1. I have no idea what all that means. 2. I'm not a PowerShell user, nor will I become one any time soon. I have been reading up on it a bit, and seem to have hit on two reasons for it to leak memory: one of the first results googling "C# powershell memory leak"[^] leaky PowerShell scripts[^] 3. If I were to expect lots of output from something like PowerShell, and having seen the number of questions and complaints on it after a 1 minute Google, I would opt for a file interface: launch it with Process.Start() and have it create a file, hence avoiding most potential trouble. 4. I recommend you reduce your program to a fraction of the intended functionality, make the memory consumption numbers very visible, and work on it till your "climbing slowly" is completely gone. Then iteratively add code and functionality, keeping a sharp eye on the memory situation at all times. :) Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum

Well it turns out the code actually does work. I'm not able to get it to work running it from my Server 2012 R2 lab server but from my 2008 R2 lab server it runs fine. I'll have to do some more investigating but at least I know the code is right! Thanks!

Here is what i'm trying to do but having issues getting it to work since SecureAuthHeader is always null: [DataContract] public class SecureAuthHeader { [DataMember] public string UserKey { get; set; } \[DataMember\] public string UserSecret { get; set; } } \[AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode=AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)\] \[ServiceBehavior(InstanceContextMode=InstanceContextMode.PerSession)\] public class CPApi : ICPApi { public SecureAuthHeader Authentication; public void SetAuthentication(string \_userkey, string \_usersecret) { Authentication = new SecureAuthHeader(); Authentication.UserKey = \_userkey; Authentication.UserSecret = \_usersecret; } public List GetAllUsers() { string companyCode = IsAuthenticated; // MORE HERE } private string IsAuthenticated { get { if (Authentication == null) throw new FaultException("You must authenticate first."); try { DataTable ds = SqlLibrary.ReadSql("SELECT CompanyID FROM ApiAccess WHERE CustomerKey=@CustomerKey AND CustomerSecret=@CustomerSecret", new SqlParameter\[\] { new SqlParameter("CustomerKey", Authentication.UserKey), new SqlParameter("CustomerSecret", Authentication.UserSecret) }); if (ds == null || ds.Rows.Count == 0) throw new FaultException("Invalid authentication."); return ds.Rows\[0\]\["CompanyID"\].ToString(); } catch (Exception ex) { throw new FaultException(ex.Message); } } }

Why not try it and see if it works? With regards ViewState, you can set EnableViewState="false" either for an individual control, or at the page level if you can get away with that.

So use finally, it will do exactly you want. Just to reinforce, yes, it runs all the time, in good or bad cases (exceptions).

Ahhh!! You are awesome. I copied and pasted the class and didn't copy it! That fixed it. Thank you so much :-)

The problem is RecipientWithAdUserGroupIdParameter is another array. so it has to be done like this: var members = new MultiValuedProperty>(); But then I can't add to the RecipientWithAdUserGroupIdParameter because it doesn't have that method. new RecipientWithAdUserGroupIdParameter(). Only has these methods: Equals GetHashCode GetObjects<> GetType ToString

Found an article: Implement Windows authentication and security in WCF Service[^] Would this be the best way? Put the credentials in the web.config appsettings section and use those for each call?

Thanks for the suggestion! Once I made the changes listed above I was able to install and start the service automatically with the windows installer once I changed my WCF DLL Library that had the windows service and installer to a Windows Application and set the startup object

JD86 wrote: nor do I care for the way you are coming off. Sets the tone just nicely :) JD86 wrote: A Windows application is better in this case instead of a web application. With a windows application a user can EASILY click a button to take a screenshot that has the error message on the screen. With a web application this would not be easy if possible (maybe with installing some active-x crap or something). Good point. I pointed out the possibility of a simple webform, as a browser is even available on most phones. It's easily accessible, and has a low threshold for the user. You're right that screenshots are invaluable when providing assistance. Same goes for having TeamViewer on there and having access to the log-files. JD86 wrote: So if you want to get technical then a web form for submitting a ticket is less ideal than an application that we can push out with our monitoring service. ..that sounds like it's got more features than making screenshots? JD86 wrote: Anyways I'm not going to worry about something to make sure the process is running at all times. I think it will be a rare occurrence when it isn't running anyways... so we can just deal with that when it comes. Given the background, you do. I'd advise to try and "make it easy to submit" for a user; that's a bit broader focus, and could contain something like making your app easily restartable. My parents are using a shortcut to start their TeamViewer - it needn't be always on, as the shortcut is on the taskbar. Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

Alright so here is what I ended up with. It seems to work... catches the IO exceptions and continues running. So far it is working good enough for me using System; using System.Diagnostics; using System.IO; using System.ServiceProcess; using System.Text; using System.Threading; namespace QBiniMonitor { public partial class QBMonitor : ServiceBase { // Watches the qbw.ini directory FileSystemWatcher watcher2012; FileSystemWatcher watcher2011; // Path to the folder where qbw.ini is stored string QB2012 = Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables("%ALLUSERSPROFILE%") + @"\\Intuit\\QuickBooks 2012\\"; string QB2011 = Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables("%ALLUSERSPROFILE%") + @"\\Intuit\\QuickBooks 2011\\"; // Version enum Version { QB2011, QB2012 } /// /// Constructor /// public QBMonitor() { InitializeComponent(); } /// /// When service starts we need to start our FileSystemWatcher /// protected override void OnStart(string\[\] args) { StartNewWatcher(Version.QB2011); StartNewWatcher(Version.QB2012); } /// /// Starts the FileSystemWatcher for Quickbooks 2012 & 2011 /// private void StartNewWatcher(Version watcherVersion) { if (watcherVersion == Version.QB2011) { watcher2011 = new FileSystemWatcher(); watcher2011.Path = QB2011; watcher2011.Filter = "qbw.ini"; watcher2011.NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.LastWrite; watcher2011.Changed += new FileSystemEventHandler(watcher\_Changed); // Start the watcher StartStopWatcher(Version.QB2011, true); } else if (watcherVersion == Version.QB2012) { watcher2012 = new FileSystemWatcher(); watcher2012.Path = QB2012; watcher2012.Filter = "qbw.ini"; watcher2012.NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.LastWrite; watcher2012.Changed += new FileSystemEventHandler(watcher\_Changed); // Start the watcher StartStopWatcher(Version.QB2012, true); } } ///

I forgot, that’s going to take awhile, maybe an hour or two. Maybe 4 or 5 hours. Writing to active directory isn’t that fast. Just tell them it will be ready in the morning Well, if you look at windows update, or Microsoft virtual server, the web interface, that’s the most advance stuff that I have seen. I’m trying to think of more examples. You can try the google forums, and I think Gmb something. I don’t know of any turtorial, that’s probably going to be home brewed. I tried some stuff in the past that worked, but then an update to asp.net came out and it killed my work. Today I just avoid that stuff. I would use uploadify to upload the excel file, attach uploadigy to a generic handler, process the excel file, return a json array to javascript with the names via generic handler, then create dynamic javascript and populate a div container using append, with progress updates, feed each user in 1 at a time through a web service to create each user, return json with the status when complete, loop again till done. When done, create a complete button via dynamic javascript. Since the whole thing is ssl, and session protected, security should be covered. Generic handlers are session capable. if you call a web service ssl, it will be ssl. You can tweak a web service to be session capable. Add some tokens to the javascript ajax for authentication, tweak the names to make it real confusing to the average joe.

I don't have a working PHP client. The API is here: http://www.mailcleaner.net/downloads/MailCleanerAPI.pdf[^] They gave an example of this to call with PHP: $client = new SoapClient(‘https://mailcleaner_base_url/api/soap/?wsdl‘); $params = array( ‘spam_tag’ => ‘{This is a spam}’, ‘summary_frequency’ => ‘weekly, … ); $result = $client->domainEdit(‘domain_name’, $params); if ($result[‘code’] == 200) { echo ‘domain edited’ ; } So you can see that PHP is doing a multidimensional array.. but there isn't a way to create this array with C# and convert it to object[]. I haven't done it before but maybe calling the soap manually instead of using the web reference?

Ok I just parsed it my own way <pre lang="c#"> object[] blah = soap.domainExists("domain.com", param); bool success = false; string msg = string.Empty; ParseXml(blah, out success, out msg); </pre> <pre lang="c#"> static void ParseXml(object[] data, out bool success, out string message) { success = false; message = "Failed to parse XML"; // Loop through objects foreach (object o in data) { // We only care about XmlElement. Ignore the XmlAttribute if (o is XmlElement) { // Get the innerText string text = ((XmlElement)o).InnerText; if (text.StartsWith("status\_code")) { if (text.Replace("status\_code", string.Empty).Equals("200", StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase)) success = true; } else if (text.StartsWith("status\_message")) { message = text.Replace("status\_message", string.Empty); } } } } </pre>

If you are creating a table dynamically then you will need to handle the viewstate yourself. Here is a link that will show you a number of articles on the subject: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=dynamic+controls+viewstate+asp.net[^] "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me