Here is what I need.
I trying to write a application that will take over another application and intercept certain things that happens in it.
The idea is to monitor the application and take actions when some stuff happens.
After some research I found that Detours 2.1 from Ms Research, will help me, but I am having a hard time finding how to user it and integrate it in my domain of programming which is .NET.
Does anyone have any idea how I can do this without having to dig c\c++ books.
Thanks all
If your trying to hook another .NET application you could try .NET Hook Library.
If your talking about hooking system calls then there are actually lots of tools / libraries available. Checkout "Code Injection Tools" in the RCE tool library.
There was an API and a layer added in Windows to assist in enabling desktop applications for users with disabilities. I am not so sure about the current state of the API but I am quite sure equivalents exist in the .NET Framework. Check out this link and see if you can exploit the hooks built into this layer rather than going for lower level system calls. The information suggests that Windows Automation API 3.0 is the current standard for intercepting events and manipulating another application.
I recommend Deviare, the hook engine from our company where hooking is done trivially, injection and parameters parsing is done by the engine. This is for example a code in C# to intercept PrcStartDocPrinterW on spoolsv.exe.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Nektra.Deviare2;
namespace PrintLogger
{
public partial class PrintLogger : Form
{
private NktSpyMgr _spyMgr;
private NktProcess _process;
public PrintLogger()
{
InitializeComponent();
_spyMgr = new NktSpyMgr();
_spyMgr.Initialize();
_spyMgr.OnFunctionCalled += new DNktSpyMgrEvents_OnFunctionCalledEventHandler(OnFunctionCalled);
GetProcess("spoolsv.exe");
if (_process == null)
{
MessageBox.Show("Please start \"spoolsv.exe\" before!", "Error");
Environment.Exit(0);
}
}
private void PrintLogger_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
NktHook hook = _spyMgr.CreateHook("spoolsv.exe!PrvStartDocPrinterW", (int)(eNktHookFlags.flgRestrictAutoHookToSameExecutable & eNktHookFlags.flgOnlyPreCall));
hook.Hook(true);
hook.Attach(_process, true);
}
private bool GetProcess(string proccessName)
{
NktProcessesEnum enumProcess = _spyMgr.Processes();
NktProcess tempProcess = enumProcess.First();
while (tempProcess != null)
{
if (tempProcess.Name.Equals(proccessName, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) && tempProcess.PlatformBits > 0 && tempProcess.PlatformBits <= IntPtr.Size * 8)
{
_process = tempProcess;
return true;
}
tempProcess = enumProcess.Next();
}
_process = null;
return false;
}
private void OnFunctionCalled(NktHook hook, NktProcess process, NktHookCallInfo hookCallInfo)
{
string strDocument = "Document: ";
INktParamsEnum paramsEnum = hookCallInfo.Params();
INktParam param = paramsEnum.First();
param = paramsEnum.Next();
param = paramsEnum.Next();
if (param.PointerVal != IntPtr.Zero)
{
INktParamsEnum paramsEnumStruct = param.Evaluate().Fields();
INktParam paramStruct = paramsEnumStruct.First();
strDocument += paramStruct.ReadString();
strDocument += "\n";
}
Output(strDocument);
}
public delegate void OutputDelegate(string strOutput);
private void Output(string strOutput)
{
if (InvokeRequired)
BeginInvoke(new OutputDelegate(Output), strOutput);
else
textOutput.AppendText(strOutput);
}
}
}
There are many alternatives to Deviare, Microsoft Detours is one of them. The main scope of Deviare is doing hooking extremely easy and being a COM object it can be used in .NET too via an automatic created interop. It is also trivial to use it on every scripting language like VBScript or PowerShell.
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I want to make a USSD call in a xamarin crossplatform app using C# and i have no idea where to start. All the examples i have seen is done in java. Is it possible to successfully dial a USSD code like *270# within my app without opening the dialer? If yes, please how? I'll be very grateful for any help
To do it with Xamarin forms you have to create a custom renderer for android :
Create an interface in your shared project :
public interface IUssdRenderer
{
void StartTransaction();
}
then in your android project :
using System;
using Android.Content;
using Android.OS;
using ussd.Renderers;
[assembly: Xamarin.Forms.Dependency(typeof(IUssdRenderer))]
namespace ussd.Droid.Renderers
{
public class UssdRenderer : IUssdRenderer
{
public Android.Net.Uri createUriFromString(string ussd)
{
String uri = "tel:";
foreach (char c in ussd.ToCharArray())
{
if (c == '#')
{
uri += Android.Net.Uri.Encode("#");
}
else
{
uri += c;
}
}
return Android.Net.Uri.Parse(uri);
}
public void StartTransaction()
{
var intent = new Intent(Intent.ActionCall, createUriFromString("*270#"));
Context ctx = Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Context;
ctx.StartActivity(intent);
}
}
}
You'll also have to register you interface, I'm using prism :
public void RegisterTypes(IContainerRegistry containerRegistry)
{
containerRegistry.Register< IUssdRenderer, UssdRenderer>();
}
The last bit is to make sure you have Call permissions enabled :
Right click on Android Project > Options > Android application
make sure CallPhone is selected
You may use Xamarin.Essentials PhoneDialer, to make a call, note that since USSD contains '#' you need to URL-encode it. example:
string code = "*123#";
PhoneDialer.Open(HttpUtility.UrlEncode(code));
After collecting from left and right I finally found the solution to my question with CrossMessaging plugin.
The steps are as follow:
Create your project and give the name
Install from nuget Xam.Plugins.Messaging in your project
Add below line in Android project MainActivity's OnCreate method:
CrossMessaging.Current.Settings().Phone.AutoDial = true;
Add android.permission.CALL_PHONE to the manifest file.
Make calls as follow
try
{
var phonedialer = CrossMessaging.Current.PhoneDialer;
if (phonedialer.CanMakePhoneCall)
{
//Ussd call's
phonedialer.MakePhoneCall(HttpUtility.UrlEncode("#150#"));
//For normal calls
phonedialer.MakePhoneCall("9111111111")
}
}
catch (Exception exc)
{
await DisplayAlert("Error!!!!", exc.ToString(), "ok");
}
i just started to develop applications for AutoCAD 2016. I want to load my dLLs into a separate AppDomain, so that i don't have to restart ACAD all the time.
After a lot of research and trying i ended up with a pipeline solution
using System.Addin and System.Addin.Contract.
I use only interfaces and standardclasses for the Views Contract and Adapters like in this example here.
This is my addin containing one methode to write Hello into Acad's Editor and a second methode for drawing a line.
using System.AddIn;
using CADAddinView;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.EditorInput;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Geometry;
namespace CADAddIn
{
[AddIn("cadAddIn", Version = "1.0.0.0")]
public class CADAddIn : ICADAddinView
{
public void drawLine()
{
Document acDoc = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Core.Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
Database acCurDb = acDoc.Database;
using (DocumentLock acLckDoc = acDoc.LockDocument())
{
using (Transaction acTrans = acCurDb.TransactionManager.StartTransaction())
{
DBObject blkTbl = acTrans.GetObject(acCurDb.BlockTableId, OpenMode.ForRead);
BlockTable acBlkTbl = blkTbl as BlockTable;
BlockTableRecord acBlkTblRec = (BlockTableRecord)acTrans.GetObject(acBlkTbl[BlockTableRecord.ModelSpace], OpenMode.ForWrite);
Polyline acPoly = new Polyline();
acPoly.SetDatabaseDefaults();
acPoly.AddVertexAt(0, new Point2d(0, 0), 0, 0, 0);
acPoly.AddVertexAt(0, new Point2d(100, 100), 0, 0, 0);
acBlkTblRec.AppendEntity(acPoly);
acTrans.AddNewlyCreatedDBObject(acPoly, true);
acTrans.Commit();
}
}
}
public void sayHello()
{
Editor ed = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Core.Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.Editor;
ed.WriteMessage("Hello");
}
}
}
this is my HostApplication:
using System.AddIn.Hosting;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using CADHostView;
using System;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime;
namespace CADHost
{
public class CADHost
{
[CommandMethod("sayHello")]
public static void sayHello()
{
string addInPath = Environment.CurrentDirectory + "\\Pipeline";
string[] warnings = AddInStore.Update(addInPath);
foreach (string warning in warnings)
{
MessageBox.Show(warning);
}
Collection<AddInToken> tokens = AddInStore.FindAddIns(typeof(ICADHostView), addInPath);
if (tokens.Count == 0)
{
MessageBox.Show("No AddIn found.");
}
else
{
AddInToken cadToken = tokens[0];
ICADHostView cadApp = cadToken.Activate<ICADHostView>(AddInSecurityLevel.Host);
cadApp.sayHello();
}
}
[CommandMethod("drawLine")]
public static void drawLine()
{
string addInPath = Environment.CurrentDirectory + "\\Pipeline";
string[] warnings = AddInStore.Update(addInPath);
foreach (string warning in warnings)
{
MessageBox.Show(warning);
}
Collection<AddInToken> tokens = AddInStore.FindAddIns(typeof(ICADHostView), addInPath);
if (tokens.Count == 0)
{
MessageBox.Show("No AddIn found.");
}
else
{
AddInToken cadToken = tokens[0];
ICADHostView cadApp = cadToken.Activate<ICADHostView>(AddInSecurityLevel.Host);
cadApp.drawLine();
}
}
}
}
Both of the two applications reference to three standard-Dlls from Acad:
accoremgd.dll, acdbmgd.dll, acmgd.dll.
In both projects these dlls have the option local copy false.
If i start then i get an Exception, where the programm cannot find the file "accoremgd.dll" and Acad crashes.
So i tried to set the Option local copy true only for the Addin.
Now it works for the "sayHello"-Methode.
but i get an invalide cast exception when acBlkTbl is initialised.
Would be great if someone has the last steps for me to make this work.
Also great would be a working example must not be made with the Addinsystem
i only want to make this work for not restarting acad all the time^^
Thank you for your help
matthias
I don't believe a separate AppDomain will work, when you call AutoCAD object types it will go to the main AppDomain and get messed up...
As just want to edit your code and don't restart, you'll be better with Edit & Continue feature (available since VC2013 on AutoCAD 2015, I believe).
This is not supported. AutoCAD is a very old and complex program and most of the AutoCAD API objects cannot be used in remote fashion.
Please read:
http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2008/09/tired-of-not-be.html
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/net/netload-is-there-a-net-unload-command/td-p/2404002
https://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=38675.0
In the #3, you can see that the AutoCAD development team confirmed that there are some global variables which will prevent working this way.
I gave up my tries to solve this problem. My current "best" solution is to load dlls at the start of AutoCAD. At least i don't have to netload every dll.
If someone has a better solution feel free to tell me^^ Thanks to all that answered. matthias
Consider next situation. I have injected my managed dll into the process using EasyHook. EasyHook injects dll using separate AppDomain. Now I need a way to get notifications about creation of new AppDomain in the current process.
So the question is there a way do get notifications when a new AppDomain was created in the process?
There is no event or easy way to do it, there is a COM interrupt that allows you to get a list of app domains loaded but any events etc are all hidden from us on private interfaces.
There is two ways you could do this but both require you to actively seek the information i.e. there is no event to register too.
Using Performance Counters.
Using mscoree COM interrupt.
Both there options can complement each other but it depends what level of information you need.
Using Performance Counters
CLR has numerous performance counters available but the one we care about resides in the category ".Net CLR Loading" and it is the counter called "Total Appdomains".
Using the System.Diagnostics namespace you can get the number of app domains per instance/process running in you machine.
Like the code below:
PerformanceCounter toPopulate = new PerformanceCounter(".Net CLR Loading", "Total Appdomains", "ConsoleApplication2.vshost", true);
Console.WriteLine("App domains listed = {0}", toPopulate.NextValue().ToString());
(please note the example needs the application instance name if you create your own app make sure to change this)
You can wrap this on a loop and raise an even for your app when the number changes.
(Not elegant but there is no way around it at the moment)
Using mscoree COM interrupt
Further more if you want to List all the app domains in a process you need to make use the MSCOREE.TBL library which is a COM library used by the CLRHost.
You can find the library at C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\vXXXXXX\mscoree.tlb
using mscoree;
If you are using it on window 7 or above you must make sure that the embed assembly type in the reference properties is turned off as this assembly can not be embedded like that.
See further information on this stack post: Interop type cannot be embedded
See the code below to see how you can return and list all app domains in a process (this will return the actual AppDomain instances for each app domain).
The original stack post for this can be found here: List AppDomains in Process
public static List<AppDomain> GetAppDomains()
{
List<AppDomain> _IList = new List<AppDomain>();
IntPtr enumHandle = IntPtr.Zero;
CorRuntimeHostClass host = new mscoree.CorRuntimeHostClass();
try
{
host.EnumDomains(out enumHandle);
object domain = null;
while (true)
{
host.NextDomain(enumHandle, out domain);
if (domain == null) break;
AppDomain appDomain = (AppDomain)domain;
_IList.Add(appDomain);
}
return _IList;
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e.ToString());
return null;
}
finally
{
host.CloseEnum(enumHandle);
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(host);
}
}
Now that you can see how many app domains exist in a process and list them let put that to the test.
Below is a fully working example using both techniques.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Drawing.Printing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Printing;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Xps.Packaging;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using mscoree;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading;
namespace ConsoleApplication2
{
class AppDomainWorker
{
public void DoSomeWork()
{
while (true)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
{
var hello = "hello world".GetHashCode();
}
Thread.Sleep(500);
}
}
}
class Program
{
[STAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
PerformanceCounter toPopulate = new PerformanceCounter(".Net CLR Loading", "Total Appdomains", "ConsoleApplication2.vshost", true);
Console.WriteLine("App domains listed = {0}", toPopulate.NextValue().ToString());
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
AppDomain domain = AppDomain.CreateDomain("App Domain " + i);
domain.DoCallBack(() => new Thread(new AppDomainWorker().DoSomeWork).Start());
Console.WriteLine("App domains listed = {0}", toPopulate.NextValue().ToString());
}
Console.WriteLine("List all app domains");
GetAppDomains().ForEach(a => {
Console.WriteLine(a.FriendlyName);
});
Console.WriteLine("running, press any key to stop");
Console.ReadKey();
}
public static List<AppDomain> GetAppDomains()
{
List<AppDomain> _IList = new List<AppDomain>();
IntPtr enumHandle = IntPtr.Zero;
CorRuntimeHostClass host = new mscoree.CorRuntimeHostClass();
try
{
host.EnumDomains(out enumHandle);
object domain = null;
while (true)
{
host.NextDomain(enumHandle, out domain);
if (domain == null) break;
AppDomain appDomain = (AppDomain)domain;
_IList.Add(appDomain);
}
return _IList;
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e.ToString());
return null;
}
finally
{
host.CloseEnum(enumHandle);
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(host);
}
}
}
}
I hope this is helpful and if you need any further help let us know.
I am trying to connect to R from c# using the following code. It looks like C# is not reading the R dll files. My R installation directory is this:
C:\Users\R-2-13\R-2.13.0\bin\i386
and I also downloaded and put the R.NET.dll in the same directory. In Visual Studio, I set the reference to R.NET.dll file. When I run the following code, the code goes the the catch section "unable to find the R Installation". Any ideas? Has anybody got this working?
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using RDotNet;
namespace RNet_Calculator
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
// set up basics and create RDotNet instance
// if anticipated install of R is not found, ask the user to find it.
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
bool r_located = false;
while (r_located == false)
{
try
{
REngine.SetDllDirectory(#"C:\Users\R-2-13\R-2.13.0\bin\i386");
REngine.CreateInstance("RDotNet");
r_located = true;
}
catch { MessageBox.Show(#"Unable to find R installation's \bin\i386 folder. Press OK to attempt to locate it.");
MessageBox.Show("error");
}
}
}
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
}
}
This is http://rdotnet.codeplex.com/ (RDotNet) to develop Winform applications. While I know Shiny and all the other Web-like R-tools quite well, the combination of c# and R still is my preferred end-user combinations. Try simple things like disabling buttons with Shiny...
Too bad rdotnet is quite buggy; in the current version, it crashes on R exeptions, even in try-catched ones.
This said: please make absolutely sure that you use version 1.5, not the stupidly called "stable" (=early beta) version on the page. Best download it via NuGet. Also check if you did not mix 32bit R with 64 bit c#.
Using the Helper-functions of 1.5, initialization is:
Helper.SetEnvironmentVariables();
engine = REngine.CreateInstance(EngineName);
engine.Initialize();
# Assuming you want to catch the graphic window, use my RGraphAppHook
# on the rdotnet site http://rdotnet.codeplex.com/workitem/7
cbt = new RGraphAppHook { GraphControl = GraphPanelControl };
I am using the following code under ASP.NET 4.0 framework to obtain the version of MSI file from a web app:
string strVersion = "";
try
{
Type InstallerType;
WindowsInstaller.Installer installer;
InstallerType = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("WindowsInstaller.Installer");
installer = (WindowsInstaller.Installer)Activator.CreateInstance(InstallerType);
WindowsInstaller.Database db = installer.OpenDatabase(strMSIFilePath, 0);
WindowsInstaller.View dv = db.OpenView("SELECT `Value` FROM `Property` WHERE `Property`='ProductVersion'");
WindowsInstaller.Record record = null;
dv.Execute(record);
record = dv.Fetch();
strVersion = record.get_StringData(1).ToString();
dv.Close();
//db.Commit();
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(dv);
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(db);
}
catch
{
//Failed
strVersion = "";
}
It works fine except that when the code finishes running it holds an internal MSI file handle so when I try to move or rename the MSI file I get the error that the file is still in use. This continues until I actually navigate away from the ASPX page that calls the method above.
My question is, I obviously didn't close some handle or object in the code above. But what could that be?
PS. I'm testing it in a development IDE from VS2010.
EDIT: Edited the code like it should be after Adriano's suggestion. Thanks!
The COM object has not been released (it should be auto-released when it goes out of scope but in .NET this doesn't work really well). Because it does not implement the IDisposable interface you can't call its Dispose() method and you can't use it inside an using statement. You have to explicitly call Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject. For example:
try
{
// Your stuffs
}
finally
{
dv.Close();
Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(dv);
Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(db);
}
Moreover note that you do not really need a call to the Commit() method because you didn't make any change but just a query.
FWIW, you should be using Windows Installer XML (WiX) Deployment Tools Foundation (DTF). It's an FOSS project from Microsoft that can be found on CodePlex. It has MSI interop libraries with classes that are very similar to the COM classes but implement IDisosable and use P/Invoke instead of COM behind the scenes. There is even support for Linq to MSI if you want. And the full source code is available.
DTF is the gold standard for MSI interop in a .NET world. Here are two examples:
using System;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller;
using Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.Linq;
namespace ConsoleApplication3
{
class Program
{
const string DATABASE_PATH = #"C:\FOO..MSI";
const string SQL_SELECT_PRODUCTVERSION = "SELECT `Value` FROM `Property` WHERE `Property`='ProductVersion'";
static void Main(string[] args)
{
using (Database database = new Database(DATABASE_PATH, DatabaseOpenMode.ReadOnly))
{
Console.WriteLine(database.ExecuteScalar(SQL_SELECT_PRODUCTVERSION).ToString());
}
using (QDatabase database = new QDatabase(DATABASE_PATH, DatabaseOpenMode.ReadOnly))
{
var results = from property in database.Properties where property.Property == "ProductVersion" select property.Value;
Console.WriteLine(results.AsEnumerable<string>().First());
}
}
}
}
try to Dispose the Objects.
dv.Dispose();
db.Dispose();