dapanther

Hi Everyone, I was wondering if anyone has tried to setup a text file as a DB with a schema file and then tried to use the Data Application Block to access the data in the file. I have done this in the past and then just sucked the data into a dataset and pulled out what I needed. The project though I am working on is required to use the Data Application Block to access the data if possible. Does anyone have any idea on this? dapanther...

Hi Everyone, I just wanted to know if anyone had a snip or two of code to handle file deletion. Now before you give me a object.delete() call or something, I am referring to a more perm delete something along the lines of DOD specs. I was thinking that if I created a random number generator function and use that to generate the data to fill the file and then a function to read the file and populate it with the garbage data. Then rename the file using the same number generator so that the filename changes. Is this basically what I need to achieve so that the file would be alot harder to recover? Or is there more to it than this? Another way I was thinking was to write something in assembler that would just change the memory location, but I thought that would in essence though still leave the remenants of the file out there. Any ideas? Dapanther...

I need to check the requirements further but I think that backup will be stored either locally or possibly to a server on the network. Most likely will be local. Now, the nice part about the whole thing is that these workstations (about 2K of them) are all identical hardware wise because they were all acquired at the same time and the same specs so that should eliminate a need for accounting for different I/O specs such as SCSI, IDE etc. Also as for the backup itself, we were initially thinking a disk image would be the easiest to do a restore from if it fails because the requirements are that if the upgrade fails for any reason that the backup should be restored and return the system to it's original state prior to the upgrade. dapanther...

I don't think you are stuck to just ASP. You should be able to use most any scripting language or any of the server pages technologies (ASP/JSP/ETC.). The issue is how you get the data to the page. I would think that you would want to look at sockets or something along that line so you can send an http request to the page and pass the data in an encrypted string. Just my thoughts.... Dapanther

I agree, I would rather take a 3rd party DLL and use that than have to write the whole thing myself but the requirements for the project require 100% in house code, there are no if's on that one. Kind of sucks but oh well, nothing I can do... Dapanther

Thanks, I had a feeling I was having to go a level lower than at the VB or C# language level to achieve this. Man, it has been too long since I have worked with ASM.....makes me think back to the Basic and Fortran days on my Atari 1200XL :) Dapanther...

Hi Everyone, I just wanted to see if anyone has tried to do any disk cloning/imaging with C# or VB.NET? I have a project that I am working on that has a requirement to perform a complete system backup prior to performing an update to the software that is currently installed. The entire update to the software is going to be written in C#.NET. The problem is that the entire process must be coded in house and can not use a 3rd party DLL to do the backup. I am familar with both VB.NET and C#, I just have never coded anything remotely close to a backup though :) So, any insight into what would be required would be appreciated. Thanks... Dapanther....

Mike, Thanks for your insight into this. I did find something out over the long weekend regarding this. Basically what I was trying to do was create an application that would take in data, do a mail merge on the doc and send the doc's through Outlook. Now, all that was relatively easy until I ran into the process not ending issue I had with Word. Anyhow, I had Outlook already running when I would debug the code and the default editor is Word, so take a guess why I could not kill Word. Anyhow, I appreciate all your effort into this. See you on the boards... dapanther

Oh, I made a mistake in the previous post. I am using Office 2003 running on XP and I am also compiling seperately on a XP machine running Office 2000. Both instances are having the same issues when trying to close Word under C#. dapanther

Hi, I am having the same issues with MS Word running on XP with Office 2000 (and under XP, seperate test machine). I have the doc closed and nulled all references to Word and it is still keeping alive. There has to be a method that actually works other than the thread killing mentioned above. One note though is that the same code under VB.NET (converted of course) completes flawlessly. So, it leaves me to believe that it is an issue with either GC or how C# handles the COM objects. Anyone else have any thoughts? dapanther