Cannot create DICOMDIR file using GDCM library - c#

I am using GDCM library to create a DICOMDIR file. I implemented the code as shown in GDCM docs:
http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/html/GenerateDICOMDIR_8cs-example.html
In the code:
private int GenerateDicomDir(string directory, string outFileName)
{
gdcm.Directory d = new gdcm.Directory();
uint nfiles = d.Load(directory, true);
if (nfiles == 0) return 1;
string descriptor = "Descriptor";
FilenamesType filenames = d.GetFilenames();
gdcm.Trace.DebugOn();
gdcm.DICOMDIRGenerator gen = new DICOMDIRGenerator();
gen.SetFilenames(filenames);
gen.SetDescriptor(descriptor);
if (!gen.Generate())
{
return 1;
}
gdcm.FileMetaInformation.SetSourceApplicationEntityTitle("GenerateDICOMDIR");
gdcm.Writer writer = new Writer();
writer.SetFile(gen.GetFile());
writer.SetFileName(outFileName);
if (!writer.Write())
{
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
The function returns and does not generate a DICOMDIR file. I have added trace debug on but still cannot debug or get any output message.
Is there any way to generate DICOMDIR file for bunch of DICOM files ?

As per the documentation, did you made sure that:
Warning: : PS 3.11 - 2008 / D.3.1 SOP Classes and Transfer Syntaxes
Composite Image & Stand-alone Storage are required to be stored as
Explicit VR Little Endian Uncompressed (1.2.840.10008.1.2.1). When a
DICOM file is found using another Transfer Syntax the generator will
simply stops. Input files should be Explicit VR Little Endian
filenames should be valid VR::CS value (16 bytes, upper case ...)
If you turn verbose debugging you could log the exact error message, see gdcm::Trace for usage.
As per the documentation of gdcm::Trace, you need to pay attention to the following:
Warning: All string messages are removed during compilation time when
compiled with CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE being set to either: Release MinSizeRel
It is recommended to compile with RelWithDebInfo and/or Debug during
prototyping of applications.
You could also use gdcm::Trace::SetStreamToFile, to properly redirect any messages to a file (instead of stdout by default).
Since you use the recursion option of gdcm.Directory, you need to also pay attention that sub-directory name are valid (VR::CS, 16bytes, upper case...).
See also the gdcmgendir man page for more info.

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Microsoft Diagnostics Runtime crash.dmp analysis (C#)

I'm trying to read in a crash.dmp using the functionality in Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime .NET componenet (also known as ClrMD).
I have a crash.dmp in a known location (in a string called pathToFile) so that's not the issue. The rest of the code looks like this.
DataTarget dataTarget = DataTarget.LoadCrashDump(pathToFile);
ClrInfo clrInfo = dataTarget.ClrVersions[0];
string dacLocation = clrInfo.TryGetDacLocation();
When testing this code, I get the following error in the command window:
Error processing directory: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException. Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. Parameter name: index.
I'm assuming it's something to do with the ClrVersions[0] bit but can't for the life of me pin it down.
Any help would be appreciated.
Current Status
When running the following command (which fails)
ClrRuntime rt = dataTarget.CreateRuntime("path\to\mscordawks.dll");
I receive the following error in cmd
mismatched architecture between this process and the dac
Cheers
Anyone?
If the TryGetDacLocation succeeded then you should be able to do
ClrRuntime rt = dataTarget.CreateRuntime(dacLocation);
so you get the correct dacLocation.
Was the dump you are analysing generated on same machine where you are analysing it?
Also what are the bitnesses of the process the dump was generated from, the process in which the CLRMD code is running and the debugger utility used to generate the dump?
Generally you want to be matching the bitnesses all round (x86/x64).
Doug
I was having the same issue reading a dump file generated on the same computer. There were two problems, first bitness (should have been 64, was running in 32) and the second harder problem that the proper DLL could not be located. To fix the second problem I created a method that tries all of the properly named DLLs it can find:
private static ClrRuntime GetRuntime(DataTarget target)
{
ClrInfo version = target.ClrVersions[0];
string dacLocation = version.TryGetDacLocation();
// If we don't have the dac installed, we will use the long-name dac in the same folder.
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(dacLocation))
dacLocation = version.DacInfo.FileName;
try // try the one it should be
{
return target.CreateRuntime(dacLocation);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
}
// can't find the one it should be, try'em all
string fileName = "mscordacwks.dll";
string[] searchLocations = new[]
{
#"C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\",
#"C:\Windows\winsxs\"
};
foreach (string searchLocation in searchLocations)
{
foreach (string file in Directory.GetFiles(searchLocation, fileName, SearchOption.AllDirectories))
{
try
{
return target.CreateRuntime(file);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
}
}
}
throw new Exception("No found valid runtimes");
}
I followed this artificial to get the mscordacwks.dll when dealing with platform differences between where the dmp file was taken and the machine doing the analysis.
http://chentiangemalc.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/obtaining-correct-mscordacwks-dll-for-net-windbging/#comment-3380
and followed the steps including renaming the file to include the architecture and version information.
After that I just http://chentiangemalc.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/obtaining-correct-mscordacwks-dll-for-net-windbging/#comment-3380ut the full path of the file as dacLocation in the script.
After that it worked!
I suspect that putting it on the path could be made to work.

Unable to download file from a newly created torrent using monotorrent

I used the following code for creating torrent in monotorrent solution. But references are missing for "RawTrackerTier".I am able to create torrent when i comment that lines of code but i am unable to download file from that created torrent. Is it because of the missing reference or any other problem in the solution?If it is ,can anyone provide the missing references?
please help me!!
public void CreateTorrent(string path, string savePath)
{
// The class used for creating the torrent
TorrentCreator c = new TorrentCreator();
// Add one tier which contains two trackers
RawTrackerTier tier = new RawTrackerTier(); // MISSING REFERENCE HERE
tier.Add("http://localhost/announce");
c.Announces.Add(tier);
c.Comment = "This is the comment";
c.CreatedBy = "Doug using " + VersionInfo.ClientVersion;
c.Publisher = "www.aaronsen.com";
// Set the torrent as private so it will not use DHT or peer exchange
// Generally you will not want to set this.
c.Private = true;
// Every time a piece has been hashed, this event will fire. It is an
// asynchronous event, so you have to handle threading yourself.
c.Hashed += delegate(object o, TorrentCreatorEventArgs e)
{
Console.WriteLine("Current File is {0}% hashed", e.FileCompletion);
Console.WriteLine("Overall {0}% hashed", e.OverallCompletion);
Console.WriteLine("Total data to hash: {0}", e.OverallSize);
};
// ITorrentFileSource can be implemented to provide the TorrentCreator
// with a list of files which will be added to the torrent metadata.
// The default implementation takes a path to a single file or a path
// to a directory. If the path is a directory, all files will be
// recursively added
ITorrentFileSource fileSource = new TorrentFileSource(path);
// Create the torrent file and save it directly to the specified path
// Different overloads of 'Create' can be used to save the data to a Stream
// or just return it as a BEncodedDictionary (its native format) so it can be
// processed in memory
c.Create(fileSource, savePath);
}
The version of MonoTorrent on nuget (version 0.9.0) is quite old and appears to have only single-tier announce support. If you're using that version, this code might work:
// The class used for creating the torrent
TorrentCreator c = new TorrentCreator();
// Add tracker(s)
c.Announces.Add("http://localhost/announce");
The latest version of monotorrent is available (code only) at github. You could try downloading the library source and building it yourself.

Digital Persona Verifying process take a lot of time with huge database

I'm developing a software that is using the Digital Persona U.are.U 4000b fingerprint reader.
It's working OK. But I'm getting performance problems during fingerprint verification.
My database has around 3.000 fingerprints registered there and I need to LOOP all of them during the verify process.
But every successful fingerprint reading take around 7 seconds to match the respective record of my database (it depends on its index).
It's not an acceptable scenario for me, because I need to register (and show their data, photo ... in real-time) at least 400 students in an interval of 20 minutes.
The problem is really the huge fingerprints database, because when I tested it with a smaller one, it worked fine.
I'm using .NET with C# and a Free SDK for the fingerprints.
The line of code that is causing this trouble is that one, which is executed into a FOREACH (for each registered fingerprint of the database):
verificator.Verify(features, template, ref result);
verificator is a DPFP.Verification.Verification object which treats the verification process;
features is a DPFP.FeatureSet object which contains the data of the actual fingerprint;
template is a DPFP.Template object which represents each of the registered fingerprints;
result is a DPFP.Verification.Verification.Result object which contains the return of each fingerprint validation.
Here is the whole process method:
protected void process(DPFP.Sample sample)
{
DPFP.FeatureSet features = ExtractFeatures(sample, DPFP.Processing.DataPurpose.Verification);
bool verified = false;
if (features != null)
{
DPFP.Verification.Verification.Result result = new DPFP.Verification.Verification.Result();
//"allTemplates" is an List<> of objects that contains all the templates previously loaded from DB
//There is no DB access in these lines of code
foreach (var at in allTemplates)
{
verificator.Verify(features, at.template, ref result);
if (result.Verified)
{
register(at.idStudent);
verified = true;
break;
}
}
}
if (!verified)
error("Invalid student.");
}
Am I doing it correctly?
There is another way of doing that work?
I solved my problem by purchasing (I "won" it, because I had already bought a reader) the new version of the SDK, that already implements the identify (1:n) function.
You can get more information and download (purchase) the SDK at their website.
Try out SourceAFIS. It's open source and if you cache the fingerprints in memory it performs the sort of 1-N identify processes you're talking about at faster than 10k fingerprints /second. The source is also 100% C#.
is better to convert the template to string
byte [] a = new byte [1632];
Template.Serialize (ref a);
string Convert.ToBase64String basestring = (a);
and then return to normal the template
byte [] b = new byte [1632];
b = Convert.FromBase64String (trace) / / pass the base-64 string to a byte array.
/ / create a Template type varibale where we store the template
DPFP.Template DPFP.Template template = new ();
/ / what to compare it desserializamos
template.DeSerialize (b);

FOP and IKVM in .NET - Images Not Working

UPDATE2: I got it working completely now! Scroll way down to find out how...
UPDATE: I got it working! Well... partially. Scroll down for the answer...
I'm trying to get my FO file to show an external image upon transforming it to PDF (or RTF for that matter, but I'm not sure whether RTFs are even capable of displaying images (they are)) with FOP, but I can't seem to get it working. (The question asked here is different than mine.)
I am using IKVM 0.46.0.1 and have compiled a FOP 1.0 dll to put in .NET; this code worked fine when I didn't try to add images:
private void convertFoByMimetype(java.io.File fo, java.io.File outfile, string mimetype)
{
OutputStream output = null;
try
{
FOUserAgent foUserAgent = fopFactory.newFOUserAgent();
// configure foUserAgent as desired
// Setup outputput stream. Note: Using BufferedOutputStream
// for performance reasons (helpful with FileOutputStreams).
output = new FileOutputStream(outfile);
output = new BufferedOutputStream(output);
// Construct fop with desired output format
Fop fop = fopFactory.newFop(mimetype, foUserAgent, output);
// Setup JAXP using identity transformer
TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(); // identity transformer
// Setup input stream
Source src = new StreamSource(fo);
// Resulting SAX events (the generated FO) must be piped through to FOP
Result res = new SAXResult(fop.getDefaultHandler());
// Start XSLT transformation and FOP processing
transformer.transform(src, res);
}
catch (Exception ex)
...
}
However, when I (or rather a DocBook2FO transformation) added the following code:
<fo:external-graphic src="url(images/interface.png)" width="auto" height="auto" content-width="auto" content-height="auto" content-type="content-type:image/png"></fo:external-graphic>
into the FO file, the image did not show. I read through a bit of the FAQ on Apache's site, which says:
3.3. Why is my graphic not rendered?
Most commonly, the external file is not being found by FOP. Check the
following:
Empty or wrong baseDir setting.
Spelling errors in the file name (including using the wrong case).
...
Other options did not seem to be my case (mainly for the reason below - "The Weird Part"). I tried this:
...
try
{
fopFactory.setBaseURL(fo.getParent());
FOUserAgent foUserAgent = fopFactory.newFOUserAgent();
foUserAgent.setBaseURL(fo.getParent());
FOURIResolver fourir = fopFactory.getFOURIResolver();
foUserAgent.setURIResolver(fourir);
// configure foUserAgent as desired
...
with no avail.
The Weird Part
When I use the command-line implementation of FOP, it works fine and displays my image with no problem. (I don't want to go the run-command-line-from-program route, because I don't want to force the users to install Java AND the .NET framework when they want to use my program.)
The png file is generated from GDI+ from within my application (using Bitmap.Save). I also tried different png files, but none of them worked for me.
Is there anything I might be missing?
Thanks a bunch for getting this far
UPDATE and possible answer
So I might have figured out why it didn't work. I put some time into studying the code (before I basically just copypasted it without thinking about it much). The problem is indeed in the wrong basedir setting.
The key is in this chunk of code:
// Setup JAXP using identity transformer
TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(); // identity transformer
// Setup input stream
Source src = new StreamSource(fo);
// Resulting SAX events (the generated FO) must be piped through to FOP
Result res = new SAXResult(fop.getDefaultHandler());
// Start XSLT transformation and FOP processing
transformer.transform(src, res);
What happens here is an identity transformation, which routes its own result into an instance of FOP I've created before. This effectively changes the basedir of the routed FO into that of the application's executable. I have yet to figure out how to do this without a transformation and route my input directly into FOP, but for the moment I worked around this by copying my images into the executable's directory.
Which is where another problem came in. Now whenever I try to execute the code, I get an exception at the line that says transformer.transform(src, res);, which confuses the pants out of me, because it doesn't say anything. The ExceptionHelper says:
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError was caught
and there is no inner exception or exception message. I know this is hard to debug just from what I wrote, but I'm hoping there might be an easy fix.
Also, this e-mail seems vaguely related but there is no answer to it.
UPDATE2
Finally, after a few sleepless nights, I managed to get it working with one of the simplest ways possible.
I updated IKVM, compiled fop with the new version and replaced the IKVM references with the new dlls. The error no longer occurs and my image renders fine.
I hope this helps someone someday
I'm using very similar code, although without the FOUserAgent, Resolvers, etc. and it works perfectly.
Did you try setting the src attribute in the XSLT without the url() function?
What might help you diagnose the problem further are the following statements:
java.lang.System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.Log", "org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SimpleLog")
java.lang.System.setErr(New java.io.PrintStream(New TraceStream(TraceStream.Level.Error)))
java.lang.System.setOut(New java.io.PrintStream(New TraceStream(TraceStream.Level.Info)))
Where TraceStream is a .NET implementation of a java.io.OutputStream which writes to your favorite logger.
I posted a version for the Common.Logging package at http://pastebin.com/XH1Wg7jn.
Here's a post not to leave the question unanswered, see "Update 1" and "Update 2" in the original post for the solution.

How determine application subsystem from executable file

I'm trying to detect console application from the list of the executables files installed on my computer.
How to implement it?
Every application has a "subsystem" (windows application, console application or library; specified to the linker as option, I think). How to detect it using only the executable file?
Are there alternative methods to detect the application characteristic? Additionally, are there any method for detecting the file is a really executable file?
Any issue for JAR executables?
Without any programming you receive this information from
dumpbin.exe /headers filename
Some information gives you GetBinaryType and SHGetFileInfo functions. All information which you needs you will find in the header of every executable file. See Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format Specification in http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/PECOFF.mspx.
One can use also Debug Help Library API from DbgHelp.dll (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms679309(VS.85).aspx). IMAGE_DOS_HEADER, IMAGE_DOS_SIGNATURE and IMAGE_NT_HEADERS32 structures gives you full information.
UPDATED (add some code):
Or you can use only structures defined in WinNT.h. The corresponding code can start like following
// Open source file
hSrcFile = CreateFile (pszSrcFilename, GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL);
if (hSrcFile == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
__leave;
// Map the source file in memory
hMapSrcFile = CreateFileMapping (hSrcFile, NULL, PAGE_READONLY, 0, 0, NULL); // SEC_IMAGE
if (!hMapSrcFile || hMapSrcFile == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
__leave;
// Map the entire of the source file is memory
pSrcFile = (PBYTE) MapViewOfFile (hMapSrcFile, FILE_MAP_READ, 0, 0, 0);
if (!pSrcFile)
__leave;
pDosHeader = (IMAGE_DOS_HEADER *)pSrcFile;
if (pDosHeader->e_magic != IMAGE_DOS_SIGNATURE) {
printf ("it is not a EXE file.\n");
return 1;
}
printf ("IMAGE_DOS_HEADER size %d (0x%X) bytes\n", sizeof(IMAGE_DOS_HEADER), sizeof(IMAGE_DOS_HEADER));
DumpDosHeader (pDosHeader);
pDosExeStart = (PBYTE)pDosHeader + pDosHeader->e_cparhdr*16;
if (g_bDump)
HexDump (1, pDosExeStart, pDosHeader->e_lfanew - pDosHeader->e_cparhdr*16, (DWORD)pDosExeStart);
if (pDosHeader->e_lfanew) {
IMAGE_NT_HEADERS32 *pNtHeader = (IMAGE_NT_HEADERS32 *)((PBYTE)pDosHeader + pDosHeader->e_lfanew);
//IMAGE_NT_HEADERS64 *pNtHeader64 = (IMAGE_NT_HEADERS64 *)((PBYTE)pDosHeader + pDosHeader->e_lfanew);
IMAGE_SECTION_HEADER *pFirstSectionHeader = (IMAGE_SECTION_HEADER *)((PBYTE)&pNtHeader->OptionalHeader +
pNtHeader->FileHeader.SizeOfOptionalHeader);
if (pNtHeader->Signature == IMAGE_NT_SIGNATURE) {
int i;
printf ("\nPE signature\n");
printf ("\nIMAGE_FILE_HEADER: size %d (0x%X) bytes, offset from the begin of the file: %d (0x%X)\n",
sizeof(IMAGE_FILE_HEADER), sizeof(IMAGE_FILE_HEADER),
((PBYTE)&pNtHeader->FileHeader - (PBYTE)pDosHeader), ((PBYTE)&pNtHeader->FileHeader - (PBYTE)pDosHeader));
DumpFileHeader (1, &pNtHeader->FileHeader);
switch (pNtHeader->OptionalHeader.Magic) {
case IMAGE_NT_OPTIONAL_HDR32_MAGIC:
printf ("\nIMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER32: size %d (0x%X) bytes, offset from the begin of the file: %d (0x%X)\n",
sizeof(IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER32), sizeof(IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER32),
((PBYTE)&pNtHeader->OptionalHeader - (PBYTE)pDosHeader), ((PBYTE)&pNtHeader->OptionalHeader - (PBYTE)pDosHeader));
DumpOptionalHeader32 (1, &pNtHeader->OptionalHeader);
break;
case IMAGE_NT_OPTIONAL_HDR64_MAGIC:
break;
case IMAGE_ROM_OPTIONAL_HDR_MAGIC:
break;
}
To determine the subsystem you need to read the executable file and parse the PE-Header. A detailed article on how to do that is found here.
A JAR file is just a ZIP file with some specific files and folder structure so you can open it like a regular zip file and look for those files and folders that are always there.
Windows PE executables have a field in the header that specify the subsystem (Console, GUI, Posix, and so on). They also have fields that can be used to identify executables in general. Download the PE specification from msdn.com to get the details.
It's possible to detect subsystem type using PeNet library, for example change see:
using PeNet;
...
var file = new PeFile(<path>);
if (file.ImageNtHeaders.OptionalHeader.Subsystem == 2 /*PeNet.Header.Pe.SubsystemType.WindowsGui*/)
{
// This is UI executable...
}
See also similar commit.
Use 0.5.0 version to get less dependencies, or use latest to get latest version.

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