Monthly Archives: January 2014

How to run code daily at specific time in C#


Update: Please see my Updated post about this subject: How to run code daily at specific time in C# part 2

When you want to make some delay in running code you can use Task.Delay(TimeSpan interval) method . This method is similar to Thread.Sleep, but it is nicer. The argument of the method represent TimeSpan type. For example if you want to wait 5 second you can call the following code:

Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));

Or you want to wait 2 hours:

Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromHours(2));

You can easily use Task.Delay to run some code at certain time. For example you want to run some method every day at 1:00:00 AM. To implement this example you can use Task.Delay method on the following way:
First Convert the time in to DateTime type. Make diference between now and the time you want to run the code. Call Delay method with TimeSpan of previous time interval. The following code solve this problem:

class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //Time when method needs to be called
            var DailyTime = "01:00:00";
            var timeParts = DailyTime.Split(new char[1] { ':' });

            var dateNow = DateTime.Now;
            var date = new DateTime(dateNow.Year, dateNow.Month, dateNow.Day,
                       int.Parse(timeParts[0]), int.Parse(timeParts[1]), int.Parse(timeParts[2]));
            TimeSpan ts;
            if (date > dateNow)
                ts = date - dateNow;
            else
            {
                date = date.AddDays(1);
                ts = date - dateNow;
            }

            //waits certan time and run the code
            Task.Delay(ts).ContinueWith((x)=" SomeMethod()");

            Console.Read();
        }

        static void SomeMethod()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Method is called.");
        }
    }

If you want that code to run every day, just put it in while loop.

Update: The complete sample can be similar to the following:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace DailyTaskDemo
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//Time when method needs to be called
var DailyTime = “22:37:00″;
var timeParts = DailyTime.Split(new char[1] { ‘:’ });

while(true)
{

var dateNow = DateTime.Now;
var date = new DateTime(dateNow.Year, dateNow.Month, dateNow.Day,
int.Parse(timeParts[0]), int.Parse(timeParts[1]), int.Parse(timeParts[2]));
TimeSpan ts;
if (date > dateNow)
ts = date – dateNow;
else
{
date = date.AddDays(1);
ts = date – dateNow;
}

//waits certan time and run the code
Task.Delay(ts).Wait();
SomeMethod();

}

Console.Read();
}

static void SomeMethod()
{
Console.WriteLine(“Method is called.”);
}
}
}

Happy programming.

How to manually fix content error in Microsoft Word


Today while I was editing a document suddenly Word crashed and the document became unable to be opened. Every time I wanted to open it the same error was:

We’re sorry. We can’t open DocumentName.docx because we found a problem with its contents.
When I want to see Details the following message shows:
Unspecified error
Location: Part: /word/document.xml, Line 2, Column: 0.

Then I wanted to open auto-saved version of the document, the same error appeared. So I changed the DocumentName.docx  file in to DocumentName.zip, and extract the content, found document.xml file and opened it in Notepad++.

The picture below shows the content of the DocumentName.docx file, renamed in to zip and extracted:

If you didn’t know the word document with doc or docx extension is actually zip file, which you can extract.

I have opened the docuemnt.xml and try to find error in second line. This was mission impossible because all xml content is placed in this line. As you can see on the picture below:

To find which element cause the content problem we have to format XML content. I prefer using Notepad++ and XML Tool PlugIn. It can be installed through Plungins menu of Notepad++.

To format xml content choose option Pretty print (XML only – with line breaks) . After the content is formatted, back the Document.xml to zip, change the extension from zip to docx, and open the word document.

The same error appear, but when you choose for details you can read in which line is the error. Find the line in Notepad++ and delete whole tag element:

Copy document.xml back in to zip file, rename the extension and try to open. If you have another error, repeat the process again, otherwise your document is opened.

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