How would that work? I can't find any documentation in the MSDN.you know how when you open a txt file it opens up notepad and loads the file? how does the whole 'loading the file' thing work in VB?
View 1 RepliesI have beginner skills using VB (am using the Express edition to learn). I would like to know how to set up a conditional statement in a Windows Form (WF) app that would check if a specific command line has been passed by another separate app that launchesthe Windows Form app using command lines, and if not passed, then the Windows Form app would shut down (exit, close).So far, I can use:
For Each s As String In My.Application.CommandLineArgs
If s <> "xyz" Then
Me.Close()
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I know how to pass arguments between two dotnet applications! However I have hard time with this: I want to pass a command line argument. for example; test.exe is a console application (none dotnet) self terminating app. From cmd.exe if I type "test.exe -v" the cmd output text will display the test.exe version info. If I place the test.exe in the same path as my VB.net app.What I want to do is:
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How, can i pass any command line arguments (Through Run Command)pass when my VB application execute and that's valuesare receive when form activate.
View 12 RepliesI am a beginner using Visual Studio Express 2010 to create a small console app to use as a utility accompanying another primary app that can pass a command line to the utility. I would like to set it up so that the utility will not run independently but only run and load its only form (Form1) if it is launched by the primary app using a "/run" command line parameter. (I can set up the primary app to launch and pass a command line parameter. I need help with the utility's code.)
The utility already has some VB code, so I need to figure out what code to add to receive and act on the " /run" command line and even more challenging for me, where to place this new code so it works.
pseudo-code:
initial event to read the command line, then if it is " /run" load Form1, else do not open and run utility app.
I want to receive command line argument in my application like this.I have two different projects A and b when i execute A it should give an error message ( No Arguments ) but if i executes the project B ( it should pass a command line argument and the project A should start normally. the problem it that i can start application with arguments but i do not know how to receive arguments and execute different processes.
View 1 RepliesRecently, I just helping my friend for developing game private server, in Game Client there are 3 application is needed, its is a patcher, launcher, and main exe, my friend use open source (C++ language) application for the patcher, the patcher is work nicely, and the launcher is program that launch main exe, its using launcher because main exe is need some argument to run, the launcher is created by me.The problem is the user can be run game directly without opening the patcher, so I want to change default command line (usually "0" / "1") in launcher to 3, and I have the trap if user open directly the launcher
If My.Application.CommandLineArgs.Item(0) = "3" Then
MsgBox("Please Run Patcher to proceed the game!")
End
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Can VisualStudio VisualBasic be opened with a command line argument specifying a custom constant for conditional coding? Instead of specifying it at "properties > Compile > Adv Compile Opts > Custom constants", I would like to just run a .BAT file that opens VisualStudio/VisualBasic and my source code with the "Custom constant" already set for the conditional coding.
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I have a file called Test.txt with a one line of String equal to 'This is String', and I've created a command line argument to compare the MD5 results, why am I not getting a match?
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i have 8 new custom file types which go with my app, i can set them to open with me app easily using this code on a button:[code]But im a little stuck on what to change in that, ive made certain all my new extensions are unique and i have all my icons for each new file type made, i just need to be able to set them.
View 5 RepliesI have a normal windows forms application. A button launches a command line application.I need to insert an argument automatically without the keyboard. Then hide the command line application. I've been trying to figure out how to do this but with little success.I need to build a function that does this but I've never built a function before.Here is what I have but it tells me it may result in a null exception.(Because I'm not doing something quite right.)[code]
View 8 RepliesI have a GUI VB application, and a seperate command line module. How can i run the command line module through the gui app, without binding / installing?
View 5 RepliesI have a ClickOnce application deployed to many workstations in my office. On it's first run it adds a registry key to the HKCU run group that adds itself with a "-minimize" argument. On each login the program starts and seeing the command line argument minimizes itself. However when a update is published the program does not update. If the program is run from its menu shortcut without arguments it runs fine. I then looked up how to update programmaticaly and put that code into my program to run at startup.
But my.application.isnetworkdeployed returns False when command line arguments are passed to the app and TRUE when run without command line arguments even though in both cases it is network deployed. Since my program starts up with command line arguments and stays minimized while the computer is on there is no reason for a user to close the program and reopen it through a menu item but as of right now that's the only way the program updates. Is this a bug or how ClickOnce is supposed to work?
Example: Create a new program. On the form add a textbox. In the Form load event put something like:
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
TextBox1.Text = My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath.ToString & "" & My.Application.Info.AssemblyName & ".exe"
MsgBox("Is my app network deployed?: " & My.Application.IsNetworkDeployed)
End Sub
Deploy the app. Start it with a menu item and it returns True. Start it with any command like argument (use the path from the box) and it returns false. Why? How is that possible? The app didn't magically become non network deployed because it was passed a command line argument.
I made this procedure re-use a select query:
[code..]
And I use it like this if I would want the selected value placed in a textbox and it works fine
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However if I want the value to be passed in a string like so:
[code...]
The string ends up having an empty string value. How do I assign the value I queried to that String?
If I try to display a command line argument that has double quotes around, the double quotes are always stripped off. How can I avoid this?
for example, the argument is "c:xx.txt" and this displays c:xx.txt instead Console.WriteLine((My.Application.CommandLineArgs(4)))
I've spent quite a bit of time reading up on generics, covariance, etc., and I am failing to understand why I get the aforementioned compiler error in this type of codeLet's say I have a base "Bill" class made up of a collection of Lines..
Public Class Bill(Of L As Line)
Private _lines As List(Of L)
Public Property Lines() As List(Of L)
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I have the below lines of code :I am getting the error as mentioned in the Title above.This error has come after converting a C# Code to VB.NET Code which is mentioned below:
C#:
public override IChannelListener<TChannel> BuildChannelListener<TChannel>(BindingContext context)
{
if (context == null)
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So I'm tasked with writing a command line app that tells you the file size of a given directory. I'm basically going to replicate what the command dir /s <dir> does, but output the result to a text file to make it available for parsing later on.
Using VB.NET, I'm at a place where I need to get the size of a directory, but it seems there's no such ready-made property in the DirectoryInfo class. How do I get the size of a directory?
EDIT: If there's a built-in command or switch that can be typed into command line to automatically output the results of an operation to a .txt file then that would make this infinitely easier.
How can i compile a vb file through command line?
View 4 RepliesI have a class IContact with various properties some of them being lists of other class objects. I have a public list of IContact. Can I write Contacts as List(Of IContact) to a file as opposed to a bunch of strings I then have to parse? I know visual studio has some data tools in the toolbox and a set of data classes, but I don't know how to use them or if they can help me write all this data to a single file.Second part of the question: I have associated .cms files with my program. But if a user opens the file, what code should the program run through in an attempt to deal with the file? This file is going to contain data that the program needs to read, how do I tell it to read a file when the program is opened vicariously because the file was opened?
I need to clarify these questions, I seem to have poor questions a lot of the time cause I don't get a lot of responses, and when I do get responses, they don't seem to answer my questions, I ask followup questions and then the thread will die after that usually..I seek not answers, but understanding, that I may not solve, but learn. What good is a fish without the skill to catch it?
I have an MDI Windows Forms application (.net 2008) that allows the user to associate various file types with the application. I currently do this with a registry entry something like this, that causes the application to load and access the file name via the command line:[code...]
In the pre-.net version of the application, I used DDE (ddeexec in the registry). If an instance of the application was executing when a file was double-clicked in Windows Explorer, it would open the file without starting up a new instance of the application.
Now that DDE has been deprecated by Microsoft, what is the best way in .net for an executing MDI application to open an additional file when the file is double-clicked in Explorer, as opposed to starting a new instance of the application?
I know there are allot of toppics about this subject, but i cannot find really what i need.
i need a file associations with settings.. so when you click for an example: "PC0210.config" it will start my program with some settings inside the "PC0210.config" File.
Lets say my program needs to give a message box with the PC name when you click the PC0210.config file.
that inside the PC0210.config file is something like: pcname="testPC"my program popsup with: testPC
First let me say that I am not sure whether or not this should go in this section or the API section, and if it needs to be moved I apologize. My issue is fairly straight forward, but for some reason I cannot get it to work.
I am trying to send a command to a command line and then submit the command. I have been trying without success to get this to work in v2008 Express and v2010 Express, Here is the code I am trying to us:
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" ( _
ByVal lpClassName As String, _
ByVal lpWindowName As String _
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I have been trying to fix this and make this work for pretty much three days now. I already solved one problem being, I can't use the shell on one HDD and create another file onto a different drive other then the drive that the directory of the application is running in.
EX:
If I run a program that is on the C: drive and using a working directory that is on the C: drive, I can not create a file onto the F: drive.
I got this problem when I was just using Shell(Environ$("Comspec") & " /c then the command")
So I decided to use Process()
Dim p = New Process()
p.StartInfo.FileName = "F:Visual Basic ProjectsCode TestingCode TestinginDebugToolsMediaInfoMediaInfo.exe"
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How would one go about associating a file type with his application? I know how to read the command line arguments but I am not sure how I can "register" the file extension with Windows. Furthermore, my application is a stand-alone executable, so how would I keep Windows up-to-date on the location of my program?
I did a fair amount of searching and all I could find were old articles that didn't explain everything. How can I create file associations to a stand-alone executable in VB.NET?
Under Project Properties, Publish, Publish Options, File Associations, you can set what file associations your project uses. What should I set for ProgID?
View 1 RepliesI could find any results on file association. The only one that seemed to be straightforward was for a text file. I'm making a webbrowser. This is the code I was provided for a text file association:
Imports RegistryActions.FileAssociation
Public Class HelloForm
Private ftHello As New FileType(".Hello", "Hello", "Hello World Adjective File", "C:World.ico")
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How on earth do I make a file association for an html/htm file?
My name is Stefan and i would like to know how can my app see that it was started up on a file-associated DoubleClick?I know how to associate the files using the "Registry" method and the "Publish" method.
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I was created ".cta" file for my project that file was loaded into my Richtextbox control so I created File associations option into registry all was done but I just double click that file in explorer, my application will run but that file was not loaded into my Richtextbox control. How can I do that...
View 4 RepliesI am using the following code to run defrag and to analyze if the C: drive requires defragmentation:
Dim analyze As Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:WindowsSystem32defrag.exe", "C: /a /h /u /v")
This process runs through analyzing, runs it in normal mode & prints the progress to the command window.
My problem is that as soon as the process is complete the command window closes. I need it to stay open so that I can read the results.