[2008] Read Contents Of ZIP File (without Unzipping Preferably)?
Mar 5, 2009
I need my program to 'take a peek' into a ZIP file and see if it contains a certain file. I need it to do this many times for a large number of files, so I would prefer it without having to unzip the entire zip-file each time, as that would take far too much time (it's a fairly large zip-file of about 250 MB).Also, I don't need the actual file at all. All I need to know is if it exists inside the zip file.
vb.net
If IO.File.Exists("C:FolderIPFile.zipfolder_in_zipfile.jpg") Then
' "file.jpg" exists inside zip-file!
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Apr 25, 2010
I have an XML file created using VB 2008 and I want to read the entire contents of the XML file into a text box.
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Oct 16, 2011
Is there any way I can read the contents of PDF file in Visual Basic 2010 ?Is there any ActiveX Control available for this purpose?
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Nov 17, 2009
I want to read a PDF file having lots of text, images, tables in it. I want to read the entire file content by content page by page, from top to bottom.
For example:
The top of the page contains the Heading
Then on left hand side the contents and on the right hand side images
So I first want to get the heading then the contents then the images. Is there any Open Source for reading the PDF or any coding reference for .net 2.0 or greater version.
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Jul 18, 2010
I'm trying to read the contents of a text file. Everyone says it's a piece of cake, but I still get error "404 Not Found" even though the site exists.
I'm using the following:
Dim myRequest As HttpWebRequest
Dim myResponse As HttpWebResponse
myRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create("[URL]") 'This does work
myRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create("[URL]") 'This does not
myRequest.Proxy = New WebProxy("http://proxy address", True)
myRequest.Method = "GET"
myResponse = DirectCast(myRequest.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
When I hit the [URL] the myRequest.GetResponse command passes the contents of the site into myResponse. However, hitting the [URL] always returns 404 even though it exists.
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May 25, 2010
I have developed a vb.net dll (.net 3.5) which does the following :
- I have data of several stock market companies.
- They are stored in several folders under a main folder.
- These files are random access files.
- There can be around 4000 files in total for example.
I wrote a program which reads a current csv file and stores contents in array. Then I store name and path of companies in folders (which I was talking about). Then I match one company from csv (stored in array) to companies in user's folder (again reading from array). If found I insert data in the file (random access file). This whole process takes for eg. 2 min my system. A similar program was written years ago by someone in powerbasic which takes slight less time if run one but if run for multiple csv files it takes only a few seconds doing the same thing for other files. When I do the same thing (by writing code to .net dll) and making a dummy app to run it, no matter how many times I run it takes same time. And is way slower than the earlier one (PB) one I was talking about. But if I paste the same code in my win (.net) app and not use .net dll then it runs a bit faster.
I need to show status so if I pass my form's label reference to .net dll and it updates it does that slow down process a lot. As I mentioned I am trying to process the files and it takes longer in .net. What should I do to get best performance? Unfortunately due to unexplainable reasons I cannot change the format or use a db. The files which I am reading/writing (random access files) are use by other products so I have to stick to that format. What I am doing is storing the location of those files in array so that I don't have to search folder again. that is not taking time. But opening reading and writing files is time consuming if I am doing it for few thousand of them. A similar program in powerbasic (developed years ago) runs fast. Running code thru .net dll is slower than running it thru program. Why?
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May 21, 2009
I'm wondering whether anyone else has had to do this. I've looked in to some third party solutions.
The two I've used with the most success are: 1. xPDF. This includes an executable, PDF2TEXT.exe, which takes an argument that is the path to the PDF file to "read" and a second argument which is the name of the text file where it will write the output. This works well and fairly quickly, but it's external to my application and calling it via a Process.Start() command raises security considerations and requires to user to allow the external executable to run. They must allow this to happen AT LEAST every time they run the import application (IF they will check the "Don't keep bothering me about this" box).
2. A solution from Foxit, which is GREAT, but costs a good bit of money to use. Does anyone have a solution that I can implement IN MY CODE (like #2) but that's free (like #1)?
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Mar 29, 2010
Im working with .ISO and .Bin files, and 7z, winrar and winzip are all able to open a .ISO or .Bin like there a zip file and you can see the contents like so:
7z
UltraISO
What im trying to do is detect the SLUS_215.57 file name, to then pass on to my if statements, like so:
Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
Dim selit As String = CStr(ListBox2.SelectedValue)
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Jul 9, 2009
I am unzipping a file on a XP machine. to do this i am using the Shell process
For Each setfiles As String In My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles(mydesktop, FileIO.SearchOption.SearchTopLevelOnly, "*.zip")
If setfiles.Count = 0 Then
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Oct 9, 2011
I am totally embarrassed at having to ask this question, but I'm having trouble with file IO.I want to write a line to a text file. On another form, I want to read the contents of the text file one line at a time, so I can make comparisons of it's contents.
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Feb 19, 2012
I am unable to read from the text file in VB. I want to read the contents for text file and store them in array. See my code below and the text file. How should I read this text file.
'Purpose : This program will read student name & final marks for a set of students from the text file and then calculate & display class average, class standard deviation, number of students above class average, name of student with highest mark, number of students with A's(90-100), B's (80 < 90), C's (65 < 80), D's (50 - < 65) and F's (<50).Calculate for standard deviation of a set of numbers:Step1. :Find the average Step2. : Square the difference between each number and the average
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Nov 28, 2009
I have a vbscript that does the following but I want to do it in vb .net and was hoping someone could post some sample code to get me started. The script does the following. Monitors 2 folders specified in a config file. When a zip file is put in the one of the folders it us automatically unzipped to a working folder and then the zip file is renamed to unzipped-<zip>.zip. I am hoping someone could post a visual studio project or code that might help me get started.
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Dec 22, 2011
So I managed to sync up the filesavedialog to save the contents of my textboxes to a file in a location, but how do i use the fileopendialog to read the contents from that saved file back into my textboxes?
Private Sub SaveFileDialog1_FileOk(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles SaveFileDialog1.FileOk
Dim FileToSaveAs As String = SaveFileDialog1.FileName
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that's my save dialog. i want to bring up the saved text from textbox1 back into the textbox on my application using the fileopendialog.
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May 3, 2011
im having a problem getting free direct linking file hosting for my updater program to work. im currently trying to use google docs for this but it doesnt support .exe files.what im thinking about doing is zipping it and downloading the zip then unpacking it in the code. anyone have an easy way of doing this or an alternate solution to this problem?
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Jul 9, 2009
unzipping file using GZipStream.Heres the solution but i hope that i don't need to imports another dlls [URL] the zip files i compressed with 7z. and here the code...
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Sep 27, 2010
Once again, im stuck, ive searched everywher I do not understand at all the zip extraction libraries
Now what im wanting to do is unzip a file mentioned in a texbox and then a directory mentioned in My.Settings.Directory with a progress bar, with a label that changes text, for example: Unpacking, % unpacked or files that are being unpacked.
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Mar 20, 2009
I want to unzip files from my program, so i'm using the Shell32 functionality like so:
Module Module1
Sub Main()
Dim sc As New Shell32.Shell
Dim srcDir As Shell32.Folder = sc.NameSpace("zippath")
Dim destDir As Shell32.Folder = sc.NameSpace("destinationpath")
Dim items As Shell32.FolderItems = srcDir.Items()
destDir.CopyHere(items, 256)
End Sub
End Module
This theoretically works, but i'm unzipping an 8Gb compressed file and the dialog that pops up says it will be done in 1day, 19hours. This is ridiculous because when I just right click on the file and decompress it from there, it takes only a couple of minutes! I can't imagine what the problem is! I know that the shell process actually spawns its own thread, so I worried at first that my process was exiting before the thread could spawn and added a Thread.Sleep(1000) after destDir.CopyHere() but it had no effect.
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Apr 20, 2009
Im designing a program that will read from various text files (preferably RTF files) and then put them into the RTF box in the program when a button is clicked.
Here is the portion of my code that i am referring to.
Try
Dim fileText As String = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("c:\" & selectedHero & ".rtf")
infoDisplay.AppendText(fileText)
infoDisplay.Rtf.Format()
Catch
MsgBox("Selected Hero currently has no File with us.")
End Try
Now heres the problem. In the file i have a few pictures and its formatted and what not. I thought since its a RTF file and the Box is RTF it would auto format.... but anyways. It appears like this in the RTF Box.
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}
{\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1507;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20{\object\objemb{\*\objclass Paint.Picture}\objw3000\objh3000{\*\objdata
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Ok so im not sure how i can read from a RTF file and put it in the RTF box with the right format....Ive been searching around for a while.
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Jan 21, 2010
I am trying to create an application that will copy files with a "*.1" extension over to another directory and change the file extension to .tif. The problem is that the *.1 files are located within zip files. Is it possible to copy files out of a zip file without having to extract it? The code I have so far is below. I have only gotten to the point to list all *.zip files found in a specific directory in a listbox. I am really looking to list all *.1 files found within all .zip files in a specific directory. Once they are all listed in the listbox, I will then chose a destination directory, copy them to the destination directory and change the files from a .1 extension to a .TIF extension.
Private Sub Button4_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button4.Click
ListBox1.Items.Clear()
FolderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath = "C:\"
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Mar 22, 2009
What i am trying to do is open a save file dialog and write to a .txt firl the contents of my listview. so far:
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i have this, but i'm not to sure how to write to the .txt file i know i need to use a for each to loop the contents of the list view
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Jun 17, 2010
I am writing a simple program that will encrypt the text that is held in a text box and save it to a text file but I want it to be able to open a text file and decrypt the contents.
Ok now all the threads I have read are about reading a text file that is in a preset location.
What I want to do is open a text file that the user selects and have the contents displayed in a text box.
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May 8, 2009
I am writing a text editor application which uses an advanced third party text editor. This editor allows the user to set Bookmarks and use Outlining, just like the editor in Visual Studio. The output of my application is a ".script" file, which is basically just a text file. This file is read later by a game, and I can therefore not change anything to the layout of the file. It must be a simple text file.
When the user saves any document, I would like my application to also store the Bookmarks in that document, and the state of any Outlining ranges (collapsed or expanded). The editor allows me to do this by using a special Save feature, which saves the contents of the editor (the text), along with its properties, bookmarks, outline ranges, etc to an XML file. I can also load this XML file back. Now there is one obvious problem: my application should still output its documents as ".script" files, which are just normal text files as said above. Therefore, I cannot use the XML files that also hold the properties/bookmarks etc directly, since the game cannot read those!
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Mar 19, 2010
i have my program and it does what i need it to do but when i export the contents of the text file it does not show the new line characters. it displays it in the text file like this all on one line
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May 25, 2009
I'd like to use a dictionary to store the contents of an ini file. Now I know you can simply say
myArray.add("key1","value1")
myArray.add("key2","value2")
etc...
But Id like to store more information with a specific key, not just a single value, so id like to associate other values with key1 eg firstname,surname,address.
So by knowing the value of 'key1' I could retrieve the firstname, surname or address associated with it.
I know in PERL, hash arrays work in this manner
eg
$hash{'key1}{'firstname'} = 'john';
$hash{'key1}{'surname'} = 'smith';
etc....
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Mar 10, 2010
i have 6 text boxes on a form the contents of which changes depending on a list box, i also have a button which will be used to create a log file, my question is how do i write the contents of the 6 textboxes to a new text file, and on separate lines in the txt file when the log button is pressed.
EDIT: preferably also needs to use the save file dialog so user can choose file name and location to save to.
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Nov 7, 2009
1)How can I make my program get the contents of a .txt file on my website to tell the program to run or not?Here is and example of what I want:Say the file says "Running", the program would run without problems.If the file was to say "Unavailable", a pop up would appear saying "The program is currently unavailable, try again later." Then once the person clicked OK, the program would close.
2)How can I make the program get contents from a .txt file to get the latest version of the program, then if there is a newer version, there would be a pop up saying there is a newer version and they need to update. Then when they clicked OK, the program would close and it would open their default web browser or Internet Explorer to the update page.
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Feb 27, 2012
Reading a .txt file in VB.net. My file path is C:UsersMyLilMulePepeDocumentsVisual Studio 2008Projectscurtain_calls.txt.
This is my line of Dim LoanOptionsFile As String = "C:UsersMyLilMulePepeDocumentsVisual Studio 2008Projectscurtain_calls.txt"
I can read the file when I run the program, but how do I write the file path so that someone else can download my program and file and read the file on their system?
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Jul 9, 2011
I am trying to move from the old ADO to the new ADO .NET . However , no matter how many tutorials I read over the internet , I still can't find a way to do something which , as I believe , has to be very simple I tried to mimic the way the graphic control did but I am missing some things ... I noticed that , in the graphic way , the wizard created 4 controls :- a DataGridView control- a DataSet control- a BindingSource control- a TableAdapter controlI recreated all of them and filled their correspondent properties , but yet I can't make it work . I think what I am missing is the connection itself . I looked on the internet and I think a connection can be made and opened like this :
Dim DataBaseConnectionMY As New OleDb.OleDbConnection
DataBaseConnectionMY.ConnectionString = "PROVIDER=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source = C:ProsoData.mdb"
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May 9, 2012
I have a pretty weird one here, would it be possible to read a column of a text file in to a combobox and to display the directory after the contents of the combobox?[code]...
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Dec 25, 2010
What I have is a program that is receiving an image from my webcam 4 times each second.. What I am currently doing is just forwarding that image to a picturebox on my main form.. I do not keep the image in memory so as not to clog it up.. When you look at it seems like a video feed. Now what I want to do is to take that image every time it comes.. and put it into a video file, so as to record everything that is being seen by the camera.. Is there any way to encode a video preferably avi or mp4 video..
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