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Is this any more or less efficient than just using Ubuntu to mine?

src?

I forgot to mention, it's C#, and i've only tested on windows at the moment, on windows it might be SLIGHTLY less effecient, as there is a little overhead from .NET, but barely enough to be noticeably. If enough people donate, i'll get it to work with Mono/Wine.


It's .NET, shouldn't be too hard to get.

Looks like this has been created using WPF, which is a bad idea. WPF uses directx9 to render its contents, and everytime you update your screen (external redraw event, or updating the counter to display the mhash) opencl is suspended.

There are ways to fix this though, although you will never get a really optimal solution using .net (or windows for that matter).

No, it's windows forms, and that is somewhat true.

Yes, i know i have a shitty gpu:

Running poclbm from cmd gets me: ~15850kh/s
Running poclbm from BitMiner gets me: ~15800kh/s

As you can see there is very little difference (remember thats in kh/s, not even mh/s) between running it from the command line, or from the gui.

I think you think it's WPF because it's using aero, you will be able to disable that in the next version (not that it make much difference now), but if you want to disable it at the moment, go into properties (BitMiner.exe) and disable visual themes (under compatibility).

Can you actually save multiple account "profiles"? Host, login, PW, port?

You can save multiple profiles with different pools and different logins (user + pass), but not host or port, they're hardcoded to pools, if theres enough interest (none at the moment :| ) i'll release version 2 with a stack of new features including custom pools

I'm sure your program is totally legit (especially since you're providing the source), but with the way bitcoins are rising in cost (up to like seventeen bucks apiece now!) I'm sure it's only a matter of time before someone releases a "helper program" that submits 90% of the shares to the target pool, and a hidden 10% to the program author's secret pool...

... hmm, that gives me an idea... think I'll start learning VB  ;)

Ha, good luck with that. VB is way less powerful than C#, and it's easily reversable, so you'll probably ruin your rep haha. And i'm not actually providing the source as such, but seeing as it's .NET you can easily use .NET reflector or something to decompile it to C# and then read it and such.

Is it supposed to pop up an error any time I run it or click tabs?
I am a bit confused...  ???

Sorry, your on XP yeah? I'll upload an XP friendly version in a minute

bump :|

Seriously is nobody interested in this?

Relax, its sunday and very early morning on US still.

No source code, no download (at least for me)

I'll PM the code to you if you want, It's just anyone with the know how to read the code should know that .NET is easily reflectable. So I didn't post the code because some skid might rip it off, but if everyone think's I should, and it means more people will use it, i will.


That would probably be why, thanks :) Im in a different timezone here :P

bump.

I've just reflected the code, and it's completely safe.
The only thing to comment on would be how the code looks. Though since .NET Reflector is pretty good at decompiling good code in to hard to read code, I'd have to leave that uncommented until I can see the actual source code.

Yeah thanks, the code looks pretty rough now that i've just had a look at it with .NET reflector aswell.


Pretty much this is how it works,

Each new miner creates a new miner 'class', that class then starts the backend process, and reads and parses the output, it then fires off the relevant events to the GUI (well, the gui is listening) and then the gui changes the text etc.

bump.

Doesn't work under Wine?

I havn't tested it, and im not sure whether your comment is a statement or a question haha. I don't think it would though, seeing as several API calls are windows based, if theres enough interest and some donations I will make sure I get a mono capable client working.

Mac native version?

I'll try it out in bootcamp in a few hrs.

No, windows only at the moment as i've said. I havn't got a mac to code on, so unless someone wants to give me a few hundred btc, then I'll dev one :P

But as i've said, if theres enough interest and some donations i'll make it compatible with mono/wine and then it should work on OSX aswell.

Add the ability to switch pools if one goes down and I'd download it.

Will do, expect version 0.2 soon with quite a few changed. Won't do the graphing features unless there is more interest, as it will take me along time to write :)

bump

Looks promising, will you integrate the patch here http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10762.0 for .2?

This looks interesting. I'll try it tonight.

I'll take a look. Probably not for .2, but possibly in the future.


PM me or reply back here if you need any help :)

Ok I tried this tonight but got the following exception error:


See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'C:\Users\David\Desktop\Bitminer\accounts\.txt'.
File name: 'C:\Users\David\Desktop\Bitminer\accounts\.txt'
   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
   at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy, Boolean useLongPath)
   at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options)
   at System.IO.StreamReader..ctor(String path, Encoding encoding, Boolean detectEncodingFromByteOrderMarks, Int32 bufferSize)
   at System.IO.StreamReader..ctor(String path)
   at BitMiner.Form1.button4_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.225 (RTMGDR.030319-2200)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
BitMiner
    Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/David/Desktop/Bitminer/BitMiner.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
System
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
----------------------------------------
Simple7
    Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/David/Desktop/Bitminer/Simple7.DLL
----------------------------------------

************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
    <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.

**********************************

The accounts folder and text file are there. Im running Win 7 - 64bit too.

Yeah that's fixed in 0.2, you need to select your account on the left before starting the miner.

Ok, I have failover/fallover (w.e you wanna call it) working, you can now select another account that runs another miner when the first accounts miner fails.

Apart from the things on the checklist, anyone else have any suggestions?
Will release v0.2 in about ~12 hours if nothing else comes up. :D

Major bug found in failover code, will release soon.

Looks like it could go far, just keep updating it, it will all iron out =P

Beta 2 released!

Installed Beta 2 and got:


************** Exception Text **************
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): The system cannot find the file specified
   at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithCreateProcess(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
   at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()
   at BitMiner.Miner.Start()
   at BitMiner.Form1.newMiner(String nick, Int32 failover)
   at BitMiner.Form1.button4_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.225 (RTMGDR.030319-2200)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
BitMiner
    Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/David/Desktop/Bitminer2Beta/Beta%202/BitMiner.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
System
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
----------------------------------------
Simple7
    Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/David/Desktop/Bitminer2Beta/Beta%202/Simple7.DLL
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
----------------------------------------

************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
    <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.

You have to drop poclbm's folder in the same directory as the program. I'll include a message in 0.3 about it.

Yea I did that

You dropped the folder, or the program in the same directory?

So the path to poclbm is C:/Users/David/Desktop/Bitminer2Beta/Beta%202/poclbm/poclbm.exe?

Yes path is correct.

Ive copied over the poclbm.exe again to the folder and tried launching the miner using the 2 accounts I had already added before. 1 comes up with the same exception error, the other seems to launch (pops up a window with my logon/ID, miner host etc) like its going to run then stops working with an error window message: Loadlibrary (python.dll failed)

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   CLR20r3
  Problem Signature 01:   bitminer.exe
  Problem Signature 02:   1.0.0.0
  Problem Signature 03:   4dee2615
  Problem Signature 04:   System.Core
  Problem Signature 05:   4.0.0.0
  Problem Signature 06:   4ba1dfee
  Problem Signature 07:   458
  Problem Signature 08:   d
  Problem Signature 09:   System.ArgumentNullException
  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
  Locale ID:   3081
  Additional Information 1:   0a9e
  Additional Information 2:   0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
  Additional Information 3:   0a9e
  Additional Information 4:   0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Read our privacy statement online:
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If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline:
  C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt
 

Ok wait I think I know what the problem is, give me a minute.

Ok I just uploaded version 2.1. Download that and see if it fixes your problem. If it does tell me, if it doesn't reply back with your OS, and architecture.

Still fails with the same error.

Win 7 - 64-bit

Ok I actually have no idea then, it looks like something related to python is failing, which is weird because poclbm, not BitMiner is written in python.

If it's alright with you, would I be able to take a look over teamviewer or something? I wanna know what's making this happen aswell :)

-- Edit: Is the title of the error message "ERROR!"?

Check PM :)

Everyone reading this, managed to get it fixed, remember, you need to copy the ENTIRE poclbm directory into the same directory as BitMiner.exe

In the in the BitMiner folder, there are 3 items.

BitMiner.exe < file
Simple7.dll < file
poclbm < folder with rest of poclbm program in it.

bump >< 2.1 released. Lots of bugfixes.

Sorry if i missed something, but can you please just give me an overview of why i should use this instead of GUIMiner please?

Thanks!

Well at the moment, it allows you to configure and save multiple accounts, it has failover/fallover support (whatever you wanna call it), v2.2 with have a statistics page showing you your overall mh/s, your expected btc income and the amount of btc you have in pools (if you enable it). Eventually it's going to be an all in one miner.

suggestions:

ENCRYPT the file that has all the user data. not doing so is EXTREMELY dangerous.
------------
a better way would be to use process.start to start the miner, and use process.kill or something to end it.
------------
it's better to cache the results. loading a new page every time the console outputs something (at least once per second) is just wasteful.
------------
why so many brackets? also, you're missing some spaces in between the args.
 

Yea including a graph and/or stats in the GUI panel would be awesome. Anything like that that saves time having to go to other sites/links to check stats would be great. Perhaps you could include a real-time hi-lo buy/sell panel for bitcoin too?

1) I suppose I could do that, but then the person could just reflect the program and get the encryption key. May as well do it for v3.
2) Yeah I know it's a bit sloppy, I havn't been able to add the processes to an array, but when I figure out whats wrong there I can just go through the entire array calling kill().
3) It doesn't call it everytime it recieves output, it calls it when a new block has been started, I'll change it though.
4) The actual codes not like that, thats a result of reflecting it, I was like wtf when I saw that too haha.

on a side note, to avoid tons of "whatever" + str1 + "something else" +str2, use string.format, it makes the code much neater :)

I am haha, as I said it's the reflection on the code that looks bad

Any other suggestions for Beta 3? Pretty much finished the stats page.

could you please move away from the windows aero dependancy? i hate having it on. other then that, great software.

Just download the XP version. All that's different in that is I've disabled Aero for it :)

Cant see a download link for xp V2.1   ???

Ah, dammit. Sorry I didn't update the post for it. Im gunna release Beta 3 in about an hour. Hang tight.

Haha no problem. What about integrating a small auto update, or atleast semi update that would notify the user about a update + link for it?

Not sure how i'd implement that, as I need a server for it for a static version file. If anyone reading this has one I can use, PM me.

will there be an ubuntu version?

If somebody donates a reasonable amount to me, it shouldn't take that long, but it will still take a bit of work to get it working with Mono.

Cant you do something realy cheesy like using a free dns redirect using no-ip.org or simmilar to a filehost link and some basic html parsing to get the version number from the file name on the page. that would allow you to skip having a server for it for now.

Edit. removed quotes as they bugged out.

/offtopic Fail Quote

/ontopic.

I don't see how that would work, as I would need the new link hardcoded into the program. I -might- be able to work something out with dropbox and my no-ip. I'll have to see.

Eta for v3 - 1 hour (hopefully)

Bump. Beta 3 will be release in a few hours. Ran into some trouble updating the text from a different thread, all good now.

New features:
- Statistics page showing network stats, as well as your overall mining stats.
- LOTS of bugfixes.
- Fixed an error in custom pool code that bugs out when you try to connect to a long hostname.

- RELEASED!

Tried running the xp one and got (sorry for the Swedish text, but im currently running a Swedish OS install, its mumbling about a socket timeout to 210.15.254.246:8080?)

System.Net.WebException: Det går inte att ansluta till fjärrservern ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: Anslutningsförsöket misslyckades eftersom den anslutna datorn inte svarade inom en viss tid eller på grund av att den etablerade anslutningen till värddatorn inte längre fungerar 210.15.254.246:8080
   vid System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoConnect(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress)
   vid System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal(Boolean connectFailure, Socket s4, Socket s6, Socket& socket, IPAddress& address, ConnectSocketState state, IAsyncResult asyncResult, Int32 timeout, Exception& exception)
   --- Slut på stackspårning för interna undantag ---
   vid System.Net.WebClient.OpenRead(Uri address)
   vid System.Net.WebClient.OpenRead(String address)
   vid BitMiner.StatsUpdater.getBlockCount()
   vid BitMiner.StatsUpdater.t_Tick(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   vid BitMiner.StatsUpdater.Start()
   vid BitMiner.Form1.Form1_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

oh. fuck. I forgot. I had to add a proxy while I was at work. Wait a minute.

Sorry about that, can you redownload and test for me? :)

It starts now, ill have to wait untill tonight to test if mining works with it.
Question though. do you need to run several instances to have it mine on more then 1 gpu?

Nope, create a new profile for each one, then in the poclbm tab, change the device number.

Bummmmp.

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): The directory name is invalid
   at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithCreateProcess(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
   at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()
   at BitMiner.Miner.Start()
   at BitMiner.Form1.newMiner(String nick, Int32 failover)
   at BitMiner.Form1.button4_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 (RTMRel.030319-0100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
BitMiner
    Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/bitcoin/Beta%203/Vista%20%26%20Windows%207/BitMiner.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
System
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
----------------------------------------
Simple7
    Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/bitcoin/Beta%203/Vista%20%26%20Windows%207/Simple7.DLL
----------------------------------------
System.Configuration
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 (RTMRel.030319-0100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
----------------------------------------

************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
    <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.



just put 2 new 5830s in, put the crap in the folder and it doesnt work yeah

i put poclbm into this folder: \Beta 3\Vista & Windows 7\

created account, using account I have used previously

So poclbm is at \Beta 3\Victa & Windows 7\poclbm\poclbm.exe?

\Beta 3\Victa & Windows 7\poclbm.exe?

ok i put it all into \poclbm\ that fixed it, now i get another error:

"ERROR!

Traceback (most recent call last):"

You need to copy everything into \poclbm\ from the file you downloaded (of poclbm, derp) not just poclbm.exe

just deleted all the files, got a fresh copy from the zip file and still the same error...

ffs.. this is driving me up the wall

Yeah, sorry, i'll be adding alot of error handling code in v4 to help out with this sort of thing. Meanwhile, do you have teamviewer or skype or something that i'll be able to help you with?

I got this running again last night but still found it to be a bit buggy. I hit 'run miner' at one point after leaving the 'fallback miner' field blank and got an exception I had to end task out of for example. I think potentially the software has a great future. I particularly like the idea of having a 'fallback' option and graphs etc would be great too. But the bugs need to be ironed out and you need to include options such as the ability to delete miners too.

Exactly why it's still Beta :P

What happened with the fallback, did the exception randomly popup? or did it come up with something like "can't fallback"?

And yeah, i'll add that for v4.

Yea I think the latter from memory

Bump. V4 coming soon with increased error handling and lots more pools!

Bump again, failover support fixed (btw I broke it, haha). V4 should be coming soon!

Any chance I could get a copy of the src?  Im a C# developer by trade and could possibly help out or at the very least educate myself further about the intricacies of mining with this...

Possibly, PM me.

--edit, remember, it's .net, so it's easily reflectible.

BUMP! Beta 4 Released!

bla bla bla, you must install .net framework v4.0
iv got .net 4.0 installed already so what gives? no other software on my computer complains on the framework.

Wtf? Really? It's compiled against v2. Hmm.

Well, I got V4 running and within 10 minutes or so, started to receive this error:

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at BitMiner.Form1.<>c__DisplayClass8.<SetBlock>b__7()
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeMarshaledCallbackDo(ThreadMethodEntry tme)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeMarshaledCallbackHelper(Object obj)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.runTryCode(Object userData)
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean ignoreSyncCtx)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeMarshaledCallback(ThreadMethodEntry tme)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeMarshaledCallbacks()


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.225 (RTMGDR.030319-2200)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
BitMiner
    Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/BitMiner/BitMiner.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
System
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Configuration
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 (RTMRel.030319-0100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
----------------------------------------
Accessibility
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Accessibility/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Accessibility.dll
----------------------------------------

************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
    <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.

The odd thing about the error is that it doesn't affect the mining at all if it only happens once.  I can leave the error notification open the it just keeps mining away.  However, I think that when the same error occurs a second time (without me closing the notification), then I get a message which is clearly from GuiMiner itself.  The box is completely empty, but until I close it, mining ceases.  I'm thinking about just setting up this JIT debugging, as I think without the windows notifications piling up, the miner may just continue even if these errors are encountered.  Anyway, if you've got any ideas on how to fix my issue, let me know.  Until I do, I can't run the program properly as mining just stop within the first half hour as these errors seem to occur sporadically, but at least once every twenty minutes or so.

Gaaah. Ok. This is really why I need beta testers. I'll take a look at the code, is the title of the messagebox that pops up "ERROR!"?

Yes, I believe that was the title.  It was very clear that the first box was a generic windows exception box and the second blank one was from BitMiner.  I'll get it up and running again though just to double check for you.  And since my system seems to be one giving you some major issues, I'd be happy to beta test for you in the future.  Don't know how much time I can give you, but at least I could set it up a couple tims a day to run with various settings and see how things go.

*UPDATE*

Should have paid more attention before.  The first error is actually directly related to Microsoft .NET Framework (as the exception message box is titled as such).  Also, the summary of the error is "object reference not set to an instance of an object.", hope that can be of some assistance. 

Can you pastebin the JIT error?

Done.  http://pastebin.com/FBpu3YMS

Still haven't come across the second instance of the error yet though.  I'm off bed soon, but will let it run through the night. 

Okay, so there actually isn't any title on the second box that pops up.  Here's what I woke up to this morning:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/842/bitminererrors.jpg/

Very interesting. Nowhere in my code does it ever popup with a blank box lol. If you click close, does another box popup with a number in it?

No, if I click close, the same box seems to pop up again once or twice, then eventually they'll all disappear and mining will continue from where it left off.

I get the same. I tried release 3 and 4 on different machines with different cards. This miner simply doesn't work. That's my experience anyway.

Oh ge thanks. -.- haha. That's why I need beta testers. I think I know where the problem is with the textboxes aswell. I'll release 4.1 in the morning ~10 hours.

Would you mind adding BitClockers to your pool list?

pool.bitclockers.com 8332

If you add JSON support for stats:
Pool Stats : http://bitclockers.com/api
User Stats : http://bitclockers.com/api/APIKEYHERE

Thank you :D

I will IF I continue this, tbh it's so buggy it's not worth it. I'll try and work it out soon but don't get your hopes up.

As I offered earlier I am still offering my programming assistance :D Now that Namecoin has settled down a bit I have some time to spare :D

i'll PM you to discuss further

Locking this until we get the major bugs fixed.