Invalid Named Property - outlook

We call the microsoft exchange to set the extended property which in our case is an unique guid
microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.core.exception.service.remote.ServiceResponseException: An internal server error occurred. The operation failed., Invalid named property
Its been working great until now when some of our users are facing the above issue ....
val uId = getUniqueId();
val emailExtendedPropDef = new ExtendedPropertyDefinition(uId,"uniqueId", MapiPropertyType.String)
try {
email.setExtendedProperty(emailExtendedPropDef, uId.toString)
email.sendAndSaveCopy()
} catch {
case e: Exception =>
error(s"Exception in setting extended property for user $from", e)
throw e
}
trying to find the root cause of the issue, we are also thinking it might be related to throttling on Microsoft exchange for extended properties (Not sure how to prove if it's indeed throttling) any help to point us in the right direction will be of great help
Our use case is to able to retrieve the email when customer want's to reply back we want to retrieve that particular email to be included in users reply....currently we are using the uid to achieve that ....
we have been using the code as per the documentation here
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/developer/exchange-server-2010/dd633654(v%3Dexchg.80)
and also the documentation here
https://github.com/OfficeDev/ews-java-api/wiki/Getting-Started-Guide#extended-properties
Update : As per the comments we do understand that we have to treat extendedProperty as a column definition and update the same column ...but we couldn't figure out how to achieve this as...Any code samples to point us in the right direction will be of great help
Latest Update : We have deleted some of the extendedPropertyDefinition's but still facing the same invalid property could some one please point us in the right direction

Is it safe to say that getUniqueId returns a different guid on each call? If so, then that is the problem. Think of the Guid for an extended prop as a namespace. The exchange store limits the number of custom extended props to something like 32k per mailbox. So you are likely hitting that limit. But aside from that, the main reason for creating an extended property is so that you can refer to it later. But if you are basically discarding the namespace each time, you are leaving orphaned props on items. Without understanding your particular scenario, I can only say that the Guid should be thought of truly as a namespace. Choose one for your app/company/scenario and hard code it. They create all the named props you want within that namespace. For instance, "MyProp/String" in Guid namespace 1 is a different property than "MyProp/String" in Guid namespace 2.

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How to get an event ID from the HitID returned by a Microsoft Graph search query?

I am trying to patch a calendar event with the Microsoft Graph API (from a Node express app).
I create a new event with client.api('/me/events').post(myEvent) and it works just fine (I see it appear in my calendar). The return value has an ID which is:
AAMkADc0Yjg2ODdmLTlkNDQtNGQ0Yi1iNjBmLTE1MDdmYzI4MGJkOABGAAAAAADt0ZJy6xMCRq23C8icFGeqBwAOM3XMH4d2SYMQ5psbvFytAAAAAAENAAAOM3XMH4d2SYMQ5psbvFytAAJ_B-B7AAA=
I then use client.api('/search/query').post(myQuery) to find the event based on some criteria, and this works fine. I receive an array of hits, with only one hit (which actually is the freshly created event, looking at the subject and body), and with a hitId equal to:
AAMkADc0Yjg2ODdmLTlkNDQtNGQ0Yi1iNjBmLTE1MDdmYzI4MGJkOABGAAAAAADt0ZJy6xMCRq23C8icFGeqBwAOM3XMH4d2SYMQ5psbvFytAAAAAAENAAAOM3XMH4d2SYMQ5psbvFytAAJ+B/B7AAA=
For some reason I don't understand why the 2 IDs are not fully identical: the _ is changed to +and -changed to /.
I now want to modify the event, and try to update it with
let newVal = hits[0].resource // hits is coming from the result returned by the search query
newVal.id = hits[0].hitId // needed because the 'resource' does not contain the id
client.api('/me/events/'+hitId).patch(newVal)
But I get an error: Resource not found for the segment 'B7AAA='.
Could you please tell me how to make the patch work (and explain why the ID from the search is not strictly like the one created). I have read several examples in the documentation (such as https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/search-concept-events) but I could not find a solution.
Many thanks!
So what is happening here is, PATCH /me/events/{hitId} is being resolved by Graph API such that the forward slash in the hitId denotes a path and Graph ends up using B7AAA= as a resource id hence the error Resource not found for the segment 'B7AAA='.
A work around that might work is to replace / in hitId(s) with %252F. You can do it like this.
client.api(`/me/events/${hitId.replace('/', '%252F')}`).patch(patch)
There is already this Issue on GitHub for documentation on how to handled these base64 encoded resource ids with /
As for the two IDs being non identical, Graph API will accept both of them and resolve to the same resource. I have no idea why they are different though.

Cannot update ticketnumber field on incident

Does anyone know of any way to update the ‘ticketnumber’ field on an ‘incident’ entity after the incident has already been created?
The field is locked down on the front end and have tried via the API using C# code however this fails to write also?
It might not be what you need to do, but you can write a pre-operation plugin working on the create message of the incident to override the ticket number that has been assigned set as the default.
We do this to enable custom ticket numbers to be used, but have never had the need to update them after this point

retrieving data from arbitrary memory addresses using VSIX

I am working on developing a debugger plugin for visual studio using VSIX. My problem is I have an array of addresses but I cannot set the IDebugMemoryBytes2 to a particular address. I use DEBUG_PROPERTY_INFO and get the array of addresses, and I also am able to set the context to the particular addresses in the array using the Add function in IDebugMemoryContext2. However, I need to use the ReadAt function to retrieve n bytes from a specified address (from IDebugMemoryBytes2).
Does anyone have any idea how to retrieve data from arbitrary addresses from memory?
I am adding more information on the same:
I am using the Microsoft Visual Studio Extensibility package to build my debugger plugin. In the application I am trying to debug using this plugin, there is a double pointer and I need to read those values to process them further in my plugin. For this, there is no way to display all the pointer variables in the watch window and hence, I am not able to get the DEBUG_PROPERTY_INFO for all the block of arrays which the pointer variable is pointing to. This is my problem which I am trying to address. There is no way for me to read the memory pointed to by this double pointer.
Now as for the events in the debuggee process, since the plugin is for debugging variables, I put a breakpoint at a place where I know this pointer is populated and then come back to the plugin for further evaluation.
As a start, I was somehow able to get the starting addresses of each of the array. But still, I am not able to read x bytes of memory from each of these starting addresses.
ie., for example, if I have int **ptr = // pointing to something
I have the addresses present in ptr[0], ptr[1], ptr[2], etc. But I need to go to each of these addresses and fetch the memory block they are pointing to.
For this, after much search, I found this link: https://macropolygon.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/evaluating-debugged-process-memory-in-a-visual-studio-extension/ which seems to address exactly my issue.
So to use expression evaluator functions, I need an IDebugStackFrame2 object to get the ExpressionContext. To get this object, I need to register to events in the debuggee process which is for breakpoint. As said in the post, I did:
public int Event(IDebugEngine2 engine, IDebugProcess2 process,
IDebugProgram2 program, IDebugThread2 thread, IDebugEvent2
debugEvent, ref Guid riidEvent, uint attributes)
{
if (debugEvent is IDebugBreakpointEvent2)
{
this.thread = thread;
}
return VSConstants.S_OK;
}
And my registration is like:
private void GetCurrentThread()
{
uint cookie;
DBGMODE[] modeArray = new DBGMODE[1];
// Get the Debugger service.
debugService = Package.GetGlobalService(typeof(SVsShellDebugger)) as
IVsDebugger;
if (debugService != null)
{
// Register for debug events.
// Assumes the current class implements IDebugEventCallback2.
debugService.AdviseDebuggerEvents(this, out cookie);
debugService.AdviseDebugEventCallback(this);
debugService.GetMode(modeArray);
modeArray[0] = modeArray[0] & ~DBGMODE.DBGMODE_EncMask;
if (modeArray[0] == DBGMODE.DBGMODE_Break)
{
GetCurrentStackFrame();
}
}
}
But this doesn't seem to invoke the Event function at all and hence, I am not sure how to get the IDebugThread2 object.
I also tried the other way suggested in the same post:
namespace Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.Interop.Internal
{
[InterfaceType(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsIUnknown), Guid("1DA40549-8CCC-48CF-B99B-FC22FE3AFEDF")]
public interface IDebuggerInternal11 {
[DispId(0x6001001f)]
IDebugThread2 CurrentThread { [return:
MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Interface)]
[MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.InternalCall, MethodCodeType =
MethodCodeType.Runtime)]
get; [param: In, MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Interface)]
[MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.InternalCall, MethodCodeType =
MethodCodeType.Runtime)] set; }
}
}
private void GetCurrentThread()
{
debugService = Package.GetGlobalService(typeof(SVsShellDebugger)) as IVsDebugger;
if (debugService != null)
{
IDebuggerInternal11 debuggerServiceInternal =
(IDebuggerInternal11)debugService;
thread = debuggerServiceInternal.CurrentThread;
GetCurrentStackFrame();
}
}
But in this method, I think I am missing something but I am not sure what, because after the execution of the line
IDebuggerInternal11 debuggerServiceInternal =
(IDebuggerInternal11)debugService;
when I check the values of the debuggerServiceInternal variable, I see there is a System.Security.SecurityException for CurrentThread, CurrentStackFrame (and so obviously the next line causes a crash). For this, I googled the error and found I was missing the ComImport attribute to the class. So I added that and now, I get a System.AccessViolationException : Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
I am new to C# programming as well and hence, it is a bit difficult to grasp many things in short duration. I am lost as to how to proceed further now.
Any help in the same or suggestions to try another way to achieve my objective will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot,
Esash
After much search, since I am short of time, I need a quick solution and hence, for now, it seems like the quickest way to solve this problem is to hack the .natvis files by making it display all the elements of the pointer and then using the same old way by using IDebug* interface methods to access and retrieve the memory context for each of the pointer elements. But, after posting the same question in msdn forums, I think the proper answer to this problem is as mentioned by Greggs:
"For reading memory, if you want a fast way to do this, you just want the raw memory, and the debug engine of the target is the normal Visual Studio native engine (in other words, you aren't creating your own debug engine), I would recommend referencing Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.Engine. You can then use DkmStackFrame.ExtractFromDTEObject to get the DkmStackFrame object. This will give you the DkmProcess object and you can call DkmProcess.ReadMemory to read memory from the target."
Now, after trying a lot to understand how to implement this, I found that you could just accomplish this using :
DkmProcess.GetProcesses() and doing a ReadMemory on the process returned.
There is a question now, what if more than one processes are returned. Well, I tried attaching many processes to the current debugging process and tried attaching many processes to the debuggee process as well, but found that the DkmProcess.GetProcesses() gets only the one from which I regained the control from, and not the other processes I am attached to. I am not sure if this will work in all cases but for me, it worked this way and for anyone who has similar requirements, this might work as well.
Using the .natvis files to accomplish this means, using IndexListItems for VS2013 and prior versions, and using CustomListItems for VS2015 and greater versions, and to make it look prettier, use the "no-derived" attribute. There is no way to make the Synthetic tag display only the base address of each variable and hence, the above attribute is the best way to go about, but this is not available in VS2013 and prior versions (The base address might get displayed but for people who want to go beyond just displaying contents and also access the memory context of the pointer element, Synthetic tag is not the right thing).
I hope this helps some developer who struggled like me using IDebug* interfaces. For reference, I am also giving the link to the msdn forum where my question was answered.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/030cef1c-ee79-46e9-8e40-bfc59f14cc34/how-can-i-send-a-custom-debug-event-to-my-idebugeventcallback2-handler?forum=vsdebug
Thanks.

Google Drive API Folder/Child ID

Does anyone knows if the google folder id changes over time? Assuming, obviously, the folder is not deleted and recreated.
I'm trying to be limit the quota usage as much as possible, by storing the ID on our side.
Thanks
UPDATE (2015/09/01) Per 'BSEs' comment below.
Sorry, I assumed it is Android (being professionally distorted).
Anyway, to make sure, look at the ID string in question and compare it with the ID you get from drive.google.com > right click > Get link. You should see something like:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1mqwertyasdfghZxCvbItM0E
If the id= string matches your resource ID, you're cool. Sorry for the confusion.
ORIGINAL (incorrect for .NET, applies to GooPlaySvcs/GDAA on Android)
I believe it does.
When testing the ResourceId availability here, I remember getting DriveId in one form immediately in the 'onResult()' callback. Later, when the 'onCompletion()' event occured, the DriveId of the same object looked very different (applies to both file and folder) .
Also, look at Daniel's comment here, it suggests that you should not rely on the value of the DriveId in any moment and use 'equals()'.
The ResourceId would be more appropriate ID to store, shuttle around, etc... DriveId is useless outside the GooPlaySvcs instance. And, based on some hints from Drive-Involved-Googlers, relying on a concrete value of DriveId is dangerous. That makes existence of 'encodeToString() / decodeFromString()' somewhat questionable, right?
Good Luck

Creating a unique ID in a form

I have a form that I have users fill out and then it gets e-mailed to me.
I am trying to get an example of how I would create an ID (based on my own conventions) that I can use to keep track of responses (and send back to the user so they can reference it later).
This is the convention I am striving for:
[YEAR]-[SERVICE CODE]-[DATE(MMDD)]-[TIME]
For example: "2012-ABC-0204-1344". I figured to add the TIME convention in the instance that two different users pick the same service on the same date rather than try to figure out how to only apply it IF two users picked the same service on the same date.
So, the scenario is that after the user goes through my wizards inputting their information and then click "Submit" that this unique ID would be created and attached to the model. Maybe something like #Model.UniqueID so that in an e-mail response I send to the user it shows up and says "Reference this ID for any future communication".
Thanks for any advice/help/examples.
In your post action
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Create(YourModel model)
{
model.UniqueId = GenerateUniqueId(serviceCode);
}
public string GenerateUniqueId(string serviceCode)
{
return string.Format("{0}-{1}-{2}", DateTime.Now.Year, serviceCode, Guid.NewGuid().ToString().Replace("-",""); //remove dashes so its fits into your convention
}
but this seems as I'm missing part of your question. If you really want unique, use a Guid. This is what we've used in the past to give to customers - a guid or a portion of one. IF you use a portion of one ensure you have logic to handle a duplicate key. You don't need to worry about this though if using a full guid. If the idea is just to give to a customer then ignore the rest of the data and just use a guid, since it can easily be looked up in the database.

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