is it possible to display the revision/build number in the webservice description?
I want the users to see what version that is currently up and running when they go to the url for the webservice.
Ex.
[WebService(Namespace = "http://webservice.mydomain.com/", Name = "webservice for multimedia devices", Description = "Last build: **xxxxx**")]
I want to get it dynamically if possible (System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version.ToString())
I also tried this (suggestion see below). This got the description but it could not update it before it showed the webservice to the client.
var t = typeof(webClient);
var att = (WebServiceAttribute)t.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(WebServiceAttribute), true)[0];
att.Description = "Current running version: " + System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version;
I haven't verified it, but try this:
WebServiceAttribute att = (NamespaceAttribute)t.GetCustomAttributes(WebServiceAttribute))[0];
att.Description = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version.ToString();
This has to be done at some suitable point during startup.
You can, but you need to manually define the assembly info and version first, then use Reflection to get it back out at runtime. By default, there doesn't seem to be a concept of a "version #" for an ASP.NET app unless you define it yourself.
This article shows how to do it. The article shows how to get a lot more than just the version #, but it's in there.
http://wiki.lessthandot.com/index.php/ASP.NET:_Display_Version_Information
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I'm having a very hard time with what I feel should be a simple task. Every week, our team queries VMware vCenter for three pieces of output: VM counts in three different locations. Here is what it looks like:
Name Value
---- -----
locationA 1433
locationB 278
locationC 23
The information is emailed to our team, as well as some of the higher-ups who like to see the data. This is all automated with a Powershell script and Windows Task Scheduler running on a server, no problems.
That data is also placed in a Google sheet. We just append a new row with the date, and copy and paste the data into the three existing columns. It takes 30 seconds, once a week. Seems silly given how little time it takes to copy it over to the Google sheet but I really want to automate that last process using Google Sheets API.
I seem to keep finding and persuing what feel are online wild goose chases, in the Google scripting to accessing and editing Google sheets. I've downloaded and installed the Sheets API libraries, Drive API libraries, the Google .net library, set up the Google developer site, and run through the Google sheets API documentation and OAuth authenticating. I'm using Visual Studio 2013 because I figured that would play the best with Powershell and calling the .net commands.
I have pretty much no coding experience outside of Powershell (if you can call that coding). I can't even figure out how to pull the Google sheet, much less do anything to it. Nothing I've tried is working so far, and for what little time it takes to copy this info manually every week I've already spent so much more time than is probably worth it. I feel like if I can get a handle on this, that would open the door for further Google automation in the future since we operate with a Google domain. At any rate, help is very much appreciated.
Here is my latest scripting attempt in Visual Studio:
using System;
using Google.GData.Client;
using Google.GData.Spreadsheets;
namespace MySpreadsheetIntegration
{
class Program {
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string CLIENT_ID = "abunchofcharacters.apps.googleusercontent.com";
string CLIENT_SECRET = "secretnumber";
string REDIRECT_URI = "https://code.google.com/apis/console";
OAuth2Parameters parameters = new OAuth2Parameters();
parameters.ClientId = CLIENT_ID;
parameters.ClientSecret = CLIENT_SECRET;
parameters.RedirectUri = REDIRECT_URI;
parameters.Scope = SCOPE;
string authorizationUrl = OAuthUtil.CreateOAuth2AuthorizationUrl(parameters);
Console.WriteLine(https://code.google.com/apis/console);
Console.WriteLine("Please visit the URL above to authorize your OAuth "
+ "request token. Once that is complete, type in your access code to "
+ "continue..."));
parameters.AccessCode = Console.ReadLine();
OAuthUtil.GetAccessToken(parameters);
string accessToken = parameters.AccessToken;
Console.WriteLine("OAuth Access Token: " + accessToken);
GOAuth2RequestFactory requestFactory =
new GOAuth2RequestFactory(null, "MySpreadsheetIntegration-v1", parameters);
SpreadsheetsService service = new SpreadsheetsService("MySpreadsheetIntegration-v1");
service.RequestFactory = requestFactory;
var driveService = new DriveService(auth);
var file = new File();
file.Title = "VSI - VM Totals by Service TEST";
file.Description = string.Format("Created via {0} at {1}", ApplicationName, DateTime.Now.ToString());
file.MimeType = "application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet";
var request = driveService.Files.Insert(file);
var result = request.Fetch();
var spreadsheetLink = "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/GoogleDoc_ID";
Console.WriteLine("Created at " + spreadsheetLink);
End Class;
End Namespace;
}
}
}
For anyone still following this, I found a solution. I was going about this entirely the wrong way (or at least a way that I could comprehend). One solution to my issue was to create a new Google Script that only accessed my email once a week (after we got the report) and teased out everything but the data I was looking for and sent it to the Google spreadsheet.
Here's the script:
function SendtoSheet(){
var threads = GmailApp.search("from:THESENDER in:anywhere subject:THESUBJECTOFTHEEMAILWHICHNEVERCHANGES")[0];
var message = threads.getMessages().pop()
var bodytext = message.getBody();
counts = []
bodytext = bodytext.split('<br>');
for (var i=0 ; i < bodytext.length; i++){
line = bodytext[i].split(':');
if (line.length > 0){
if (!isNaN(line[1])){counts.push(line[1]);}}}
var now = new Date()
counts.unshift(Utilities.formatDate(now, 'EST', 'MM/dd/yyyy'))
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.openById("GoogleDocID")
sheet = sheet.setActiveSheet(sheet.getSheetByName("Data by Week"))
sheet.appendRow(counts)
}
That Counts array contains the magic to extract the numeric data by breaking up by line breaks and :'s. Works perfectly. It didn't involve figuring out how to use Visual Studio, or the .net Google libraries, or editing the running PowerShell script. Clean and easy.
Hope this helps someone.
I need to get the direct reports from a logged in user (MVC 4)
I don't need the names of the direct reports but I do need their email addresses including their proxy addresses.
So for this reason I need to search through Exchange. I personally have never attempted to search Exchange in the past and everything I find out there tells me how to get from step 8 to the finish line but says nothing about how to go from step 1 to 8.
I can get the current users user name by simply
User.Identity.Name.Replace(#"yourdomain\", "")
and I have found this example which so far is probably the best example I have found
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff184617(v=office.15).aspx
but even with that example the line
Outlook.AddressEntry currentUser =
Application.Session.CurrentUser.AddressEntry;
is not actually getting the current user logged into the site.
I really hope someone out there is familiar with this and can get me past this point.
I reworked the sample from the URL as the following LINQPad 4 query. I've found that LINQPad is a great way to experiment because it is very scripty, allowing quick experimentation, and you can easily view data by using the Dump() extension method. Purchasing intellisense support is totally worthwhile.
Also, I noticed there is a lot of fine print like:
The logged-on user must be online for this method to return an AddressEntries collection; otherwise, GetDirectReports returns a null reference. For production code, you must test for the user being offline by using the _NameSpace.ExchangeConnectionMode property, or the _Account.ExchangeConnectionMode property for multiple Exchange scenarios.
and
If the current user has a manager, GetDirectReports() is called to return an AddressEntries collection that represents the address entries for all the direct reports of user’s manager. If the manager has no direct reports, GetDirectReports returns an AddressEntries collection that has a count of zero.
So there are a lot of assumptions like Exchange is configured properly with Direct Report relationships, and the current user is online...which I believe brings Lync into the equation. Hopefully this LINQPad query will be useful to you. Just copy and paste it into a text editor and name it with the .linq file extension. You'll then be able to open it in LINQPad 4. BTW: You're question caught my attention because there was talk recently at my work of pulling direct reports from Active Directory. I wish I could be more helpful...good luck.
<Query Kind="Program">
<Reference><ProgramFilesX86>\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Visual Studio Tools for Office\PIA\Office15\Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll</Reference>
<Reference><ProgramFilesX86>\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Visual Studio Tools for Office\PIA\Office15\Microsoft.Office.Interop.OutlookViewCtl.dll</Reference>
<Namespace>Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook</Namespace>
</Query>
void Main()
{
GetManagerDirectReports();
}
// Define other methods and classes here
private void GetManagerDirectReports()
{
var app = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();
AddressEntry currentUser = app.Session.CurrentUser.AddressEntry;
if (currentUser.Type == "EX")
{
ExchangeUser manager = currentUser.GetExchangeUser().GetExchangeUserManager();
manager.Dump();
if (manager != null)
{
AddressEntries addrEntries = manager.GetDirectReports();
if (addrEntries != null)
{
foreach (AddressEntry addrEntry in addrEntries)
{
ExchangeUser exchUser = addrEntry.GetExchangeUser();
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.AppendLine("Name: " + exchUser.Name);
sb.AppendLine("Title: " + exchUser.JobTitle);
sb.AppendLine("Department: " + exchUser.Department);
sb.AppendLine("Location: " + exchUser.OfficeLocation);
sb.Dump();
}
}
}
}
}
I would suggest using EWS Managed API in conjunction with your code to get the direct reports for a user. As Jeremy mentioned in his response that you need to have your direct report relationships already set up. To help you get started, here some steps to get EWS Managed API up and running:
Download the latest version of EWS Managed API
Get started with EWS Managed API client applications to learn about how to reference the assembly, set the service URL, and communicate with EWS.
Start working with your code. If you need some functioning code to get you going, check out the Exchange 2013 101 Code Samples that has some authentication code already written and a bunch of examples you can modify to make your own.
If you have the email address or user name of the current user you can use the ResolveName() method to get to their mailbox to retrieve additional information. Here is an article to help with that method: How to: Resolve ambiguous names by using EWS in Exchange 2013
Essentially you want to get to the point where you can run a command similar to this:
NameResolutionCollection coll = service.ResolveName(NameToResolve, ResolveNameSearchLocation.DirectoryOnly, true, new PropertySet(BasePropertySet.FirstClassProperties));
If you give a unique enough value in the NameToResolve parameter you should only get back one item in the collection. With that, you can look at the direct reports collection within that one item and see not only the names of their direct reports, but their email addresses as well.
I hope this information helps. If this does resolve your problem, please mark the post as answered.
Thanks,
--- Bob ---
I got the following snippet (SomeName/SomeDomain contains real values in my code)
var entry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://CN=SomeName,OU=All Groups,dc=SomeDomain,dc=com");
foreach (object property in entry.Properties)
{
Console.WriteLine(property);
}
It prints OK for the first 21 properties, but then fail with:
COMException {"Unknown error (0x8000500c)"}
at System.DirectoryServices.PropertyValueCollection.PopulateList()
at System.DirectoryServices.PropertyValueCollection..ctor(DirectoryEntry entry, String propertyName)
at System.DirectoryServices.PropertyCollection.PropertyEnumerator.get_Entry()
at System.DirectoryServices.PropertyCollection.PropertyEnumerator.get_Current()
at ActiveDirectory.Tests.IntegrationTests.ObjectFactoryTests.TestMethod1() in MyTests.cs:line 22
Why? How can I prevent it?
Update
It's a custom attribute that fails.
I've tried to use entry.RefreshCache() and entry.RefreshCache(new[]{"theAttributeName"}) before enumerating the properties (which didn't help).
Update2
entry.InvokeGet("theAttributeName") works (and without RefreshCache).
Can someone explain why?
Update3
It works if I supply the FQDN to the item: LDAP://srv00014.ssab.com/CN=SomeName,xxxx
Bounty
I'm looking for an answer which addresses the following:
Why entry.Properties["customAttributeName"] fails with the mentioned exception
Why entry.InvokeGet("customAttributeName") works
The cause of the exception
How to get both working
If one wants to access a custom attribute from a machine that is not
part of the domain where the custom attribute resides (the credentials
of the logged in user don't matter) one needs to pass the fully
qualified name of the object is trying to access otherwise the schema
cache on the client machine is not properly refreshed, nevermind all
the schema.refresh() calls you make
Found here. This sounds like your problem, given the updates made to the question.
Using the Err.exe tool here
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=985
It spits out:
for hex 0x8000500c / decimal -2147463156 :
E_ADS_CANT_CONVERT_DATATYPE adserr.h
The directory datatype cannot be converted to/from a native
DS datatype
1 matches found for "0x8000500c"
Googled "The directory datatype cannot be converted to/from a native" and found this KB:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907462
I have the same failure. I´m read and saw a lot of questions about the error 0x8000500c by listing attribute from a DirectoryEntry.
I could see, with the Process Monitor (Sysinternals), that my process has read a schema file. This schema file is saved under
C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\SchCache\xyz.sch.
Remove this file and the program works fine :)
I just encountered the issue and mine was with a web application.
I had this bit of code which pulls the user out of windows authentication in IIS and pulls their info from AD.
using (var context = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain))
{
var name = UserPrincipal.Current.DisplayName;
var principal = UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(context, this.user.Identity.Name);
if (principal != null)
{
this.fullName = principal.GivenName + " " + principal.Surname;
}
else
{
this.fullName = string.Empty;
}
}
This worked fine in my tests, but when I published the website it would come up with this error on FindByIdentity call.
I fixed the issue by using correct user for the app-pool of the website. As soon as I fixed that, this started working.
I had the same problem with a custom attribute of a weird data type. I had a utility program that would extract the value, but some more structured code in a service that would not.
The utility was working directly with a SearchResult object, while the service was using a DirectoryEntry.
It distilled out to this.
SearchResult result;
result.Properties[customProp]; // might work for you
result.Properties[customProp][0]; // works for me. see below
using (DirectoryEntry entry = result.GetDirectoryEntry())
{
entry.Properties[customProp]; // fails
entry.InvokeGet(customProp); // fails as well for the weird data
}
My gut feel is that the SearchResult is a little less of an enforcer and returns back whatever it has.
When this is converted to a DirectoryEntry, this code munges the weird data type so that even InvokeGet fails.
My actual extraction code with the extra [0] looks like:
byte[] bytes = (byte[])((result.Properties[customProp][0]));
String customValue = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes);
I picked up the second line from another posting on the site.
I'm working on a c# service that publishes updates to a Fan Page using the c# SDK. I have it publishing updates just fine, but some of these are YouTube videos that when publish "manually" would be "embedded" and viewable on the Fan Page itself.
The main part is very straightfoward code that I found here at Stackoverflow:
dynamic messagePost = new System.Dynamic.ExpandoObject();
messagePost.access_token = [access_token];
messagePost.picture = "http://img.youtube.com/vi/abc123/default.jpg";
messagePost.link = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abc123";
messagePost.name = "Test Name";
messagePost.caption = "{*actor*} " + "This is just a test...";
messagePost.description = "This is a test post description.";
All works fine except it is a link to the video instead of it being "embedded". Any guidance? I've searched for several hours now, tried different combinations, all to no avail.
Thanks!
Just goes to show that when the question seems simple, it probably is. So, in case someone else ever needs the answer to this one, I found it once I resumed searching.
Only use the .link and .name attributes. If you don't fill the remainder then the video appears "inline" on FB.
Great resource, sorry to have posted too early.
I've written a sharepoint application that needs to change web.config
I have a feature that is supposed to make all these configurations. The code for that feature is like this:
SPSite site = properties.Feature.Parent as SPSite;
List<SPWebConfigModification> modifications = new List<SPWebConfigModification>();
modifications.AddRange(CustomErrorsModeConfig.Modifications);
webConfigModificationHelper.AddWebConfigModifications(site.WebApplication, modifications);
CustomErrorsModeConfig.Modifications property contains this code:
public static SPWebConfigModification[] Modifications = {
new SPWebConfigModification()
{
Owner = WebConfigModificationOwner,
Name = "mode",
Type = SPWebConfigModification.SPWebConfigModificationType.EnsureAttribute,
Path = "system.web/customErrors",
Sequence = 0,
Value = "Off"
}
};
Then finally the webConfigModificationHelper.AddWebConfigModifications method:
foreach (SPWebConfigModification modification in modifications)
{
webApp.WebConfigModifications.Add(modification);
}
webApp.Farm.Services.GetValue<SPWebService>().ApplyWebConfigModifications();
webApp.Update();
The problem is that I keep getting this error:
Name cannot begin with the ''' character, hexadecimal value 0x27. Line 1, position 1453
Could this be a problem with the web.config before I try to apply my changes ?
Could the SPWebConfigModification property be incorrectly defined ?
Is there some glitch in my code that leads to this error ?
Might there be some property I am missing (e.g. web.AllowUnsafeUpdates) ?
Some sharepoint site configuration ?
I've been trying to solve this issue for some time now with no luck :( Any ideas ?
I can recommend using stsadmwebconfig for making changes to web.config files. I've implemented this in many features and it has always been a pain, especially while developing. Using this tool makes it a lot easier.
Ive seen this before when the file format is not correctly set between the file and the declaration.
Open the web.config file into a advanced text editor (Notepad++ or Visual Studio) and manually force the file type to match what is specified. Usually its going to be UTF-8.
For more info:
http://www.dumpsterdoggy.com/tutorials/?xmlexception-name-cannot-begin-with
Try taking the List template and for loop out and set the property using straightforward syntax. Here's a post for setting the property in your example, see if you can get this to work and then progress to building up a more generic solution with a List and iteration over the items in the list.
http://www.sharepointkings.com/2008/05/how-to-modify-webconfig-file-in.html