and show the login dialog to ask for your user credentials.Done. Now your Forms environment is successfully integrated with OAM 11g.Enjoy. What's Next? This rather lengthy setup is just the foundation for your growing environment of OAM 11g protections. In the next entry we will show that Forms 11g and ADF Faces 11g can use the same OAM installation and provide real single sign-on. References Nearly everything is documented. Use the documentation! Oracle® Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle Identity Management 11gR1 Oracle® Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle Identity Management 11gR1, Chapter 11-14 Oracle® Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Access Manager 11gR1, Appendix B Oracle® Fusion Middleware Upgrade Guide for Oracle Identity Management 11gR1, Chapter 10   

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• Optimizing Solaris 11 SHA-1 on Intel Processors

  - by danx

  SHA-1 is a "hash" or "digest" operation that produces a 160 bit (20 byte) checksum value on arbitrary data, such as a file. It is intended to uniquely identify text and to verify it hasn't been modified. Max Locktyukhin and others at Intel have improved the performance of the SHA-1 digest algorithm using multiple techniques. This code has been incorporated into Solaris 11 and is available in the Solaris Crypto Framework via the libmd(3LIB), the industry-standard libpkcs11(3LIB) library, and Solaris kernel module sha1. The optimized code is used automatically on systems with a x86 CPU supporting SSSE3 (Intel Supplemental SSSE3). Intel microprocessor architectures that support SSSE3 include Nehalem, Westmere, Sandy Bridge microprocessor families. Further optimizations are available for microprocessors that support AVX (such as Sandy Bridge). Although SHA-1 is considered obsolete because of weaknesses found in the SHA-1 algorithm—NIST recommends using at least SHA-256, SHA-1 is still widely used and will be with us for awhile more. Collisions (the same SHA-1 result for two different inputs) can be found with moderate effort. SHA-1 is used heavily though in SSL/TLS, for example. And SHA-1 is stronger than the older MD5 digest algorithm, another digest option defined in SSL/TLS. Optimizations Review SHA-1 operates by reading an arbitrary amount of data. The data is read in 512 bit (64 byte) blocks (the last block is padded in a specific way to ensure it's a full 64 bytes). Each 64 byte block has 80 "rounds" of calculations (consisting of a mixture of "ROTATE-LEFT", "AND", and "XOR") applied to the block. Each round produces a 32-bit intermediate result, called W[i]. Here's what each round operates: The first 16 rounds, rounds 0 to 15, read the 512 bit block 32 bits at-a-time. These 32 bits is used as input to the round. The remaining rounds, rounds 16 to 79, use the results from the previous rounds as input. Specifically for round i it XORs the results of rounds i-3, i-8, i-14, and i-16 and rotates the result left 1 bit. The remaining calculations for the round is a series of AND, XOR, and ROTATE-LEFT operators on the 32-bit input and some constants. The 32-bit result is saved as W[i] for round i. The 32-bit result of the final round, W[79], is the SHA-1 checksum. Optimization: Vectorization The first 16 rounds can be vectorized (computed in parallel) because they don't depend on the output of a previous round. As for the remaining rounds, because of step 2 above, computing round i depends on the results of round i-3, W[i-3], one can vectorize 3 rounds at-a-time. Max Locktyukhin found through simple factoring, explained in detail in his article referenced below, that the dependencies of round i on the results of rounds i-3, i-8, i-14, and i-16 can be replaced instead with dependencies on the results of rounds i-6, i-16, i-28, and i-32. That is, instead of initializing intermediate result W[i] with: W[i] = (W[i-3] XOR W[i-8] XOR W[i-14] XOR W[i-16]) ROTATE-LEFT 1 Initialize W[i] as follows: W[i] = (W[i-6] XOR W[i-16] XOR W[i-28] XOR W[i-32]) ROTATE-LEFT 2 That means that 6 rounds could be vectorized at once, with no additional calculations, instead of just 3! This optimization is independent of Intel or any other microprocessor architecture, although the microprocessor has to support vectorization to use it, and exploits one of the weaknesses of SHA-1. Optimization: SSSE3 Intel SSSE3 makes use of 16 %xmm registers, each 128 bits wide. The 4 32-bit inputs to a round, W[i-6], W[i-16], W[i-28], W[i-32], all fit in one %xmm register. The following code snippet, from Max Locktyukhin's article, converted to ATT assembly syntax, computes 4 rounds in parallel with just a dozen or so SSSE3 instructions: movdqa W_minus_04, W_TMP pxor W_minus_28, W // W equals W[i-32:i-29] before XOR // W = W[i-32:i-29] ^ W[i-28:i-25] palignr $8, W_minus_08, W_TMP // W_TMP = W[i-6:i-3], combined from // W[i-4:i-1] and W[i-8:i-5] vectors pxor W_minus_16, W // W = (W[i-32:i-29] ^ W[i-28:i-25]) ^ W[i-16:i-13] pxor W_TMP, W // W = (W[i-32:i-29] ^ W[i-28:i-25] ^ W[i-16:i-13]) ^ W[i-6:i-3]) movdqa W, W_TMP // 4 dwords in W are rotated left by 2 psrld $30, W // rotate left by 2 W = (W >> 30) | (W << 2) pslld $2, W_TMP por W, W_TMP movdqa W_TMP, W // four new W values W[i:i+3] are now calculated paddd (K_XMM), W_TMP // adding 4 current round's values of K movdqa W_TMP, (WK(i)) // storing for downstream GPR instructions to read A window of the 32 previous results, W[i-1] to W[i-32] is saved in memory on the stack. This is best illustrated with a chart. Without vectorization, computing the rounds is like this (each "R" represents 1 round of SHA-1 computation): RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR With vectorization, 4 rounds can be computed in parallel: RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Optimization: AVX The new "Sandy Bridge" microprocessor architecture, which supports AVX, allows another interesting optimization. SSSE3 instructions have two operands, a input and an output. AVX allows three operands, two inputs and an output. In many cases two SSSE3 instructions can be combined into one AVX instruction. The difference is best illustrated with an example. Consider these two instructions from the snippet above: pxor W_minus_16, W // W = (W[i-32:i-29] ^ W[i-28:i-25]) ^ W[i-16:i-13] pxor W_TMP, W // W = (W[i-32:i-29] ^ W[i-28:i-25] ^ W[i-16:i-13]) ^ W[i-6:i-3]) With AVX they can be combined in one instruction: vpxor W_minus_16, W, W_TMP // W = (W[i-32:i-29] ^ W[i-28:i-25] ^ W[i-16:i-13]) ^ W[i-6:i-3]) This optimization is also in Solaris, although Sandy Bridge-based systems aren't widely available yet. As an exercise for the reader, AVX also has 256-bit media registers, %ymm0 - %ymm15 (a superset of 128-bit %xmm0 - %xmm15). Can %ymm registers be used to parallelize the code even more? Optimization: Solaris-specific In addition to using the Intel code described above, I performed other minor optimizations to the Solaris SHA-1 code: Increased the digest(1) and mac(1) command's buffer size from 4K to 64K, as previously done for decrypt(1) and encrypt(1). This size is well suited for ZFS file systems, but helps for other file systems as well. Optimized encode functions, which byte swap the input and output data, to copy/byte-swap 4 or 8 bytes at-a-time instead of 1 byte-at-a-time. Enhanced the Solaris mdb(1) and kmdb(1) debuggers to display all 16 %xmm and %ymm registers (mdb "$x" command). Previously they only displayed the first 8 that are available in 32-bit mode. Can't optimize if you can't debug :-). Changed the SHA-1 code to allow processing in "chunks" greater than 2 Gigabytes (64-bits) Performance I measured performance on a Sun Ultra 27 (which has a Nehalem-class Xeon 5500 Intel W3570 microprocessor @3.2GHz). Turbo mode is disabled for consistent performance measurement. Graphs are better than words and numbers, so here they are: The first graph shows the Solaris digest(1) command before and after the optimizations discussed here, contained in libmd(3LIB). I ran the digest command on a half GByte file in swapfs (/tmp) and execution time decreased from 1.35 seconds to 0.98 seconds. The second graph shows the the results of an internal microbenchmark that uses the Solaris libpkcs11(3LIB) library. The operations are on a 128 byte buffer with 10,000 iterations. The results show operations increased from 320,000 to 416,000 operations per second. Finally the third graph shows the results of an internal kernel microbenchmark that uses the Solaris /kernel/crypto/amd64/sha1 module. The operations are on a 64Kbyte buffer with 100 iterations. third graph shows the results of an internal kernel microbenchmark that uses the Solaris /kernel/crypto/amd64/sha1 module. The operations are on a 64Kbyte buffer with 100 iterations. The results show for 1 kernel thread, operations increased from 410 to 600 MBytes/second. For 8 kernel threads, operations increase from 1540 to 1940 MBytes/second. Availability This code is in Solaris 11 FCS. It is available in the 64-bit libmd(3LIB) library for 64-bit programs and is in the Solaris kernel. You must be running hardware that supports Intel's SSSE3 instructions (for example, Intel Nehalem, Westmere, or Sandy Bridge microprocessor architectures). The easiest way to determine if SSSE3 is available is with the isainfo(1) command. For example, nehalem $ isainfo -v $ isainfo -v 64-bit amd64 applications sse4.2 sse4.1 ssse3 popcnt tscp ahf cx16 sse3 sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov amd_sysc cx8 tsc fpu 32-bit i386 applications sse4.2 sse4.1 ssse3 popcnt tscp ahf cx16 sse3 sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov sep cx8 tsc fpu If the output also shows "avx", the Solaris executes the even-more optimized 3-operand AVX instructions for SHA-1 mentioned above: sandybridge $ isainfo -v 64-bit amd64 applications avx xsave pclmulqdq aes sse4.2 sse4.1 ssse3 popcnt tscp ahf cx16 sse3 sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov amd_sysc cx8 tsc fpu 32-bit i386 applications avx xsave pclmulqdq aes sse4.2 sse4.1 ssse3 popcnt tscp ahf cx16 sse3 sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov sep cx8 tsc fpu No special configuration or setup is needed to take advantage of this code. Solaris libraries and kernel automatically determine if it's running on SSSE3 or AVX-capable machines and execute the correctly-tuned code for that microprocessor. Summary The Solaris 11 Crypto Framework, via the sha1 kernel module and libmd(3LIB) and libpkcs11(3LIB) libraries, incorporated a useful SHA-1 optimization from Intel for SSSE3-capable microprocessors. As with other Solaris optimizations, they come automatically "under the hood" with the current Solaris release. References "Improving the Performance of the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-1)" by Max Locktyukhin (Intel, March 2010). The source for these SHA-1 optimizations used in Solaris "SHA-1", Wikipedia Good overview of SHA-1 FIPS 180-1 SHA-1 standard (FIPS, 1995) NIST Comments on Cryptanalytic Attacks on SHA-1 (2005, revised 2006)

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• A Simple Approach For Presenting With Code Samples

  - by Jesse Taber

  Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/GruffCode/archive/2013/07/31/a-simple-approach-for-presenting-with-code-samples.aspxI’ve been getting ready for a presentation and have been struggling a bit with the best way to show and execute code samples. I don’t present often (hardly ever), but when I do I like the presentation to have a lot of succinct and executable code snippets to help illustrate the points that I’m making. Depending on what the presentation is about, I might just want to build an entire sample application that I would run during the presentation. In other cases, however, building a full-blown application might not really be the best way to present the code. The presentation I’m working on now is for an open source utility library for dealing with dates and times. I could have probably cooked up a sample app for accepting date and time input and then contrived ways in which it could put the library through its paces, but I had trouble coming up with one app that would illustrate all of the various features of the library that I wanted to highlight. I finally decided that what I really needed was an approach that met the following criteria: Simple: I didn’t want the user interface or overall architecture of a sample application to serve as a distraction from the demonstration of the syntax of the library that the presentation is about. I want to be able to present small bits of code that are focused on accomplishing a single task. Several of these examples will look similar, and that’s OK. I want each sample to “stand on its own” and not rely much on external classes or methods (other than the library that is being presented, of course). “Debuggable” (not really a word, I know): I want to be able to easily run the sample with the debugger attached in Visual Studio should I want to step through any bits of code and show what certain values might be at run time. As far as I know this rules out something like LinqPad, though using LinqPad to present code samples like this is actually a very interesting idea that I might explore another time. Flexible and Selectable: I’m going to have lots of code samples to show, and I want to be able to just package them all up into a single project or module and have an easy way to just run the sample that I want on-demand. Since I’m presenting on a .NET framework library, one of the simplest ways in which I could execute some code samples would be to just create a Console application and use Console.WriteLine to output the pertinent info at run time. This gives me a “no frills” harness from which to run my code samples, and I just hit ‘F5’ to run it with the debugger. This satisfies numbers 1 and 2 from my list of criteria above, but item 3 is a little harder. By default, just running a console application is going to execute the ‘main’ method, and then terminate the program after all code is executed. If I want to have several different code samples and run them one at a time, it would be cumbersome to keep swapping the code I want in and out of the ‘main’ method of the console application. What I really want is an easy way to keep the console app running throughout the whole presentation and just have it run the samples I want when I want. I could setup a simple Windows Forms or WPF desktop application with buttons for the different samples, but then I’m getting away from my first criteria of keeping things as simple as possible. Infinite Loops To The Rescue I found a way to have a simple console application satisfy all three of my requirements above, and it involves using an infinite loop and some Console.ReadLine calls that will give the user an opportunity to break out and exit the program. (All programs that need to run until they are closed explicitly (or crash!) likely use similar constructs behind the scenes. Create a new Windows Forms project, look in the ‘Program.cs’ that gets generated, and then check out the docs for the Application.Run method that it calls.). Here’s how the main method might look: 1: static void Main(string[] args) 2: { 3: do 4: { 5: Console.Write("Enter command or 'exit' to quit: > "); 6: var command = Console.ReadLine(); 7: if ((command ?? string.Empty).Equals("exit", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) 8: { 9: Console.WriteLine("Quitting."); 10: break; 11: } 12: 13: } while (true); 14: } The idea here is the app prompts me for the command I want to run, or I can type in ‘exit’ to break out of the loop and let the application close. The only trick now is to create a set of commands that map to each of the code samples that I’m going to want to run. Each sample is already encapsulated in a single public method in a separate class, so I could just write a big switch statement or create a hashtable/dictionary that maps command text to an Action that will invoke the proper method, but why re-invent the wheel? CLAP For Your Own Presentation I’ve blogged about the CLAP library before, and it turns out that it’s a great fit for satisfying criteria #3 from my list above. CLAP lets you decorate methods in a class with an attribute and then easily invoke those methods from within a console application. CLAP was designed to take the arguments passed into the console app from the command line and parse them to determine which method to run and what arguments to pass to that method, but there’s no reason you can’t re-purpose it to accept command input from within the infinite loop defined above and invoke the corresponding method. Here’s how you might define a couple of different methods to contain two different code samples that you want to run during your presentation: 1: public static class CodeSamples 2: { 3: [Verb(Aliases="one")] 4: public static void SampleOne() 5: { 6: Console.WriteLine("This is sample 1"); 7: } 8:   9: [Verb(Aliases="two")] 10: public static void SampleTwo() 11: { 12: Console.WriteLine("This is sample 2"); 13: } 14: } A couple of things to note about the sample above: I’m using static methods. You don’t actually need to use static methods with CLAP, but the syntax ends up being a bit simpler and static methods happen to lend themselves well to the “one self-contained method per code sample” approach that I want to use. The methods are decorated with a ‘Verb’ attribute. This tells CLAP that they are eligible targets for commands. The “Aliases” argument lets me give them short and easy-to-remember aliases that can be used to invoke them. By default, CLAP just uses the full method name as the command name, but with aliases you can simply the usage a bit. I’m not using any parameters. CLAP’s main feature is its ability to parse out arguments from a command line invocation of a console application and automatically pass them in as parameters to the target methods. My code samples don’t need parameters ,and honestly having them would complicate giving the presentation, so this is a good thing. You could use this same approach to invoke methods with parameters, but you’d have a couple of things to figure out. When you invoke a .NET application from the command line, Windows will parse the arguments and pass them in as a string array (called ‘args’ in the boilerplate console project Program.cs). The parsing that gets done here is smart enough to deal with things like treating strings in double quotes as one argument, and you’d have to re-create that within your infinite loop if you wanted to use parameters. I plan on either submitting a pull request to CLAP to add this capability or maybe just making a small utility class/extension method to do it and posting that here in the future. So I now have a simple class with static methods to contain my code samples, and an infinite loop in my ‘main’ method that can accept text commands. Wiring this all up together is pretty easy: 1: static void Main(string[] args) 2: { 3: do 4: { 5: try 6: { 7: Console.Write("Enter command or 'exit' to quit: > "); 8: var command = Console.ReadLine(); 9: if ((command ?? string.Empty).Equals("exit", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) 10: { 11: Console.WriteLine("Quitting."); 12: break; 13: } 14:   15: Parser.Run<CodeSamples>(new[] { command }); 16: Console.WriteLine("---------------------------------------------------------"); 17: } 18: catch (Exception ex) 19: { 20: Console.Error.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message); 21: } 22:   23: } while (true); 24: } Note that I’m now passing the ‘CodeSamples’ class into the CLAP ‘Parser.Run’ as a type argument. This tells CLAP to inspect that class for methods that might be able to handle the commands passed in. I’m also throwing in a little “----“ style line separator and some basic error handling (because I happen to know that some of the samples are going to throw exceptions for demonstration purposes) and I’m good to go. Now during my presentation I can just have the console application running the whole time with the debugger attached and just type in the alias of the code sample method that I want to run when I want to run it.

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• WSDL-world vs CLR-world – some differences

  - by nmarun

  A change in mindset is required when switching between a typical CLR application and a web service application. There are some things in a CLR environment that just don’t add-up in a WSDL arena (and vice-versa). I’m listing some of them here. When I say WSDL-world, I’m mostly talking with respect to a WCF Service and / or a Web Service. No (direct) Method Overloading: You definitely can have overloaded methods in a, say, Console application, but when it comes to a WCF / Web Services application, you need to adorn these overloaded methods with a special attribute so the service knows which specific method to invoke. When you’re working with WCF, use the Name property of the OperationContract attribute to provide unique names. 1: [OperationContract(Name = "AddInt")] 2: int Add(int arg1, int arg2); 3:  4: [OperationContract(Name = "AddDouble")] 5: double Add(double arg1, double arg2); By default, the proxy generates the code for this as: 1: [System.ServiceModel.OperationContractAttribute( 2: Action="http://tempuri.org/ILearnWcfService/AddInt", 3: ReplyAction="http://tempuri.org/ILearnWcfService/AddIntResponse")] 4: int AddInt(int arg1, int arg2); 5: 6: [System.ServiceModel.OperationContractAttribute( 7: Action="http://tempuri.org/ILearnWcfServiceExtend/AddDouble", 8: ReplyAction="http://tempuri.org/ILearnWcfServiceExtend/AddDoubleResponse")] 9: double AddDouble(double arg1, double arg2); With Web Services though the story is slightly different. Even after setting the MessageName property of the WebMethod attribute, the proxy does not change the name of the method, but only the underlying soap message changes. 1: [WebMethod] 2: public string HelloGalaxy() 3: { 4: return "Hello Milky Way!"; 5: } 6:  7: [WebMethod(MessageName = "HelloAnyGalaxy")] 8: public string HelloGalaxy(string galaxyName) 9: { 10: return string.Format("Hello {0}!", galaxyName); 11: } The one thing you need to remember is to set the WebServiceBinding accordingly. 1: [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.None)] The proxy is: 1: [System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapDocumentMethodAttribute("http://tempuri.org/HelloGalaxy", 2: RequestNamespace="http://tempuri.org/", 3: ResponseNamespace="http://tempuri.org/", 4: Use=System.Web.Services.Description.SoapBindingUse.Literal, 5: ParameterStyle=System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapParameterStyle.Wrapped)] 6: public string HelloGalaxy() 7:  8: [System.Web.Services.WebMethodAttribute(MessageName="HelloGalaxy1")] 9: [System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapDocumentMethodAttribute("http://tempuri.org/HelloAnyGalaxy", 10: RequestElementName="HelloAnyGalaxy", 11: RequestNamespace="http://tempuri.org/", 12: ResponseElementName="HelloAnyGalaxyResponse", 13: ResponseNamespace="http://tempuri.org/", 14: Use=System.Web.Services.Description.SoapBindingUse.Literal, 15: ParameterStyle=System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapParameterStyle.Wrapped)] 16: [return: System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("HelloAnyGalaxyResult")] 17: public string HelloGalaxy(string galaxyName) 18:  You see the calling method name is the same in the proxy, however the soap message that gets generated is different. Using interchangeable data types: See details on this here. Type visibility: In a CLR-based application, if you mark a field as private, well we all know, it’s ‘private’. Coming to a WSDL side of things, in a Web Service, private fields and web methods will not get generated in the proxy. In WCF however, all your operation contracts will be public as they get implemented from an interface. Even in case your ServiceContract interface is declared internal/private, you will see it as a public interface in the proxy. This is because type visibility is a CLR concept and has no bearing on WCF. Also if a private field has the [DataMember] attribute in a data contract, it will get emitted in the proxy class as a public property for the very same reason. 1: [DataContract] 2: public struct Person 3: { 4: [DataMember] 5: private int _x; 6:  7: [DataMember] 8: public int Id { get; set; } 9:  10: [DataMember] 11: public string FirstName { get; set; } 12:  13: [DataMember] 14: public string Header { get; set; } 15: } 16: } See the ‘_x’ field is a private member with the [DataMember] attribute, but the proxy class shows as below: 1: [System.Runtime.Serialization.DataMemberAttribute()] 2: public int _x { 3: get { 4: return this._xField; 5: } 6: set { 7: if ((this._xField.Equals(value) != true)) { 8: this._xField = value; 9: this.RaisePropertyChanged("_x"); 10: } 11: } 12: } Passing derived types to web methods / operation contracts: Once again, in a CLR application, I can have a derived class be passed as a parameter where a base class is expected. I have the following set up for my WCF service. 1: [DataContract] 2: public class Employee 3: { 4: [DataMember(Name = "Id")] 5: public int EmployeeId { get; set; } 6:  7: [DataMember(Name="FirstName")] 8: public string FName { get; set; } 9:  10: [DataMember] 11: public string Header { get; set; } 12: } 13:  14: [DataContract] 15: public class Manager : Employee 16: { 17: [DataMember] 18: private int _x; 19: } 20:  21: // service contract 22: [OperationContract] 23: Manager SaveManager(Employee employee); 24:  25: // in my calling code 26: Manager manager = new Manager {_x = 1, FirstName = "abc"}; 27: manager = LearnWcfServiceClient.SaveManager(manager); The above will throw an exception saying: In short, this is saying, that a Manager type was found where an Employee type was expected! Hierarchy flattening of interfaces in WCF: See details on this here. In CLR world, you’ll see the entire hierarchy as is. That’s another difference. Using ref parameters: * can use ref for parameters, but operation contract should not be one-way (gives an error when you do an update service reference)   => bad programming; create a return object that is composed of everything you need! This one kind of stumped me. Not sure why I tried this, but you can pass parameters prefixed with ref keyword* (* terms and conditions apply). The main issue is this, how would we know the changes that were made to a ‘ref’ input parameter are returned back from the service and updated to the local variable? Turns out both Web Services and WCF make this tracking happen by passing the input parameter in the response soap. This way when the deserializer does its magic, it maps all the elements of the response xml thereby updating our local variable. Here’s what I’m talking about. 1: [WebMethod(MessageName = "HelloAnyGalaxy")] 2: public string HelloGalaxy(ref string galaxyName) 3: { 4: string output = string.Format("Hello {0}", galaxyName); 5: if (galaxyName == "Andromeda") 6: { 7: galaxyName = string.Format("{0} (2.5 million light-years away)", galaxyName); 8: } 9: return output; 10: } This is how the request and response look like in soapUI. As I said above, the behavior is quite similar for WCF as well. But the catch comes when you have a one-way web methods / operation contracts. If you have an operation contract whose return type is void, is marked one-way and that has ref parameters then you’ll get an error message when you try to reference such a service. 1: [OperationContract(Name = "Sum", IsOneWay = true)] 2: void Sum(ref double arg1, ref double arg2); 3:  4: public void Sum(ref double arg1, ref double arg2) 5: { 6: arg1 += arg2; 7: } This is what I got when I did an update to my service reference: Makes sense, because a OneWay operation is… one-way – there’s no returning from this operation. You can also have a one-way web method: 1: [SoapDocumentMethod(OneWay = true)] 2: [WebMethod(MessageName = "HelloAnyGalaxy")] 3: public void HelloGalaxy(ref string galaxyName) This will throw an exception message similar to the one above when you try to update your web service reference. In the CLR space, there’s no such concept of a ‘one-way’ street! Yes, there’s void, but you very well can have ref parameters returned through such a method. Just a point here; although the ref/out concept sounds cool, it’s generally is a code-smell. The better approach is to always return an object that is composed of everything you need returned from a method. These are some of the differences that we need to bear when dealing with services that are different from our daily ‘CLR’ life.

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• Adding and accessing custom sections in your C# App.config

  - by deadlydog

  So I recently thought I’d try using the app.config file to specify some data for my application (such as URLs) rather than hard-coding it into my app, which would require a recompile and redeploy of my app if one of our URLs changed.  By using the app.config it allows a user to just open up the .config file that sits beside their .exe file and edit the URLs right there and then re-run the app; no recompiling, no redeployment necessary. I spent a good few hours fighting with the app.config and looking at examples on Google before I was able to get things to work properly.  Most of the examples I found showed you how to pull a value from the app.config if you knew the specific key of the element you wanted to retrieve, but it took me a while to find a way to simply loop through all elements in a section, so I thought I would share my solutions here.   Simple and Easy The easiest way to use the app.config is to use the built-in types, such as NameValueSectionHandler.  For example, if we just wanted to add a list of database server urls to use in my app, we could do this in the app.config file like so: 1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 2: <configuration> 3: <configSections> 4: <section name="ConnectionManagerDatabaseServers" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler" /> 5: </configSections> 6: <startup> 7: <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.5" /> 8: </startup> 9: <ConnectionManagerDatabaseServers> 10: <add key="localhost" value="localhost" /> 11: <add key="Dev" value="Dev.MyDomain.local" /> 12: <add key="Test" value="Test.MyDomain.local" /> 13: <add key="Live" value="Prod.MyDomain.com" /> 14: </ConnectionManagerDatabaseServers> 15: </configuration>   And then you can access these values in code like so: 1: string devUrl = string.Empty; 2: var connectionManagerDatabaseServers = ConfigurationManager.GetSection("ConnectionManagerDatabaseServers") as NameValueCollection; 3: if (connectionManagerDatabaseServers != null) 4: { 5: devUrl = connectionManagerDatabaseServers["Dev"].ToString(); 6: }   Sometimes though you don’t know what the keys are going to be and you just want to grab all of the values in that ConnectionManagerDatabaseServers section.  In that case you can get them all like this: 1: // Grab the Environments listed in the App.config and add them to our list. 2: var connectionManagerDatabaseServers = ConfigurationManager.GetSection("ConnectionManagerDatabaseServers") as NameValueCollection; 3: if (connectionManagerDatabaseServers != null) 4: { 5: foreach (var serverKey in connectionManagerDatabaseServers.AllKeys) 6: { 7: string serverValue = connectionManagerDatabaseServers.GetValues(serverKey).FirstOrDefault(); 8: AddDatabaseServer(serverValue); 9: } 10: }   And here we just assume that the AddDatabaseServer() function adds the given string to some list of strings.  So this works great, but what about when we want to bring in more values than just a single string (or technically you could use this to bring in 2 strings, where the “key” could be the other string you want to store; for example, we could have stored the value of the Key as the user-friendly name of the url).   More Advanced (and more complicated) So if you want to bring in more information than a string or two per object in the section, then you can no longer simply use the built-in System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler type provided for us.  Instead you have to build your own types.  Here let’s assume that we again want to configure a set of addresses (i.e. urls), but we want to specify some extra info with them, such as the user-friendly name, if they require SSL or not, and a list of security groups that are allowed to save changes made to these endpoints. So let’s start by looking at the app.config: 1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 2: <configuration> 3: <configSections> 4: <section name="ConnectionManagerDataSection" type="ConnectionManagerUpdater.Data.Configuration.ConnectionManagerDataSection, ConnectionManagerUpdater" /> 5: </configSections> 6: <startup> 7: <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.5" /> 8: </startup> 9: <ConnectionManagerDataSection> 10: <ConnectionManagerEndpoints> 11: <add name="Development" address="Dev.MyDomain.local" useSSL="false" /> 12: <add name="Test" address="Test.MyDomain.local" useSSL="true" /> 13: <add name="Live" address="Prod.MyDomain.com" useSSL="true" securityGroupsAllowedToSaveChanges="ConnectionManagerUsers" /> 14: </ConnectionManagerEndpoints> 15: </ConnectionManagerDataSection> 16: </configuration>   The first thing to notice here is that my section is now using the type “ConnectionManagerUpdater.Data.Configuration.ConnectionManagerDataSection” (the fully qualified path to my new class I created) “, ConnectionManagerUpdater” (the name of the assembly my new class is in).  Next, you will also notice an extra layer down in the <ConnectionManagerDataSection> which is the <ConnectionManagerEndpoints> element.  This is a new collection class that I created to hold each of the Endpoint entries that are defined.  Let’s look at that code now: 1: using System; 2: using System.Collections.Generic; 3: using System.Configuration; 4: using System.Linq; 5: using System.Text; 6: using System.Threading.Tasks; 7:  8: namespace ConnectionManagerUpdater.Data.Configuration 9: { 10: public class ConnectionManagerDataSection : ConfigurationSection 11: { 12: /// <summary> 13: /// The name of this section in the app.config. 14: /// </summary> 15: public const string SectionName = "ConnectionManagerDataSection"; 16: 17: private const string EndpointCollectionName = "ConnectionManagerEndpoints"; 18:  19: [ConfigurationProperty(EndpointCollectionName)] 20: [ConfigurationCollection(typeof(ConnectionManagerEndpointsCollection), AddItemName = "add")] 21: public ConnectionManagerEndpointsCollection ConnectionManagerEndpoints { get { return (ConnectionManagerEndpointsCollection)base[EndpointCollectionName]; } } 22: } 23:  24: public class ConnectionManagerEndpointsCollection : ConfigurationElementCollection 25: { 26: protected override ConfigurationElement CreateNewElement() 27: { 28: return new ConnectionManagerEndpointElement(); 29: } 30: 31: protected override object GetElementKey(ConfigurationElement element) 32: { 33: return ((ConnectionManagerEndpointElement)element).Name; 34: } 35: } 36: 37: public class ConnectionManagerEndpointElement : ConfigurationElement 38: { 39: [ConfigurationProperty("name", IsRequired = true)] 40: public string Name 41: { 42: get { return (string)this["name"]; } 43: set { this["name"] = value; } 44: } 45: 46: [ConfigurationProperty("address", IsRequired = true)] 47: public string Address 48: { 49: get { return (string)this["address"]; } 50: set { this["address"] = value; } 51: } 52: 53: [ConfigurationProperty("useSSL", IsRequired = false, DefaultValue = false)] 54: public bool UseSSL 55: { 56: get { return (bool)this["useSSL"]; } 57: set { this["useSSL"] = value; } 58: } 59: 60: [ConfigurationProperty("securityGroupsAllowedToSaveChanges", IsRequired = false)] 61: public string SecurityGroupsAllowedToSaveChanges 62: { 63: get { return (string)this["securityGroupsAllowedToSaveChanges"]; } 64: set { this["securityGroupsAllowedToSaveChanges"] = value; } 65: } 66: } 67: }   So here the first class we declare is the one that appears in the <configSections> element of the app.config.  It is ConnectionManagerDataSection and it inherits from the necessary System.Configuration.ConfigurationSection class.  This class just has one property (other than the expected section name), that basically just says I have a Collection property, which is actually a ConnectionManagerEndpointsCollection, which is the next class defined.  The ConnectionManagerEndpointsCollection class inherits from ConfigurationElementCollection and overrides the requied fields.  The first tells it what type of Element to create when adding a new one (in our case a ConnectionManagerEndpointElement), and a function specifying what property on our ConnectionManagerEndpointElement class is the unique key, which I’ve specified to be the Name field. The last class defined is the actual meat of our elements.  It inherits from ConfigurationElement and specifies the properties of the element (which can then be set in the xml of the App.config).  The “ConfigurationProperty” attribute on each of the properties tells what we expect the name of the property to correspond to in each element in the app.config, as well as some additional information such as if that property is required and what it’s default value should be. Finally, the code to actually access these values would look like this: 1: // Grab the Environments listed in the App.config and add them to our list. 2: var connectionManagerDataSection = ConfigurationManager.GetSection(ConnectionManagerDataSection.SectionName) as ConnectionManagerDataSection; 3: if (connectionManagerDataSection != null) 4: { 5: foreach (ConnectionManagerEndpointElement endpointElement in connectionManagerDataSection.ConnectionManagerEndpoints) 6: { 7: var endpoint = new ConnectionManagerEndpoint() { Name = endpointElement.Name, ServerInfo = new ConnectionManagerServerInfo() { Address = endpointElement.Address, UseSSL = endpointElement.UseSSL, SecurityGroupsAllowedToSaveChanges = endpointElement.SecurityGroupsAllowedToSaveChanges.Split(',').Where(e => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(e)).ToList() } }; 8: AddEndpoint(endpoint); 9: } 10: } This looks very similar to what we had before in the “simple” example.  The main points of interest are that we cast the section as ConnectionManagerDataSection (which is the class we defined for our section) and then iterate over the endpoints collection using the ConnectionManagerEndpoints property we created in the ConnectionManagerDataSection class.   Also, some other helpful resources around using app.config that I found (and for parts that I didn’t really explain in this article) are: How do you use sections in C# 4.0 app.config? (Stack Overflow) <== Shows how to use Section Groups as well, which is something that I did not cover here, but might be of interest to you. How to: Create Custom Configuration Sections Using Configuration Section (MSDN) ConfigurationSection Class (MSDN) ConfigurationCollectionAttribute Class (MSDN) ConfigurationElementCollection Class (MSDN)   I hope you find this helpful.  Feel free to leave a comment.  Happy Coding!

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• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Nullable static class

  - by James Michael Hare

  Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my past little wonders posts can be found here. Today we’re going to look at an interesting Little Wonder that can be used to mitigate what could be considered a Little Pitfall.  The Little Wonder we’ll be examining is the System.Nullable static class.  No, not the System.Nullable<T> class, but a static helper class that has one useful method in particular that we will examine… but first, let’s look at the Little Pitfall that makes this wonder so useful. Little Pitfall: Comparing nullable value types using <, >, <=, >= Examine this piece of code, without examining it too deeply, what’s your gut reaction as to the result? 1: int? x = null; 2:  3: if (x < 100) 4: { 5: Console.WriteLine("True, {0} is less than 100.", 6: x.HasValue ? x.ToString() : "null"); 7: } 8: else 9: { 10: Console.WriteLine("False, {0} is NOT less than 100.", 11: x.HasValue ? x.ToString() : "null"); 12: } Your gut would be to say true right?  It would seem to make sense that a null integer is less than the integer constant 100.  But the result is actually false!  The null value is not less than 100 according to the less-than operator. It looks even more outrageous when you consider this also evaluates to false: 1: int? x = null; 2:  3: if (x < int.MaxValue) 4: { 5: // ... 6: } So, are we saying that null is less than every valid int value?  If that were true, null should be less than int.MinValue, right?  Well… no: 1: int? x = null; 2:  3: // um... hold on here, x is NOT less than min value? 4: if (x < int.MinValue) 5: { 6: // ... 7: } So what’s going on here?  If we use greater than instead of less than, we see the same little dilemma: 1: int? x = null; 2:  3: // once again, null is not greater than anything either... 4: if (x > int.MinValue) 5: { 6: // ... 7: } It turns out that four of the comparison operators (<, <=, >, >=) are designed to return false anytime at least one of the arguments is null when comparing System.Nullable wrapped types that expose the comparison operators (short, int, float, double, DateTime, TimeSpan, etc.).  What’s even odder is that even though the two equality operators (== and !=) work correctly, >= and <= have the same issue as < and > and return false if both System.Nullable wrapped operator comparable types are null! 1: DateTime? x = null; 2: DateTime? y = null; 3:  4: if (x <= y) 5: { 6: Console.WriteLine("You'd think this is true, since both are null, but it's not."); 7: } 8: else 9: { 10: Console.WriteLine("It's false because <=, <, >, >= don't work on null."); 11: } To make matters even more confusing, take for example your usual check to see if something is less than, greater to, or equal: 1: int? x = null; 2: int? y = 100; 3:  4: if (x < y) 5: { 6: Console.WriteLine("X is less than Y"); 7: } 8: else if (x > y) 9: { 10: Console.WriteLine("X is greater than Y"); 11: } 12: else 13: { 14: // We fall into the "equals" assumption, but clearly null != 100! 15: Console.WriteLine("X is equal to Y"); 16: } Yes, this code outputs “X is equal to Y” because both the less-than and greater-than operators return false when a Nullable wrapped operator comparable type is null.  This violates a lot of our assumptions because we assume is something is not less than something, and it’s not greater than something, it must be equal.  So keep in mind, that the only two comparison operators that work on Nullable wrapped types where at least one is null are the equals (==) and not equals (!=) operators: 1: int? x = null; 2: int? y = 100; 3:  4: if (x == y) 5: { 6: Console.WriteLine("False, x is null, y is not."); 7: } 8:  9: if (x != y) 10: { 11: Console.WriteLine("True, x is null, y is not."); 12: } Solution: The Nullable static class So we’ve seen that <, <=, >, and >= have some interesting and perhaps unexpected behaviors that can trip up a novice developer who isn’t expecting the kinks that System.Nullable<T> types with comparison operators can throw.  How can we easily mitigate this? Well, obviously, you could do null checks before each check, but that starts to get ugly: 1: if (x.HasValue) 2: { 3: if (y.HasValue) 4: { 5: if (x < y) 6: { 7: Console.WriteLine("x < y"); 8: } 9: else if (x > y) 10: { 11: Console.WriteLine("x > y"); 12: } 13: else 14: { 15: Console.WriteLine("x == y"); 16: } 17: } 18: else 19: { 20: Console.WriteLine("x > y because y is null and x isn't"); 21: } 22: } 23: else if (y.HasValue) 24: { 25: Console.WriteLine("x < y because x is null and y isn't"); 26: } 27: else 28: { 29: Console.WriteLine("x == y because both are null"); 30: } Yes, we could probably simplify this logic a bit, but it’s still horrendous!  So what do we do if we want to consider null less than everything and be able to properly compare Nullable<T> wrapped value types? The key is the System.Nullable static class.  This class is a companion class to the System.Nullable<T> class and allows you to use a few helper methods for Nullable<T> wrapped types, including a static Compare<T>() method of the. What’s so big about the static Compare<T>() method?  It implements an IComparer compatible comparison on Nullable<T> types.  Why do we care?  Well, if you look at the MSDN description for how IComparer works, you’ll read: Comparing null with any type is allowed and does not generate an exception when using IComparable. When sorting, null is considered to be less than any other object. This is what we probably want!  We want null to be less than everything!  So now we can change our logic to use the Nullable.Compare<T>() static method: 1: int? x = null; 2: int? y = 100; 3:  4: if (Nullable.Compare(x, y) < 0) 5: { 6: // Yes! x is null, y is not, so x is less than y according to Compare(). 7: Console.WriteLine("x < y"); 8: } 9: else if (Nullable.Compare(x, y) > 0) 10: { 11: Console.WriteLine("x > y"); 12: } 13: else 14: { 15: Console.WriteLine("x == y"); 16: } Summary So, when doing math comparisons between two numeric values where one of them may be a null Nullable<T>, consider using the System.Nullable.Compare<T>() method instead of the comparison operators.  It will treat null less than any value, and will avoid logic consistency problems when relying on < returning false to indicate >= is true and so on. Tweet   Technorati Tags: C#,C-Sharp,.NET,Little Wonders,Little Pitfalls,Nulalble

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• Gnome 3 - Multiple Video Cards - Xinerama -- Forced Fallback Mode

  - by Alvin

  Just installed a 2nd nvidia video card -- previously had gnome 3 working perfectly with 2 monitors on a a single video card using twinview tried a number of things thus far twinview on 1 card + xinerama no xinerama no twinview various manual xorg.conf hacks based on random forums (couple references below) xinerama no twinview with and without Extensions Composite The last one is what I'm using now -- it results in a forced fallback mode with Composite Disable set at the end of xorg.conf via nvidia-settings Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Disable" EndSection when I disabled that last snippet it boots to gnome 3 full with the left monitor on a black screen and the middle monitor as primary but non-responsive switching to console mode Ctrl+Alt+F1 and then switching back I get 3 black screens with a mouse that can move around but nothing to interact with issue seems related to OpenGL and the multiple video cards -- I can boot into Unity without issue though my Glx-Dock shows up with the black background as barely shows in the screenshot below indicating the OpenGL is not initiated has anyone had any luck with getting Xinerama to work with Multiple NVidia Video Cards with OpenGL support? Found this in the logs while looking a bit further [ 23.208] (II) NVIDIA(1): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select+0+0" [ 23.254] (WW) NVIDIA(1): The GPU driving screen 1 is incompatible with the rest of the [ 23.254] (WW) NVIDIA(1): GPUs composing the desktop. OpenGL rendering will be [ 23.254] (WW) NVIDIA(1): disabled on screen 1. [ 23.277] (==) NVIDIA(1): Disabling shared memory pixmaps [ 23.277] (==) NVIDIA(1): Backing store disabled [ 23.277] (==) NVIDIA(1): Silken mouse enabled [ 23.277] (==) NVIDIA(1): DPMS enabled According to this page at the NVidia User Docs http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.09/README/chapter-14.html I may be out of luck =( Starting this question with the hopes that others may be able to help debug and perhaps gain answers over time as I really want to get the full gnome 3 back.

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• Intermittent temporary GUI freeze in Ubuntu 11.10

  - by Oscar

  I've been using Ubuntu 11.10 for a month or so. In the last week it's started freezing randomly (every few hours or minutes). I can still move the mouse and switch to other terminals with ctrl+alt. I thought this was purely a gui issue as I could continue entering commands (mouse clicks and keys) which seem to be processed once the system resumes (generally 30 seconds to a few minutes). I'm using gnome and metacity. I can't identify anything in particular that triggers the freezes. Saving a file in LibreOffice causes the system to hang. I tried disabling most of the services I've installed (dropbox, autokey, etc.) but doesn't help. Switching to another terminal and running top, the CPU column is shared equally among all of my processes (i.e. non-root). I have no idea what that signifies. My PC is unusable in this state. CPU model name : Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E6700 @ 3.20GHz [7m PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND [0;10m[39;49m[K [0;10m[0;10m 1499 ogga 20 0 404m 32m 13m R 10 0.8 0:28.19 python [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m[0;10m 1501 ogga 20 0 216m 13m 6224 R 10 0.3 0:18.28 ibus-x11 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m[0;10m 1679 ogga 20 0 449m 34m 15m R 10 0.9 0:41.10 gnome-panel [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m[0;10m 1710 ogga 20 0 350m 15m 8324 R 10 0.4 0:18.25 bluetooth-apple [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m[0;10m 1752 ogga 20 0 458m 37m 13m R 10 0.9 0:22.62 autokey-gtk [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m[0;10m 2081 ogga 20 0 354m 17m 9800 R 10 0.5 0:16.36 update-notifier [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m[0;10m 5439 ogga 20 0 640m 104m 38m R 10 2.6 0:45.17 chromium-browse [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m[0;10m 5586 ogga 20 0 381m 42m 21m R 10 1.1 0:20.17 chromium-browse [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m[0;10m 6422 ogga 20 0 529m 59m 18m R 10 1.5 0:28.15 sublime_text [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m[0;10m 1362 ogga 20 0 264m 14m 7884 R 8 0.4 0:18.29 gnome-session [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m[0;10m 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[0;10m 4213 ogga 20 0 263m 73m 15m S 2 1.9 3:57.44 skype [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 1 root 20 0 24188 1492 1320 S 0 0.0 0:00.45 init [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:02.27 ksoftirqd/0 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.97 ksoftirqd/1 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.16 kworker/0:1 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 11 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 12 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 13 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 netns [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 sync_supers [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 16 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 bdi-default [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 17 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 18 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 19 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_sff [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 21 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 md [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khungtaskd [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 24 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.14 kswapd0 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 25 root 25 5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksmd [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 26 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khugepaged [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 27 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 fsnotify_mark [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 28 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ecryptfs-kthrea [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 29 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 crypto [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 37 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthrotld [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 38 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 39 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 41 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_2 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 42 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_3 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 64 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:02.98 kworker/0:2 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 242 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.39 jbd2/sdb1-8 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 243 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ext4-dio-unwrit [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 288 root 20 0 17236 448 448 S 0 0.0 0:00.04 upstart-udev-br [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 295 root 20 0 21752 884 796 S 0 0.0 0:00.06 udevd And at another time: [7m PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND [0;10m[39;49m[K [0;10m[0;10m 1757 ogga 20 0 222m 9932 6300 R 13 0.2 0:05.69 polkit-gnome-au [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m[0;10m 1559 ogga 20 0 152m 9764 6112 R 13 0.2 0:05.77 ibus-x11 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m[0;10m 1786 ogga 20 0 457m 33m 13m R 13 0.9 0:06.10 autokey-gtk [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m[0;10m 1395 ogga 20 0 262m 12m 7880 R 12 0.3 0:05.88 gnome-session [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m[0;10m 1557 ogga 20 0 403m 31m 13m R 12 0.8 0:14.95 python [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m[0;10m 1745 ogga 20 0 247m 11m 7196 R 12 0.3 0:05.69 gnome-fallback- [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m[0;10m 1767 ogga 20 0 237m 26m 11m R 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20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 sync_supers [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 16 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 bdi-default [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 17 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 18 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 19 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_sff [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 21 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 md [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 22 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.22 kworker/1:1 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khungtaskd [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 24 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 25 root 25 5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksmd [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 26 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khugepaged [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 27 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 fsnotify_mark [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 28 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ecryptfs-kthrea [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 29 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 crypto [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 37 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthrotld [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 38 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 39 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 40 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/u:2 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 41 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_2 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 42 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_3 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 43 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/u:3 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 44 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/u:4 [0;10m[39;49m [0;10m 45 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/u:5 [0;10m[39;49m[6;1H[K Sorry about the horrible formatting. Thanks for any suggestions... Edit: I notice that my virtual computer (win7 64 on virtualbox) continues to respond most of the time during these 'freezes' Edit2: I suspect this is something to do with UI priority being too low... but I don't know enough about linux to know how to address that.

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• Missing X-Spam-Status header

  - by Walt Stoneburner

  I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (trusty) and have followed the directions in https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/serverguide/mail-filtering.html and am sending and receiving mail just fine. While I do see X-Virus-Scanned headers in my messages, which suggests mail is indeed being processed, I do not see any X-Spam-Level or X-Spam-Score headers being added to messages. This makes downstream procmailrc and client-side filtering ...more difficult. While having $final_spam_destiny = D_DISCARD in /etc/amavis/conf.d/20-debian_defaults does greatly reduce spam to my inbox, I had concerns of false-positives prior to tuning and didn't know were there going, so have set it to D_PASS for the time being. This exposed the problem. I'm not sure where to look to start diagnosing the problem (otherwise I'd post a suspect configuration file). /etc/amavis/conf.d/15-content_filter_mode has the lines uncommented to enable virus and spam checks, and virus checking appears to be working according to the headers. Spam Assassin certainly seems to be starting just fine, too. SpamAssassin debug facilities: info SA info: zoom: able to use 360/360 'body_0' compiled rules (100%) SpamAssassin loaded plugins: AskDNS, AutoLearnThreshold, Bayes, BodyEval, Check, DKIM, DNSEval, FreeMail, HTMLEval, HTTPSMismatch, Hashcash, HeaderEval, ImageInfo, MIMEEval, MIMEHeader, Pyzor, Razor2, RelayEval, ReplaceTags, Rule2XSBody, SPF, SpamCop, URIDNSBL, URIDetail, URIEval, VBounce, WLBLEval, WhiteListSubject SpamControl: init_pre_fork on SpamAssassin done I've also set $log_level = 2; in /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user and don't see any obvious errors rolling by in the logs. Q: Any recommendations of what to try next? UPDATE (it appears that I have the right setting already): /etc/amavis/conf.d$ grep sa_tag_level_deflt * 20-debian_defaults:# $sa_tag_level_deflt = 2.0; # add spam info headers if at, or above that level 20-debian_defaults:$sa_tag_level_deflt = -999; # add spam info headers if at, or above that level

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• Trying to convert simple midlet application to Android application but running into problems.

  - by chobo2

  Hi I am trying to do some threading in Android so I took an old threading assignment I had done fora midlet and took out the midlet code and replaced it with android code(such as textview). package com.assignment1; import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.widget.TextView; public class Threading extends Activity { private TextView tortose; private TextView hare; private Thread hareThread; private Thread torotoseThread; private int num = 0; private int num2 = 0; public Threading() { } /** Called when the activity is first created. */ @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); tortose = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.TextView01); hare = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.TextView02); Hare newHare = new Hare(); hareThread = new Thread(newHare); hareThread.start(); Torotose newTortose = new Torotose(); torotoseThread = new Thread(newTortose); torotoseThread.start(); //updateDisplay(); } private synchronized void check(int value1, int value2) { if((value1-value2) >= 10) { try { wait(); } catch(Exception ex) { System.out.println(ex); } } } private synchronized void getGoing(int value1, int value2) { if((value1-value2) == 0) { try { notify(); } catch(Exception ex) { System.out.println(ex); } } } private class Hare extends Thread { public void run() { while(true) { num++; hare.setText(Integer.toString(num)); check(num, num2); try { // are threads different in andriod apps? Thread.sleep(100); // hareThread.sleep(100); } catch(Exception ex) { System.out.println(ex); } } } } private class Torotose extends Thread { public void run() { while(true) { num2++; tortose.setText(Integer.toString(num2)); getGoing(num,num2); try { Thread.sleep(200); //torotoseThread.sleep(200); } catch(Exception ex) { System.out.println(ex); } } } } } First it wanted me to change my threads to like static threads.So is this just how Android does it? Next when I run this code it just crashes with some unexpected error. I am not sure what the error is but when I try to debug it and goes to like to create a new "hare" object it shows me this. // Compiled from ClassLoader.java (version 1.5 : 49.0, super bit) public abstract class java.lang.ClassLoader { // Method descriptor #8 ()V // Stack: 3, Locals: 1 protected ClassLoader(); 0 aload_0 [this] 1 invokespecial java.lang.Object() [1] 4 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 7 dup 8 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 10 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 13 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 4] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 14] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader // Method descriptor #14 (Ljava/lang/ClassLoader;)V // Stack: 3, Locals: 2 protected ClassLoader(java.lang.ClassLoader parentLoader); 0 aload_0 [this] 1 invokespecial java.lang.Object() [1] 4 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 7 dup 8 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 10 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 13 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 5] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 14] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 14] local: parentLoader index: 1 type: java.lang.ClassLoader // Method descriptor #17 ()Ljava/lang/ClassLoader; // Stack: 3, Locals: 0 public static java.lang.ClassLoader getSystemClassLoader(); 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 6] // Method descriptor #19 (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/net/URL; // Stack: 3, Locals: 1 public static java.net.URL getSystemResource(java.lang.String resName); 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 7] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: resName index: 0 type: java.lang.String // Method descriptor #23 (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/util/Enumeration; // Signature: (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/util/Enumeration<Ljava/net/URL;>; // Stack: 3, Locals: 1 public static java.util.Enumeration getSystemResources(java.lang.String resName) throws java.io.IOException; 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 8] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: resName index: 0 type: java.lang.String // Method descriptor #29 (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/io/InputStream; // Stack: 3, Locals: 1 public static java.io.InputStream getSystemResourceAsStream(java.lang.String resName); 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 9] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: resName index: 0 type: java.lang.String // Method descriptor #31 ([BII)Ljava/lang/Class; // Signature: ([BII)Ljava/lang/Class<*>; // Stack: 3, Locals: 4 protected final java.lang.Class defineClass(byte[] classRep, int offset, int length) throws java.lang.ClassFormatError; 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 10] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: classRep index: 1 type: byte[] [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: offset index: 2 type: int [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: length index: 3 type: int // Method descriptor #39 (Ljava/lang/String;[BII)Ljava/lang/Class; // Signature: (Ljava/lang/String;[BII)Ljava/lang/Class<*>; // Stack: 3, Locals: 5 protected final java.lang.Class defineClass(java.lang.String className, byte[] classRep, int offset, int length) throws java.lang.ClassFormatError; 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 11] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: className index: 1 type: java.lang.String [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: classRep index: 2 type: byte[] [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: offset index: 3 type: int [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: length index: 4 type: int // Method descriptor #42 (Ljava/lang/String;[BIILjava/security/ProtectionDomain;)Ljava/lang/Class; // Signature: (Ljava/lang/String;[BIILjava/security/ProtectionDomain;)Ljava/lang/Class<*>; // Stack: 3, Locals: 6 protected final java.lang.Class defineClass(java.lang.String className, byte[] classRep, int offset, int length, java.security.ProtectionDomain protectionDomain) throws java.lang.ClassFormatError; 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 12] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: className index: 1 type: java.lang.String [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: classRep index: 2 type: byte[] [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: offset index: 3 type: int [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: length index: 4 type: int [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: protectionDomain index: 5 type: java.security.ProtectionDomain // Method descriptor #46 (Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/nio/ByteBuffer;Ljava/security/ProtectionDomain;)Ljava/lang/Class; // Signature: (Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/nio/ByteBuffer;Ljava/security/ProtectionDomain;)Ljava/lang/Class<*>; // Stack: 3, Locals: 4 protected final java.lang.Class defineClass(java.lang.String name, java.nio.ByteBuffer b, java.security.ProtectionDomain protectionDomain) throws java.lang.ClassFormatError; 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 13] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: name index: 1 type: java.lang.String [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: b index: 2 type: java.nio.ByteBuffer [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: protectionDomain index: 3 type: java.security.ProtectionDomain // Method descriptor #52 (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Class; // Signature: (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Class<*>; // Stack: 3, Locals: 2 protected java.lang.Class findClass(java.lang.String className) throws java.lang.ClassNotFoundException; 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 14] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: className index: 1 type: java.lang.String // Method descriptor #52 (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Class; // Signature: (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Class<*>; // Stack: 3, Locals: 2 protected final java.lang.Class findLoadedClass(java.lang.String className); 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 15] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: className index: 1 type: java.lang.String // Method descriptor #52 (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Class; // Signature: (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Class<*>; // Stack: 3, Locals: 2 protected final java.lang.Class findSystemClass(java.lang.String className) throws java.lang.ClassNotFoundException; 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 16] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: className index: 1 type: java.lang.String // Method descriptor #17 ()Ljava/lang/ClassLoader; // Stack: 3, Locals: 1 public final java.lang.ClassLoader getParent(); 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 17] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader // Method descriptor #19 (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/net/URL; // Stack: 3, Locals: 2 public java.net.URL getResource(java.lang.String resName); 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 18] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: resName index: 1 type: java.lang.String // Method descriptor #23 (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/util/Enumeration; // Signature: (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/util/Enumeration<Ljava/net/URL;>; // Stack: 3, Locals: 2 public java.util.Enumeration getResources(java.lang.String resName) throws java.io.IOException; 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 19] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: resName index: 1 type: java.lang.String // Method descriptor #29 (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/io/InputStream; // Stack: 3, Locals: 2 public java.io.InputStream getResourceAsStream(java.lang.String resName); 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 20] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: resName index: 1 type: java.lang.String // Method descriptor #52 (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Class; // Signature: (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Class<*>; // Stack: 3, Locals: 2 public java.lang.Class loadClass(java.lang.String className) throws java.lang.ClassNotFoundException; 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 21] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: className index: 1 type: java.lang.String // Method descriptor #62 (Ljava/lang/String;Z)Ljava/lang/Class; // Signature: (Ljava/lang/String;Z)Ljava/lang/Class<*>; // Stack: 3, Locals: 3 protected java.lang.Class loadClass(java.lang.String className, boolean resolve) throws java.lang.ClassNotFoundException; 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 22] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: className index: 1 type: java.lang.String [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: resolve index: 2 type: boolean // Method descriptor #67 (Ljava/lang/Class;)V // Signature: (Ljava/lang/Class<*>;)V // Stack: 3, Locals: 2 protected final void resolveClass(java.lang.Class clazz); 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 23] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: clazz index: 1 type: java.lang.Class Local variable type table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: clazz index: 1 type: java.lang.Class<?> // Method descriptor #19 (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/net/URL; // Stack: 3, Locals: 2 protected java.net.URL findResource(java.lang.String resName); 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 24] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: resName index: 1 type: java.lang.String // Method descriptor #23 (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/util/Enumeration; // Signature: (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/util/Enumeration<Ljava/net/URL;>; // Stack: 3, Locals: 2 protected java.util.Enumeration findResources(java.lang.String resName) throws java.io.IOException; 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 25] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: resName index: 1 type: java.lang.String // Method descriptor #76 (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String; // Stack: 3, Locals: 2 protected java.lang.String findLibrary(java.lang.String libName); 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 26] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: libName index: 1 type: java.lang.String // Method descriptor #79 (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Package; // Stack: 3, Locals: 2 protected java.lang.Package getPackage(java.lang.String name); 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 27] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: name index: 1 type: java.lang.String // Method descriptor #81 ()[Ljava/lang/Package; // Stack: 3, Locals: 1 protected java.lang.Package[] getPackages(); 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 28] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader // Method descriptor #83 (Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/net/URL;)Ljava/lang/Package; // Stack: 3, Locals: 9 protected java.lang.Package definePackage(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String specTitle, java.lang.String specVersion, java.lang.String specVendor, java.lang.String implTitle, java.lang.String implVersion, java.lang.String implVendor, java.net.URL sealBase) throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException; 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 29] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: name index: 1 type: java.lang.String [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: specTitle index: 2 type: java.lang.String [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: specVersion index: 3 type: java.lang.String [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: specVendor index: 4 type: java.lang.String [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: implTitle index: 5 type: java.lang.String [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: implVersion index: 6 type: java.lang.String [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: implVendor index: 7 type: java.lang.String [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: sealBase index: 8 type: java.net.URL // Method descriptor #94 (Ljava/lang/Class;[Ljava/lang/Object;)V // Signature: (Ljava/lang/Class<*>;[Ljava/lang/Object;)V // Stack: 3, Locals: 3 protected final void setSigners(java.lang.Class c, java.lang.Object[] signers); 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 30] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: c index: 1 type: java.lang.Class [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: signers index: 2 type: java.lang.Object[] Local variable type table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: c index: 1 type: java.lang.Class<?> // Method descriptor #100 (Ljava/lang/String;Z)V // Stack: 3, Locals: 3 public void setClassAssertionStatus(java.lang.String cname, boolean enable); 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 31] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: cname index: 1 type: java.lang.String [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: enable index: 2 type: boolean // Method descriptor #100 (Ljava/lang/String;Z)V // Stack: 3, Locals: 3 public void setPackageAssertionStatus(java.lang.String pname, boolean enable); 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 32] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: pname index: 1 type: java.lang.String [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: enable index: 2 type: boolean // Method descriptor #106 (Z)V // Stack: 3, Locals: 2 public void setDefaultAssertionStatus(boolean enable); 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 33] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: enable index: 1 type: boolean // Method descriptor #8 ()V // Stack: 3, Locals: 1 public void clearAssertionStatus(); 0 new java.lang.RuntimeException [2] 3 dup 4 ldc <String "Stub!"> [3] 6 invokespecial java.lang.RuntimeException(java.lang.String) [4] 9 athrow Line numbers: [pc: 0, line: 34] Local variable table: [pc: 0, pc: 10] local: this index: 0 type: java.lang.ClassLoader } So I am not sure where I went wrong. 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• How to save image drawn on a JPanel?

  - by swift

  I have a panel with transparent background which i use to draw an image. now problem here is when i draw anything on panel and save the image as a JPEG file its saving the image with black background but i want it to be saved as same, as i draw on the panel. what should be done for this? plz guide me j Client.java public class Client extends Thread { static DatagramSocket datasocket; static DatagramSocket socket; Point point; Whiteboard board; Virtualboard virtualboard; JLayeredPane layerpane; BufferedImage image; public Client(DatagramSocket datasocket) { Client.datasocket=datasocket; } //This function is responsible to connect to the server public static void connect() { try { socket=new DatagramSocket (9000); //client connection socket port= 9000 datasocket=new DatagramSocket (9005); //client data socket port= 9002 ByteArrayOutputStream baos=new ByteArrayOutputStream(); DataOutputStream dos=new DataOutputStream(baos); //this is to tell server that this is a connection request dos.writeChar('c'); dos.close(); byte[]data=baos.toByteArray(); //Server IP address InetAddress ip=InetAddress.getByName("10.123.97.154"); //create the UDP packet DatagramPacket packet=new DatagramPacket(data, data.length,ip , 8000); socket.send(packet); Client client=new Client(datasocket); client.createFrame(); client.run(); } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } //This function is to create the JFrame public void createFrame() { JFrame frame=new JFrame("Whiteboard"); frame.setVisible(true); frame.setBackground(Color.black); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); frame.setSize(680,501); frame.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() { public void windowOpened(WindowEvent e) {} public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) { close(); } }); layerpane=frame.getLayeredPane(); board= new Whiteboard(datasocket); image = new BufferedImage(590,463, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB); board.setBounds(74,2,590,463); board.setImage(image); virtualboard=new Virtualboard(); virtualboard.setImage(image); virtualboard.setBounds(74,2,590,463); layerpane.add(virtualboard,new Integer(2));//Panel where remote user draws layerpane.add(board,new Integer(3)); layerpane.add(board.colourButtons(),new Integer(1)); layerpane.add(board.shapeButtons(),new Integer(0)); //frame.add(paper.addButtons(),BorderLayout.WEST); } /* * This function is overridden from the thread class * This function listens for incoming packets from the server * which contains the points drawn by the other client */ public void run () { while (true) { try { byte[] buffer = new byte[512]; DatagramPacket packet = new DatagramPacket(buffer, buffer.length); datasocket.receive(packet); InputStream in=new ByteArrayInputStream(packet.getData(), packet.getOffset(),packet.getLength()); DataInputStream din=new DataInputStream(in); int x=din.readInt(); int y=din.readInt(); String varname=din.readLine(); String var[]=varname.split("-",4); point=new Point(x,y); virtualboard.addPoint(point, var[0], var[1],var[2],var[3]); } catch (IOException ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } } } //This function is to broadcast the newly drawn point to the server public void broadcast (Point p,String varname,String shape,String event, String color) { try { ByteArrayOutputStream baos=new ByteArrayOutputStream(); DataOutputStream dos=new DataOutputStream(baos); dos.writeInt(p.x); dos.writeInt(p.y); dos.writeBytes(varname); dos.writeBytes("-"); dos.writeBytes(shape); dos.writeBytes("-"); dos.writeBytes(event); dos.writeBytes("-"); dos.writeBytes(color); dos.close(); byte[]data=baos.toByteArray(); InetAddress ip=InetAddress.getByName("10.123.97.154"); DatagramPacket packet=new DatagramPacket(data, data.length,ip , 8002); datasocket.send(packet); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } //This function is to close the client's connection with the server public void close() { try { ByteArrayOutputStream baos=new ByteArrayOutputStream(); DataOutputStream dos=new DataOutputStream(baos); //This is to tell server that this is request to remove the client dos.writeChar('r'); dos.close(); byte[]data=baos.toByteArray(); //Server IP address InetAddress ip=InetAddress.getByName("10.123.97.154"); DatagramPacket packet=new DatagramPacket(data, data.length,ip , 8000); socket.send(packet); System.out.println("closed"); } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { connect(); } } Whiteboard.java class Whiteboard extends JPanel implements MouseListener,MouseMotionListener,ActionListener,KeyListener { BufferedImage image; Boolean tooltip=false; int post; String shape; String selectedcolor="black"; Color color=Color.black; //Color color=Color.white; Point start; Point end; Point mp; Point tip; int keycode; String fillshape; Point fillstart=new Point(); Point fillend=new Point(); int noofside; Button r=new Button("rect"); Button rectangle=new Button("rect"); Button line=new Button("line"); Button roundrect=new Button("roundrect"); Button polygon=new Button("poly"); Button text=new Button("text"); JButton save=new JButton("Save"); Button elipse=new Button("elipse"); ImageIcon fillicon=new ImageIcon("images/fill.jpg"); JButton fill=new JButton(fillicon); ImageIcon erasericon=new ImageIcon("images/eraser.gif"); JButton erase=new JButton(erasericon); JButton[] colourbutton=new JButton[28]; String selected; Point label; String key=""; int ex,ey;//eraser DatagramSocket dataSocket; JButton button = new JButton("test"); Client client; Boolean first; int w,h; public Whiteboard(DatagramSocket dataSocket) { try { UIManager.setLookAndFeel( UIManager.getCrossPlatformLookAndFeelClassName()); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } setLayout(null); setOpaque(false); setBackground(new Color(237,237,237)); this.dataSocket=dataSocket; client=new Client(dataSocket); addKeyListener(this); addMouseListener(this); addMouseMotionListener(this); setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.black)); } public void paintComponent(Graphics g) { try { super.paintComponent(g); g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, this); Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g; if(color!=null) g2.setPaint(color); if(start!=null && end!=null) { if(selected==("elipse")) g2.drawOval(start.x, start.y,(end.x-start.x),(end.y-start.y)); else if(selected==("rect")) g2.drawRect(start.x, start.y, (end.x-start.x),(end.y-start.y)); else if(selected==("rrect")) g2.drawRoundRect(start.x, start.y, (end.x-start.x),(end.y-start.y),11,11); else if(selected==("line")) g2.drawLine(start.x,start.y,end.x,end.y); else if(selected==("poly")) { g2.drawLine(start.x,start.y,end.x,end.y); client.broadcast(start, "start", "poly", "drag", selectedcolor); client.broadcast(end, "end", "poly", "drag", selectedcolor); } } if(tooltip==true) { System.out.println(selected); if(selected=="text") { g2.drawString("|", tip.x, tip.y-5); g2.drawString("Click to add text", tip.x+10, tip.y+23); g2.drawString("__", label.x+post, label.y); } if(selected=="erase") { g2.setPaint(new Color(237,237,237)); g2.fillRect(tip.x-10,tip.y-10,10,10); g2.setPaint(color); g2.drawRect(tip.x-10,tip.y-10,10,10); } } } catch(Exception e) {} } //Function to draw the shape on image public void draw() { Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) image.createGraphics(); Font font=new Font("Times New Roman",Font.PLAIN,14); g2.setFont(font); g2.setPaint(color); if(start!=null && end!=null) { if(selected=="line") g2.drawLine(start.x, start.y, end.x, end.y); else if(selected=="elipse") g2.drawOval(start.x, start.y, (end.x-start.x),(end.y-start.y)); else if(selected=="rect") g2.drawRect(start.x, start.y, (end.x-start.x),(end.y-start.y)); else if(selected==("rrect")) g2.drawRoundRect(start.x, start.y, (end.x-start.x),(end.y-start.y),11,11); else if(selected==("poly")) { g2.drawLine(start.x,start.y,end.x,end.y); client.broadcast(start, "start", "poly", "release", selectedcolor); client.broadcast(end, "end", "poly", "release", selectedcolor); } fillstart=start; fillend=end; fillshape=selected; } if(selected!="poly") { start=null; end=null; } if(label!=null) { if(selected==("text")) { g2.drawString(key,label.x,label.y); client.broadcast(label, key, "text", "release", selectedcolor); } } repaint(); g2.dispose(); } //Function which provides the erase functionality public void erase() { Graphics2D pic=(Graphics2D) image.createGraphics(); Color erasecolor=new Color(237,237,237); pic.setPaint(erasecolor); if(start!=null) pic.fillRect(start.x-10, start.y-10, 10, 10); } //To set the size of the image public void setImage(BufferedImage image) { this.image = image; } //Function to add buttons into the panel, calling this function returns a panel public JPanel shapeButtons() { JPanel shape=new JPanel(); shape.setBackground(new Color(181, 197, 210)); shape.setLayout(new GridLayout(5,2,2,4)); shape.setBounds(0, 2, 74, 166); rectangle.addActionListener(this); rectangle.setToolTipText("Rectangle"); line.addActionListener( this); line.setToolTipText("Line"); erase.addActionListener(this); erase.setToolTipText("Eraser"); roundrect.addActionListener(this); roundrect.setToolTipText("Round edge Rectangle"); polygon.addActionListener(this); polygon.setToolTipText("Polygon"); text.addActionListener(this); text.setToolTipText("Text"); fill.addActionListener(this); fill.setToolTipText("Fill with colour"); elipse.addActionListener(this); elipse.setToolTipText("Elipse"); save.addActionListener(this); shape.add(elipse); shape.add(rectangle); shape.add(roundrect); shape.add(polygon); shape.add(line); shape.add(text); shape.add(fill); shape.add(erase); shape.add(save); return shape; } public JPanel colourButtons() { JPanel colourbox=new JPanel(); colourbox.setBackground(new Color(181, 197, 210)); colourbox.setLayout(new GridLayout(8,2,8,8)); colourbox.setBounds(0,323,70,140); //colourbox.add(empty); for(int i=0;i<16;i++) { colourbutton[i]=new JButton(); colourbox.add(colourbutton[i]); if(i==0) colourbutton[0].setBackground(Color.black); else if(i==1) colourbutton[1].setBackground(Color.white); else if(i==2) colourbutton[2].setBackground(Color.red); else if(i==3) colourbutton[3].setBackground(Color.orange); else if(i==4) colourbutton[4].setBackground(Color.blue); else if(i==5) colourbutton[5].setBackground(Color.green); else if(i==6) colourbutton[6].setBackground(Color.pink); else if(i==7) colourbutton[7].setBackground(Color.magenta); else if(i==8) colourbutton[8].setBackground(Color.cyan); else if(i==9) colourbutton[9].setBackground(Color.black); else if(i==10) colourbutton[10].setBackground(Color.yellow); else if(i==11) colourbutton[11].setBackground(new Color(131,168,43)); else if(i==12) colourbutton[12].setBackground(new Color(132,0,210)); else if(i==13) colourbutton[13].setBackground(new Color(193,17,92)); else if(i==14) colourbutton[14].setBackground(new Color(129,82,50)); else if(i==15) colourbutton[15].setBackground(new Color(64,128,128)); colourbutton[i].addActionListener(this); } return colourbox; } public void fill() { if(selected=="fill") { Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) image.getGraphics(); g2.setPaint(color); System.out.println("Fill"); if(fillshape=="elipse") g2.fillOval(fillstart.x, fillstart.y, (fillend.x-fillstart.x),(fillend.y-fillstart.y)); else if(fillshape=="rect") g2.fillRect(fillstart.x, fillstart.y, (fillend.x-fillstart.x),(fillend.y-fillstart.y)); else if(fillshape==("rrect")) g2.fillRoundRect(fillstart.x, fillstart.y, (fillend.x-fillstart.x),(fillend.y-fillstart.y),11,11); // else if(fillshape==("poly")) // g2.drawPolygon(x,y,2); } repaint(); } //To save the image drawn public void save() { try { ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); JPEGImageEncoder encoder = JPEGCodec.createJPEGEncoder(bos); JFileChooser fc = new JFileChooser(); fc.showSaveDialog(this); encoder.encode(image); byte[] jpgData = bos.toByteArray(); FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fc.getSelectedFile()+".jpeg"); fos.write(jpgData); fos.close(); //add replce confirmation here } catch (IOException e) { System.out.println(e); } } public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) { } @Override public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) { } public void mouseExited(MouseEvent arg0) { } public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) { if(selected=="line"||selected=="text") { start=e.getPoint(); client.broadcast(start,"start", selected,"press", selectedcolor); } else if(selected=="elipse"||selected=="rect"||selected=="rrect") mp = e.getPoint(); else if(selected=="poly") { if(first==true) { start=e.getPoint(); //client.broadcast(start,"start", selected,"press", selectedcolor); } else if(first==false) { end=e.getPoint(); repaint(); //client.broadcast(end,"end", selected,"press", selectedcolor); } } else if(selected=="erase") { start=e.getPoint(); erase(); } } public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) { if(selected=="text") { System.out.println("Reset"); key=""; post=0; label=new Point(); label=e.getPoint(); grabFocus(); } if(start!=null && end!=null) { if(selected=="line") { end=e.getPoint(); client.broadcast(end,"end", selected,"release", selectedcolor); draw(); } else if(selected=="elipse"||selected=="rect"||selected=="rrect") { end.x = Math.max(mp.x,e.getX()); end.y = Math.max(mp.y,e.getY()); client.broadcast(end,"end", selected,"release", selectedcolor); draw(); } else if(selected=="poly") { draw(); first=false; start=end; end=null; } } } public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) { if(end==null) end = new Point(); if(start==null) start = new Point(); if(selected=="line") { end=e.getPoint(); client.broadcast(end,"end", selected,"drag", selectedcolor); } else if(selected=="erase") { start=e.getPoint(); erase(); client.broadcast(start,"start", selected,"drag", selectedcolor); } else if(selected=="elipse"||selected=="rect"||selected=="rrect") { start.x = Math.min(mp.x,e.getX()); start.y = Math.min(mp.y,e.getY()); end.x = Math.max(mp.x,e.getX()); end.y = Math.max(mp.y,e.getY()); client.broadcast(start,"start", selected,"drag", selectedcolor); client.broadcast(end,"end", selected,"drag", selectedcolor); } else if(selected=="poly") end=e.getPoint(); System.out.println(tooltip); if(tooltip==true) { if(selected=="erase") { Graphics2D g2=(Graphics2D) getGraphics(); tip=e.getPoint(); g2.drawRect(tip.x-10,tip.y-10,10,10); } } repaint(); } public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) { if(selected=="text" ||selected=="erase") { tip=new Point(); tip=e.getPoint(); tooltip=true; repaint(); } } public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { if(e.getSource()==elipse) selected="elipse"; else if(e.getSource()==line) selected="line"; else if(e.getSource()==rectangle) selected="rect"; else if(e.getSource()==erase) { selected="erase"; tooltip=true; System.out.println(selected); erase(); } else if(e.getSource()==roundrect) selected="rrect"; else if(e.getSource()==polygon) { selected="poly"; first=true; start=null; } else if(e.getSource()==text) { selected="text"; tooltip=true; } else if(e.getSource()==fill) { selected="fill"; fill(); } else if(e.getSource()==save) save(); if(e.getSource()==colourbutton[0]) { color=Color.black; selectedcolor="black"; } else if(e.getSource()==colourbutton[1]) { color=Color.white; selectedcolor="white"; } else if(e.getSource()==colourbutton[2]) { color=Color.red; selectedcolor="red"; } else if(e.getSource()==colourbutton[3]) { color=Color.orange; selectedcolor="orange"; } else if(e.getSource()==colourbutton[4]) { selectedcolor="blue"; color=Color.blue; } else if(e.getSource()==colourbutton[5]) { selectedcolor="green"; color=Color.green; } else if(e.getSource()==colourbutton[6]) { selectedcolor="pink"; color=Color.pink; } else if(e.getSource()==colourbutton[7]) { selectedcolor="magenta"; color=Color.magenta; } else if(e.getSource()==colourbutton[8]) { selectedcolor="cyan"; color=Color.cyan; } } @Override public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) { //System.out.println(e.getKeyChar()+" : "+e.getKeyCode()); if(label!=null) { if(e.getKeyCode()==10) //Check for Enter key { label.y=label.y+14; key=""; post=0; repaint(); } else if(e.getKeyCode()==8) //Backspace { try{ Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) image.getGraphics(); g2.setPaint(new Color(237,237,237)); g2.fillRect(label.x+post-7, label.y-13, 14, 17); if(post>0) post=post-6; keycode=0; key=key.substring(0, key.length()-1); System.out.println(key.substring(0, key.length())); repaint(); Point broadcastlabel=new Point(); broadcastlabel.x=label.x+post-7; broadcastlabel.y=label.y-13; client.broadcast(broadcastlabel, key, "text", "backspace", selectedcolor); } catch(Exception ex) {} } //Block invalid keys else if(!(e.getKeyCode()>=16 && e.getKeyCode()<=20 || e.getKeyCode()>=112 && e.getKeyCode()<=123 || e.getKeyCode()>=33 && e.getKeyCode()<=40 || e.getKeyCode()>=144 && e.getKeyCode()<=145 || e.getKeyCode()>=524 && e.getKeyCode()<=525 ||e.getKeyCode()==27||e.getKeyCode()==155 ||e.getKeyCode()==127)) { key=key+e.getKeyChar(); post=post+6; draw(); } } } @Override public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) { } @Override public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) { } } class Button extends JButton { String name; int i; public Button(String name) { this.name=name; try { UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel"); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } public Button(int i) { this.i=i; } public void paintComponent(Graphics g) { super.paintComponent(g); Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g; g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON); //g2.setStroke(new BasicStroke(1.2f)); if (name == "line") g.drawLine(5,5,30,30); if (name == "elipse") g.drawOval(5,7,25,20); if (name== "rect") g.drawRect(5,5,25,23); if (name== "roundrect") g.drawRoundRect(5,5,25,23,10,10); int a[]=new int[]{20,9,20,23,20}; int b[]=new int[]{9,23,25,20,9}; if (name== "poly") g.drawPolyline(a, b, 5); if (name== "text") g.drawString("Text",8, 24); } }

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• in MSSQL Server 2005 Dev Edition, I faced index corruption

  - by tranhuyhung

  Hi all, When running stored procedures in MSSQL Server, I found it failed and the DBMS (MSSQL Server 2005 Dev Edition) notified that some indexes are corrupted. Please advice me, here below is DBCC logs: DBCC results for 'itopup_dev'. Service Broker Msg 9675, State 1: Message Types analyzed: 14. Service Broker Msg 9676, State 1: Service Contracts analyzed: 6. Service Broker Msg 9667, State 1: Services analyzed: 3. Service Broker Msg 9668, State 1: Service Queues analyzed: 3. Service Broker Msg 9669, State 1: Conversation Endpoints analyzed: 0. Service Broker Msg 9674, State 1: Conversation Groups analyzed: 0. Service Broker Msg 9670, State 1: Remote Service Bindings analyzed: 0. DBCC results for 'sys.sysrowsetcolumns'. There are 1148 rows in 14 pages for object "sys.sysrowsetcolumns". DBCC results for 'sys.sysrowsets'. There are 187 rows in 2 pages for object "sys.sysrowsets". DBCC results for 'sysallocunits'. There are 209 rows in 3 pages for object "sysallocunits". DBCC results for 'sys.sysfiles1'. There are 2 rows in 1 pages for object "sys.sysfiles1". DBCC results for 'sys.syshobtcolumns'. There are 1148 rows in 14 pages for object "sys.syshobtcolumns". DBCC results for 'sys.syshobts'. There are 187 rows in 2 pages for object "sys.syshobts". DBCC results for 'sys.sysftinds'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sys.sysftinds". DBCC results for 'sys.sysserefs'. There are 209 rows in 1 pages for object "sys.sysserefs". DBCC results for 'sys.sysowners'. There are 15 rows in 1 pages for object "sys.sysowners". DBCC results for 'sys.sysprivs'. There are 135 rows in 1 pages for object "sys.sysprivs". DBCC results for 'sys.sysschobjs'. There are 817 rows in 21 pages for object "sys.sysschobjs". DBCC results for 'sys.syscolpars'. There are 2536 rows in 71 pages for object "sys.syscolpars". DBCC results for 'sys.sysnsobjs'. There are 1 rows in 1 pages for object "sys.sysnsobjs". DBCC results for 'sys.syscerts'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sys.syscerts". DBCC results for 'sys.sysxprops'. There are 12 rows in 4 pages for object "sys.sysxprops". DBCC results for 'sys.sysscalartypes'. There are 27 rows in 1 pages for object "sys.sysscalartypes". DBCC results for 'sys.systypedsubobjs'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sys.systypedsubobjs". DBCC results for 'sys.sysidxstats'. There are 466 rows in 15 pages for object "sys.sysidxstats". DBCC results for 'sys.sysiscols'. There are 616 rows in 6 pages for object "sys.sysiscols". DBCC results for 'sys.sysbinobjs'. There are 23 rows in 1 pages for object "sys.sysbinobjs". DBCC results for 'sys.sysobjvalues'. There are 1001 rows in 376 pages for object "sys.sysobjvalues". DBCC results for 'sys.sysclsobjs'. There are 14 rows in 1 pages for object "sys.sysclsobjs". DBCC results for 'sys.sysrowsetrefs'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sys.sysrowsetrefs". DBCC results for 'sys.sysremsvcbinds'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sys.sysremsvcbinds". DBCC results for 'sys.sysxmitqueue'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sys.sysxmitqueue". DBCC results for 'sys.sysrts'. There are 1 rows in 1 pages for object "sys.sysrts". DBCC results for 'sys.sysconvgroup'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sys.sysconvgroup". DBCC results for 'sys.sysdesend'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sys.sysdesend". DBCC results for 'sys.sysdercv'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sys.sysdercv". DBCC results for 'sys.syssingleobjrefs'. There are 317 rows in 2 pages for object "sys.syssingleobjrefs". DBCC results for 'sys.sysmultiobjrefs'. There are 3607 rows in 37 pages for object "sys.sysmultiobjrefs". DBCC results for 'sys.sysdbfiles'. There are 2 rows in 1 pages for object "sys.sysdbfiles". DBCC results for 'sys.sysguidrefs'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sys.sysguidrefs". DBCC results for 'sys.sysqnames'. There are 91 rows in 1 pages for object "sys.sysqnames". DBCC results for 'sys.sysxmlcomponent'. There are 93 rows in 1 pages for object "sys.sysxmlcomponent". DBCC results for 'sys.sysxmlfacet'. There are 97 rows in 1 pages for object "sys.sysxmlfacet". DBCC results for 'sys.sysxmlplacement'. There are 17 rows in 1 pages for object "sys.sysxmlplacement". DBCC results for 'sys.sysobjkeycrypts'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sys.sysobjkeycrypts". DBCC results for 'sys.sysasymkeys'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sys.sysasymkeys". DBCC results for 'sys.syssqlguides'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sys.syssqlguides". DBCC results for 'sys.sysbinsubobjs'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sys.sysbinsubobjs". DBCC results for 'TBL_BONUS_TEMPLATES'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "TBL_BONUS_TEMPLATES". DBCC results for 'TBL_ROLE_PAGE_GROUP'. There are 18 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_ROLE_PAGE_GROUP". DBCC results for 'TBL_BONUS_LEVELS'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "TBL_BONUS_LEVELS". DBCC results for 'TBL_SUPERADMIN'. There are 1 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_SUPERADMIN". DBCC results for 'TBL_ADMIN_ROLES'. There are 11 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_ADMIN_ROLES". DBCC results for 'TBL_ADMIN_USER_ROLE'. There are 42 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_ADMIN_USER_ROLE". DBCC results for 'TBL_BONUS_CALCULATION_HISTORIES'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "TBL_BONUS_CALCULATION_HISTORIES". DBCC results for 'TBL_MERCHANT_MOBILES'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "TBL_MERCHANT_MOBILES". DBCC results for 'TBL_ARCHIVE_EXPORTED_SOFTPINS'. There are 16030918 rows in 35344 pages for object "TBL_ARCHIVE_EXPORTED_SOFTPINS". DBCC results for 'TBL_ARCHIVE_LOGS'. There are 280 rows in 2 pages for object "TBL_ARCHIVE_LOGS". DBCC results for 'TBL_ADMIN_USERS'. There are 29 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_ADMIN_USERS". DBCC results for 'TBL_SYSTEM_ALERT_GROUPS'. There are 4 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_SYSTEM_ALERT_GROUPS". DBCC results for 'TBL_EXPORTED_TRANSACTIONS'. There are 7848 rows in 89 pages for object "TBL_EXPORTED_TRANSACTIONS". DBCC results for 'TBL_SYSTEM_ALERTS'. There are 968 rows in 9 pages for object "TBL_SYSTEM_ALERTS". DBCC results for 'TBL_SYSTEM_ALERT_GROUP_MEMBERS'. There are 1 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_SYSTEM_ALERT_GROUP_MEMBERS". DBCC results for 'TBL_ESTIMATED_TIME'. There are 11 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_ESTIMATED_TIME". DBCC results for 'TBL_SYSTEM_ALERT_MEMBERS'. There are 0 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_SYSTEM_ALERT_MEMBERS". DBCC results for 'TBL_COMMISSIONS'. There are 10031 rows in 106 pages for object "TBL_COMMISSIONS". DBCC results for 'TBL_CATEGORIES'. There are 3 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_CATEGORIES". DBCC results for 'TBL_SERVICE_PROVIDERS'. There are 11 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_SERVICE_PROVIDERS". DBCC results for 'TBL_CATEGORY_SERVICE_PROVIDER'. There are 11 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_CATEGORY_SERVICE_PROVIDER". DBCC results for 'TBL_PRODUCTS'. There are 73 rows in 6 pages for object "TBL_PRODUCTS". DBCC results for 'TBL_MERCHANT_KEYS'. There are 291 rows in 30 pages for object "TBL_MERCHANT_KEYS". DBCC results for 'TBL_POS_UNLOCK_KEYS'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "TBL_POS_UNLOCK_KEYS". DBCC results for 'TBL_POS'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "TBL_POS". DBCC results for 'TBL_IMPORT_BATCHES'. There are 3285 rows in 84 pages for object "TBL_IMPORT_BATCHES". DBCC results for 'TBL_IMPORT_KEYS'. There are 2 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_IMPORT_KEYS". DBCC results for 'TBL_PRODUCT_COMMISSION_TEMPLATES'. There are 634 rows in 4 pages for object "TBL_PRODUCT_COMMISSION_TEMPLATES". DBCC results for 'TBL_POS_SETTLE_TRANSACTIONS'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "TBL_POS_SETTLE_TRANSACTIONS". DBCC results for 'TBL_CHANGE_KEY_SOFTPINS'. There are 0 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_CHANGE_KEY_SOFTPINS". DBCC results for 'TBL_POS_RETURN_TRANSACTIONS'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "TBL_POS_RETURN_TRANSACTIONS". DBCC results for 'TBL_POS_SOFTPINS'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "TBL_POS_SOFTPINS". DBCC results for 'TBL_POS_MENUS'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "TBL_POS_MENUS". DBCC results for 'TBL_COMMISSION_TEMPLATES'. There are 23 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_COMMISSION_TEMPLATES". DBCC results for 'TBL_DOWNLOAD_TRANSACTIONS'. There are 170820 rows in 1789 pages for object "TBL_DOWNLOAD_TRANSACTIONS". DBCC results for 'TBL_IMPORT_TEMP_SOFTPINS'. There are 0 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_IMPORT_TEMP_SOFTPINS". DBCC results for 'TBL_REGIONS'. There are 2 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_REGIONS". DBCC results for 'TBL_SOFTPINS'. There are 9723677 rows in 126611 pages for object "TBL_SOFTPINS". DBCC results for 'sysdiagrams'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sysdiagrams". DBCC results for 'TBL_SYNCHRONIZE_TRANSACTIONS'. There are 9302 rows in 53 pages for object "TBL_SYNCHRONIZE_TRANSACTIONS". DBCC results for 'TBL_SALEMEN'. There are 32 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_SALEMEN". DBCC results for 'TBL_RESERVATION_SOFTPINS'. There are 131431 rows in 1629 pages for object "TBL_RESERVATION_SOFTPINS". DBCC results for 'TBL_SYNCHRONIZE_TRANSACTION_ITEMS'. There are 5345 rows in 16 pages for object "TBL_SYNCHRONIZE_TRANSACTION_ITEMS". DBCC results for 'TBL_ACCOUNTS'. There are 1 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_ACCOUNTS". DBCC results for 'TBL_SYNCHRONIZE_TRANSACTION_SOFTPIN'. There are 821988 rows in 2744 pages for object "TBL_SYNCHRONIZE_TRANSACTION_SOFTPIN". *DBCC results for 'TBL_EXPORTED_SOFTPINS'. Msg 8928, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Object ID 1716917188, index ID 1, partition ID 72057594046119936, alloc unit ID 72057594050838528 (type In-row data): Page (1:677314) could not be processed. See other errors for details. Msg 8939, Level 16, State 7, Line 1 Table error: Object ID 1716917188, index ID 1, partition ID 72057594046119936, alloc unit ID 72057594050838528 (type In-row data), page (1:677314). Test (m_freeData = PAGEHEADSIZE && m_freeData <= (UINT)PAGESIZE - m_slotCnt * sizeof (Slot)) failed. Values are 15428 and 7240. There are 2267937 rows in 6133 pages for object "TBL_EXPORTED_SOFTPINS". CHECKDB found 0 allocation errors and 2 consistency errors in table 'TBL_EXPORTED_SOFTPINS' (object ID 1716917188).* DBCC results for 'TBL_DOWNLOAD_SOFTPINS'. There are 7029404 rows in 17999 pages for object "TBL_DOWNLOAD_SOFTPINS". DBCC results for 'TBL_MERCHANT_BALANCE_CREDIT_PAID'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "TBL_MERCHANT_BALANCE_CREDIT_PAID". DBCC results for 'TBL_ARCHIVE_SOFTPINS'. There are 44015040 rows in 683692 pages for object "TBL_ARCHIVE_SOFTPINS". DBCC results for 'TBL_ACCOUNT_BALANCE_LOGS'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "TBL_ACCOUNT_BALANCE_LOGS". DBCC results for 'TBL_BLOCK_BATCHES'. There are 23 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_BLOCK_BATCHES". DBCC results for 'TBL_BLOCK_BATCH_SOFTPIN'. There are 396 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_BLOCK_BATCH_SOFTPIN". DBCC results for 'TBL_MERCHANTS'. There are 290 rows in 22 pages for object "TBL_MERCHANTS". DBCC results for 'TBL_DOWNLOAD_TRANSACTION_ITEMS'. There are 189296 rows in 1241 pages for object "TBL_DOWNLOAD_TRANSACTION_ITEMS". DBCC results for 'TBL_BLOCK_BATCH_CONDITIONS'. There are 23 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_BLOCK_BATCH_CONDITIONS". DBCC results for 'TBL_SP_ADVERTISEMENTS'. There are 6 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_SP_ADVERTISEMENTS". DBCC results for 'TBL_SERVER_KEYS'. There are 1 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_SERVER_KEYS". DBCC results for 'TBL_ARCHIVE_DOWNLOAD_SOFTPINS'. There are 27984122 rows in 60773 pages for object "TBL_ARCHIVE_DOWNLOAD_SOFTPINS". DBCC results for 'TBL_ACCOUNT_BALANCE_REQUESTS'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "TBL_ACCOUNT_BALANCE_REQUESTS". DBCC results for 'TBL_MERCHANT_TERMINALS'. There are 633 rows in 4 pages for object "TBL_MERCHANT_TERMINALS". DBCC results for 'TBL_SP_PREFIXES'. There are 6 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_SP_PREFIXES". DBCC results for 'TBL_DIRECT_TOPUP_TRANSACTIONS'. There are 43 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_DIRECT_TOPUP_TRANSACTIONS". DBCC results for 'TBL_MERCHANT_BALANCE_REQUESTS'. There are 19367 rows in 171 pages for object "TBL_MERCHANT_BALANCE_REQUESTS". DBCC results for 'TBL_ACTION_LOGS'. There are 133714 rows in 1569 pages for object "TBL_ACTION_LOGS". DBCC results for 'sys.queue_messages_1977058079'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sys.queue_messages_1977058079". DBCC results for 'sys.queue_messages_2009058193'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sys.queue_messages_2009058193". DBCC results for 'TBL_CODES'. There are 98 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_CODES". DBCC results for 'TBL_MERCHANT_BALANCE_LOGS'. There are 183498 rows in 3178 pages for object "TBL_MERCHANT_BALANCE_LOGS". DBCC results for 'TBL_MERCHANT_CHANNEL_TEMPLATE'. There are 397 rows in 2 pages for object "TBL_MERCHANT_CHANNEL_TEMPLATE". DBCC results for 'sys.queue_messages_2041058307'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "sys.queue_messages_2041058307". DBCC results for 'TBL_VNPTEPAY'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "TBL_VNPTEPAY". DBCC results for 'TBL_PAGE_GROUPS'. There are 10 rows in 1 pages for object "TBL_PAGE_GROUPS". DBCC results for 'TBL_PAGE_GROUP_PAGE'. There are 513 rows in 2 pages for object "TBL_PAGE_GROUP_PAGE". DBCC results for 'TBL_ACCOUNT_CHANNEL_TEMPLATE'. There are 0 rows in 0 pages for object "TBL_ACCOUNT_CHANNEL_TEMPLATE". DBCC results for 'TBL_PAGES'. There are 148 rows in 3 pages for object "TBL_PAGES". CHECKDB found 0 allocation errors and 2 consistency errors in database 'itopup_dev'. repair_allow_data_loss is the minimum repair level for the errors found by DBCC CHECKDB (itopup_dev). DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.

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• Installing Exchange 2013 CU1

  - by marc dekeyser

  Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/marcde/archive/2013/08/01/installing-exchange-2013-cu1.aspxBefore you begin Download the following software: · UCMA 4.0: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34992 · Office 2010 filter packs 64 bit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17062 · Office 2010 filter packs SP1 64 bit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26604 Prerequisite installation Step 1 : Open Windows Powershell     Step 2: Enter following string to start prerequisite installation for a multirole server – Install-WindowsFeature AS-HTTP-Activation, Desktop-Experience, NET-Framework-45-Features, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, RSAT-Clustering-CmdInterface, RSAT-Clustering-Mgmt, RSAT-Clustering-PowerShell, Web-Mgmt-Console, WAS-Process-Model, Web-Asp-Net45, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Client-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Dir-Browsing, Web-Dyn-Compression, Web-Http-Errors, Web-Http-Logging, Web-Http-Redirect, Web-Http-Tracing, Web-ISAPI-Ext, Web-ISAPI-Filter, Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console, Web-Metabase, Web-Mgmt-Console, Web-Mgmt-Service, Web-Net-Ext45, Web-Request-Monitor, Web-Server, Web-Stat-Compression, Web-Static-Content, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-WMI, Windows-Identity-Foundation   Step 3: restart the server   Shutdown.exe /r /t 60     Step 4: Install the UCMA Runtime Setup Navigate to the folder holding the prerequisite downloads and double click the “UCMARunTimeSetup”     Step 5: Accept the Run prompt     Step 6: Click the left click on "Next (button)" in "Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API 4.0, Runtime Setup"     Step 7: Left click on "I have read and accept the license terms. (check box)" in "Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API 4.0, Runtime Setup"     Step 8: Left click on "Install (button)" in "Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API 4.0, Runtime Setup"     Step 9: Left click on "Finish (button)" in "Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API 4.0, Runtime Setup"     Step 10: Start the Office 2010 filter pack installation     Step 11: Left click on "Run (button)" in "Open File - Security Warning"     Step 12: Left click on "Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0 (button)" as it hides in the background by default.     Step 13: Left click on "Next (button)" in "Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0"     Step 14: Left click on "I accept the terms in the License Agreement (check box)" in "Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0"     Step 15: Left click on "Next (button)" in "Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0"     Step 16: Left click on "OK (button)" in "Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0"     Step 17: Start the installation of the Office 2010 Filterpack SP1.     Step 18: Left click on "Run (button)" in "Open File - Security Warning"     Step 19: Left click on "Click here to accept the Microsoft Software License Terms. (check box)" in "Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Pack Service Pack 1 (SP1)"     Step 20: Left click on "Continue (button)" in "Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Pack Service Pack 1 (SP1)"     Step 21: (?21/?06/?2013 11:23:25) User left click on "OK (button)" in "Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Pack Service Pack 1 (SP1)"     Step 22: Left click on "Windows PowerShell (button)"     Step 23: restart the server. Shutdown.exe /r /t 60   Step 24: Left click on "Close (button)" in "You're about to be signed off"     Installing Exchange server 2013 Step 1: Navigate to the Exchange 2013 CU1 extracted location and run setup.exe Left click on "next (button)" in "Exchange Server Setup" Step 2: Left click on "next (button)" in "Exchange Server Setup" Step 3: Left click on "Exchange Server Setup (window)" in "Exchange Server Setup" Step 4: Left click on "Exchange Server Setup (window)" in "Exchange Server Setup" a Step 5: User left click on "next (button)" in "Exchange Server Setup" Step 6: Left click on "I accept the terms in the license agreement" in "Exchange Server Setup" Step 7: Left click on "next (button)" in "Exchange Server Setup" Step 8: Left click on "next (button)" in "Exchange Server Setup" Step 9: Select "Mailbox role” in "Exchange Server Setup" Step 10: Select "Client Access role" in "Exchange Server Setup" Step 11: Left click on "next (button)" in "Exchange Server Setup" Step 12: Left click on "next (button)" in "Exchange Server Setup" Step 13: Choose the installation path and left click on "next (button)" in "Exchange Server Setup" Step 14: Leave malware scanning on by making sure the radio button is on “No”and left click on "Exchange Server Setup (window)" in "Exchange Server Setup"                   Step 15: Left click on "finish (button)" in "Exchange Server Setup" Step 16: Restart the server. Shutdown.exe /r /t 60

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• Am I right about the differences between Floyd-Warshall, Dijkstra's and Bellman-Ford algorithms?

  - by Programming Noob

  I've been studying the three and I'm stating my inferences from them below. Could someone tell me if I have understood them accurately enough or not? Thank you. Dijkstra's algorithm is used only when you have a single source and you want to know the smallest path from one node to another, but fails in cases like this Floyd-Warshall's algorithm is used when any of all the nodes can be a source, so you want the shortest distance to reach any destination node from any source node. This only fails when there are negative cycles (this is the most important one. I mean, this is the one I'm least sure about:) 3.Bellman-Ford is used like Dijkstra's, when there is only one source. This can handle negative weights and its working is the same as Floyd-Warshall's except for one source, right? If you need to have a look, the corresponding algorithms are (courtesy Wikipedia): Bellman-Ford: procedure BellmanFord(list vertices, list edges, vertex source) // This implementation takes in a graph, represented as lists of vertices // and edges, and modifies the vertices so that their distance and // predecessor attributes store the shortest paths. // Step 1: initialize graph for each vertex v in vertices: if v is source then v.distance := 0 else v.distance := infinity v.predecessor := null // Step 2: relax edges repeatedly for i from 1 to size(vertices)-1: for each edge uv in edges: // uv is the edge from u to v u := uv.source v := uv.destination if u.distance + uv.weight < v.distance: v.distance := u.distance + uv.weight v.predecessor := u // Step 3: check for negative-weight cycles for each edge uv in edges: u := uv.source v := uv.destination if u.distance + uv.weight < v.distance: error "Graph contains a negative-weight cycle" Dijkstra: 1 function Dijkstra(Graph, source): 2 for each vertex v in Graph: // Initializations 3 dist[v] := infinity ; // Unknown distance function from 4 // source to v 5 previous[v] := undefined ; // Previous node in optimal path 6 // from source 7 8 dist[source] := 0 ; // Distance from source to source 9 Q := the set of all nodes in Graph ; // All nodes in the graph are 10 // unoptimized - thus are in Q 11 while Q is not empty: // The main loop 12 u := vertex in Q with smallest distance in dist[] ; // Start node in first case 13 if dist[u] = infinity: 14 break ; // all remaining vertices are 15 // inaccessible from source 16 17 remove u from Q ; 18 for each neighbor v of u: // where v has not yet been 19 removed from Q. 20 alt := dist[u] + dist_between(u, v) ; 21 if alt < dist[v]: // Relax (u,v,a) 22 dist[v] := alt ; 23 previous[v] := u ; 24 decrease-key v in Q; // Reorder v in the Queue 25 return dist; Floyd-Warshall: 1 /* Assume a function edgeCost(i,j) which returns the cost of the edge from i to j 2 (infinity if there is none). 3 Also assume that n is the number of vertices and edgeCost(i,i) = 0 4 */ 5 6 int path[][]; 7 /* A 2-dimensional matrix. At each step in the algorithm, path[i][j] is the shortest path 8 from i to j using intermediate vertices (1..k-1). Each path[i][j] is initialized to 9 edgeCost(i,j). 10 */ 11 12 procedure FloydWarshall () 13 for k := 1 to n 14 for i := 1 to n 15 for j := 1 to n 16 path[i][j] = min ( path[i][j], path[i][k]+path[k][j] );

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• ASP.NET MVC CRUD Validation

  - by Ricardo Peres

  One thing I didn’t refer on my previous post on ASP.NET MVC CRUD with AJAX was how to retrieve model validation information into the client. We want to send any model validation errors to the client in the JSON object that contains the ProductId, RowVersion and Success properties, specifically, if there are any errors, we will add an extra Errors collection property. Here’s how: 1: [HttpPost] 2: [AjaxOnly] 3: [Authorize] 4: public JsonResult Edit(Product product) 5: { 6: if (this.ModelState.IsValid == true) 7: { 8: using (ProductContext ctx = new ProductContext()) 9: { 10: Boolean success = false; 11:  12: ctx.Entry(product).State = (product.ProductId == 0) ? EntityState.Added : EntityState.Modified; 13:  14: try 15: { 16: success = (ctx.SaveChanges() == 1); 17: } 18: catch (DbUpdateConcurrencyException) 19: { 20: ctx.Entry(product).Reload(); 21: } 22:  23: return (this.Json(new { Success = success, ProductId = product.ProductId, RowVersion = Convert.ToBase64String(product.RowVersion) })); 24: } 25: } 26: else 27: { 28: Dictionary<String, String> errors = new Dictionary<String, String>(); 29:  30: foreach (KeyValuePair<String, ModelState> keyValue in this.ModelState) 31: { 32: String key = keyValue.Key; 33: ModelState modelState = keyValue.Value; 34:  35: foreach (ModelError error in modelState.Errors) 36: { 37: errors[key] = error.ErrorMessage; 38: } 39: } 40:  41: return (this.Json(new { Success = false, ProductId = 0, RowVersion = String.Empty, Errors = errors })); 42: } 43: } As for the view, we need to change slightly the onSuccess JavaScript handler on the Single view: 1: function onSuccess(ctx) 2: { 3: if (typeof (ctx.Success) != 'undefined') 4: { 5: $('input#ProductId').val(ctx.ProductId); 6: $('input#RowVersion').val(ctx.RowVersion); 7:  8: if (ctx.Success == false) 9: { 10: var errors = ''; 11:  12: if (typeof (ctx.Errors) != 'undefined') 13: { 14: for (var key in ctx.Errors) 15: { 16: errors += key + ': ' + ctx.Errors[key] + '\n'; 17: } 18:  19: window.alert('An error occurred while updating the entity: the model contained the following errors.\n\n' + errors); 20: } 21: else 22: { 23: window.alert('An error occurred while updating the entity: it may have been modified by third parties. Please try again.'); 24: } 25: } 26: else 27: { 28: window.alert('Saved successfully'); 29: } 30: } 31: else 32: { 33: if (window.confirm('Not logged in. Login now?') == true) 34: { 35: document.location.href = '<% 1: : FormsAuthentication.LoginUrl %>?ReturnURL=' + document.location.pathname; 36: } 37: } 38: } The logic is as this: If the Edit action method is called for a new entity (the ProductId is 0) and it is valid, the entity is saved, and the JSON results contains a Success flag set to true, a ProductId property with the database-generated primary key and a RowVersion with the server-generated ROWVERSION; If the model is not valid, the JSON result will contain the Success flag set to false and the Errors collection populated with all the model validation errors; If the entity already exists in the database (ProductId not 0) and the model is valid, but the stored ROWVERSION is different that the one on the view, the result will set the Success property to false and will return the current (as loaded from the database) value of the ROWVERSION on the RowVersion property. On a future post I will talk about the possibilities that exist for performing model validation, stay tuned!

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• Part 15: Fail a build based on the exit code of a console application

  In the series the following parts have been published Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Add arguments and variables Part 3: Use more complex arguments Part 4: Create your own activity Part 5: Increase AssemblyVersion Part 6: Use custom type for an argument Part 7: How is the custom assembly found Part 8: Send information to the build log Part 9: Impersonate activities (run under other credentials) Part 10: Include Version Number in the Build Number Part 11: Speed up opening my build process template Part 12: How to debug my custom activities Part 13: Get control over the Build Output Part 14: Execute a PowerShell script Part 15: Fail a build based on the exit code of a console application When you have a Console Application or a batch file that has errors, the exitcode is set to another value then 0. You would expect that the build would see this and report an error. This is not true however. First we setup the scenario. Add a ConsoleApplication project to your solution you are building. In the Main function set the ExitCode to 1     class Program    {        static void Main(string[] args)        {            Console.WriteLine("This is an error in the script.");            Environment.ExitCode = 1;        }    } Checkin the code. You can choose to include this Console Application in the build or you can decide to add the exe to source control Now modify the Build Process Template CustomTemplate.xaml Add an argument ErrornousScript Scroll down beneath the TryCatch activity called “Try Compile, Test, and Associate Changesets and Work Items” Add an Sequence activity to the template In the Sequence, add a ConvertWorkspaceItem and an InvokeProcess activity (see Part 14: Execute a PowerShell script  for more detailed steps) In the FileName property of the InvokeProcess use the ErrornousScript so the ConsoleApplication will be called. Modify the build definition and make sure that the ErrornousScript is executing the exe that is setting the ExitCode to 1. You have now setup a build definition that will execute the errornous Console Application. When you run it, you will see that the build succeeds. This is not what you want! To solve this, you can make use of the Result property on the InvokeProcess activity. So lets change our Build Process Template. Add the new variables (scoped to the sequence where you run the Console Application) called ExitCode (type = Int32) and ErrorMessage Click on the InvokeProcess activity and change the Result property to ExitCode In the Handle Standard Output of the InvokeProcess add a Sequence activity In the Sequence activity, add an Assign primitive. Set the following properties: To = ErrorMessage Value = If(Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(ErrorMessage), Environment.NewLine + ErrorMessage, "") + stdOutput And add the default BuildMessage to the sequence that outputs the stdOutput Add beneath the InvokeProcess activity and If activity with the condition ExitCode <> 0 In the Then section add a Throw activity and set the Exception property to New Exception(ErrorMessage) The complete workflow looks now like When you now check in the Build Process Template and run the build, you get the following result And that is exactly what we want.   You can download the full solution at BuildProcess.zip. It will include the sources of every part and will continue to evolve.

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• How to develop RPG Damage Formulas?

  - by user127817

  I'm developing a classical 2d RPG (in a similar vein to final fantasy) and I was wondering if anyone had some advice on how to do damage formulas/links to resources/examples? I'll explain my current setup. Hopefully I'm not overdoing it with this question, and I apologize if my questions is too large/broad My Characters stats are composed of the following: enum Stat { HP = 0, MP = 1, SP = 2, Strength = 3, Vitality = 4, Magic = 5, Spirit = 6, Skill = 7, Speed = 8, //Speed/Agility are the same thing Agility = 8, Evasion = 9, MgEvasion = 10, Accuracy = 11, Luck = 12, }; Vitality is basically defense to physical attacks and spirit is defense to magic attacks. All stats have fixed maximums (9999 for HP, 999 for MP/SP and 255 for the rest). With abilities, the maximums can be increased (99999 for HP, 9999 for HP/SP, 999 for the rest) with typical values (at level 100) before/after abilities+equipment+etc will be 8000/20,000 for HP, 800/2000 for SP/MP, 180/350 for other stats Late game Enemy HP will typically be in the lower millions (with a super boss having the maximum of ~12 million). I was wondering how do people actually develop proper damage formulas that scale correctly? For instance, based on this data, using the damage formulas for Final Fantasy X as a base looked very promising. A full reference here http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/197344-final-fantasy-x/faqs/31381 but as a quick example: Str = 127, 'Attack' command used, enemy Def = 34. 1. Physical Damage Calculation: Step 1 ------------------------------------- [{(Stat^3 ÷ 32) + 32} x DmCon ÷16] Step 2 ---------------------------------------- [{(127^3 ÷ 32) + 32} x 16 ÷ 16] Step 3 -------------------------------------- [{(2048383 ÷ 32) + 32} x 16 ÷ 16] Step 4 --------------------------------------------------- [{(64011) + 32} x 1] Step 5 -------------------------------------------------------- [{(64043 x 1)}] Step 6 ---------------------------------------------------- Base Damage = 64043 Step 7 ----------------------------------------- [{(Def - 280.4)^2} ÷ 110] + 16 Step 8 ------------------------------------------ [{(34 - 280.4)^2} ÷ 110] + 16 Step 9 ------------------------------------------------- [(-246)^2) ÷ 110] + 16 Step 10 ---------------------------------------------------- [60516 ÷ 110] + 16 Step 11 ------------------------------------------------------------ [550] + 16 Step 12 ---------------------------------------------------------- DefNum = 566 Step 13 ---------------------------------------------- [BaseDmg * DefNum ÷ 730] Step 14 --------------------------------------------------- [64043 * 566 ÷ 730] Step 15 ------------------------------------------------------ [36248338 ÷ 730] Step 16 ------------------------------------------------- Base Damage 2 = 49655 Step 17 ------------ Base Damage 2 * {730 - (Def * 51 - Def^2 ÷ 11) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 18 ---------------------- 49655 * {730 - (34 * 51 - 34^2 ÷ 11) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 19 ------------------------- 49655 * {730 - (1734 - 1156 ÷ 11) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 20 ------------------------------- 49655 * {730 - (1734 - 105) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 21 ------------------------------------- 49655 * {730 - (1629) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 22 --------------------------------------------- 49655 * {730 - 162} ÷ 730 Step 23 ----------------------------------------------------- 49655 * 568 ÷ 730 Step 24 -------------------------------------------------- Final Damage = 38635 I simply modified the dividers to include the attack rating of weapons and the armor rating of armor. Magic Damage is calculated as follows: Mag = 255, Ultima is used, enemy MDef = 1 Step 1 ----------------------------------- [DmCon * ([Stat^2 ÷ 6] + DmCon) ÷ 4] Step 2 ------------------------------------------ [70 * ([255^2 ÷ 6] + 70) ÷ 4] Step 3 ------------------------------------------ [70 * ([65025 ÷ 6] + 70) ÷ 4] Step 4 ------------------------------------------------ [70 * (10837 + 70) ÷ 4] Step 5 ----------------------------------------------------- [70 * (10907) ÷ 4] Step 6 ------------------------------------ Base Damage = 190872 [cut to 99999] Step 7 ---------------------------------------- [{(MDef - 280.4)^2} ÷ 110] + 16 Step 8 ------------------------------------------- [{(1 - 280.4)^2} ÷ 110] + 16 Step 9 ---------------------------------------------- [{(-279.4)^2} ÷ 110] + 16 Step 10 -------------------------------------------------- [(78064) ÷ 110] + 16 Step 11 ------------------------------------------------------------ [709] + 16 Step 12 --------------------------------------------------------- MDefNum = 725 Step 13 --------------------------------------------- [BaseDmg * MDefNum ÷ 730] Step 14 --------------------------------------------------- [99999 * 725 ÷ 730] Step 15 ------------------------------------------------- Base Damage 2 = 99314 Step 16 ---------- Base Damage 2 * {730 - (MDef * 51 - MDef^2 ÷ 11) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 17 ------------------------ 99314 * {730 - (1 * 51 - 1^2 ÷ 11) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 18 ------------------------------ 99314 * {730 - (51 - 1 ÷ 11) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 19 --------------------------------------- 99314 * {730 - (49) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 20 ----------------------------------------------------- 99314 * 725 ÷ 730 Step 21 -------------------------------------------------- Final Damage = 98633 The problem is that the formulas completely fall apart once stats start going above 255. In particular Defense values over 300 or so start generating really strange behavior. High Strength + Defense stats lead to massive negative values for instance. While I might be able to modify the formulas to work correctly for my use case, it'd probably be easier just to use a completely new formula. How do people actually develop damage formulas? I was considering opening excel and trying to build the formula that way (mapping Attack Stats vs. Defense Stats for instance) but I was wondering if there's an easier way? While I can't convey the full game mechanics of my game here, might someone be able to suggest a good starting place for building a damage formula? Thanks

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• Get Current QuarterEnd for a given FYE Date

  - by Rohit Gupta

  Here is the code to get the Current Quarter End for a Given FYE Date: 1: public static DateTime ThisQuarterEnd(this DateTime date, DateTime fyeDate) 2: { 3: IEnumerable<DateTime> candidates = 4: QuartersInYear(date.Year, fyeDate.Month).Union(QuartersInYear(date.Year + 1, fyeDate.Month)); 5: return candidates.Where(d => d.Subtract(date).Days >= 0).First(); 6: } 7:  8: public static IEnumerable<DateTime> QuartersInYear(int year, int q4Month) 9: { 10: int q1Month = 3, q2Month = 6, q3Month = 9; 11: int q1year = year, q2year = year, q3year = year; 12: int q1Day = 31, q2Day = 31, q3Day = 31, q4Day = 31; 13:  14: 15: q3Month = q4Month - 3; 16: if (q3Month <= 0) 17: { 18: q3Month = q3Month + 12; 19: q3year = year - 1; 20: } 21: q2Month = q4Month - 6; 22: if (q2Month <= 0) 23: { 24: q2Month = q2Month + 12; 25: q2year = year - 1; 26: } 27: q1Month = q4Month - 9; 28: if (q1Month <= 0) 29: { 30: q1Month = q1Month + 12; 31: q1year = year - 1; 32: } 33:  34: q1Day = new DateTime(q1year, q1Month, 1).AddMonths(1).AddDays(-1).Day; 35: q2Day = new DateTime(q2year, q2Month, 1).AddMonths(1).AddDays(-1).Day; 36: q3Day = new DateTime(q3year, q3Month, 1).AddMonths(1).AddDays(-1).Day; 37: q4Day = new DateTime(year, q4Month, 1).AddMonths(1).AddDays(-1).Day; 38:  39: return new List<DateTime>() { 40: new DateTime(q1year, q1Month, q1Day), 41: new DateTime(q2year, q2Month, q2Day), 42: new DateTime(q3year, q3Month, q3Day), 43: new DateTime(year, q4Month, q4Day), 44: }; 45:  46: } The code to get the NextQuarterEnd is simple, just Change the Where clause to read d.Subtract(date).Days > 0 instead of d.Subtract(date).Days >= 0 1: public static DateTime NextQuarterEnd(this DateTime date, DateTime fyeDate) 2: { 3: IEnumerable<DateTime> candidates = 4: QuartersInYear(date.Year, fyeDate.Month).Union(QuartersInYear(date.Year + 1, fyeDate.Month)); 5: return candidates.Where(d => d.Subtract(date).Days > 0).First(); 6: } Also if you need to get the Quarter Label for a given Date, given a particular FYE date then following is the code to use: 1: public static string GetQuarterLabel(this DateTime date, DateTime fyeDate) 2: { 3: int q1Month = fyeDate.Month - 9, q2Month = fyeDate.Month - 6, q3Month = fyeDate.Month - 3; 4:  5: int year = date.Year, q1Year = date.Year, q2Year = date.Year, q3Year = date.Year; 6: 7: if (q1Month <= 0) 8: { 9: q1Month += 12; 10: q1Year = year + 1; 11: } 12: if (q2Month <= 0) 13: { 14: q2Month += 12; 15: q2Year = year + 1; 16: } 17: if (q3Month <= 0) 18: { 19: q3Month += 12; 20: q3Year = year + 1; 21: } 22:  23: string qtr = ""; 24: if (date.Month == q1Month) 25: { 26: qtr = "Qtr1"; 27: year = q1Year; 28: } 29: else if (date.Month == q2Month) 30: { 31: qtr = "Qtr2"; 32: year = q2Year; 33: } 34: else if (date.Month == q3Month) 35: { 36: qtr = "Qtr3"; 37: year = q3Year; 38: } 39: else if (date.Month == fyeDate.Month) 40: { 41: qtr = "Qtr4"; 42: year = date.Year; 43: } 44:  45: return string.Format("{0} - {1}", qtr, year.ToString()); 46: }

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• Networking- Wireless and Wired not working

  - by JJ White

  So everything in Ubuntu has been working great until networking stopped working. I've spent the better part of two days scouring for a fix with no luck. Here is my info...your help would so be appreciated. grep -i eth /var/log/syslog | tail Sep 25 16:31:59 jj-laptop NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth0): cleaning up... Sep 25 16:31:59 jj-laptop NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth0): taking down device. Sep 25 16:31:59 jj-laptop kernel: [23403.998837] sky2 0000:02:00.0: eth0: disabling interface Sep 25 16:35:54 jj-laptop NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth0): now managed Sep 25 16:35:54 jj-laptop NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth0): device state change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 20 2] Sep 25 16:35:54 jj-laptop NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth0): bringing up device. Sep 25 16:35:54 jj-laptop kernel: [23413.629424] sky2 0000:02:00.0: eth0: enabling interface Sep 25 16:35:54 jj-laptop kernel: [23413.635703] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready Sep 25 16:35:54 jj-laptop NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth0): preparing device. Sep 25 16:35:54 jj-laptop NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason 'managed') [2] and then ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:42:14:e9:e1 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4605 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:287 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:315161 (315.1 KB) TX bytes:63680 (63.6 KB) Interrupt:16 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:13018 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:13018 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:880484 (880.4 KB) TX bytes:880484 (880.4 KB) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:02:d0:ee:13 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) also iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:on eth0 no wireless extensions. and of course sudo lshw -C network *-network description: Ethernet interface product: 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 logical name: eth0 version: 12 serial: 00:17:42:14:e9:e1 size: 1Gbit/s capacity: 1Gbit/s width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sky2 driverversion=1.30 duplex=full firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s resources: irq:44 memory:f0000000-f0003fff ioport:2000(size=256) memory:c0a00000-c0a1ffff *-network DISABLED description: Wireless interface product: PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0 logical name: wlan0 version: 02 serial: 00:13:02:d0:ee:13 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwl3945 driverversion=3.2.0-31-generic firmware=15.32.2.9 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abg resources: irq:45 memory:c0100000-c0100fff last but not least lsmod Module Size Used by nls_iso8859_1 12617 0 nls_cp437 12751 0 vfat 17308 0 fat 55605 1 vfat usb_storage 39646 0 uas 17828 0 dm_crypt 22528 0 rfcomm 38139 0 parport_pc 32114 0 bnep 17830 2 ppdev 12849 0 bluetooth 158438 10 rfcomm,bnep binfmt_misc 17292 1 snd_hda_codec_idt 60251 1 pcmcia 39791 0 joydev 17393 0 snd_hda_intel 32765 3 snd_hda_codec 109562 2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 13276 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm 80845 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_seq_midi 13132 0 yenta_socket 27428 0 snd_rawmidi 25424 1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq 51567 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event pcmcia_rsrc 18367 1 yenta_socket wacom_w8001 12906 0 irda 185517 0 arc4 12473 2 iwl3945 73111 0 iwl_legacy 71134 1 iwl3945 mac80211 436455 2 iwl3945,iwl_legacy cfg80211 178679 3 iwl3945,iwl_legacy,mac80211 snd_timer 28931 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 14172 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq dm_multipath 22710 0 pcmcia_core 21511 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,pcmcia_rsrc psmouse 96619 0 apanel 12718 0 serport 12808 1 serio_raw 13027 0 crc_ccitt 12595 1 irda mac_hid 13077 0 snd 62064 15 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_t imer,snd_seq_device input_polldev 13648 1 apanel soundcore 14635 1 snd snd_page_alloc 14115 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm lp 17455 0 fujitsu_laptop 18504 0 parport 40930 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp dm_raid45 76451 0 xor 25987 1 dm_raid45 dm_mirror 21822 0 dm_region_hash 16065 1 dm_mirror dm_log 18193 3 dm_raid45,dm_mirror,dm_region_hash sdhci_pci 18324 0 sdhci 28241 1 sdhci_pci sky2 49545 0 i915 414939 3 drm_kms_helper 45466 1 i915 drm 197692 4 i915,drm_kms_helper i2c_algo_bit 13199 1 i915 video 19068 1 i915

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• A problem with conky in Gnome 3.4 [closed]

  - by Pranit Bauva

  Possible Duplicate: Conky not working in Gnome 3.4 My conky in Gnome 3.4 is not working. When I run a conky script nothing appears but the process is running. Please also see the debug code : pungi-man@pungi-man:~$ sh conky_startup.sh Conky: forked to background, pid is 3157 Conky: desktop window (c00023) is subwindow of root window (aa) Conky: window type - override Conky: drawing to created window (0x2200001) Conky: drawing to double buffer My conky script is : background yes update_interval 1 cpu_avg_samples 2 net_avg_samples 2 temperature_unit celsius double_buffer yes no_buffers yes text_buffer_size 2048 gap_x 10 gap_y 30 minimum_size 190 450 maximum_width 190 own_window yes own_window_type override own_window_transparent yes own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below border_inner_margin 0 border_outer_margin 0 alignment tr draw_shades no draw_outline no draw_borders no draw_graph_borders no override_utf8_locale yes use_xft yes xftfont caviar dreams:size=8 xftalpha 0.5 uppercase no default_color FFFFFF color1 DDDDDD color2 AAAAAA color3 888888 color4 666666 lua_load /home/pungi-man/.conky/conky_grey.lua lua_draw_hook_post main TEXT ${voffset 35} ${goto 95}${color4}${font ubuntu:size=22}${time %e}${color1}${offset -50}${font ubuntu:size=10}${time %A} ${goto 85}${color2}${voffset -2}${font ubuntu:size=9}${time %b}${voffset -2} ${color3}${font ubuntu:size=12}${time %Y}${font} ${voffset 80} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:bold}${color}CPU ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color1}${top name 1}${alignr}${top cpu 1}% ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color2}${top name 2}${alignr}${top cpu 2}% ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color3}${top name 3}${alignr}${top cpu 3}% ${goto 90}${cpugraph 10,100 666666 666666} ${goto 90}${voffset -10}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color}${threads} process ${voffset 20} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:bold}${color}MEM ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color1}${top_mem name 1} ${alignr}${top_mem mem 1}% ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color2}${top_mem name 2} ${alignr}${top_mem mem 2}% ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color3}${top_mem name 3} ${alignr}${top_mem mem 3}% ${voffset 15} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:bold}${color}DISKS ${goto 90}${diskiograph 30,100 666666 666666}${voffset -30} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color}used: ${fs_used /home} /home ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color}used: ${fs_used /} / ${voffset 10} ${goto 70}${font Ubuntu:size=18,weight:bold}${color3}NET${alignr}${color2}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:bold}${color1}${if_up eth0}eth ${addr eth0} ${endif}${if_up wlan0}wifi ${addr wlan0}${endif} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:bold}${color}open ports: ${alignr}${color2}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:bold}${color}${offset 10}IP${alignr}DPORT ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 0}${alignr 1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rport 0} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 1}${alignr 1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rport 1} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 2}${alignr 1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rport 2} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 3}${alignr 1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rport 3} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 4}${alignr 1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rport 4} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 5}${alignr 1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rport 5} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 6}${alignr 1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rport 6} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 7}${alignr 1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rport 7} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 8}${alignr 1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rport 8} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 9}${alignr 1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rport 9} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 10}${alignr 1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rport 10} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 11}${alignr 1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rport 11} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 12}${alignr 1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rport 12} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 13}${alignr 1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rport 13} ${goto 90}${font Ubuntu:size=7,weight:normal}${color1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 14}${alignr 1}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rport 14} This script works fine with unity but faces problems in gnome 3.4 Can anyone please sort it out?

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• Templated Razor Delegates – Phil Haack

  - by nmarun

  This post is largely based off of Phil Haack’s article titled Templated Razor Delegates. I strongly recommend reading this article first. Here’s a sample code for the same, so you can have a look at. I also have a custom type being rendered as a table. 1: // my custom type 2: public class Device 3: { 4: public int Id { get; set; } 5: public string Name { get; set; } 6: public DateTime MfgDate { get; set; } 7: } Now I can write an extension method just for this type. 1: public static class RazorExtensions 2: { 3: public static HelperResult List(this IList<Models.Device> devices, Func<Models.Device, HelperResult> template) 4: { 5: return new HelperResult(writer => 6: { 7: foreach (var device in devices) 8: { 9: template(device).WriteTo(writer); 10: } 11: }); 12: } 13: // ... 14: } Modified my view to make it a strongly typed one and included html to render my custom type collection in a table. 1: @using TemplatedRazorDelegates 2: @model System.Collections.Generic.IList<TemplatedRazorDelegates.Models.Device> 3:  4: @{ 5: ViewBag.Title = "Home Page"; 6: } 7:  8: <h2>@ViewBag.Message</h2> 9:  10: @{ 11: var items = new[] { "one", "two", "three" }; 12: IList<int> ints = new List<int> { 1, 2, 3 }; 13: } 14:  15: <ul> 16: @items.List(@<li>@item</li>) 17: </ul> 18: <ul> 19: @ints.List(@<li>@item</li>) 20: </ul> 21:  22: <table> 23: <tr><th>Id</th><th>Name</th><th>Mfg Date</th></tr> 24: @Model.List(@<tr><td>@item.Id</td><td>@item.Name</td><td>@item.MfgDate.ToShortDateString()</td></tr>) 25: </table> We get intellisense as well! Just added some items in the action method of the controller: 1: public ActionResult Index() 2: { 3: ViewBag.Message = "Welcome to ASP.NET MVC!"; 4: IList<Device> devices = new List<Device> 5: { 6: new Device {Id = 1, Name = "abc", MfgDate = new DateTime(2001, 10, 19)}, 7: new Device {Id = 2, Name = "def", MfgDate = new DateTime(2011, 1, 1)}, 8: new Device {Id = 3, Name = "ghi", MfgDate = new DateTime(2003, 3, 15)}, 9: new Device {Id = 4, Name = "jkl", MfgDate = new DateTime(2007, 6, 6)} 10: }; 11: return View(devices); 12: } Running this I get the output as: Absolutely brilliant! Thanks to both Phil Haack and to David Fowler for bringing this out to us. Download the code for this from here. Verdict: RazorViewEngine.Points += 1;

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• Silverlight Cream for January 12, 2011 -- #1025

  - by Dave Campbell

  In this Issue: Amyo Kabir, Rob Eisenberg, Doug Rathbone, John Papa, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), Mike Taulty, Peter Kuhn, Laurent Bugnion, Vangos Pterneas, and Senthil Kumar. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Popup sample" Amyo Kabir WP7: "Navigation in a #WP7 application with MVVM Light" Laurent Bugnion XNA: "XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 0 - Why should I care?" Peter Kuhn Shoutouts: Mohamed Mosallem posted a video of an Expression Blend demo he gave recently: Expression Blend Demo Rob Eisenberg posted the winners of the Caliburn.Micro Contest he was running .. and a nice bunch of swag too! Announcing the Caliburn.Micro Contest Winners! Dan Moyer is a LightSwitch enthusiast and writes Why I Believe Visual Studio LightSwitch will be a Win... good well-thought-out and written take on Lightswitch. From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Popup sample Amyo Kabir has a post up that is short on description but long on demo and the code is available... put this in the 'a picture is worth 1,000 words category' :) Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 7 - All About Conventions The 7th episode of Rob Eisenberg's tutorial series on Caliburn.Micro is up. This episode about some of the conventions that you get out-of-the-box with Caliburn.Micro, what it'll do for you, and how you can modify the behavior of the convention to suit your own taste/style. Two little tips for working with Silverlight chart DateTime Axes Doug Rathbone has been working with the Toolkit Charts for WP7 and finding it difficult to get the info he needs, and now that he's worked it out... he's sharing... particularly information about DateTimeAxis. Silverlight TV 56: WCF RIA Services and Azure The first Silverlight TV of 2011 was John Papa discussing WCF RIA Services and Azure with Saurabh Plant. What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 14 As usual, Jeff Blankenburg is a couple ahead of me... his Issue 14 is about some panorama trickery... like navigating to a specific place in one, or preventing wrapping. What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 15 In Jeff Blankenburg's latest WP7 post, he's sharing some interesting insight into Trial Mode and app sales... from the standpoint of someone selling apps. Blend Bits 20–Group Into Mike Taulty has Part 20 of his Blend Bits series up. This one is demonstrating grouping, and what all can be accomplished (or not) with grouping in Blend. XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 0 - Why should I care? Peter Kuhn has the beginning of a series on WP7 and XNA up at SilverlightShow... this looks to be a good intro and way to get your head wrapped around XNA on the phone. Navigation in a #WP7 application with MVVM Light Laurent Bugnion discusses WP7 navigation via MVVM Light, resolving many of the communication/navigation complexities you can get involved in without a tool like his. Motion detection in Silverlight Vangos Pterneas has a followup postto the one on facial detection... this one is on Motion Detection in Silverlight. If you've got a webcam hooked up, you can give a demo app a dance via a link he has in the post. Adding ApplicationBar in Windows Phone 7 using Expression Blend Senthil Kumar follows up a post about using VS to add an application bar to a WP7 app with this one using Expression Blend Stay in the 'Light! Twitter SilverlightNews | Twitter WynApse | WynApse.com | Tagged Posts | SilverlightCream Join me @ SilverlightCream | Phoenix Silverlight User Group Technorati Tags: Silverlight    Silverlight 3    Silverlight 4    Windows Phone MIX10

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• Serving up a RSS feed in MVC using WCF Syndication

  - by brian_ritchie

  With .NET 3.5, Microsoft added the SyndicationFeed class to WCF for generating ATOM 1.0 & RSS 2.0 feeds.  In .NET 3.5, it lives in System.ServiceModel.Web but was moved into System.ServiceModel in .NET 4.0. Here's some sample code on constructing a feed: .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: Consolas, "Courier New", Courier, Monospace; background-color: #ffffff; /*white-space: pre;*/ } .csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; } .csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; } .csharpcode .str { color: #006080; } .csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; } .csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; } .csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; } .csharpcode .html { color: #800000; } .csharpcode .attr { color: #ff0000; } .csharpcode .alt { background-color: #f4f4f4; width: 100%; margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .lnum { color: #606060; } 1: SyndicationFeed feed = new SyndicationFeed(title, description, new Uri(link)); 2: feed.Categories.Add(new SyndicationCategory(category)); 3: feed.Copyright = new TextSyndicationContent(copyright); 4: feed.Language = "en-us"; 5: feed.Copyright = new TextSyndicationContent(DateTime.Now.Year + " " + ownerName); 6: feed.ImageUrl = new Uri(imageUrl); 7: feed.LastUpdatedTime = DateTime.Now; 8: feed.Authors.Add(new SyndicationPerson() { Name = ownerName, Email = ownerEmail }); 9:   10: var feedItems = new List<SyndicationItem>(); 11: foreach (var item in Items) 12: { 13: var sItem = new SyndicationItem(item.title, null, new Uri(link)); 14: sItem.Summary = new TextSyndicationContent(item.summary); 15: sItem.Id = item.id; 16: if (item.publishedDate != null) 17: sItem.PublishDate = (DateTimeOffset)item.publishedDate; 18: sItem.Links.Add(new SyndicationLink() { Title = item.title, Uri = new Uri(link), Length = item.size, MediaType = item.mediaType }); 19: feedItems.Add(sItem); 20: } 21: feed.Items = feedItems;   Then, we create a custom ContentResult to serialize the feed & stream it to the client: 1: public class SyndicationFeedResult : ContentResult 2: { 3: public SyndicationFeedResult(SyndicationFeed feed) 4: : base() 5: { 6: using (var memstream = new MemoryStream()) 7: using (var writer = new XmlTextWriter(memstream, System.Text.UTF8Encoding.UTF8)) 8: { 9: feed.SaveAsRss20(writer); 10: writer.Flush(); 11: memstream.Position = 0; 12: Content = new StreamReader(memstream).ReadToEnd(); 13: ContentType = "application/rss+xml" ; 14: } 15: } 16: } Finally, we wire it up through the controller: 1: public class RssController : Controller 2: { 3: public SyndicationFeedResult Feed() 4: { 5: var feed = new SyndicationFeed(); 6: // populate feed... 7: return new SyndicationFeedResult(feed); 8: } 9: }   In the next post, I'll discuss how to add iTunes markup to the feed to publish it on iTunes as a Podcast. 

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• SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: Setting Default Column Values on a Folder Programmatically

  - by mbridge

  The reason I write this post today is because my initial searches on the Internet provided me with nothing on the topic.  I was hoping to find a reference to the SDK but I didn’t have any luck.  What I want to do is set a default column value on an existing folder so that new items in that folder automatically inherit that value.  It’s actually pretty easy to do once you know what the class is called in the API.  I did some digging and discovered that class is MetadataDefaults. It can be found in Microsoft.Office.DocumentManagement.dll.  Note: if you can’t find it in the GAC, this DLL is in the 14/CONFIG/BIN folder and not the 14/ISAPI folder.  Add a reference to this DLL in your project.  In my case, I am building a console application, but you might put this in an event receiver or workflow. In my example today, I have simple custom folder and document content types.  I have one shared site column called DocumentType.  I have a document library which each of these content types registered.  In my document library, I have a folder named Test and I want to set its default column values using code.  Here is what it looks like.  Start by getting a reference to the list in question.  This assumes you already have a SPWeb object.  In my case I have created it and it is called site. SPList customDocumentLibrary = site.Lists["CustomDocuments"]; You then pass the SPList object to the MetadataDefaults constructor. MetadataDefaults columnDefaults = new MetadataDefaults(customDocumentLibrary); Now I just need to get my SPFolder object in question and pass it to the meethod SetFieldDefault.  This takes a SPFolder object, a string with the name of the SPField to set the default on, and finally the value of the default (in my case “Memo”). SPFolder testFolder = customDocumentLibrary.RootFolder.SubFolders["Test"]; columnDefaults.SetFieldDefault(testFolder, "DocumentType", "Memo"); You can set multiple defaults here.  When you’re done, you will need to call .Update(). columnDefaults.Update(); Here is what it all looks like together. using (SPSite siteCollection = new SPSite("http://sp2010/sites/ECMSource")) {     using (SPWeb site = siteCollection.OpenWeb())     {         SPList customDocumentLibrary = site.Lists["CustomDocuments"];         MetadataDefaults columnDefaults = new MetadataDefaults(customDocumentLibrary);          SPFolder testFolder = customDocumentLibrary.RootFolder.SubFolders["Test"];         columnDefaults.SetFieldDefault(testFolder, "DocumentType", "Memo");         columnDefaults.Update();     } } You can verify that your property was set correctly on the Change Default Column Values page in your list This is something that I could see used a lot on an ItemEventReceiver attached to a folder to do metadata inheritance.  Whenever, the user changed the value of the folder’s property, you could have it update the default.  Your code might look something columnDefaults.SetFieldDefault(properties.ListItem.Folder, "MyField", properties.ListItem[" This is a great way to keep the child items updated any time the value a folder’s property changes.  I’m also wondering if this can be done via CAML.  I tried saving a site template, but after importing I got an error on the default values page.  I’ll keep looking and let you know what I find out.

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• How to develop RPG Damage Formulas?

  - by user127817

  I'm developing a classical 2d RPG (in a similar vein to final fantasy) and I was wondering if anyone had some advice on how to do damage formulas/links to resources/examples? I'll explain my current setup. Hopefully I'm not overdoing it with this question, and I apologize if my questions is too large/broad My Characters stats are composed of the following: enum Stat { HP = 0, MP = 1, SP = 2, Strength = 3, Vitality = 4, Magic = 5, Spirit = 6, Skill = 7, Speed = 8, //Speed/Agility are the same thing Agility = 8, Evasion = 9, MgEvasion = 10, Accuracy = 11, Luck = 12, }; Vitality is basically defense to physical attacks and spirit is defense to magic attacks. All stats have fixed maximums (9999 for HP, 999 for MP/SP and 255 for the rest). With abilities, the maximums can be increased (99999 for HP, 9999 for HP/SP, 999 for the rest) with typical values (at level 100) before/after abilities+equipment+etc will be 8000/20,000 for HP, 800/2000 for SP/MP, 180/350 for other stats Late game Enemy HP will typically be in the lower millions (with a super boss having the maximum of ~12 million). I was wondering how do people actually develop proper damage formulas that scale correctly? For instance, based on this data, using the damage formulas for Final Fantasy X as a base looked very promising. A full reference here http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/197344-final-fantasy-x/faqs/31381 but as a quick example: Str = 127, 'Attack' command used, enemy Def = 34. 1. Physical Damage Calculation: Step 1 ------------------------------------- [{(Stat^3 ÷ 32) + 32} x DmCon ÷16] Step 2 ---------------------------------------- [{(127^3 ÷ 32) + 32} x 16 ÷ 16] Step 3 -------------------------------------- [{(2048383 ÷ 32) + 32} x 16 ÷ 16] Step 4 --------------------------------------------------- [{(64011) + 32} x 1] Step 5 -------------------------------------------------------- [{(64043 x 1)}] Step 6 ---------------------------------------------------- Base Damage = 64043 Step 7 ----------------------------------------- [{(Def - 280.4)^2} ÷ 110] + 16 Step 8 ------------------------------------------ [{(34 - 280.4)^2} ÷ 110] + 16 Step 9 ------------------------------------------------- [(-246)^2) ÷ 110] + 16 Step 10 ---------------------------------------------------- [60516 ÷ 110] + 16 Step 11 ------------------------------------------------------------ [550] + 16 Step 12 ---------------------------------------------------------- DefNum = 566 Step 13 ---------------------------------------------- [BaseDmg * DefNum ÷ 730] Step 14 --------------------------------------------------- [64043 * 566 ÷ 730] Step 15 ------------------------------------------------------ [36248338 ÷ 730] Step 16 ------------------------------------------------- Base Damage 2 = 49655 Step 17 ------------ Base Damage 2 * {730 - (Def * 51 - Def^2 ÷ 11) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 18 ---------------------- 49655 * {730 - (34 * 51 - 34^2 ÷ 11) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 19 ------------------------- 49655 * {730 - (1734 - 1156 ÷ 11) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 20 ------------------------------- 49655 * {730 - (1734 - 105) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 21 ------------------------------------- 49655 * {730 - (1629) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 22 --------------------------------------------- 49655 * {730 - 162} ÷ 730 Step 23 ----------------------------------------------------- 49655 * 568 ÷ 730 Step 24 -------------------------------------------------- Final Damage = 38635 I simply modified the dividers to include the attack rating of weapons and the armor rating of armor. Magic Damage is calculated as follows: Mag = 255, Ultima is used, enemy MDef = 1 Step 1 ----------------------------------- [DmCon * ([Stat^2 ÷ 6] + DmCon) ÷ 4] Step 2 ------------------------------------------ [70 * ([255^2 ÷ 6] + 70) ÷ 4] Step 3 ------------------------------------------ [70 * ([65025 ÷ 6] + 70) ÷ 4] Step 4 ------------------------------------------------ [70 * (10837 + 70) ÷ 4] Step 5 ----------------------------------------------------- [70 * (10907) ÷ 4] Step 6 ------------------------------------ Base Damage = 190872 [cut to 99999] Step 7 ---------------------------------------- [{(MDef - 280.4)^2} ÷ 110] + 16 Step 8 ------------------------------------------- [{(1 - 280.4)^2} ÷ 110] + 16 Step 9 ---------------------------------------------- [{(-279.4)^2} ÷ 110] + 16 Step 10 -------------------------------------------------- [(78064) ÷ 110] + 16 Step 11 ------------------------------------------------------------ [709] + 16 Step 12 --------------------------------------------------------- MDefNum = 725 Step 13 --------------------------------------------- [BaseDmg * MDefNum ÷ 730] Step 14 --------------------------------------------------- [99999 * 725 ÷ 730] Step 15 ------------------------------------------------- Base Damage 2 = 99314 Step 16 ---------- Base Damage 2 * {730 - (MDef * 51 - MDef^2 ÷ 11) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 17 ------------------------ 99314 * {730 - (1 * 51 - 1^2 ÷ 11) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 18 ------------------------------ 99314 * {730 - (51 - 1 ÷ 11) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 19 --------------------------------------- 99314 * {730 - (49) ÷ 10} ÷ 730 Step 20 ----------------------------------------------------- 99314 * 725 ÷ 730 Step 21 -------------------------------------------------- Final Damage = 98633 The problem is that the formulas completely fall apart once stats start going above 255. In particular Defense values over 300 or so start generating really strange behavior. High Strength + Defense stats lead to massive negative values for instance. While I might be able to modify the formulas to work correctly for my use case, it'd probably be easier just to use a completely new formula. How do people actually develop damage formulas? I was considering opening excel and trying to build the formula that way (mapping Attack Stats vs. Defense Stats for instance) but I was wondering if there's an easier way? While I can't convey the full game mechanics of my game here, might someone be able to suggest a good starting place for building a damage formula? Thanks

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