given

string input = "01010101";

you should get the output as the first two chars with

input.Substring(0, 2);

In general look at the Substring[^] Best Regards HE

Try using the int64 parser Int64.Parse(string input) Best Regards HE

Havent tested it in IE8 (For some reason the company here only wants IE7 compability) But try using

window.open(URL, windowName[, windowFeatures])

instead that might work. if you just want to see if it can open just add

window.open(URL)

Best Regards HE

The problem is not that its not working from the SAP part. That part of it works great all data arrives at the webservice from where its going to get bad... Anything thats not ORM tool might do the trick... only issue is to make sure that the information is correct in form of what the ORM tool want it in when its reading it. Maybe I just should let it go and ask the guy next to me thats good with SQL and ASP.NET <-> SQL to make a new webservice that saves the informations in the database. After all hes the one going to do mantinance on it for the next few years.. (Im happy im not him)

Shooting is to good a punishment for him... we need something more evil not sure what thou... (Did I mention that I started with a webservice that took around 10 sec. an item...) And well Ill try talking with them if we could limit the amount of items. The threaded way actually works like it should and helps make it not time out (great improvement from a webservice that timed out when it had moved some data but not all) I will try to see what we can come up with. And well im handing it over to a programmer that have been sitting next to me for the last 5 months he knows how crappy it is... maybe I should just let him have a look at it as an introduction to the system... so that he dont have his hopes to high when he comes to the crappy parts... And its more giving to just write

/* Consultants code */

everywhere something is crappy ;) Best Regards HE

Well dont get me started on this... The amount of WTFs in this code is enough to fill thedailywtf for a few weeks... (It was made by an external consult that have programming skills below what I have after 3 years of school) But im almost certain there is a wrong technology in use here. The site is using a ORM tool that have been put in over the webservice as well. I have previously considerd to remake the entire webservice to not use the ORM tool (that is really database heavy) and instead go directly to the database but havent got around to it yet. There is no doubt that it takes to long to process but since its still posible to do it during the night the ppl prioritising the assignment just dont think it important how long it takes (It processes around 20 items each min so its not "that" slow. Its just there is alot of items). Best Regards HE

Well thanks for the help :) They sure are gonna love me when I suggest they get the SAP guy to make it posible for them to send less informations :P Ill try look at it and figure out what to use to solve it. Best Regards HE

Any way I can make it allow to run longer? A windows service might do it but I have no idea how to make one that will fulfill the demands. I will try to describe what im trying to do as good as I can. There is an excisting SAP system with information about products. Im working on a system that recives these informations from SAP with a webservice and stores them in a database to then show them on a webpage and let the user create catalogues based on the informations. In the long run the idea is that every time there is made a change in SAP its send to the webservice (around 100kb of data). Now there is made some changeings to the system and we need to send all data from SAP to the webservice from scratch. Therefor its needed to send alot of data to the webservice. If there is a way to change the alowed running time it might help. Best Regards HE

Sorry if my question is a bit out of the normal and my approach is less briliant. Im under education and currently on internship at a company being the only programmer on a website at the moment. To make things even better its also my first experience with ASP.NET untill now ive only made C# applications. I have a problem with a webservice that runs threaded. The webservice it self is rather simple. All code used to start the webservice thread is shown here

public virtual OverwriteCollectionResponse OverwriteCollection([System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(Namespace="http://XXXX/MAP\_INHOUSE\_OUT/COLLECTION:MESSAGES:V1", ElementName="OverwriteCollectionRequest")] OverwriteCollectionRequest overwriteCollectionRequest){

//Creation of Class that should run
WebserviceThread webservice = new WebserviceThread();

//Saving data to the class
webservice.overwriteCollectionRequest = overwriteCollectionRequest;

//Create a thread based on the class
Thread thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(webservice.OverwriteCollection));

//Start the thread
thread.Start();
return new OverwriteCollectionResponse(1);

The real method takes up to two hours to run depending on amount of data. I have read about asyncrone webservices after making this but im unsure if thats the right choice to solve my problem. The webservice is running on a IIS6 server configured to have session timeout to 300 min. The configuration for timeout in the config file is the following The problem is the following: After a random amount of time (can be all from 15 min to 25 min havent seen it below or above that) the Thread stops. Only prof that it stops is that the log file isnt updated anymore. (Using NLog as logger). Also the data in the database isnt updated more. Anyone that have an idea to why the thread suddenly stops? Hope my question is clear else dont hessitate to ask for more info :) Thanks for any help in advance HE

modified on Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:32 AM