Tuesday, July 6, 2010

C# LogViewer using FileSystemWatcher

I was facing a problem to get the new log message in the Message Log screen.
FileSystemWatcher which was introduced in .net 2.0 make it very easy to develop Message Log Viewer.

1) Create the FileSystemWatcher and set its properties.



            FileSystemWatcher_Log_1.Path = Directory.GetParent("C:\\temp").FullName;
            FileSystemWatcher_Log_1.Filter = "MyLogFile.log";
            NotifyFilters notifyFileters = new NotifyFilters();
            notifyFileters = notifyFileters | NotifyFilters.LastWrite;
           // You can choose other notification filters


            FileSystemWatcher_Log_1.NotifyFilter = notifyFileters;
            FileSystemWatcher_Log_1.EnableRaisingEvents = true;


2) Set the event handler.




            this.FileSystemWatcher_Log_1.Changed += new 
            System.IO.FileSystemEventHandler(this.FileSystemWatcher_Changed);

3) Update GUI when event occours


            // create stream writer only once so that whenever new log is appended in the log file,
           // only that text will be shown in the list view (or which ever the gui component you are using).
            if (null == sr_Log_1)
            {
                sr_Log_1 = new StreamReader(new FileStream(SelectedFileName_Log1_textbox.Text, 
                FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite), true);
            }
            string line;
            while (sr_Log_1.EndOfStream != true)
            {
                line = sr_Log_1.ReadLine();
                if (line.Trim().Length == 0)
                {
                    continue;
                }
                Log_1_listBox.Items.Add(line);
                Log_1_listBox.TopIndex = Log_1_listBox.Items.Count - 26 + 1;
                
            }



Refer the code for details.
You can download demo code from here here.
It may not be 100% bug free code.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Learning art of Mocking by EasyMock

Continuing my earlier post about testing and mocking.
Here is the details about EasyMock.


Download presentation here (ppt)

Or

Here ( google docs)

The Art Of Mocking / Test using Mock Objects .

Quality assurance exists in many products, including software.
Software manufacturers perform software testing to ensure the correctness, completeness and quality of their products.

And the testing should also go with hand in hand along with development.
Find out more about testing and mocking in the provided link.

Click here to get the presentation from the link











Testing is an art. :-)

How to change from Windows Authentication to SQL Server Authentication (2005)

Durng installation of SQL Server 2005 i did not care for SQL Server Authentication and installed it Windows Authentication.
And later other users in the network could not use it for the guest account due to some problem.

Here are the steps if you need to add SQL Server Authentication also for SQL Server.


1) Run the following query to enable SQL Server Authentication using MS SQL Server Management Studio (after login as windows authentication)

"ALTER LOGIN sa ENABLE".

2) Set the password for the sa account 
 "ALTER LOGIN sa WITH PASSWORD = 'sa1234"
Password should be strong enough else it will not be accepted and query will fail.

3) Stop the SQL Server service
 Right click on My Computer -> Manage , Computer Management window will open.
Select Service and Applications -> Services -> all the services which start from SQL and stop them.

4) Change in registry
click on Start  -> Run and Enter regedit press enter.
Registry Editor will be opened
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQLServer\LoginMode
and change the value to 2 (Hexadecimal), if its not 2.


5) Restart all services of SQL Server 2005 or restart your machine.

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