I'm working in ASP.net Core and have a situation where I'm importing a large list of swimming results from a previous meet. The list contains swimmer name and location so I'm doing a lookup to find that swimmerID in the database which I have previously imported. HOWEVER, I've found that many of the previous sheets have names misspelled or names that were not included in my original import.
I'm looking for a way to change the below code:
//Get SwimmerId and check for an existing entry in the db
var swimmerId = await _swimmerRepo.GetSwimmerByNameAndLocation(lookupObj.FirstName,
lookupObj.LastName,
lookupObj.LocationCode);
if (swimmerId == 0) throw new Exception($"Swimmer {lookupObj.LocationCode}: {lookupObj.FirstName} {lookupObj.LastName} not found.");
What I really want to do here instead of throwing an exception is to popup a modal or whatever to the user that allows them to choose from a swimmer that has a similar name/location (possible spelling error) or enter a new swimmer and then push that selected/new swimmerId back and continue processing the import.
I have no idea how I can do that. Any direction is appreciated.
A few notes:
Again, asp.net core with EFCore.
SQL server database
Import is currently in a controller
Import is from a csv file
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so i'm trying to automate some reporting in Access 2013. When I run a report I get a dialog asking for a parameter (Enter Plant:), something like this.
What I want is to run this code without asking the query for a plant name. The code works but if I run it, it pops a dialog asking for a Plant name, and if I type the Plant Name it runs and saves the pdf file just like I want to. The report in Access works by giving a different Plant name and it outputs a different report depending on the given Plant. My idea is to put this code on a loop and in each iteration pass a different plant name and save a different new file. But it always pop a dialog asks for a plant name to be added manually.
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Access.Application oAccess = null;
// Start a new instance of Access for Automation:
oAccess = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Access.Application();
// Open a database in exclusive mode:
oAccess.OpenCurrentDatabase(
"route DB", //filepath
true //Exclusive
);
//This doesnt work
// oAccess.DoCmd.SetParameter("[Enter Plant:]", "Arlington");
oAccess.DoCmd.OpenReport(
"06 - Security Report - Plants",
AcView.acViewReport,
"qry Security Report - Plant",
//This doesnt work either, still asks me for a plant name
"[Enter Plant:] ='Arlington'",
AcWindowMode.acWindowNormal
);
//If I give the plant name to the dialog it works correctly en saves a pdf file wit the report
oAccess.DoCmd.OutputTo(
AcOutputObjectType.acOutputReport,
System.Reflection.Missing.Value,
"PDF Format (*.pdf)",
"route to save file",
false,
System.Reflection.Missing.Value,
System.Reflection.Missing.Value,
AcExportQuality.acExportQualityPrint
);
oAccess.Quit();
I can access the query but unfortunately i cant modify it, also its pretty long thats why I will not be able to show it(looks like it was created by a the Access Wizard, so its preeety long) though here its an example where the asked parameter is being used:
AND ((Signers.Location)=[Enter Plant:])
This parameters is in the query like 40+ times.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
I have faced this many times at work, and the solution I used most often is to have a TextBox in a form somewhere that can be referenced directly.
AND ((Signers.Location)=[Forms]![frmMyForm]![txtMyPlantTextBox])
NOTE: You would need to have the form open and data entered into the TextBox before you run the query.
I'm attempting to import a model created in Keras/Tensorflow and use it for inference in a Unity project.
I have successfully imported the model and validated by printing names of input and output nodes in the graph. Though, when I try to get the output value from the runner, I get this exception.
TFException: Attempting to use uninitialized value action_W
[[Node: action_W/read = IdentityT=DT_FLOAT, _class=["loc:#action_W"], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/cpu:0"]]
TensorFlow.TFStatus.CheckMaybeRaise (TensorFlow.TFStatus incomingStatus, System.Boolean last) (at <6ed6db22f8874deba74ffe3e566039be>:0)
TensorFlow.TFSession.Run (TensorFlow.TFOutput[] inputs, TensorFlow.TFTensor[] inputValues, TensorFlow.TFOutput[] outputs, TensorFlow.TFOperation[] targetOpers, TensorFlow.TFBuffer runMetadata, TensorFlow.TFBuffer runOptions, TensorFlow.TFStatus status) (at <6ed6db22f8874deba74ffe3e566039be>:0)
TensorFlow.TFSession+Runner.Run (TensorFlow.TFStatus status) (at <6ed6db22f8874deba74ffe3e566039be>:0)
RecordArbitraryData.ModelPredict (System.Single[,] input) (at Assets/Scripts/Spells/RecordArbitraryData.cs:230)
RecordArbitraryData.FixedUpdate () (at Assets/Scripts/Spells/RecordArbitraryData.cs:95)
Here are the two functions I use. InstantiateModel is called OnStart() in my unity script. And ModelPredict is called when the user passes an input to the script.
void InstantiateModel(){
string model_name = "simple_as_binary";
//Instantiate Graph
graphModel = Resources.Load (model_name) as TextAsset;
graph = new TFGraph ();
graph.Import (graphModel.bytes);
session = new TFSession (graph);
}
void ModelPredict(float[,] input){
using (graph) {
using (session) {
//Assign input tensors
var runner = session.GetRunner ();
runner.AddInput (graph [input_node_name] [0], input);
//Calculate and access output of graph
runner.Fetch (graph[output_node_name][0]);
Debug.Log ("Output node name: " + graph [output_node_name].Name);
float[,] recurrent_tensor = runner.Run () [0].GetValue () as float[,];
//var results = runner.Run();
//Debug.Log("Prediciton: " + results);
}
}
}
Any help appreciated - TensorflowSharp is very new to me.
I was able to figure out most of my problems. I'm currently at a point where my model is predicting in unity, but only predicting the first of four classes. My guess is it has something to do with the weights not getting initialized correctly from the checkpoint files? Edit: My values weren't being normalized before being passed to neural network.
Preface: Mozilla Firefox works best for displaying tensorboard; it took me a long time to realize that google chrome was causing my graph to be invisible (tensorboard is how I was able to figure out the nodes that needed to be used for input and output).
First Issue: I was renaming a .pb file into a .bytes file. This is incorrect because the model’s weights come from the checkpoint file, and are given to the nodes held in the .pb file. This was causing the uninitialized variables. These variables were used for training, which were removed after using the freeze_graph function.
Second Issue: I was using the file created called ‘checkpoint’, which was throwing an error. I then changed the name of the checkpoint to ‘test’ and used this in the freeze_graph function. When calling the checkpoints file, I was required to use ‘test.ckpt’. I assume this function knows to grab the three files automatically based on the .ckpt? ‘Test’ without ‘.ckpt’ did not work.
Third Issue: when using the freeze_graph function, I needed to export the .pb file in keras/tf with text=False. I tested True and False; True threw an error about “bad wiring”.
Fourth Issue: Tensorboard was very difficult to use without any organization. Using tf.name_scope helped a lot with not only visualization, but making sure I was using/referencing the correct nodes in TensorFlowSharp. In keras I found it helpful to separate the final Dense layer and Activation into their own scopes so I could find the correct output node. The rest of my network was put into a ‘body’ scope, and the sole input layer in ‘input’ scope. The name_scope function prepends ‘scopename/’ to the node name. I don't think it’s necessary, but it helped me.
Fifth Issue: The version of tensorflowsharp released as a unity package is not up to date. This caused an issue with a keras placeholder for ‘keras_training_phase’. In keras, you pass this along with an input like [0] + input. I tried to do the same by creating a new TFTensor(bool), but I was getting an error ‘inaccessible due to its protection level. This was an error with the implicit conversion between bool and TFTensor in my unity TensorFlowSharp version. To fix this I had to use a function found in this stackoverflow solution where the .bytes file is read in, the placeholder for keras_training_phase is found, and is swapped out for a bool constant set to false. This worked for me because my model was pretrained in python, so it may not be a great fix for someone that’s trying to train and test the model. A condition for removing this node with the freeze_graph function would really be useful.
Hope someone finds this useful!
I am using a WPF TextBoxes inside my WinForm application for spell checking. Each time I create one, I load the same file in as a CustomDictionary. All has been fine until recently. Now, they take a long time to load, up to a second. Some forms have 30 or more, meaning delays of nearly half a minute. This seems to be the case Windows 10 (not Windows 8 as I originally posted). The application is running under DotNet 4.0, I have tried 4.5 and 4.6 (not 4.61) and all versions are slow.
I have seen sfaust’s question Spell check textbox in Win10 - Slow and am7zd’s answer. Thanks to these, I looked at the GLOBAL registry key in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Spelling\Dictionaries. I have 580 entries (after pruning out entries without matching files) and still things are slow.
At present, every time I create a TextBox and add a custom dictionary to it, a new entry seems to be generated in _GLOBAL_
Is there a better way of doing things than loading the custom dictionary in from file every time?
Is there a way of re-using the same entry in _GLOBAL_ every time instead of creating a new one?
Is there a clean way of clearing previous entries in GLOBAL created by my application and their matching .dic files when closing the application (or on restarting it)?
I could clear _GLOBAL_ completely each time I start my application. This brings back the speed I want, but what is the downside?
Any advice gratefully received.
No answers from anyone else, so this is what I have done:
I made sure I use CustomDictionaries.Remove on all textboxes with custom dictionaries before closing the form they are on. This gets rid of new entries in _GLOBAL_ and the related files in AppData\Local\Temp.
But there will be times when things go wrong or the user just ends the task, leaving _GLOBAL_ entries and .dic files in place, so:
I decided to take things a stage further. When I start my application, I will not only clean entries in _GLOBAL_ that don't have matching files (as suggested in the previous post referenced above), but also to remove all entries referring to .dic files in AppData\Local\Temp. My theory being that anyone who has left entries there didn't mean to, otherwise they would probably have saved the .dic file in a different folder (as Microsoft Office does).
try
{
string[] allDictionaries = (string[])Registry.GetValue(#"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Spelling\Dictionaries", "_Global_", new string[0]);
if (allDictionaries.Count() > 0)
{
List<string> realDictionaries = new List<string>();
bool changedSomething = false;
foreach (string thisD in allDictionaries)
{
if (File.Exists(thisD))
{
if (thisD.Contains(#"\AppData\Local\Temp\"))
{
// Assuming that anyone who wants to keep a permanent .dic file will not store it in \AppData\Local\Temp
// So delete the file and don't copy the name of the dictionary into the list of good dictionaries.
File.Delete(thisD);
changedSomething = true;
}
else
{
realDictionaries.Add(thisD);
}
}
else
{
// File does not exist, so don't copy the name of the dictionary into the list of good dictionaries.
changedSomething = true;
}
}
if (changedSomething)
{
Registry.SetValue(#"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Spelling\Dictionaries", "_Global_", realDictionaries.ToArray());
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(this, "Error clearing up old dictionary files.\n\nFull message:\n\n" + ex.Message, "Unable to delete file", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Warning);
}
I am still wondering if it is totally safe to clear entries in _GLOBAL_ that refer to files in AppData\Local\Temp. Surely people shouldn't be leaving important stuff in a temp folder... should they?
What would be really nice would be an overload to CustomDictionaries.Add that allows us to set the name and folder of the .dic file, allowing all the textboxes in the same application to share the same .dic file and making sure we don't leave a load of redundant entries and files with seemingly random names hanging around in the first place..... please Microsoft.
I have an Excel Add-In on the Ribbon using C# which grabs data from an API, but the password used for the API may change from time-to-time.
Without going into the myriad of security issues that may exist by gathering the PW for this purpose directly within the add-in, I'm not able to even determine how to display an Input Box, much less get user input entered into it and then pass it back to the program.
I have researched the _Application.InputBox Method but can't seem to get that to work. I always get a response such as The name 'InputBox' does not exist in the type '_Application'.
The code at this point is very simple, just:
using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;
try
{
myToken = RequestToken("name#domain.com", "MyPass");
}
catch
{
Excel._Application.InputBox inputPassword = new Excel.Application.InputBox(); // this is where i get the error
myToken = RequestToken("name#domain.com", inputPassword.value);
}
Again, the purpose here is to try the "default" password. If it fails, ask the user for the updated password (the username won't change) and then we will re-try. Ideally, we'd like to mask the password input, but we can cross that bridge later.
The key here is to not have to re-deploy the entire app with a hard-coded password every time it changes on the server-side.
In a perfect world, I would probably store the updated password somewhere else (.ini file, registry, etc) instead of asking every single time when the "default" password failed. But again, this is a very early first step.
Please keep in mind this is a custom add-in to be used only by a single user, and we are still in testing, so I will probably move to a more robust security method down the road, but for now, this is the best option I have.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I started with the solution here http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20547.biztalk-server-dynamic-schema-resolver-real-scenario.aspx
which matches my scenario perfectly except for the send port, but that isn't necessary. I need the receive port to choose the file and apply a schema to disassemble. From their the orchestration does the mapping, some of it custom, etc.
I've done everything in the tutorial but I keep getting the following error.
"There was a failure executing the receive pipeline... The body part is NULL"
The things I don't get from the tutorial but don't believe they should be an issue are:
I created a new solution and project to make the custompipeline component (reference figure 19) and thus the dll file. Meaning it is on it's own namespace. However, it looks like from the tutorial they created the project within the main biztalk solution (ie the one with the pipeline and the orchestration) and thus the namespace has "TechNetWiki.SchemaResolver." in it. Should I make the custompipeline component have the namespace of my main solution? I'm assuming this shouldn't matter because I should be able to use this component in other solutions as it is meant to be generic to the business rules that are associated with the biztalk application.
The other piece I don't have is Figure 15 under the "THEN Action" they have it equal the destination schema they would like to disassemble to but then they put #Src1 at the end of "http://TechNetWiki.SchemaResolver.Schemas.SRC1_FF#Src1". What is the #Src1 for?
In the sample you've linked to, the probe method of the pipeline component is pushing the first 4 characters from the filename into a typed message that is then passed into the rules engine. Its those 4 characters that match the "SRC1" in the example.
string srcFileName = pInMsg.Context.Read("ReceivedFileName", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003/file-properties This link is external to TechNet Wiki. It will open in a new window. ").ToString();
srcFileName = Path.GetFileName(srcFileName);
//Substring the first four digits to take source code to use to call BRE API
string customerCode = srcFileName.Substring(0, 4);
//create an instance of the XML object
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.LoadXml(string.Format(#"<ns0:Root xmlns:ns0='http://TechNetWiki.SchemaResolver.Schemas.SchemaResolverBRE This link is external to TechNet Wiki. It will open in a new window. '>
<SrcCode>{0}</SrcCode>
<MessageType></MessageType>
</ns0:Root>", customerCode));
//retreive source code in case in our cache dictionary
if (cachedSources.ContainsKey(customerCode))
{
messageType = cachedSources[customerCode];
}
else
{
TypedXmlDocument typedXmlDocument = new TypedXmlDocument("TechNetWiki.SchemaResolver.Schemas.SchemaResolverBRE", xmlDoc);
Microsoft.RuleEngine.Policy policy = new Microsoft.RuleEngine.Policy("SchemaResolverPolicy");
policy.Execute(typedXmlDocument);
So the matching rule is based on the 1st 4 characters of the filename. If one isn't matched, the probe returns a false - i.e. unrecognised.
The final part is that the message type is pushed into the returned message - this is made up of the namespace and the root schema node with a # separator - so your #src1 is the root node.
You need to implement IProbeMessage near to class
I forgot to add IProbeMessage in the code of article. It is updated now.
but it is there in sample source code
Src1 is the the root node name of schema. I mentioned that in article that message type is TargetNamespace#Root
I recommend to download the sample code
I hope this will help you