I understand all about giving Administrative Rights via the manifest. However...I'm sure I will have customers that may not want users to have Admin privileges. Is there a way I can grant rights to just the folder where I am writing data to(database and pdf files). The folder will be in Program Files/my company/....
View 5 RepliesIn my application, I create data and log folders that must be shared by all users using this computer. I did a lot of research, and I found a function that is supposed to grant full access to every users of a folder and its children. However if right-click properties on my folder, the access is unchanged. ow should I grant full access to all users of a folder and its children (I don't care who created it, all users should be able to read and write to that folder)?
Public Sub GrantAllAccess(ByVal Folder As String)
Try
Dim DomainUser As String = Environment.UserDomainName & "" & Environment.UserName
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I have a video encoder app made with VB6 that users frequently have issues with. The problem that people encounter is that files do not show up in the output folder where my application is set to write them. The output folder is located in C:Program FilesMyAppOutput. Vista users can sometimes click "Compatibility Files" and see the outputted files. Sometimes I must tell users to "Run As Administrator.."
View 1 RepliesI want to know what rights the user has for a given folder on a network drive. But I can't find anything that does just this.
I have used DirectoryInfo.GetAccessControl and DirectorySecurity.GetAccessRules, etc. to get a collection (AuthorizationRuleCollection) of rules. But that gives me all the access groups and their rights. I don't need that (I guess I can see if I can find code that gets which returns the security groups for the current user and then compare those to the collection, but this seems awkward.)
Or I can write code that tries to create a file, delete it, etc. which is easy to do, but not quite accurate (if the user can't create a file, how can I see if the user can delete one, if the user has create, but not delete rights, I get a bunch of temp files, etc.)
All I need to know is if the current user has read write, read only, create, and/or delete rights to a given folder (and I guess file might also be nice - I would assume similar code.)
I have to believe that its a really simple thing. But Googling it and searching on the forums here didn't turn up much (unless I want code to change the users rights - which I don't.)
I want to copy and paste some files into the C:WindowsFonts Folder .These are just four small files for the font I need in my application , now a normal file copy procedure in vb.net wont work because it requires administrative privilledges
View 1 RepliesI have a program that I wrote that creates a database in SQL Server called States_02 as a sysadmin user. Later on I want to grant SELECT permissions to that database to another user, web I always get an error that it cannot find States_02 or I don't have permissions to do it. My Code:
Dim Conn As New OleDbConnection(ConnStr)
Try
Conn.Open()
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The user has public and sysadmin server roles and is the same user who created the database. This user can also login to SQL Server and grant the permissions manually.
I have written a VB.NET (2005) service that is using My.Application.Log to write log entries to a FileLogTraceListener. I have configured the Listener in app.config to write the log file to the executable file's directory by using
location="ExecutableDirectory"
When the service runs, it writes log entries just fine, but they are not in the executable file's folder, but rather in Documents and SettingsLocalServiceApplicationData....1.0.0.0mylog.log
Why is the location parameter not being honored?
Here is the complete system.diagnostics section from my app.config.
<system.diagnostics>
<sources>
<!-- This section defines the logging configuration for My.Application.Log -->
<source name="SplintService" switchName="DefaultSwitch">
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Save file attachment to folder on search then writing its path to DB? I would like to save the file attachment to a folder on the website.
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I have a quick question. One of the functions in the program I am writing is to take all of the data entered, compile it into an HTML document, then place that document into a folder.For the past few days, I have just been using a random folder on one of my hard drives to dump the file in, but the problem is that, in my code, I have supplied the folder location as a string ("E:Practice FilesDocuments"), and therein lies the problem. Trying to test my program on a separate system brought the bug to my attention; obviously, this program can only write this file to a location of E:Practice FilesDocuments, and if any other computer that runs this program doesn't have E:Practice FilesDocuments then there is going to be a problem in the program working the way I have intended
So what I would like to do is instead of having it write the file to "E:Practice FilesDocuments," have it write to the default My Documents folder so that the program is no longer specific to my machine only. The problem is, though, I have no clue what the right code is to use. I first tried using
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location to write the file to the default installation directory. This would have worked, but since this is a VB.NET program, the default installation directory isn't in Program Files and doesn't seem to be meant for users to browse through for their documents, plus it seems that trying to write back to this directory causes some unhanded exceptions and whatnot. I figured it would just be easier to create a folder in My Documents rather than use the install directory (and probably smarter).
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I have a vb .net application where the user can choose a directory into which an excel file is written. If the user selects a system directory (yes, my users do this, don't ask me why) then a System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException is thrown at runtime. I am handling this exception telling the user to please select another directory.
View 1 RepliesOk I know this question has been asked to death but I still have not seen a good answer. I have created an application in VS2010 using VB.NET. In my application I have an error log that is an XML file located in the Public gstLocalErrorLogLocation As String = Application.StartupPath & "ErrorLog"that gets written to in the event of an error so I can trouble shoot application easier. My application also downloads files from our FTP site and puts the files in Public gstLocalDownloadLocation As String = Application.StartupPath & "download"So I have files that get read and written to as well and created and deleted all in the Application.StartupPath which is either "c:Program Files(Application Directory)(Some Directory)(Some File)" or "c:Program Files (x86)(Application Directory)(Some Directory)(Some File)" depending on 32bit or 64bit Windows 7.
After creating the setup I install it on my test machine that have both Windows 7 32bit and 64bit.Everything in the application works great till I have to write to, delete or creat a file in those directories above. I know it is an access issue and the UAC. This will get installed on numerous systems so the options I have seen to change file or folder permission on the computers manually is not an option.What has to happen is after I install the application it just works like when you install it on XP. Some post have suggested that you us a user with administrator privilages or group which is all fine and dandy but the user I have used to test the application has all of that.
So what I am asking is how do you create an application with VS2010 in VB.NET that after creating a setup package and installing on Windows 7 will just work with out "Access to the path c:Program Files(Application Directory)(Some Directory)(Some File) is denied." If I have to install this on 100 Windows 7 computers it has to be a concreate no manually doing anything just install and work like when we installed on XP.
I am working on a program using VB.Net 2010 which will enable me to setup groups of files & folders for back up with syncing capabilities etc. I have a concept program which is based on some sample code I found out in one of the VB.Net forums. I have modified it from a command line based program to a form based program. At the moment I consider this code to be a "concept" program which once I have the various copy/sync routines developed and debugged will be integrated in to another program I wrote for
creating "Back Up" groups to automate the process. There are some 3rd party programs that do similar things that I want to do such as Microsofts Sync Toy, but none of them offer the grouping and exclusions options that I am going to program in to this backup/sync program.
So here is my problem, I have the included code taking two folders, a source and a destination, and copying everything from the source to the destination. It will skip over any unchanged files/folders and will delete anything found in the destination folder that is not found in the source folder and it will update all files in the destination folder that have a newer version in the source folder. In other words it will mirror image the source to the destination but will be smart enough not to copy unchanged items from the source to the destination thereby saving a lot of time. The sync part of the program is working fine, the displaying of the progress and results is not.
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I'm working on a server and i added a new function, to create a firewall rule for the connections. The problem is that when executed, it returns "The requested operation requires elevation (Run as administrator)."
How can i run the CMD at elevated privileges?
Here's the code.
Function ShellExec(ByVal command As String, Optional ByVal Elevated As Boolean = False)
Dim psi As New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("cmd.exe", "/C " & command)
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I am using following code to get a directory of files with a particular extension. It throws an error that you donot have administrator privileges.[code]...
View 3 RepliesI don't know how to run my application with system level privilleges, so that it does not encounter any UNAUTHORISED ACCESS in any case and when in seen in TASK MANAGER the user shown will be SYSTEM.
View 19 Replieshow can i set administrator privileges selectively in my application depending on whether it needs to write a registry value or not?my app needs the elevated privileges once, then each subsequent execution needs standard permission.
[code]i want to write Delta_r(i) in access data and then i want to connect that file to Crystal report for plotting.
View 4 RepliesI am working on a program for work and I am stuck on trying to make a new XML file from VB.NET 2010. I have the old code which was done in C# and it works but even using a C# to VB converter didn't help. I will paste in both the C# and what I have in VB
private void webBrowser1_Navigating(object sender,
WebBrowserNavigatingEventArgs e)
{
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It is supposed to not only create the file but launch a program called PowerScribe and find the case in the Field 6 section.
Im am currently coding an application for auto updating ccleaner. Everything worked well until I enabled UAC.. I am using this project: [URL] to schedule the updating process, but when uac is enabled I get every time a message if I would let ccleaner installer make changes to my computer. The auto updating process must be done silently without bugging the user with prompts of uac.
When i manually check the "run with highest priviliges" box in task scheduler it does run without a prompt. But I can't seem to do this programmatically. Or I havent found it yet.
My app needs to delete and rewrite a text file called events.txt
now it used to work but now when i run the app it shows an error due not being to access the file in the "Program FIles (x86)/MyApp/" folder?
I wrote the code below to switch a user from DHCP to static networking (taking their DHCP assigned address and making it static). However on Vista and Windows 7 machines it does not work unless executed from within an escalated private command shell, even if the user executing it is a member of the local administrator group. I need to be able to email this script to users to execute on their computers (i.e. I have no remote access to them).
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\"& strComputer & "
ootcimv2")
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I found that snippet, edited it a little bit and now im trying to use it...the problem that ocurres, is that its never going into the first IF... so already there seems to be an error.Im working on XP SP3 with admin privileges..
Private Shared Function GetCurrentPrivileges() As Privileges
If My.User.IsAuthenticated() Then
If My.User.IsInRole(ApplicationServices.BuiltInRole.Administrator) Then
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I would like to save let's say "HKLM/SOFTWARE" into file using API. First I open the key using RegOpenKeyEx. This works fine as I see that the ReturnPointer is different from zero and differs also when I switch from "SOFTWARE" to other subkey, therefore I assume no problem there.The problem comes when I want to save into the file. It creates only a blank file with return code of 1314. I have googled for this, but only found that this error means that application has no privilege to perform the action and I need to setup "SeRestorePrivilege" & "SeBackupPrivilege" property somehow. I haven't been able to find a good VB.NET example for this and as I am very weak with APIs I wasn't able to construct one of my own, therefore I would like to ask you for advice on this.Could you please help me on how to set the privileges so that I can export/import registry? [code]
View 4 RepliesI want to display a prompt to the user as such: "Program requires Administrator privileges to continue, click OK to restart the program with administrator privileges". The question is how can I restart my program so that it asks for them?
View 7 RepliesI want to be able to click on the save icon and have the data on the form save to the original database. Right now I seem to have a disconnected dataset I have tried to change everything from read only to a false statement but it just will not work. It saves to the form fine just not the orignial data base.
View 3 RepliesI have 10 panels on a form and I was wondering if there is a more efficient way to loop through them to pass the data to my procedure instead of writing out each one the way I am doing
' sample shows only 3 but there are 10
For i As Integer = 1 To 3
Select Case i
Case 1
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I am trying to write the TOURN structure and then read the TOURN structure back in.. the file gets created on my desktop and the program does not have any syntax errors, but when I READ the file none of the Data gets retrieved. So I am not sure if the DATA was actually saved or it is just not being retrieved?? This is what I have coded so far...
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I am doing the project to make a microcontroller communicate with PC. I am facing the problem writing the C++ code for command button to ask uC to display the data in my label. How to write the code for C++ to get the data from the microcontroller?
i'm using a C8051F320-dk which already have a USB connector and a RTC.
my data will be the date, and time provided from the RTC.
I currently have a program that, when I select an option from a drop down menu, will transmit a character to a microcontroller. I then have to click another option after 10 seconds to send another character. What I would like to do is modify this program to transmit one character for a period of 10 seconds, then transmit another value for another 10 seconds and so on for a defined period of time, say 30 seconds in total.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to write data back to my database in my project, but it keeps disappering when I make any changes to code. I can build the project, add data, close the project and build it again and the data is still there. But as soon as I make any changes to anything, on the next build, all of the data is gone.
The table will not be bound to any controls in the final project, but for testing purposes I have a datagrid control that it is bound to. My code started as follows:
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