Reading VDT files

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Hi,

What is a VDT file? How do I read a VDT file into my
application? I know how to read text files etc but not
VDT files.

Im preparing in advance a prototype
that read VDT files and does processing on them.

Secondly, My app will have to read these files over a
network (from another PC on the network) and I intend to
populate my SQLServer database using the data from
the .VDT file. How/What is the best way of reading files
from another IP Address to the app?

Thanks in advance.
 
Zahid said:
Hi,

What is a VDT file? How do I read a VDT file into my
application? I know how to read text files etc but not
VDT files.
Click to expand...

Use a filestream and a binaryreader (in namespace system.io)
Im preparing in advance a prototype
that read VDT files and does processing on them.

Secondly, My app will have to read these files over a
network (from another PC on the network) and I intend to
populate my SQLServer database using the data from
the .VDT file. How/What is the best way of reading files
from another IP Address to the app?

Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...

You can not read files using IP itself. You could use a protocol built upon
IP, like FTP, HTTP (which requires a server running) or the windows network.
You may have mounted a drive to a shared network folder or you can use
\\host\name\file".

But, as you don't know what a VDT file is, what do you wanna do with it
(apart from storing it in a databse)?
 
Are you referring to Virtual Data Toolkit used with Virtual Data System ?,
if so you are in deep water my firiend, I wish you luck.


Regards - OHM
 
Hi Armin,

The VDT file has data (records) that I want to use to
populate a database table with. Each line in the VDT file
corresponds to a row in a database. How do I solve this
problem then?

My app is a PocketPC app but i havent got a response from
that newsgroup for the last 3 days:-(

What do you mean by "Windows Network" ? The PC's will
all have minimum Windows 98 running on them and the
PocketPC is Windows Mobile 2003 (PocketPC 2003).

Thanks in advance.
 
Zahid said:
Hi Armin,

The VDT file has data (records) that I want to use to
populate a database table with. Each line in the VDT file
corresponds to a row in a database. How do I solve this
problem then?

My app is a PocketPC app but i havent got a response from
that newsgroup for the last 3 days:-(

What do you mean by "Windows Network" ?
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A Windows network is a Windows network. Sorry, that's all I can say. In a
Windows network I can access the files on a different PC when I click in the
network environment on the PC and open a shared folder available on the
other PC. I can directly access it using a filestream and specify
"\\host\name\file" as the file name, or mount a volume to be able to access
it using "x:\file".

I mentioned this way because you wrote that you want to access a file via
IP, but the IP protocol does not "know" what files are. You can access a
file using http, ftp or via a Windows network.
The PC's will
all have minimum Windows 98 running on them and the
PocketPC is Windows Mobile 2003 (PocketPC 2003).
Click to expand...

I don't know PocketPC.


What's you exact problem? Getting access to the file? Reading the file?
Using a filestream? Knowing the structure of a VDT file?
 
* "Zahid said:
What is a VDT file? How do I read a VDT file into my
application? I know how to read text files etc but not
VDT files.
Click to expand...

I don't know what a VDT file is too.
Im preparing in advance a prototype
that read VDT files and does processing on them.

Secondly, My app will have to read these files over a
network (from another PC on the network) and I intend to
populate my SQLServer database using the data from
the .VDT file. How/What is the best way of reading files
from another IP Address to the app?
Click to expand...

For database problems:

..NET + Database group:

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Web interface:

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroup...roup=microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.adonet>
 
Hi,

My exact problem is actually getting access to the file.
Could you provide a peice of code that access files on
another pc and copies it to a local directory? Maybe once
Ive copies it I will process it using filestream just as
you advised.

Thanks lots.
 
Zahid said:
My exact problem is actually getting access to the file.
Could you provide a peice of code that access files on
another pc and copies it to a local directory? Maybe once
Ive copies it I will process it using filestream just as
you advised.
Click to expand...

Which access does the other PC offer?
 
Hi Zahid,

If you have no access to a file you cannot copy it with a Microsoft program
or a prgram made with those tools.

I did a search on MSDN for VDT but there was nothing. So tell us first what
it is, because if it was a part of a Microsoft system I am sure there would
be something.

Cor
 
* "Zahid said:
My exact problem is actually getting access to the file.
Could you provide a peice of code that access files on
another pc and copies it to a local directory? Maybe once
Ive copies it I will process it using filestream just as
you advised.
Click to expand...

Which information about the location of the file on the other PC do you
have?
 
Zahid said:
This is a little embarrasing but what do you mean
by "Which Access" ?
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Is the PC part of a Windows network? Is an FTP server running on it?

In other words: see Herfried's reply.
 
Zahid said:
Yes it is part of a Windows Network.
Click to expand...

In this case my first reply should help: Use a filestream and a binaryreader
(in namespace system.io)

In the VB langauge tour, there's a chapter "processing drives, folders and
files"

In the Framework docs, there's the chapter "programming with the .net
framework" -> "Working with I/O"
 
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