Hmmm... I may not have a clear picture of the ultimate functionality you need, but I was envisioning a quick, user-interactive single form affair that would allow the user to specify the files s/he wants concatenated, and then rip through them right then and there. Even if it is a memory pig, it'll just consume memory on the user's machine, and only for the duration they have the program open.
But the down side relative to a web app is that all the users will have to have a .net framework install to run your app. -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Welborn Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 12:12 PM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] ASP.Net and WebService: Good together? You are probably correct on the webservice/asp.net comment. As for the windows app..The only way I can see that working is if the clients admin buy lets me build an app that sits in the task try and I can just send it jobs to do. It could be like Message Queue and wait for a job to show up then process it. I guess there is still a regular Windows Service, but after mentioning that they quickly shot it down. It would just depend on if their guy is a Network Nazi or not. I am yet to speak or meet him. thanks for the reply Roy. -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pardee, Roy Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 2:59 PM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] ASP.Net and WebService: Good together? Isn't a web service just an asp.net app w/out the html user-interface goo? My guess would be you'll have all the same problems. I guess a winforms app is out of the question on this? I bet it'd be way more efficient not to be moving all those bits to/from a server... -Roy -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Welborn Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 11:54 AM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] ASP.Net and WebService: Good together? Thank you Peter for the reply and information. I always had the impression that even if I did use the GC.Collect() that even then it doesn't garuntee that the GC will fire then and free the disposed objects. Am I correct on this? I believe I read in one of the refered links that the File objects arent recognized by the GC and would be a good reason to use the Collect on it. I might try this and see what happens. What about the WebService route? I know I didn't really go into detail on the project itself but in regards to rtf generation, memory usage and such do you see any advantages to using a webservice to do the blunt of the work? Thanks again for the time and information. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ritchie Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 1:07 PM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] ASP.Net and WebService: Good together? I've seen suggestions that GC.Collect be called when done with large chunks of memory or large complex objects that are only allocated once per invocation. [1, 2, 3] [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2004/11/29/271829.aspx [2] http://blogs.msdn.com/scottholden/archive/2004/12/28/339733.aspx [3] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y46kxc5e.aspx On Fri, 19 May 2006 09:31:33 -0700, Steve Welborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Good Afternoon and Happy Friday! > > I have created an ASP.Net page that takes any amount of rtf >documents and combines them into one. The rtf documents are chosen by >the client from a list, and the list contains about 33 rtf documents. I >don't use automation or anything like that just simply open the file >and transfer all but the first 101 characters(which is the rtf >header) and the last '}'. >It seems to work just fine until all 33 are selected then I get 'Out of >Memory' errors and IIS crashes. The average file size for the rtf is >18meg. >I see IIS go from the normal 50meg all the way up to 510megs, then it >crashes. I venture to say it could be because garbage collection hasn't >started actually releasing the now closed files from memory. I AM >setting my file and stream readers to null when im done. > > My solution that I am playing around with is >this: > Build a webservice(not true 'service' per say, dll in >IIS) that listens for a request > from the website. The Website passes in an Object[] that >contains all the information it needs to combine the >documents. > > The webservice takes care of opening and writing to the >final document with all selected rtf files included. > > The website waits until the Webservice sets the >'Complete' >to true. Then shows the Complete page. > > The reason for this solution was that maybe a Windows type >application will utilize the memory better than an >ASP.Net app would. > > I was also thinking of maybe using a Windows type App like this >because I could then use the RTF Control in Windows and open and modify >the Rtf files from there, this way I don't have to loop through the >whole file and possibly making it faster. > > > Does it sound like a viable solution? I cant use Automation >because, as well all are aware, Word is a memory hog and each time >someone access the page it opens an instance of Word. Not to mention >they don't want to install Word in the server. There are going to be at >least 20 people creating these documents at any given time. > > Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorR http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor. http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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