Prevent WPF Global Keyboard Hook from stops working after hitting keys a while C# .NET

The article written by Dylan Currier, Low Level Global Keyboard Hook / Sink in C# .NET is one the simple, easily understandable, and and working post on Global Keyboard hook out there in internet. It worked in my WPF application and I added following line in the WPF app to refresh hook after each key press- IDK  if it is write or wrong, more likely to be a wrong practice to hook/unhook every time but it gets the job done. The primary reason to refresh hook is to prevent app hanging (not responding to the key press) after few clicks on the WPF button.

void _listener_OnKeyPressed(object sender, KeyPressedArgs e)
        {
           
          _listener.UnHookKeyboard();
          _listener.HookKeyboard();
        }

Following is the video from Dylan Currier  on Low Level Keyboard Hook in C# / .NET"

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When to use ArcGIS Online to publish geospatial data: CASE STUDY EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

ArcGIS Online is a workspace and a web platform for creating and sharing maps. It is possible to upload your data, create a layer or a map, define the extent, set some visualization options, assign permissions to your layer or map, share, and create web mapping applications or story maps. For information about the other capabilities please visit http://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/.

The ArcGIS online platform is designed to host small datasets, for example demographic datasets. The datasets uploaded to ArcGIS online are relatively small in size, and should not exceed 1-2MB, or around 5000 records. This is to keep the agencies costs down and keep in line with our ArcGIS online pricing plan. It is for this reason that ArcGIS online should not be used to host large datasets, and tiled image services must NOT be uploaded to ArcGIS online. To publish bigger datasets and image services, please refer to the ArcGIS Server.

Source: http://discomap.eea.europa.eu/map/giseionet/Publishing_data_to_the_web_with_ArcGIS_Online.pdf

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Code snippet: Identify to which polygon a point belong to?

Code sample to find point inside a polygon in shape file using GDAL/OGR 2.x and C#.


using OSGeo.OGR;
using OSGeo.OSR;
using OSGeo.GDAL;

1:  public void FindPolygonBelongsToPoint()   
2:      {  
3:        try   
4:        {  
5:          var shapePath = @"C:\Locations_WGS84.shp";  
6:          Ogr.RegisterAll();  
7:          OSGeo.OGR.Driver shapeDriver = Ogr.GetDriverByName("ESRI Shapefile");  
8:          DataSource shape = shapeDriver.Open(shapePath, 0);  
9:          Layer layer = shape.GetLayerByIndex(0);  
10:    
11:          Feature polygonFeature = layer.GetNextFeature();  
12:    
13:          long featureCountInLayer = layer.GetFeatureCount(1);  
14:          for (int i = 1; i <= featureCountInLayer; i++) {  
15:    
16:            Geometry polygonGeom = polygonFeature.GetGeometryRef();  
17:    
18:            string coordinates = "POINT (-100.726 38.995)";  
19:    
20:            SpatialReference spatialRef = layer.GetSpatialRef();  
21:            Geometry point = Ogr.CreateGeometryFromWkt(ref coordinates, spatialRef);  
22:    
23:            bool isInside = point.Within(polygonGeom);  
24:    
25:            if (isInside)  
26:            {  
27:              var val = polygonFeature.GetFieldAsString(4);  
28:              Console.WriteLine("Found one");  
29:            }  
30:    
31:            polygonFeature = layer.GetNextFeature();            
32:          }         
33:            
34:        }  
35:        catch (Exception ex)   
36:        {  
37:    
38:          Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);  
39:        }          
40:        
41:      }  

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Code snippet: To highlight selected feature in ArcMap programmatically using ArcObjects

Code snippet to highlight selected feature in ArcMap programmatically using ArcObjects and return the STGeomFromWKB   string of selected feature.

To return the geometry you should import Microsoft.SqlServer.Types  from Nuget and SqlServerSpatial140.dll  from C:\Windows\System32

 using System;  
 using System.Collections.Generic;  
 using System.Data.SqlTypes;  
 using System.Linq;  
 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;  
 using System.Text;  
 using System.Windows;  
 using ESRI.ArcGIS.ArcMapUI;  
 using ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto;  
 using ESRI.ArcGIS.Catalog;  
 using ESRI.ArcGIS.CatalogUI;  
 using ESRI.ArcGIS.Desktop.AddIns;  
 using ESRI.ArcGIS.Display;  
 using ESRI.ArcGIS.esriSystem;  
 using ESRI.ArcGIS.Framework;  
 using ESRI.ArcGIS.Geodatabase;  
 using ESRI.ArcGIS.Geometry;  
 using Microsoft.SqlServer.Types;  
   
   
 namespace Test.Addin.ArcCommands  
 {  
   class SelectFeatureTool : ESRI.ArcGIS.Desktop.AddIns.Tool  
   {  
     protected override void OnMouseDown(MouseEventArgs arg)  
     {  
       IMxDocument mxDocument = ArcMap.Application.Document as IMxDocument;  
       IActiveView activeView = mxDocument.ActiveView;  
       IMap map = mxDocument.FocusMap;  
       ILayer layer = map.get_Layer(0); //Get 1st Layer  
       IFeatureLayer featureLayer = (IFeatureLayer) layer;  
   
       IPoint identifyPoint = activeView.ScreenDisplay.DisplayTransformation.ToMapPoint(arg.X, arg.Y);  
       ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IIdentify identifyLayer = (IIdentify)layer;  
       IArray array = identifyLayer.Identify(identifyPoint);  
         
       int oid = -1;  
       if (array != null)  
       {  
         object obj = array.get_Element(0);  
         IFeatureIdentifyObj fobj = obj as IFeatureIdentifyObj;  
         IRowIdentifyObject irow = fobj as IRowIdentifyObject;  
         IFeature feature = irow.Row as IFeature;  
         oid = feature.OID;  
       }  
       HighlightClickedFeature(featureLayer, oid, activeView);  
     }  
   

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Python code snippet : Merge multiple CSVs (Column Wise) into a large CSV file using ID

Following is the python code snippet to merge multiple CSVs into a large CSV (column wise) using CSV's unique ID field. All input CSV's must have same length.

 import csv

 import itertools

 outCombinedStatTxtName ="FormattedTxtResults.csv"  
 tempCsvFiles = glob.glob(str(TempFolderPath)+'\*.csv')  
 openedFileList = [open(fn, 'rb') for fn in tempCsvFiles]  
 readers = [csv.reader(fn) for fn in openedFileList]  
   
 result = open(outCombinedStatTxtName, 'wb')  
 writer = csv.writer(result,delimiter=',')  
   
 multipleIndices = False  
 for row_chunks in itertools.izip(*readers):  
   tempFormattedRow = list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(row_chunks))  
   fidIndices = [i for i, x in enumerate(tempFormattedRow) if x == "ID"]  
   if(len(fidIndices) > 1):  
     fidIndices.pop(0)  
     redundantIndices = tuple(fidIndices)  
     multipleIndices = True  
       
   if(multipleIndices):  
     tempFormattedRow = [ tempFormattedRow[i] for i in xrange(len(tempFormattedRow)) if i not in set(redundantIndices) ]      
     writer.writerow(tempFormattedRow)  
   else:  
     writer.writerow(tempFormattedRow)  
 result.close()     
 [fn.close() for fn in openedFileList]  

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Code Snippet: Select feature polygon(s) on Mouse Click ArcObjects C#

Code snippet of custom feature(s) selection tool on mouse click and highlight it using ArcObjects and C#.

 class SelectFeatureTool : ESRI.ArcGIS.Desktop.AddIns.Tool  
   {  
     protected override void OnMouseDown(MouseEventArgs arg)  
     {  
       IMxDocument mxDocument = ArcMap.Application.Document as IMxDocument;  
       IActiveView activeView = mxDocument.ActiveView;  
       IMap map = mxDocument.FocusMap;  
       ILayer layer = map.get_Layer(0); //Get 1st Layer  
       IFeatureLayer featureLayer = (IFeatureLayer) layer;  
   
       IPoint identifyPoint = activeView.ScreenDisplay.DisplayTransformation.ToMapPoint(arg.X, arg.Y);  
       ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IIdentify identifyLayer = (IIdentify)layer;  
       IArray array = identifyLayer.Identify(identifyPoint);  
         
       int oid = -1;  
       if (array != null)  
       {  
         object obj = array.get_Element(0);  
         IFeatureIdentifyObj fobj = obj as IFeatureIdentifyObj;  
         IRowIdentifyObject irow = fobj as IRowIdentifyObject;  
         IFeature feature = irow.Row as IFeature;  
         oid = feature.OID;  
       }  
       HighlightClickedFeature(featureLayer, oid, activeView);  
     }  
   

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Catch Exception - Attempted to read or write protected memory in ESRI ArcObjects .Net 4.0 Framework

First - Don't write the code to throw "Attempted to read or write protected memory" ..it is bad.

Second - If you are working on legacy codes and COM objects that throws "Attempted to read or write protected memory" while writing ArcMap add-ins, catch exceptions to prevent application crash, in my case ArcMap.


Step #1 - Add following snippet to config file - app.config for Arc-addin

<configuration>
   <runtime>
      <legacyCorruptedStateExceptionsPolicy enabled="true" />
   </runtime>
</configuration>

Step #2

Add -

[HandleProcessCorruptedStateExceptions] 
[SecurityCritical]

on the top of function you are tying catch the exception

[HandleProcessCorruptedStateExceptions]
[SecurityCritical]
public IFeatureLayer GetOrCreateFeatureLayer(string path, esriGeometryType type, ISpatialReference sr)
{

//body

}

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Good compatibility of latest vagrant and virtual box

Continuing from my older post  on Vagrant 1.7.2 / 1.9.2 and Virtualbox 4.3.12  / 5.1.14. I upgraded into Vagrant 1.9.2 and 5.0.x and 5.1.x , because of security vulnerabilities on those Virtualbox versions, but my shell provisions and puppet provision that used to work on old setting suddenly stopped working and tried various workaround to make them working but failed until Virtualbox 5.1.18. I use chocolaty, to upgrade/install vagrant and virtual box in Windows 7 host and able to fire 'vagrant up' to provision my new guest.

Step 1

Install chocolaty in host machine using cmd.exe (Run elevated)

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"

  choco -v (Just to make sure chocolaty installed correctly)
  
  0.10.3 (as of 3/16/2017)

Step 2
Open Windows' power shell (Run elevated) 
1. Install or upgrade oracle virtual box

choco install virtualbox -version 5.1.18
                                                                                                         5.1.18 r114002
choco upgrade virtualbox

2. Install or upgrade vagrant

choco install vagrant -version 1.9.2

choco upgrade vagrant

3. Restart the machine

4. Vagrant up ....Boom all old scripts starting work again!

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List of things appropriate and not appropriate for ArcGIS from Citrix Environment

Appropriate for Citrix

·         making maps with existing data

·         querying and selecting spatial data

·         creating GIS points from XY coordinates (GPS files)

·         Sub -setting data by selection and export

·         Creating or editing GIS data feature by feature

·         Buffering small data layers (few features, simple features)

·         Joins on attribute tables

Not Appropriate for Citrix

·         Geoprocessing (Intersect, Union, Identity …)

·         Sub -setting data by Clipping

·         Spatial joins

·         Spatial Analyst

·         Buffering large or complex data layers

 Source

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Code snippet : Create/update polygon attribute fields using Ogr and ESRI Arcobjects

A code snippet example to check if a feature is standalone ESRI Shape or featureclass inside ESRI Gdb, then add new filed or update attribute value in attribute table .... standalone shape/features are created/updated using GDAL/OGR implementation and feature/featureclass stored in ESRI personal GDB are created/updated using ESRI ArcObjects.  Any solution to replace later with GDAL/Ogr is highly appreciated.  Please comment below if you find one.

 public void AddUpdateAttributeField(string oldFeatureFile)  
     {  
       DriverUtils.RegisterOgrDriver();  
       DataSource dataSource;  
       Layer layer;  
       var isShapeFile = IsShapeInGdb(oldFeatureFile);  
       if (isShapeFile)  
       {  
         dataSource = Ogr.Open(oldFeatureFile, 1); //second argument in open specifies mode of data, 1 RW & 0 readonly mode  
         layer = dataSource.GetLayerByIndex(0);  
         FieldDefn gdalFiedlDefn = new FieldDefn("FID_GDAL",FieldType.OFTInteger);  
         layer.CreateField(gdalFiedlDefn, 0);  
         Feature feature = layer.GetNextFeature();  
         while (feature!= null)  
         {  
           feature.SetField("FID_GDAL",feature.GetFID()); // Add FID shapefile  
           layer.SetFeature(feature);  
           feature = layer.GetNextFeature();  
         }  
         dataSource.FlushCache();  
       }  
       else  
       {  
         try  
         {  
           EnableEsriLiscences();  
           string gdbPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(oldFeatureFile);  
           string featureName = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(oldFeatureFile);  
           IWorkspaceFactory workspaceFactory = new FileGDBWorkspaceFactory();  
           IFeatureWorkspace featureWorkspace = (IFeatureWorkspace)workspaceFactory.OpenFromFile(gdbPath, 1);  
           IFeatureClass featureClass = featureWorkspace.OpenFeatureClass(featureName);  
           IFields fields = featureClass.Fields;  
           if (fields.FindField("FID_GDAL") == -1)  
           {  
             // Create a Int field called "FID_GDAL" for the fields collection

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