[2005] Check If File Is Open?
Jan 22, 2009
The following code works to check if a file exist, but I need to also check if the file is open.How would I do that?
If System.IO.File.Exists(Application.StartupPath & "players.txt") = False Or System.IO.File.Exists(Application.StartupPath & "preferences.txt") = False Then
bla bla bla
End if
When the main program is doing it's routine, it is looking at, and using, data from the two files.So, when the user pauses the program by opening the control panel, one or both of the files may still be opened. When the control panel tries to open them, it causes an error.(I am guessing that to just tell it to close them will cause the same problem if they are already closed.)
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Jan 9, 2009
I am trying to use the open file dialog box in VB 2005 to open up an existing txt, or rtf file from a directory into a rich text box. I am able to get the Open file dialog to appear and the directories, but when I try to open the file it doesnt import it into the text box. Here is the code I am using
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Feb 11, 2009
I would like to open the excel file after create the excel file. The creating file function is done, but the system unable to open the excel file. My coding as below:
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Dim xlWorkBook As Excel.Workbook
Dim misValue As Object = System.Reflection.Missing.Value
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Jun 14, 2009
I've gone through about 16 hours and two packs of cigarettes trying to figure this out. First a little background. I was using 6.0 up until 2004 when I went to prison. I'm out now, and trying to relearn the trade, using VS 2005. I'm currently porting some 6.0 code from another project, SpyCast Webcam Studio, into VB 8.0. It's disheartening, to say the least. None of the old built-in subs/functions work anymore, so I have to scour the forums to relearn each and every function.The section I'm doing now takes a snapshot from the webcam (Video API --> PictureBox --> Save as Jpeg), then upens the file to upload it to the server via HTTP POST. I've been using this code in SpyCast for years with no trouble, but I spent many hours trying to piece together the right code to open the binary file to read its contents. I pieced together two methods I found around the forums, one using FileStream() though the code I found wasn't for binary files, even though it said it was, so that code doesn't really work. Method two uses Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileOpen() and works better.
Here's the kicker. By the time I run through the rest of the rigamarole of uploading the file, by the time I read it on the webserver, it's *slightly* corrupted. It's a valid Jpeg, no errors, but the picture looks like when I use to watch the Playboy Channel when I was a kid scrambled with weird colors and whatnot. [code] Each "chunk" is basically one "line" of the file. It looks like a single LineInput() return is the text between two carriage returns. Am I correct? I tested this with a flat text file, and it looks true. However, That one input line returns the text or data with the carriage returns *stripped*! ***?!? =( Fine, I have no problem adding my own vbCrLf to each LineInput(), if I were opening text. but this's binary. A character could be Chr(10) or Chr(13), both of which are removed from the original file contents.So I could very well need to use something other than LineInput(), but I haven't found any other examples on the web using this method.
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Jan 22, 2009
The following code works to check if a file exist, but I need to also check if the file is open. How would I do that?
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Apr 22, 2010
Supposedly I create a file called "hi.txt" and I use Process.Start(filename) to open it. then I File.Opentext(filename), edit it and close it using stream writer/reader, while I still have that file open.
In order to see the changed text I need to close "hi.txt" and reopen it.
Is there a way to automatically do that? Been experimenting a bit but with no luck.
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Aug 12, 2009
I have a filesystemwatcher that watches a certain folder.. Now i use system.thread.sleep to be sure that the file is completely copied to the folder that i watch..But this is not a good way!i know there is a way to check if the file is open or used by another process, but i dont know the code.[code]
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Aug 13, 2009
I have a filesystemwatcher that watches a certain folder.. Now i use system.thread.sleep to be sure that the file is completely copied to the folder that i watch..[code]....
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Jun 15, 2012
would it be possible to check if any notepad or word file is open that contains the word 'test'?I was thinking something like the following.
Dim Process() As Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("notepad")
Dim Process2() As Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("word")
For Each p As Process In Process
If p.MainWindowTitle.Contains("test") Then
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Mar 31, 2010
I have a excel file place on server. I am using a application which written by VB.NET to open file in read only mode. User 1 open file in read only mode. How can user 2 detect that file is open or not status?
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Jul 15, 2011
I am trying to save the text file in this path:"C:Test est.txt" and when the file is already opened I need to check whether the file is opened and I need to close it before writing it to the file.[code]...
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Aug 10, 2009
I have a filesystemwatcher that watches a certain folder.. Now i use system.thread.sleep to be sure that the file is completely copied to the folder that i watch..But this is not a good way!
I know there is a way to check if the file is open or used by another process, but i dont know the code..
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Feb 16, 2010
I have a routine that uses windows compression to zip a file. It uses shell32. Rather than maintaining a five second timer for each file, I would like to check to see if the file is closed, not locked, etc., before moving on to the next step in my program. I've searched, and while I can try to open text files, zip files are not text files. I tried renaming the file, but it seems this is actually slowed while files are being added. [Code]
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Mar 2, 2009
I have a text box in which a file path is displayed. A button to click and open the file. Code executes properly but the file doesn't open. [Code]
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Nov 24, 2009
I am using VS 2005 Professional and writing a guitar tuner app with visual basic. I have a 6 wav files that play in button click events using the My.Computer.Audio.Play() method. I need to animate a picture box meter while a wav file is playing. I have searched in the library, but I can't find any relevant info for checking if a sound is playing for vb. Is there a way I can check to see if the wav file is playing?
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Nov 9, 2009
i need to send mail after taking screenshot. If i clicked the mail button first should check whether the file exist or not. Find the code below and tell me how to verify it.
Private Sub SendEmail_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SendEmail.Click
Dim objOutlook As Object
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Jun 4, 2010
On my computer I've VB.net 2005. and also office 2007. I try to open an excel file like that
Imports Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
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Mar 19, 2009
How can i open chm file in VB.net 2005 ?
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Jan 20, 2012
How to open Executable File in VB.Net 2005
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Mar 18, 2009
would like to know if it is possible to have my application launch and open a file which will be called todays date. its just a simple text file and i am basing it on the streamreader style function.
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Mar 11, 2010
At home I use Visual Studio 2008 Pro but a class of mine is trying to have us use Visual basic 2005 express edition. Since we need to submit source code files will there be a problem if I just submit the .vb file instead of the whole solution?
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Oct 2, 2009
I'm looping through a csv file. For each line, I'm reading certain values, generating a filename, and writing the record to that file. Here is some logic
If <something that doesn't matter happens> Thendo somethingElseIf File.Exists(strOutFile & (strOutputFileName & "__" & strPrefixFileName & ".txt")) Then
strFullFileName = strOutputFileName & "__" & strPrefixFileName & ".txt" '** Double Underscores after app name
tsOutfile = New StreamWriter(strOutFile & strFullFileName)
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Now, obviously with the above code, there's no reason for the elseif, since they both do the same thing. The problem, however, is if I need to create a new file and write to it, everything works fine. In fact, everything will work perfectly until I need to write to a file that I already created. If I go ahead and just try "tsOutfile = New StreamWriter(strOutFile & strFullFileName)" and point it to the already existing file, I get a permission error (says the file is already open). Is streamwriter keeping an open connection to all of these files that I create? Nothing else in the program is touching these files, only streamwriter.
Here's a quick example to illustrate what is happening
Record 1 goes to file A
Record 2 goes to file A
Record 3 goes to file A
Record 4 goes to file B
Record 5 goes to file B
Record 6 goes to file B
Record 7 goes to file C
Record 8 goes to file A (Error will occur here)
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Dec 17, 2009
I m developing an application, where I would like the user to open an existing excel file inside the Application itself (Form)
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Mar 30, 2011
In my scheduling app I am exporting information to an excel file. When the first export runs it opens a new instance of an excel workbook. I have decided to save each schedule (AMRN, PMRN, AMTech, PMTech etc) to separate works sheets instead of appending the first worksheet. This way when the shedules need to be printed the whole workbook can be selected to print. When I try to open the existing workbook if it exist I get an error. Here is what I am trying to do.
vb.net
Dim xlApp As excel.Application
Dim xlWorkBook As excel.Workbook
Dim xlWorkSheet As excel.Worksheet
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May 15, 2010
I am trying to open an excel file and write to it as data becomes availableI can create an instance of excel and write to the selected worksheet once. But, I can't seem to write back to the existing file. I keep on getting a null reference error when I try to send new data to the file.The function I am using will run once, but when it returns to the main form, I lose the values of xlApp and xlWorksheet. It appears that going in to the function makes the original values null.
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Oct 21, 2011
I am using TextFieldParser to read a .txt file and create a DataTable I then filter the table and create 4 new tables I then bind those tables to BindingSources Then Bind ComboBoxs to the BindingSource Then bind TextBoxes to BindingSource I like the user to be able to Open a new file without having to close the program So upon opening a new file I have a sub routine that clears the tables the rows and the columns of each table as well the DataBindings to each control The problem is once I do the Text Binding as such
Me.list1_MLStxt.DataBindings.Add("Text", Subject_Values.BindingSource1, Form10.mls_txt.Text)
Then when I open a new file I get an error message conversion from string"""" to type double is not valid.If I never perform the binding I can open and reopen different files without a problem. So this is causing me to think that the problem is with the way I am clear something? But I am obviously not sureIs there something I am missing to clear everything properly in order to open and read and bind a new file?
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Mar 13, 2012
I need to make an E-Search engine for collage library , i can make it by using streamReader and streamWriter , but unfortunately i have to use Binary to make this project ... i've to many fields to put it on DAT file , and i've to use SPLIT to split lines and make arrays ..
what is the best way to do that ? how can i write an opened binary file on textbox and convert text to array ?
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Apr 21, 2009
Suppose I have this Dim proc As Process proc = Process.Start("Notepad.exe", "C: est.txt") Now, if I want to use Notepad.exe to open another text file (ie. C:2ndTextFile.txt) without closing it, how am I going to do it?
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Jan 17, 2009
I'm trying to write a program that will open a solidworks file in EDrawings and print it and so far the only way I can find to do that with an edrawings ActiveX Control displayed on my form.Does anyone know if it's possible to print drawings via EDrawings 2009 without the ActiveX Control having to be displayed on the form as that is drastically slowing down my program?
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Jan 12, 2010
I have a open and file save dialog which I use to open and save file. There are also some labels in the application. During the time a file is open or saved, the file open /save dialog becomes blurred by the background labels. Is there any way to prevent this? The attached pic is given as an example to explain the dilemma.
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