20/5 Passing Lists & Interface

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Start 9.00 a.m.
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ahhhh so early. Just carrying on with same stuff as yesterday.

I got the passing of the arrays back working :D thanks to an awesome cheeky mohnkey. I asked what he normally does as i had read alot of people just apss back a dataset, and he said to pass back an array of the class, and just .ToArray the list.

[WebMethod]
public clsClientAddress[] getClientAddressList()
{
dbConnection lcConnection = new dbConnection();
lcConnection.getClientAddressList();
List lcClientAddressList = Global.clientAddressList;
return lcClientAddressList.ToArray();
}

So by passing the list converted to an array we can then grab it by assigning the result to an array of objects. What i was doing wrong from lack of knowledge was getting the data type of the array i was assigning it to wrong. After a bit of playing around i guess this and it worked so huray.

protected void btnGo_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
serviceMain.serviceMain myService = new serviceMain.serviceMain();
object[] lcArray = myService.getClientList();
}

What my goal now is, to get the arrays back and pass the values into the dictionarys of the client. Once i have done this i can fill my data grids with data and work on the editing and deleting.

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Break 11.15 a.m. - 11.45 a.m.
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Class 2.00 p.m. - 6 p.m. - going to study for project management and go to class.
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Having break in class... what better time to blogg. Today i had an issue with everytime i grabbed the list it would get bigger and bigger. Now in the application start on the service under the global class it makes a new list, SO theoretically everytime it starts it should create a new list? Well it was re-adding items from the database to the list and making the list large with duplicates, I found this out by stepping through and seeing that the list wasnt clearing. I'm not exactly sure how the application start works, so i thought i'd be safe and clear the lists before filling them again.

dbConnection lcConnection = new dbConnection();
Global.clientAddressList.Clear();
lcConnection.getClientAddressList();
List lcClientAddressList = Global.clientAddressList;
return lcClientAddressList.ToArray();

So that will do for now, in future the logic and process of how this works will change, as is it will all be called differently, but was probly a problem i was going to face either way.

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Break 6.00 p.m. 10.30 p.m.
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Having a problem now with using the array that i get back from service what i'm trying to do:

Dictionary lcClientList = Global.clientList; object[] lcArray; lcArray = myService.getClientList();

int length = lcArray.Length;

for (int i = 0; i <>

{

clsClient lcClient = (clsClient)lcArray[i];

string lcClientID = lcClient.propertyClientID;

lcClientList.Add(lcClientID, lcClient);

}

I'm tryign to assign the array object to a clsClient, but i think its some how more difficult than just doing this. Below is a picture of the error i'm getting and also shows the object i get back. This is really noob but after spending ages trying to firgure out how, i dont know if/how i can just grab out the field of that array item, probly simple, but hey it eludes me. If i can just grab the data from this object then i dont have to worry about all this converting crap and can just using the fields. SIGH.

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Finish 12.15 p.m. 7 hours
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Will figure it out tomorow... if i dont soon i am screwed ^^. Perhaps below answers my question. http://www.themssforum.com/Csharp/property-array/. Either way i have to figure out how to get to fields, or fix the error i have... which is the lesser of the two evils... I shall sleep on it.