Ok, so I have the following class library, which I wrote in C#:
public class Program
{
public void GetProductID(string location, out string productId)
{
ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_Product");
ManagementObjectCollection collection = searcher.Get();
var item = new Win32Product();
//var crap = (collection as IEnumerable<ManagementObject>).Where(o => o["InstallLocation"].ToString().StartsWith(location));
foreach (ManagementObject obj in collection)
{
try
{
item = new Win32Product();
item.IdentifyingNumber = (string)obj["IdentifyingNumber"];
item.InstallLocation = (string)obj["InstallLocation"];
item.Name = (string)obj["Name"];
}
catch
{ } //shut up. I know it's an empty catch block. Its fine.
//If there are exceptions thrown, I don't want the data, I just
//want to keep running.
}
productId = item.ProductID.ToString();
}
}
public class Win32Product
{
//properties
}
Not a lot to it, GetProductId() just searches for any installed programs below a given directory. It works fine if I test it elsewhere, but when running from installshield (as a control event), it fails (return value 3).
Kind of a vague question, I guess, but any idea why GetProductInfo() would be failing coming from installshield?
Here's some reading material for you:
Deployment Tools Foundation (DTF) Managed Custom Actions
Reasons DTF is Better
BTW, the Win32_Product class is a POS. It does a very poor job of wrapping the underlying MSI API. When you switch to DTF, use the ProductInstallation::GetProducts method instead. It does a much better job of calling MsiEnumProductsEx.
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We're trying to use the REST API of Administration Service to manage the Configuration Manager
(What is the administration service in Configuration Manager?)
We have successfully queried entities of different types and executed some custom static methods (i.e. MoveMembers Method on SMS_ObjectContainerItem). It's all mostly blind shots as there is barely any documentation, but those basic functionalities seem to work fine.
Now we have hit the wall, trying to add collection rules to a SMS_Collection (existing or new). This was normally done calling the AddMembershipRule on the instance itself, that was previously fetched by e.g. WqlConnectionManager or some other proxy. However, this is clearly a no-go on a plain object fetched from the REST service.
We have tried to use the wmi OData service (by a generated proxy) as it clearly offers similar functionality, but this ends up with a "Not supported exception":
var savedCollection = Proxy.SMS_Collection.Where(c => c.CollectionID == result.CollectionID).FirstOrDefault();
savedCollection.AddMembershipRule(inclusionRule);
Proxy.UpdateObject(savedCollection);
Proxy.SaveChanges(); //EXCEPTION
I have tried running POST request in numerous ways, using urls like:
SMS_Collection.AddMembershipRule?CollectionID=DV000037 -> 404
SMS_Collection/DV000037/AddMembershipRule -> 404
SMS_Collection.DV000037.AddMembershipRule -> 404
SMS_Collection/DV000037.AddMembershipRule -> treated it as post to SMS_Collection/DV000037, and therefore triggers an update
or just
SMS_Collection.AddMembershipRule with collectionID as param
As for the request body I've used (or just the AddCollectionMembershipRuleRequestRule):
public class AddCollectionMembershipRuleRequest
{
public AddCollectionMembershipRuleRequestRule CollectionRule { get; set; }
}
public class AddCollectionMembershipRuleRequestRule
{
public string RuleName { get; set; }
public string IncludeCollectionID { get; set; }
}
I have also tried to Post an existing or new collection, with CollectionRules prefilled, but this ends up with an exception complaining about IncludeCollectionID not being part of CollectionRule (base class) - looks like validation being too strict and not dealing well with the inheritance.
var collectionRequest = new ECMCollectionCreationRequest()
{
Name = collectionName,
CollectionType = 2,
RefreshType = 4,
LimitToCollectionID = DefaultLimitingCollectionID,
CollectionRules = new List<SMS_CollectionRule>()
{
new SMS_CollectionRuleIncludeCollection()
{
RuleName = "MembershipRule",
IncludeCollectionID = "DV100020"
}
}
};
Stil, no luck with any of those. Do you have any idea if such a scenario (modification of CollectionRules) is even supported with the Rest /OData service? If so, what would be the right way to achieve so?
It looks like this part is simply not supported at the moment. Looking at the code it seems that the service is not interpreting the arguments properly and therefore causing validation issues.
However, the same can be achieved, in a bit less clean and structured way, using ManagementScope and ManagementObject
var scope = new ManagementScope(siteAddress);
scope.Connect();
using (ManagementObject collection = new ManagementObject(scope, new ManagementPath($"SMS_Collection.CollectionID='{collectionID}'"), new ObjectGetOptions()))
{
if (collection == null)
throw new Exception($"Unable to find collection with ID '{collectionID}'");
collection.Get();
using (ManagementBaseObject inParams = collection.GetMethodParameters("AddMembershipRule"))
using (ManagementClass ruleClass = new ManagementClass(scope, new ManagementPath("SMS_CollectionRuleDirect"), new ObjectGetOptions()))
using (ManagementObject rule = ruleClass.CreateInstance())
{
rule["ResourceClassName"] = "SMS_R_System";
rule["ResourceID"] = ecmResourceID;
rule["RuleName"] = machineName;
inParams["collectionRule"] = rule;
collection.InvokeMethod("AddMembershipRule", inParams, null);
}
}
One can add and remove all the other rule types in similar way.
Another alternative is of course to use PowerShell. Sill, I hope that with one of the next iterations of the Administration Service, support of those methods will be added.
Similarly, there seems to be no way to add/remove application or package and import/export them, using the admin services or even in the way mentioned above.
$Rule="{'collectionRule':{`"#odata.type`": `"#AdminService.SMS_CollectionRuleDirect`", `"ResourceClassName`": `"SMS_R_System`", `"ResourceID`": $DeviceID,`"RuleName`": `"$MachineName`"}}"
$RuleCreated = (Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post -Uri "https://$($CMProvider)/AdminService/wmi/SMS_Collection('$CollectionID')/AdminService.AddMembershipRule" -Body $Rule -ContentType 'application/json' -Credential $Cred)
because of having always open Oracle connections and want to track them down using performance counters. Because of missing admin rights I can't use the perfmon.
I googled and just found 1 promissing example but I can't manage to get it running and would really appreciate your help!
the performance Monitoring class (pmc) looks like this:
List<PerformanceCounter> lstPerfCounters = new List<PerformanceCounter>();
public virtual void InitializeCounters(string AppInstanceName, Type PerfCountersList)
{
foreach (string counterName in Enum.GetNames(PerfCountersList))
{
PerformanceCounter PerfCounter = new PerformanceCounter();
PerfCounter.CategoryName = ".NET Data Provider for SqlServer";
PerfCounter.CounterName = counterName;
PerfCounter.InstanceName = AppInstanceName;
lstPerfCounters.Add(PerfCounter);
}
}
public virtual void PrintCounters()
{
foreach (PerformanceCounter p in lstPerfCounters)
{
Console.WriteLine("{0} = {1}", p.CounterName, p.NextValue());
}
Console.WriteLine("****************************************************************");
}
and has those enums:
public enum DBPerformanceCounters
{
NumberOfActiveConnectionPools,
NumberOfActiveConnections,
NumberOfFreeConnections,
NumberOfNonPooledConnections,
NumberOfPooledConnections,
SoftDisconnectsPerSecond,
SoftConnectsPerSecond,
NumberOfReclaimedConnections,
HardConnectsPerSecond,
HardDisconnectsPerSecond,
NumberOfActiveConnectionPoolGroups,
NumberOfInactiveConnectionPoolGroups,
NumberOfInactiveConnectionPools,
NumberOfStasisConnections
}
When starting my Programm I wanted to initialise it with the code given
PMC pc = new PMC();
string InstanceName = "myProgram";
pc.InitializeCounters(InstanceName, typeof(CountersList.DBPerformanceCounters));
pc.PrintCounters();
and here is the problem: the ide tells me, that CountersList doesn't exist. If I create a List for the DBPerformanceCounter manually, I get told that it is a varibale that is used like a type.
I'm sure its just a small bug, but I'm clueless and would really appreciate your help!
Thanks in advance.
*Earased some typos.
I have a C# program (actually it's just a C# library that is being used by NUnit) that I wish to modify slightly which is based off of this article: How to Programmatically move items in outlook. I'm currently faced with a folder that has bout 3500 messages all around 350kb and is taking FOREVER to move to my archive so I can send and receive emails again (since my inbox is currently at 1.5Gb out of 500Mb... lol) but for the life of me I can't figure out how to get my archive folder. I'm a little bit multitasking since I'm at work so I can edit as I go. So if you have any code readily available that finds the archive folder that would be great. Thank you
EDIT
ok to show that I do have some work in progress (based on negative feedback) here is the code I have in place right now (since yes I know I have a give me teh codez)
here is my NUnit test case that looks at a folder and gives me specific information
[Test]
public void CheckMessages()
{
List<EmailMessage> messages = new List<EmailMessage>();
using (var target = new EmailMessageProvider())
{
messages.AddRange(target.GetEmailMessages("UnexpectedErrors\\NotFindImage"));
}
Dictionary<int, string> asdf = new Dictionary<int, string>();
foreach (var item in messages)
{
var line = item.Body.Split(new string[] { Environment.NewLine }, StringSplitOptions.None)[2];
var revisionId = int.Parse(Regex.Match(line, #"\-*\d+").Value);
var path = line.Substring(line.IndexOf("\\\\"));
if (asdf.ContainsKey(revisionId))
{
Assert.That(path, Is.EqualTo(asdf[revisionId]));
}
else
{
asdf.Add(revisionId, path);
}
}
foreach (var item in asdf.OrderBy(x => x.Key))
{
Console.WriteLine($"{item.Key} {item.Value}");
}
}
I use the same class to find messages (in another test) and move it to that subfolder which that test is using.
here is the code I have that does the moving
public void MoveSurveyPrintComponentsNotFound()
{
var destination = _baseFolder.Folders["UnexpectedErrors"].Folders["NotFindImage"];
foreach (var mailItem in _baseFolder.Folders["UnexpectedErrors"].Items.OfType<MailItem>())
{
mailItem.UseMailItem(x =>
{
if (x.Body.Contains("Foobar.Common.Exceptions.ImageNotFound"))
x.Move(destination);
});
}
}
EDIT 2
looks like I may have just about got it. I found that in the MAPI Namspace one of the subfolders is Archives. I'm going to try to change a few of the variables and see if it moves. Problem is just checking one folder takes over 31 seconds. oh well. better than never.
I figured it out. It wasn't as hard as I had thought either so I'll share what i have just incase someone else has this problem. In my program I did 2 things. One was to set _basefolder as my default email address's Folder. Second was to to set _mapi to the Outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI"). Those two thinsg I already had in my constructor.
private readonly OutlookApplication _outlook;
private readonly NameSpace _mapi;
private MAPIFolder _baseFolder;
public EmailMessageProvider()
{
_outlook = new OutlookApplication();
_mapi = _outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI");
_baseFolder = _mapi.Folders["robert#defaultEmail.com"];
}
Archives works just like any other MAPIFolder so it's just a matter of getting said folder. For me it was in _mapi.Folders["Archive"]. I would imagine this is fairly standard so if you copy and paste it should work just fine.
So now to list out all of my emails I want to go through and move tham appropriatly.
public void MoveSpecificEmailsToArchives()
{
var destination = _mapi.Folders["Archives"];
foreach (var mailItem in _baseFolder.Folders["Unexpected Error"].Items.OfType<MailItem>())
{
mailItem.UseMailItem(x =>
{
if (x.Body.Contains("offensiveProgram.exe ERROR "))
x.Move(destination);
});
}
Release(destination);
}
fyi the UseMailItem is an extension method. Looks like this
public static void UseMailItem(this MailItem item, Action<MailItem> mailItemAction)
{
mailItemAction(item);
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(item);
}
We are currently creating a Windows Store Application which gains information from an RSS feed and inputs this information into an ObservableCollection. The issue we are having is when the information is being gained, the Applications UI becomes unresponsive.
In order to get around this, I thought about creating a new thread and calling the method within this. Though, after some research we realised that this was no longer possible in Windows Store Apps. How can we get around this?
The method that collects the information is below.
public void getFeed()
{
setupImages();
string[] feedUrls = new string[] {
"http://www.igadgetos.co.uk/blog/category/gadget-news/feed/",
"http://www.igadgetos.co.uk/blog/category/gadget-reviews/feed/",
"http://www.igadgetos.co.uk/blog/category/videos/feed/",
"http://www.igadgetos.co.uk/blog/category/gaming/feed/",
"http://www.igadgetos.co.uk/blog/category/jailbreak-2/feed/",
"http://www.igadgetos.co.uk/blog/category/kickstarter/feed/",
"http://www.igadgetos.co.uk/blog/category/cars-2/feed/",
"http://www.igadgetos.co.uk/blog/category/software/feed/",
"http://www.igadgetos.co.uk/blog/category/updates/feed/"
};
{
try
{
XNamespace dc = "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";
XNamespace content = "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/";
foreach (var feedUrl in feedUrls)
{
var doc = XDocument.Load(feedUrl);
var feed = doc.Descendants("item").Select(c => new ArticleItem() //Creates a copy of the ArticleItem Class.
{
Title = c.Element("title").Value,
//There are another 4 of these.
Post = stripTags(c.Element(content + "encoded").Value) }
).OrderByDescending(c => c.PubDate);
this.moveItems = feed.ToList();
foreach (var item in moveItems)
{
item.ID = feedItems.Count;
feedItems.Add(item);
}
}
lastUpdated = DateTime.Now;
}
catch
{
MessageDialog popup = new MessageDialog("An error has occured downloading the feed, please try again later.");
popup.Commands.Add(new UICommand("Okay"));
popup.Title = "ERROR";
popup.ShowAsync();
}
}
}
How would we be able to cause the Application to not freeze as we gain this information, as Threading is not possible within Windows Store Applications.
E.g - We planned to use;
Thread newThread = new Thread(getFeed);
newThread.Start
You need to use the well documented async pattern for your operations that happen on the UI thread. The link given by Paul-Jan in the comments is where you need to start. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh994635.aspx
I'm encountering a problem with one of my IEnumerable's that I haven't seen before.
I have a collection:
IEnumerable<IDependency> dependencies;
that's being used in a foreach loop.
foreach (var dependency in dependencies)
For some reason this foreach doesn't iterate over my IEnumerable and simply skips to the end.
If I change my foreach to loop through a a list however it seems to work fine:
foreach (var dependency in dependencies.ToList())
What could I be doing that's causing this behaviour? I haven't experienced this with IEnumerable before.
Update:
Here's the entire code of my foreach that's running in my method GenerateDotString:
foreach (var dependency in dependencies)
{
var dependentResource = dependency.Resource;
var lineColor = (dependency.Type == DependencyTypeEnum.DependencyType.Hard) ? "blue" : "red";
output += labelFormat.FormatWith(dependentResource.Name.MakeDotsafeString(), dependentResource.Name, dependentResource.ResourceType);
output += relationshipFormat.FormatWith(dependentResource.Name.MakeDotsafeString(), currentName, lineColor);
if (dependentResource.DependentResources != null)
{
output += GenerateDotString(dependentResource, dependentResource.DependentResources, searchDirection);
}
}
return output;
Update 2:
Here's the signature of the method containing this foreach (incase it helps).
private static string GenerateDotString(IResource resource, IEnumerable<IDependency> dependencies, SearchEnums.SearchDirection searchDirection)
Update 3:
Here's the method GetAllRelatedResourcesByParentGuidWithoutCacheCheck:
private IEnumerable<IDependency> GetAllRelatedResourcesByParentGuidWithoutCacheCheck(Guid parentCiGuid, Func<Guid, IEnumerable<IDependency>> getResources)
{
if (!_itemsCheckedForRelations.Contains(parentCiGuid)) // Have we already got related resources for this CI?;
{
var relatedResources = getResources(parentCiGuid);
_itemsCheckedForRelations.Add(parentCiGuid);
if (relatedResources.Count() > 0)
{
foreach (var relatedResource in relatedResources)
{
relatedResource.Resource.DependentResources = GetAllRelatedResourcesByParentGuidWithoutCacheCheck(relatedResource.Resource.Id, getResources);
yield return relatedResource;
}
}
}
}
Update 4:
I'm adding the methods in the chain here to be clear on how we're getting the collection of dependencies.
The above method GetAllRelatedResourcesByParentGuidWithoutCacheCheck accepts a delegate which in this case is:
private IEnumerable<IDependency> GetAllSupportsResources(Guid resourceId)
{
var hardDependents = GetSupportsHardByParentGuid(resourceId);
var softDependents = GetSupportsSoftByParentGuid(resourceId);
var allresources = hardDependents.Union(softDependents);
return allresources;
}
which is calling:
private IEnumerable<IDependency> GetSupportsHardByParentGuid(Guid parentCiGuid)
{
XmlNode ciXmlNode = _reportManagementService.RunReportWithParameters(Res.SupportsHardReportGuid, Res.DependentCiReportCiParamName + "=" + parentCiGuid);
return GetResourcesFromXmlNode(ciXmlNode, DependencyTypeEnum.DependencyType.Hard);
}
and returns:
private IEnumerable<IDependency> GetResourcesFromXmlNode(XmlNode ciXmlNode, DependencyTypeEnum.DependencyType dependencyType)
{
var allResources = GetAllResources();
foreach (var nodeItem in ciXmlNode.SelectNodes(Res.WebServiceXmlRootNode).Cast<XmlNode>())
{
Guid resourceGuid;
var isValidGuid = Guid.TryParse(nodeItem.SelectSingleNode("ResourceGuid").InnerText, out resourceGuid);
var copyOfResource = allResources.Where(m => m.Id == resourceGuid).SingleOrDefault();
if (isValidGuid && copyOfResource != null)
{
yield return new Dependency
{
Resource = copyOfResource,
Type = dependencyType
};
}
}
}
which is where the concrete type is returned.
So it looks like the problem was to do with the dependencies collection infinately depending on itself.
It seems from my debugging that iterating the IEnumerable causes a timeout and so the foreach simply skips execution of its contents where as ToList() returns as much as it can before timing out.
I may not be correct about that but it's what seems to be the case as far as I can tell.
To give a bit of background as to how this all came about I'll explain the code changes I made yesterday.
The first thing the application does is build up a collection of all resources which are filtered by resource type. These are being brought in from our CMDB via a web service call.
What I was then doing is for each resource that was selected (via autocomplete in this case) I'd make a web service call and get the dependents for the resource based on its Guid. (recursively)
I changed this yesterday so that we didn't need to obtain the full resource information in this second web service call, rather, simply obtain a list of Guids in the web service call and grab the resources from our resources collection.
What I forgot was that the web service call for dependents wasn't filtered by type and so it was returning results that didn't exist in the original resources collection.
I need to look a bit further but it seems that at this point, the new collection of dependent resources was becoming dependent on itself and thus, causing the IEnumerable<IDependents> collection later on to timeout.
This is where I've got to today, if I find anything else I'll be sure to note it here.
To summarise this:
If infinite recursion occurs in an IEnumerable it'll simply timeout
when attempting to enumerate in a foreach.
Using ToList() on the IEnumerable seems to return as much data as it
can before timing out.