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Telegram Flood prevention

There was such a problem: I ran the program many times and now it throws the following error FloodException: Flood prevention. Telegram now requires your program to do requests again only after 73611 seconds have passed (TimeToWait property). If you think the culprit of this problem may lie in TLSharp's implementation, open a Github issue please.
I attach the code below:
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using TeleSharp.TL;
using TeleSharp.TL.Messages;
using TLSharp.Core;
namespace tgBM
{
public partial class Form1: Form
{
string phone;
string code;
int n = 1;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder ();
TelegramClient client = new TelegramClient (2646156, "08ec188e0bdee432e568120348f5f13a"); // create a client with parameters
public Form1 ()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
string str = "";
public async void authAsync()
{
var dialogs = (TLDialogs) await client.GetUserDialogsAsync();
foreach (var element in dialogs.Chats)
{
TLChat chat = element as TLChat;
if (element is TLChannel)
{
var offset = 0;
TLChannel channel = element as TLChannel;
if (channel.Title == "TOPLES")
{
TLChannel ch = element as TLChannel;
TLInputPeerChannel inputPeer = new TLInputPeerChannel() {ChannelId = ch.Id, AccessHash = (long) ch.AccessHash};
while (n! = 11)
{
try
{
TLChannelMessages res = await client.SendRequestAsync <TLChannelMessages>
(new TLRequestGetHistory() {Peer = inputPeer, Limit = 20, AddOffset = offset, OffsetId = 0});
var msgs = res.Messages;
if (res.Count> offset)
{
offset + = msgs.Count;
foreach (TLAbsMessage msg in msgs)
{
if (msg is TLMessage)
{
TLMessage message = msg as TLMessage;
str + = n.ToString () + "\ t" + message.Id + "\ t" + message.FromId + "\ t" + message.Message + Environment.NewLine;
}
if (msg is TLMessageService)
continue;
n ++;
}
}
else
break;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show (ex.Message);
break;
}
}
}
}
textBox3.Text = str;
}
}
private async void button1_Click (object sender, EventArgs e)
{
phone = textBox1.Text;
await client.ConnectAsync (); // make a connection
var hash = await client.SendCodeRequestAsync(phone);
}
private async void button2_Click (object sender, EventArgs e)
{
code = textBox2.Text;
var user = await client.MakeAuthAsync(phone, await client.SendCodeRequestAsync(phone), code);
authAsync();
}
}
}

In a comment, you said are in a testing phase.
In this case, you should read https://core.telegram.org/api/auth#test-accounts
According to this page, there are 3 ways to perform tests while limiting the risk for FLOOD_WAIT errors:
Connect to the Test servers instead of the Production servers (seems not possible with TLSharp)
Use Test accounts with phone numbers 99966XYYYY (only available on Test servers)
Connect as a user with the phone number you use to create the API ID/Hash
I can do all that with WTelegramClient (TLSharp is no longer maintained and cannot connect to Telegram servers anymore)

How to correctly parse received serial data into lines?

I'm creating a program which communicates with a serial device which is constantly sending data. I'm reading data from device every 100ms (using a timer). I use port.ReadExisting() to receive all currently available data from the device then I try split it into lines, because I need to check some of the received data and the best way is to check lines. The problem occurs when device sends data which doesn't end with "\r\n" or '\n'.
In a perfect situation port.ReadExisting() returns: "sampletext\r\nsomesampletext\nsampletext\r\n
But a problem occurs when there's no CR or LF character at the end:
First time port.ReadExisting() returns this: "text\nsamp"
Second time port.ReadExisting() returns this: letext\r\ntext\r\n"
End result should look like this:
text
sampletext
text
But what I get looks like this:
text
samp
letext
text
My code:
This is the timer which runs every 100ms:
private void CommandTimer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
BackgroundWorker seriaDataWorker = new BackgroundWorker();
seriaDataWorker.DoWork += (obj, p) => PrintSerialData();
seriaDataWorker.RunWorkerAsync();
}
BackgroundWorker which gets called by the timer:
private void PrintSerialData()
{
try
{
if (RandomReboot)
{
RebootWatch.Start();
}
if (COMport.IsOpen)
{
if (COMport.BytesToRead != 0)
{
SerialPrint(COMport.ReadExisting());
}
}
}
catch (System.IO.IOException SerialException)
{
return;
}
}
Function which parses received data into lines:
private void SerialPrint(string data)
{
using (var buffer = new StringReader(data))
{
string line = "";
while((line = buffer.ReadLine()) != null)
{
if (CheckForAnsw)
{
ReceivedCommandData = line;
if (ReceivedCommandData.Contains(AnswExpected))
{
ReceivedAnsw = true;
ReceivedLine = ReceivedCommandData;
ReceivedCommandData = "";
}
}
this.Invoke(new MethodInvoker(delegate
{
AppendText(TextBox_System_Log, Color.Black, line + "\r\n");
}
));
}
}
}
I know that the problem is that buffer.ReadLine() treats remainder of the string which doesn't end with a CR or LF character as a seperate line but I don't know how to fix it.
I tried using port.ReadLine() in the past but it is way slower and causes problems for me when serial ports get disconnected etc.

I don't think there's an easy way to handle this with the StringReader. Instead, you can split the string yourself:
private static string _buffer = string.Empty;
private static void SerialPrint(string data)
{
// Append the new data to the leftover of the previous operation
data = _buffer + data;
int index = data.IndexOf('\n');
int start = 0;
while (index != -1)
{
var command = data.Substring(start, index - start);
ProcessCommand(command.TrimEnd('\r'));
start = index + 1;
index = data.IndexOf('\n', start);
}
// Store the leftover in the buffer
if (!data.EndsWith("\n"))
{
_buffer = data.Substring(start);
}
else
{
_buffer = string.Empty;
}
}
private static void ProcessCommand(string command)
{
Console.WriteLine(command);
}

You can use AnonymousPipes to transport and buffer the incoming data and read them as lines to output them to somewhere.
Here is a little example which creates a server and client pipe stream, then writes data to the server in one task (with some newline in the data) and reads the data in a different task per line and outputs them to the console.
public class Program
{
public static async Task Main()
{
(var writer, var reader) = CreatePipe();
using (writer)
using (reader)
{
var writerTask = Task.Run(async () =>
{
writer.AutoFlush = true;
writer.Write("?");
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
{
if (i % 10 == 9)
{
await writer.WriteAsync("!");
await writer.WriteAsync(Environment.NewLine);
await writer.WriteAsync("?");
}
else
{
await writer.WriteAsync((i % 10).ToString());
}
await Task.Delay(100);
}
writer.Close();
});
var readerTask = Task.Run(async () =>
{
while (!reader.EndOfStream)
{
var line = await reader.ReadLineAsync();
Console.WriteLine(line);
}
});
await Task.WhenAll(writerTask, readerTask);
}
}
public static (StreamWriter, StreamReader) CreatePipe()
{
var server = new AnonymousPipeServerStream(PipeDirection.Out);
var client = new AnonymousPipeClientStream(server.GetClientHandleAsString());
return
(
new StreamWriter(server, Encoding.UTF8),
new StreamReader(client, Encoding.UTF8)
);
}
}
Try to adapt this code to your use case and comment if there are difficulies.

Your issue with \r\n and \n can be covered by using Environment.NewLine. I'm not sure what AppendText does, but if you're using it to store the values, then you're overdoing it. What you need is to store all data first in a StringBuilder then process them, OR process each data and store them in managed type such as Array, to define each line separately. Only use the string in the presentation layer (if you have some GUI that you want the user to see the results).
So, what I suggest is to store the lines in StringBuilder Something like this :
private readonly StringBuilder _strDataBuilder = new StringBuilder();
private void PrintSerialData()
{
try
{
if (RandomReboot)
{
RebootWatch.Start();
}
if(COMport.IsOpen && COMport.BytesToRead != 0)
{
var data = COMport.ReadExisting();
if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(data)) {
_strDataBuilder.Append(data);
}
}
}
catch (System.IO.IOException SerialException)
{
return;
}
}
private void SerialPrint()
{
var data = _strDataBuilder.ToString();
if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(data)) { return; }
var lines = data.Split(Environment.NewLine);
if(lines.Length == 0) { return; }
for(int x = 0; x < lines.Length; x++)
{
var line = lines[x];
if (CheckForAnsw)
{
ReceivedCommandData = line;
if (ReceivedCommandData.Contains(AnswExpected))
{
ReceivedAnsw = true;
ReceivedLine = ReceivedCommandData;
ReceivedCommandData = "";
}
}
this.Invoke(new MethodInvoker(delegate
{
AppendText(TextBox_System_Log, Color.Black, line + Environment.NewLine);
}
));
}
}
Storing them first would make things more maintainability and fixability when you want to add more processing steps or reuse the results.
Although the SerialPrint() is unnessary if you just re-print the data in the GUI. As the data already separated in lines. So, if you do
TextBox_System_Log.Text = _strDataBuilder.ToString();
Directly, would list them in lines in the default color. However, if you intended to split them to process each line separately (to validate for instance), then it would be okay.

You can try like below code:
public void DataReceivedSerialPort(object sender, SerialDataReceivedEventArgs e)
{
readExistingData = "";
SerialPort sp = (SerialPort)sender;
sp.ReadTimeout = 100;
do
{
readExistingData = "";
try
{
readExistingData = sp.ReadLine();
if (readExistingData == "")
{
readExistingData = sp.ReadLine();
}
dataReadFromSerialPort += readExistingData;
}
catch
{
try
{
readExistingData = sp.ReadExisting();
dataReadFromSerialPort += readExistingData + "\r\n";
}
catch { }
}
UI.insert_new_items_into_textBoxUARTLog(readExistingData);
} while (readExistingData != "");
}

Winforms background worker gets stuck

I am trying to build a simple code that joins csv files into one distinct file, but my background worker seems to have a mind of its own and my code gets stuck every time.
Here is my code for joining the file using the background worker:
private void backgroundWorker_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
try
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(saveFilePath))
{
this.Invoke(new MethodInvoker(delegate
{
btnBrowseSave.PerformClick();
}));
}
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(saveFilePath))
{
if (dragEventArgs != null)
files = (string[])dragEventArgs.Data.GetData(DataFormats.FileDrop);
int filesCount = 0, rowsCount = 0;
foreach (string file in files)
{
filesCount++;
int fileTotalLines = File.ReadAllLines(file).Length;
this.Invoke(new MethodInvoker(delegate
{
lblFileName.Text = "Loading file: " + file.Substring(file.LastIndexOf("\\") + 1);
lblTotalFiles.Text = "File " + filesCount + " of " + files.Length;
}));
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(file))
{
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(saveFilePath))
{
while (!reader.EndOfStream)
{
try
{
while (stopPosition > rowsCount)
{
reader.ReadLine();
rowsCount++;
}
string email = reader.ReadLine().Trim();
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(email) && !dicEmails.ContainsKey(email))
{
dicEmails.Add(email, null);
writer.WriteLine(email);
}
rowsCount++;
stopPosition++;
backgroundWorker.ReportProgress((rowsCount * 100 / fileTotalLines), (int)ProgressType.Row);
if (backgroundWorker.CancellationPending)
return;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
hadReadErrors = true;
}
}
}
}
backgroundWorker.ReportProgress(0, (int)ProgressType.Row);
backgroundWorker.ReportProgress((filesCount * 100 / files.Length), (int)ProgressType.File);
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
hadReadErrors = true;
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}
finally
{
backgroundWorker.Dispose();
}
}
private void backgroundWorker_ProgressChanged(object sender, ProgressChangedEventArgs e)
{
try
{
switch ((int)e.UserState)
{
case (int)ProgressType.Row:
lblFileProgress.Text = e.ProgressPercentage + "%";
fileProgressBar.Value = e.ProgressPercentage;
break;
case (int)ProgressType.File:
lblTotalProgress.Text = e.ProgressPercentage + "%";
totalProgressBar.Value = e.ProgressPercentage;
break;
}
}
catch (Exception ex) { }
}
When I run in debug mode and go with the debugger I don't see any problems, but when I let the code run it self it gets stuck and crashes.
Can someone PLEASE help me and tell me what am I missing out here ?
Here is the exception:
Managed Debugging Assistant 'ContextSwitchDeadlock' has detected a problem in
'C:\Users\Develop\Desktop\ExcelBuilder\ExcelBuilder\bin\Debug\ExcelBuilder.vshost.exe'.
Additional information: The CLR has been unable to transition from COM context 0x90fb78
to COM context 0x90fc30 for 60 seconds. The thread that owns the destination
context/apartment is most likely either doing a non pumping wait or processing a very
long running operation without pumping Windows messages. This situation generally has
a negative performance impact and may even lead to the application becoming non
responsive or memory usage accumulating continually over time. To avoid this problem,
all single threaded apartment (STA) threads should use pumping wait primitives
(such as CoWaitForMultipleHandles) and routinely pump messages during long running operations.

I did a small example of your program, trying to guess what it must do (https://github.com/anderson-rancan/stackoverflow_28798348, drag and drop 4 files to the groupbox, lorem?.csv), and there is a few things that you should consider:
never try/catch a unknown exception, every exception or something you cannot deal with (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182137.aspx)
when using a BackgroundWorker on a form, use the "sender" for references to it, it's a thread safe object to your method (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc221403(v=vs.95).aspx)
maybe you are updating too fast your form, change your Invoke method to BeingInvoke, and do the update async (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0b1bf3y3(v=vs.110).aspx)
So, just fixing that was possible to run it, like this:
private void backgroundWorker_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
BackgroundWorker bckw = (BackgroundWorker)sender; // Recommended way, thread safe
try
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(saveFilePath))
{
this.Invoke(new MethodInvoker(delegate
{
btnBrowseSave.PerformClick();
}));
}
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(saveFilePath))
{
if (dragEventArgs != null)
files = (string[])dragEventArgs.Data.GetData(DataFormats.FileDrop);
int filesCount = 0, rowsCount = 0;
foreach (string file in files)
{
filesCount++;
double fileTotalLines = File.ReadAllLines(file).Length;
this.BeginInvoke(new MethodInvoker(delegate
{
lblFileName.Text = "Loading file: " + file.Substring(file.LastIndexOf("\\") + 1);
lblTotalFiles.Text = "File " + filesCount + " of " + files.Length;
})); // Invoke async, way too fast this...
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(file))
{
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(saveFilePath))
{
while (!reader.EndOfStream)
{
try
{
while (stopPosition > rowsCount)
{
reader.ReadLine();
rowsCount++;
} // why are you using that? it won't get TRUE
string email = reader.ReadLine().Trim();
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(email) && !dicEmails.ContainsKey(email))
{
dicEmails.Add(email, null);
writer.WriteLine(email);
}
rowsCount++;
stopPosition++;
bckw.ReportProgress((int)Math.Round(rowsCount * 100 / fileTotalLines, 0), (int)ProgressType.Row);
if (bckw.CancellationPending)
return;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
hadReadErrors = true;
throw; // Throw it again, or you won't know the Exception
}
}
}
}
bckw.ReportProgress(0, (int)ProgressType.Row);
bckw.ReportProgress((filesCount * 100 / files.Length), (int)ProgressType.File);
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
hadReadErrors = true;
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}
finally
{
bckw.Dispose();
}
}
private void backgroundWorker_ProgressChanged(object sender, ProgressChangedEventArgs e)
{
//try
//{
switch ((int)e.UserState)
{
case (int)ProgressType.Row:
lblFileProgress.Text = e.ProgressPercentage + "%";
if (e.ProgressPercentage <= fileProgressBar.Maximum)
fileProgressBar.Value = e.ProgressPercentage;
break;
case (int)ProgressType.File:
lblTotalProgress.Text = e.ProgressPercentage + "%";
totalProgressBar.Value = e.ProgressPercentage;
break;
}
//}
//catch (Exception ex) { } // Don't catch everything
}
Finally, may I suggest another approach?
You're reading the file two times: one to get the number of lines, and another to read each line. Try to do this just once, you'll get a better result.

C# Progressbar & Textbox Not Updating

I've seen some great answers here and was wondering if someone could help me out.
Here's my code:
namespace expandGUIWPF
{
public static string getSHA256b64(string filepath)
{
byte[] bytes = SHA256.Create().ComputeHash(File.ReadAllBytes(filepath));
return Convert.ToBase64String(bytes);
}
private void btnRun_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
{
string folder = txtFolder.Text;
string filelist = folder + "\\FileList.txt";
string[] test = Directory.GetFiles(folder, "*", System.IO.SearchOption.AllDirectories);
File.WriteAllLines(filelist, test);
int length = File.ReadLines(filelist).Count();
pBar1.Minimum = 1;
pBar1.Maximum = length;
File.WriteAllLines(filelist, test);
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(filelist))
{
string line;
while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
{
string oldfile = line;
string newfile = oldfile + ".expanded";
string oldhash = "";
string newhash = "";
try
{
ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(#"C:\test\test.exe", oldfile + " " + newfile);
startInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
Process.Start(startInfo);
Thread.Sleep(1000);
if (File.Exists(oldfile))
{
oldhash = getSHA256b64(oldfile);
}
if (File.Exists(newfile))
{
newhash = getSHA256b64(newfile);
File.Delete(oldfile);
File.Move(newfile, oldfile);
}
pBar1.Value = pBar1.Value + 1;
txtLog.AppendText(oldfile + "\r\n Old: " + oldhash + "\r\n New: " + newhash + "\r\n");
if (!(oldhash == newhash))
{
txtLog.AppendText("Successfully expanded file \r\n");
}
else
{
txtLog.AppendText("Unable to expand file \r\n");
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString());
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
The problem is that my progressbar isn't updating. I know a little C# but I'm a beginner to WPF and can't get my head around setting up a background worker to update my UI. Would someone be able to give me a few pointers please? Currently the app works fine, but the progressbar jumps to 100% finished and all of the text suddenly appears.
Thanks in advance!
Tom

First you'll want your background worker to handle the processes in its DoWork event. Within that event you can call the ProgressChanged event to update the progress bar. Below is an example:
private void btnRun_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
if(workerThread.IsBusy == false) // Make sure someone doesn't click run multiple times by mistake
{
pBar1.Value = 0;
workerThread.RunWorkerAsync();
}
}
private void workerThread_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
// Definitions and so forth
pBar1.Minimum = 0;
pBar1.Maximum = length;
int status = 0;
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(filelist))
{
string line;
while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
{
// Try/Catch work here
status++;
workerThread.ReportProgress(status);
}
}
private void workerThread_ProgressChanged(object sender, ProgressChangedEventArgs e)
{
pBar1.Value = e.ProgressPercentage;
}

Just understand that the thread that's running the Form is the same one that will be used to update the form's controls. So if you have 'stuff' to do - like encrypting / decrypting lines from a file - you need to perform those items on another thread with a callback, otherwise the form display wont update until it's done with your stuff to do. You can raise events from inside a worker thread -- and catch them using an event handler on the main (form) thread to update the progress bar.

It seems that your UI thread is being blocked, in windows forms programming you have one message pump and while you main thread (UI) is doing something else it has to wait before it can process messages. You can fix this problem by setting up a background worker to send updates
For more information on UI thread and the message pump see this
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/10311/What-s-up-with-BeginInvoke
For infomation on the backgroundworker thread see this
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.backgroundworker.aspx
Small Example code
// This event handler is where the time-consuming work is done.
private void backgroundWorker1_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
BackgroundWorker worker = sender as BackgroundWorker;
for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
{
if (worker.CancellationPending == true)
{
e.Cancel = true;
break;
}
else
{
// Perform a time consuming operation and report progress.
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500);
worker.ReportProgress(i * 10);
}
}
}

My C# multi-threaded console application seems to not be multithreaded

Here's my C# console program that uses Powerpoint to convert ppt files to folders of pngs. This is supposed to be an automated process that runs on its own server.
I expect that as soon as a thread creates an image from a file, it should immediately remove the images and the source file.
The actual behavior is that, if five threads are running, it'll wait for five folders of images to be created before any thread can move any files. I'm able to see the images being created, and compare that with the Console readout, so I can see that a thread isn't trying to move the file.
Only after all the other threads have made their images, will any thread try to move the files. I suspect this is wrong.
This is an Amazon EC2 Medium instance, and it appears to max out the CPU, so five threads might be too much for this.
I also find that I can hardly use Windows Explorer while this program is running.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Threading;
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.Office.Core;
using PowerPoint = Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Timers;
namespace converter
{
class Program
{
public static int threadLimit=0;
public static int currThreads = 0;
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var inDir = args[0];
var outDir = args[1]+"\\";
var procDir = args[2]+"\\";
Int32.TryParse(args[3],out threadLimit);
Thread[] converterThreads = new Thread[threadLimit];
while (true)
{
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);
var filePaths = Directory.GetFiles(inDir, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories).Where(s => s.EndsWith(".pptx") && !s.Contains("~$") || s.EndsWith(".ppt") && !s.Contains("~$"));
var arrPaths = filePaths.ToArray();
for(var i=0; i< arrPaths.Length; i++)
{
if (currThreads < threadLimit && currThreads < arrPaths.Length)
{
Console.WriteLine("currThreads= " + currThreads + " paths found= " + arrPaths.Length);
try
{
var fileNameWithoutExtension = arrPaths[currThreads].Replace(inDir, "").Replace(".pptx", "").Replace(".ppt", "").Replace("\\", "");
var filenameWithExtension = arrPaths[currThreads].Substring(arrPaths[currThreads].LastIndexOf("\\") + 1);
var dir = arrPaths[currThreads].Replace(".pptx", "").Replace(".ppt", "");
Conversion con = new Conversion(arrPaths[currThreads], dir, outDir, procDir, filenameWithExtension, fileNameWithoutExtension);
converterThreads[i] = new Thread(new ThreadStart(con.convertPpt));
converterThreads[i].Start();
Console.WriteLine(converterThreads[i].ManagedThreadId + " is converting " + fileNameWithoutExtension);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Unable to convert {0} ", arrPaths[i]) + e);
}
}
}
for (var i = 0; i < converterThreads.Length; i++)
{
if (converterThreads[i] != null)
{
if (!converterThreads[i].IsAlive)
{
converterThreads[i].Abort();
converterThreads[i].Join(1);
Console.WriteLine("thread " + converterThreads[i].ManagedThreadId + " finished, "+currThreads+" remaining");
converterThreads[i] = null;
}
}
}
if (currThreads == 0)
{
try
{
foreach (Process proc in Process.GetProcessesByName("POWERPNT"))
{
proc.Kill();
}
}
catch (Exception e3)
{
}
}
}
}
}
class Logger{
static void toLog(String msg)
{
//TODO: log file
}
}
class Conversion{
static int numberOfThreads=0;
String input;
String output;
String outDir;
String process;
String nameWith;
String nameWithout;
int elapsedTime;
System.Timers.Timer time;
public Conversion(String input, String output, String outDir, String processDir, String nameWith, String nameWithout)
{
this.input = input;
this.output = output;
this.outDir = outDir;
process = processDir;
this.nameWith = nameWith;
this.nameWithout = nameWithout;
numberOfThreads++;
Console.WriteLine("number of threads running: " + numberOfThreads);
Program.currThreads = numberOfThreads;
time = new System.Timers.Timer(1000);
time.Start();
time.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(OnTimedEvent);
elapsedTime = 0;
}
private void OnTimedEvent(object source, ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
elapsedTime++;
}
public void convertPpt()
{
var app = new PowerPoint.Application();
var pres = app.Presentations;
try
{
var file = pres.Open(input, MsoTriState.msoFalse, MsoTriState.msoFalse, MsoTriState.msoFalse);
file.SaveAs(output, Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.PpSaveAsFileType.ppSaveAsPNG, MsoTriState.msoTrue);
file.Close();
app.Quit();
Console.WriteLine("file converted " + input);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("convertPpt failed");
}
moveFile();
moveDir();
}
public void moveFile()
{
Console.WriteLine("moving" + input);
try
{
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500);
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("moving {0} to {1}", input, process + nameWith));
if (File.Exists(process + nameWith))
{
File.Replace(input, process + nameWith, null);
}
else
{
File.Move(input, process + nameWith);
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Unable to move the file {0} ", input) + e);
try
{
foreach (Process proc in Process.GetProcessesByName("POWERPNT"))
{
proc.Kill();
}
}
catch (Exception e3)
{
}
}
}
public void moveDir()
{
Console.WriteLine("moving dir " + output);
try
{
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500);
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("moving dir {0} to {1} ", output, outDir + nameWithout));
if (Directory.Exists(outDir + nameWithout))
{
Directory.Delete(outDir + nameWithout, true);
}
if (Directory.Exists(output))
{
Directory.Move(output, outDir + nameWithout);
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Unable to move the directory {0} ", output) + e);
try
{
foreach (Process proc in Process.GetProcessesByName("POWERPNT"))
{
proc.Kill();
}
}
catch (Exception e3)
{
}
}
finally
{
numberOfThreads--;
Program.currThreads = numberOfThreads;
Console.WriteLine("took " + elapsedTime + "seconds");
}
}
}
}

Every 1000ms you get a list of files in inDir and potentially start a thread to process each file. You have very complex logic surrounding whether or not to start a new thread, and how to manage the lifetime of the thread.
The logic is too complex for me to spot the error without debugging the code. However, I would propose an alternative.
Have a single thread watch for new files and place the file path into a BlockingCollection of files for processing. That thread does nothing else.
Have N additional threads that retrieve file paths from the BlockingCollection and process them.
This is known as a Producer / Consumer pattern and is ideal for what you are doing.
The example code at the bottom of the linked MSDN page shows an implementation example.
On a side note, you are catching and swallowing Exception e3. Don't catch something you will not handle, it hides problems.