Re: Regex "Unrecognized Escape Seq?" - C# Discussion Boards

loading a com clientside. HELP!!

3-Sep-05 20:28

Hi,

I did not get what I was expected plz do help if any one have the solution.

femi ojemuyiwa1-Sep-05 7:04

femi ojemuyiwa

1-Sep-05 7:04

I have designed a login control that requires a component msrdp.ocx to use a remote server.

this gives my customers trouble because when security settings are on
medium/high it gives a small bar at the top of their screen which they
never see.

So I thought to develop a control in visualc# with a button to load this com clientside which is loaded and hidden.

On page load I want to check clientside if this object already exists
or is running on their server.

If it is login control.visible = true while the load control is hidden.

If it isnt present show load control which on button click should
upload or should i say download to client server this component.

Or better still if I can just load/instanciate it anyways onto the client server on pageload.

I've been at it for weeks and fear i may get the sack if i cant carry
this task out pls help if you have the time.
any assistance would be highly appreciated!

If this dosn't make sense pls visit www.webex.com and join a live demo!
from this you may get the idea!

Kind Regards
Femi Ojemuyiwa BSc.

PasteSpecial into Word

Rick Beideman1-Sep-05 6:33

Rick Beideman

1-Sep-05 6:33

I am trying to copy a metafile into a Word document, and then set its location on the page. It pastes it alright, but I get an error that the "object is not valid" when I try to change the location. I think I am not properly getting ahold of the shape that has been pasted, but I do not know where the problem is. Here is the code:

object oEnd = "\\endofdoc";
oRange = oDoc.Bookmarks.Item(ref oEnd).Range;
object pasteDataType = Word.WdPasteDataType.wdPasteMetafilePicture;
oRange.PasteSpecial(ref oMissing,ref oFalse,ref oMissing, ref oFalse,
ref pasteDataType, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
oRange = oWord.Selection.Range;
oShapeRange = oRange.ShapeRange;
oShapeRange.Left = xLoc;
oShapeRange.Top = yLoc;
oShapeRange.Width = xSize;
oShapeRange.Height = ySize;

Regex "Unrecognized Escape Seq?"

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1-Sep-05 6:05

I'm trying to validate a TextBox for a floating point or int value ONLY.
Keep getting a compiler error of "Unrecognized Escape Seq".

Regex theRegex = new Regex("[-+]?([0-9]*\.)?[0-9]+ ");

A) A quicker better way to validate?

B) Where is the code incorrect?

thanks

Re: Regex "Unrecognized Escape Seq?"

S. Senthil Kumar1-Sep-05 6:14

S. Senthil Kumar

1-Sep-05 6:14

The '\' right after the * character is what is causing the compiler to baulk. Either escape it ('\\') or make the string verbatim by prefixing the @ symbol (Regex theRegex = new Regex(@"[-+]?([0-9]*\.)?[0-9]+ ");)

Regards
Senthil
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Re: Regex "Unrecognized Escape Seq?"

Guffa1-Sep-05 6:21

Guffa

1-Sep-05 6:21

A. Specify the RegexOptions.Compiled flag when you create the object if you plan to use it more than once. It takes longer to create the object, but it runs faster.

B.
As regular expressions and C# strings use the same escape character, you have to escape the escape character. Use \\ to put \ in the string.

Also, you are missing the ^ and @ to specify the beginning and end of the string. Without them, any string containing a number will be valid, for an example the string "We have 200 horses.".

You have an extra space at the end of the pattern. Remove that.

[0-9] can also be written as \d.

Regex theRegex = new Regex("^[-+]?(\\d*\\.)?\\d+@");

Or you can use an @-quoted string:

Regex theRegex = new Regex(@"^[-+]?(\d*\.)?\d+@");

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Re: Regex "Unrecognized Escape Seq?"

hamster11-Sep-05 16:20

hamster1

1-Sep-05 16:20

The problem is the "\." - characters after the backslash are interpreted Escape Sequence, which in your case makes (luckily) no sense.

Two ways to fix it:

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Regex theRegex = new Regex("[-+]?([0-9]*\\.)?[0-9]+ ");<br />
Regex theRegex = new Regex(@"[-+]?([0-9]*\.)?[0-9]+ ");<br />

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~hamster1

Rotating an image

suresh sahu1-Sep-05 6:05

1-Sep-05 6:05

Hi,

I have a requirement I am loading the image in an image object and I would like to rotate the image using mouse pointer just like images can be rotated in powerpoint.

If any one is aware of the code plz do help.

Regards
Suresh

leppie1-Sep-05 7:20

leppie

1-Sep-05 7:20

Look at the Matrix class

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suresh sahu3-Sep-05 21:31

3-Sep-05 21:31

Hi,

I did not get the screen shot provided by u and I think it is not suiting my requirement.

Plz help me ina any other way

Mohamad Al Husseiny2-Sep-05 15:08

Mohamad Al Husseiny

2-Sep-05 15:08

as the above response told you use matrix class somthing like

Matrix mx=new Matrix();
mx.Rotate(angle);
Image img=Image.FromFile(imagePath);
Graphics g=pictureBox1.CreateGraphics();
g.Transform=mx;
g.DrawImage(img,rect);
img.Dispose();
g.Dispose();

MCAD

suresh sahu3-Sep-05 21:28

Still not understanding this stream thing

3-Sep-05 21:28

Thanks for the help but my requirement is when I use the mouse buttton click then I would like it to rotate just like we can rotate an object in powerpoint.
Plz do hlep me in this area.

Advance Thanks

Tom Wright1-Sep-05 5:50

Tom Wright

1-Sep-05 5:50

So can someone help me out here. This is the code that is confusing me the most

<br />
			public void SaveAsXML(Stream s)<br />
			{<br />
				XmlSerializer sr = new XmlSerializer(this.GetType());<br />
				sr.Serialize(s, this);<br />
			}<br />

In my class I call this function like this:

<br />
commMain.ComSettings.SaveAsXML(saveFileDialog.OpenFile());<br />

Can someone please explain this in newbie terms. It works, but I'm not sure I understand how. And I may want to change this function so that it does not open saveFileDialog everytime, I may want to pass the name of the settings file instead.

Thanks

Tom Wright
tawright915@yahoo.com

Re: Still not understanding this stream thing

Guffa1-Sep-05 6:10

Guffa

1-Sep-05 6:10

The SaveFileDialog.OpenFile method opens the file and return a stream that is associated with it. You can use any method you want to create a stream for the SaveAsXML call.

For an example, if you create a memory stream, the data from SaveAsXML will go into a buffer in memory, and you can then get the serialized data as a byte array.

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Re: Still not understanding this stream thing

S. Senthil Kumar1-Sep-05 6:11

S. Senthil Kumar

1-Sep-05 6:11

XML Serialization is a technique that allows to save your object's state in an XML file and read it back.

saveDialog.OpenFile() returns a Stream, most probably a FileStream, which is passed to the SaveAsXML function. That function then serializes the current instance (this, which is commMain.ComSettings) on which it was called to the stream passed to it.

The effect of running this code is that the commMain.ComSettings instance would have gotten serialized to the stream returned by OpenFile.

Tom Wright wrote:
And I may want to change this function so that it does not open saveFileDialog everytime, I may want to pass the name of the settings file instead.

Create a System.IO.FileStream yourself and pass it to SaveAsXML, like this

using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(filePath, ...)
{
  SaveAsXML(fs);
}

Regards
Senthil
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deleting files

OMalleyW1-Sep-05 4:53

OMalleyW

1-Sep-05 4:53

Not sure if this goes here but I didnt want to post it in the lounge either.

So here is the question.
If I take a file and start reading through it as I look at each bit could I flip that bit?
So if it is a 0 make it 1 ... ect?

Here is what I want to do.
Pass 1) Read through a file and reverse all the bits in the file
Pass 2) Take the file and turn all bits off
Pass 3) turn all bits on
Pass 4) Delete the file

Do you think this could allow me to securly delete a file from my system making it unrecoverable?

Thanks
Will

Dan Neely1-Sep-05 5:02

Dan Neely

1-Sep-05 5:02

Not if someone is willing to dismantle the drive and use lab equipment to read residuals directely off the platter. The writehead only erases ~95% of the bit and it's movement over the platter afffects which part is missed so N passes won't erase 100*(1-.05^N) percent of the data. I've got a tool called BCWipe that uses a 35 pass algo designed by someone with initmate knowledge of how the HD writehead works that should render it unrecoverable. If you want to write your own program the used bit patterns are user view/editable. It also has an older 7pass DoD routine.

Dave Kreskowiak1-Sep-05 6:31

Dave Kreskowiak

1-Sep-05 6:31

OMalleyW wrote:
Do you think this could allow me to securly delete a file from my system making it unrecoverable?

Definately not! After having visited the inside a computer forensics lab, I was ~~surprised~~ astonished at what you have to go through to stop these guys from getting at that data. What're suggesting on doing, really, is very weak.

RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

OMalleyW1-Sep-05 6:55

OMalleyW

1-Sep-05 6:55

thanks for the reply's

even if they could get to the file, the data is not recoverable...
i guess that is really what I care about is the ability to get rid of data i dont really care if they can recover the file as long as the data is gone...

any thoughts?

will

Dan Neely1-Sep-05 7:08

Dan Neely

1-Sep-05 7:08

You need to use a cryptographic wipe to do that. the program I mentioned in my previous post BCwipe will do one, and exposes the bit patterns used to do so. IT also names the used algo if you want to read up on how it works.

Dave Kreskowiak1-Sep-05 7:36

Dave Kreskowiak

1-Sep-05 7:36

OMalleyW wrote:
even if they could get to the file, the data is not recoverable...

First, there is no difference between the two. file=data
You said you wanted a SECURE way to get rid of the data. Well, the way you suggested overwriting the data, it IS still recoverable. Not by your program or the file system, but by some hardcore tools and a little overtime in a lab...

RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

OMalleyW1-Sep-05 8:08

OMalleyW

1-Sep-05 8:08

Thank you again for the quick replies...

Dan,
I will look into BCWipe I read a little and it sounds very interesting.
Currently I use SDelete from Sysinternals that is a cool program also.

From what I understand (now) what I would like to write is no trivial task
and will require me to do far more research.

Dave,
You mentoined that you were astonished at the tools the forensics lab
had to get data. I guess I should also become more familar with the
technologies that are used to recover data also.

Thank you again for all your help.

Will