Is there any way to check from .NET if windows update is enabled?
I want to prompt the users every time they log into my app that their computer might be at risk and give them a link to windows update website (or windows update application from control panel).
Preferably it should work on XP, Vista and Windows 7. Maybe there is a registry key or even better an API?
How can i check that a user has a proxy enabled in their internet settings?
View 1 RepliesI want to do a For Each loop where i can check whether each button is enabled or disabled. If the button is enabled then i have to obtain the values in the tags for each button. I have 26 buttons each containing different values (cash prizes).*IMPORTANT: this code needs to go under the button so every sixth time its pressed it checks the buttons.
Pseudo-Code:
btncase1.tag = 5
Begin while statement to go through each button
Check each button to see if it is enabled
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I am trying to check whether the button is enabled or disabled. I am doing the following
Assert.IsTrue(Browser.IsEditable(button))
but it gives me error that expression does not produce a value. Any one know how to achieve this. Currently I am using VS2010 MStest in vb.net.
In my application I have more then one form/dialogs, of course. My start up (main) form is called "StartForm" and when I want to access to some other dialogs, I open up dialog and I put StartForm on ".Enabled = False" so that user can't access to that form even if he click somewhere on it (StartForm is maximized to full screen and dialogs are small so StartForm can be seen in background when you open dialog). Ok, this works fine until I click on my application "link" in task bar...then, only my StartForm is visible and it's ".Enabled = False" so I can't do anything...I must kill process in task manager. Same thing happens when I open some other application and then come back to my application.
View 6 RepliesI am using Visual Studio 2010 with NHibernate 3.1 and using Fluent NHibernate for mapping. It has been working well, and with the ShowSql enabled it shows all the select queries.
I have gotten to the portion of the program where I am performing some updates, but they don't show. At first I thought the updates weren't getting triggered even though i was using an explicit transaction - but the data was getting changed in the database. So - somehow, the queries are being executed, but not shown in the Output window of Visual Studio.
It turns out I was mixing two answers together. Log4Net is not needed at all to produce UPDATE statements from NHibernate in the output window.
Setting AdoNetBatchSize(0) in conjunction with ShowSQL DID resolve the problem.
I have created an application in Visual Basic 2010 which supports for Windows Aero (glassy effect) . But if Aero isn't enabled, error messages appears in the application. I need to know the code to ientify wheter Windows Aero is enabled or not.
View 3 RepliesI am developing an application in Vb.Net 2005 and have enabled the installation by clickonce, the update occurs before the application starts. My problem is very simple, the server that contains updates is correctly natted to be available from the outside with a public IP.
The clients who access from an external network connecting without problems, download software and updates. When local clients are connected to the same network of the server (LAN) can not download anything because they try to access the server with the ip public, and the nat does not work . We can not perform operations on the DNS server or hosts file and not even on the router.
I need to figure out if i can use ClickOnce to use more than one distribution server, primary and secondary. I'd like to set as the primary server the public address and the secondary server with internal network ip address.
I have enabled the glass effect to Windows Forms in Visual Basic 2010. When I drop controls, they are not displaying well as usual. Whats is wrong with this?Image:
Texts are displaying only front of Black color.
I am making a configuration screen so that an administrator can easily determine what controls on a form are enabled according to a combo selection.
I have created a table (SQL2008 DB) to store the settings and need ideas how I can best implement.
The session form will start up normal with only a few controls enabled to start, but then when the user selects a "session type" from a drop down combo then the form will be configured for that type. Because there may be several different combinations, and I do want to offer the user the ability to add and configure more types as needed I feel like this may be the best method instead of hard coding.
Table Structure
SessionType varchar(25) not null PK
ControlSwitch varchar(50) Not Null
(Edit: I may add an additional DB field so that I can specify the default value of a control also)
Now what I thought I would do on the config form is have a series of combo boxes and the label represent each control with a value of True or False, then when saved it builds a string like example 1,1,0,1,0,1,1,1 or True, True, False etc.
The string would represent
ctrl1=on, ctrl2=on,ctrl3=off,ctrl4=on,ctrl5=off,ctrl6=on,ctrl7=on,ctrl8=on and so on.
This is my problem.I have a field set up in MS Access to Boolean YES/NO, this field is populated when the user check a checkbox on a windows form. If the user check a checkbox, the value is written as checked in the data field (MS Access).The problem is when I search for the user information, I need the information from the Data base to populate(return) to the windows form. Example: If I enter a users phone number and the user data is present, the form gets populated with the information the user previously entered which was store in the database.Example: If the user selected checkbox1 and submits the form. When I search for the user info, the check box should check(populate) because the user had checked it on submit.Here is what I have done:
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I am getting the check value correctly in the database using a Boolean.Here is one of the errors I am getting. Unable to cast object of type
'System.Boolean' to type 'System.Windows.Forms.CheckBox.I am having trouble putting the codes in a code tag or block
Can the "Disk Cleanup" operation on Windows be disabled / enabled with a registry setting using VB.Net?I am using Windows 7 32 bit ultimate edition. but as a temporary measure I do not wish to do so.
View 4 RepliesAs i'm learning more and more about developing ive just got my head around creating classes and modules, i started wondering about something to do with configuration of applications where deployment is in a more diverse environment say in a company where different branches dont need access to all parts of a program, so i thought id throw the question out there in a basic sense and get some feedback. so i can go off and do some more reading and learning.
So the scenario in my head is like this.
So we have for arguments sake FrmConfig which is the master configuration form, then we have FrmMain which is the root menu our application general user interfaces with. So here based on what options are checked as enabled in FrmConfig effects what controls (like buttons/menu options) are enabled in FrmMain.
I got a hard one for you devolpers.In a popular C++ program BitComet they have a Check For Update feature.How would I have a simple Check For Update and have it warn the user every 1 week or so.
View 4 RepliesAlright, when I open my program I want it to check for updates and if there is an update I want it to download. So far I have a text file saying the most recent version and then it downloads that file and compares it to the current file version. If the current file version < recent version then it will download the file. :O Can someone help me with the code? :3 I have a hosting server with direct download links.
View 5 RepliesI would like to see an example how to check if pappssn exsist in database before the update is complete. If so to raise an error record exsist. My front end is VB however i would like to handle this within SQL in my stored procedure if possible.
ALTER Procedure [dbo].[usp_insertmemapp](
@pappfname nvarchar(50),
@pappmname nvarchar(50),
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I want to check for a system update every .25 seconds. It's very important that it is always .25 seconds apart. I was trying to use do until/while...loop, but it wouldn't let me insert a delay. Does anybody know how to do this/where I could learn to do this?
View 5 RepliesI have an interesting problem. I need to write a program that checks to see if data has been inserted or updated into a Microsoft access database . The program needs to be compatible with both types of access database, so using triggers is not possible as it wont work in access etc
View 3 RepliesSupposedly 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.
Is there a way to check if a site had a page update or a new post easily?? Even just to check if something had changed on the page.
View 4 RepliesI'm a beginner to Visual Basic, and I made a simple program, however I want to put a 'check update' button in it... It consists of downloading a txt file that contains three numbers, if it match with the version of the program it says 'you already have the most up-to-date version' or else it asks you to download the update and then bring you to the dev blog of the program I made, however, when I download that file, it brings me a blank txt file instead of the one I uploaded into the site. By the way, I'm downloading it through HTTP.
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Well on my application there is a check for update button and it needs administrative privileges in order for it to download the update (it needs to make a version change in the registry) and I don't have permission to. How can I make it so it asks for permission?
View 2 RepliesI have looked through the entire internet (well that's what it feels like) to find this out.Tables - Authors and Titles add new title must be linked to an author, so I need to check that the author exists, if so, update the titles table with the user data from the textboxes. If the author does not exist, I need to insert the author first & last name into the author table, then the title info into the title table.this is in VB, using ASP.NET, and my database is a file, I'm not using SQL server, just Visual Studio 2008.
Dim insertParameters As New ListDictionary()
insertParameters.Add("ISBN", ISBNTextBox.Text)
insertParameters.Add("Title", titleTextBox.Text)
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im slightly new to VB, i was wondering how I make the program check a file for an update, i kknow there is an option in the app settings, but when I go on it it doesnt recognize .vb or .exe files to check from.
If i uploaded updates to a server, how would It check that for updates? and what file type would i need to upload it as?
I found there is something related "OnceClick"[code]...
but how to use it?? Got better solution like tray icon prompt the new version available. then prompt user permission for update~
if user accept to update, it will download from server and install and restart application.
There's an website which lists the manufacturer's of the items they deal with. Upon clicking on the manufacturer link we get the relevant list of items. There are around 60 manuf. and each manuf makes around 500 items.
The complete list of items of an particluar manufacturer is split in pages and displayed on the web page, one page at a time and also links to the next pages.
There are around 4 to 5 items newly added weekly for each manufacturer.
So what i wanted was , first the complete data must be stored in the database and displayed to the user , and later only the updates should be displayed to the user.
For this, what approch i thought is, opening each and every page of the website and then extracting the data form the site and storing in the database. Then again whenever user wants an update , again extacting the complete data from the website and comparing it with the old data and displaying the update.
Actually i have to update a software daily on 20 computer and connecting to internet kill my ADSL connection. i would like to download the file on my server and then schedule a task to pick it up from the server share folder.how i can write this script and then put it on the 20 computer so that it come to check the folder on the server then update to the latest file?
View 5 RepliesI use VB 2008. I want to check that text boxes have correct data but not at key pressed key down event. I want to check when user fill the form if all have correct data then insert into database otherwise get focus of specifiq textbox which have wrong data. I see many examples but all is applied on keydown keypress etc events. I just need a class i send Textbox as object in that which return true or false. I need one method in that class which check only numbers with decimal point and limit decimal places to 4 digit.e.g 12345.9876 and other method check A to Z and a to z with some special charecters like @ # $ % & ! ;
View 3 RepliesI can upload excel to sql but when i upload again with old record for update and another record to insert new record [code]...
View 2 RepliesHow can I check at runtime whether a C# application is a Windows application or a console application?I want to write a generic output library (output to textbox or console when console app).For that reason, if I could check whether it is a asp application would be useful, too.
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