I have a windows forms application with the msi installer residing on my web site
Prospective clients can download the installer from a web page after filling out their contact details. This works fine
I would like to be able to auto run the installer after the download is complete
where can i download free installer of vb.net 2008 version? rili need it now,.
View 1 RepliesI am seeking advice or clarification of feasibility.Ihave a VB.NET (2008) application that, as an administrative tool,generates a user id, password and business role, and creates a file on disk with the aforementioned as content. This file needs to be deployed to users via a setup program that will put the file in a fixed path I specify. I was wondering if it is possible (and if so how complex it might b to mimic the functionality of the IDEs setup and deployment wizard within the application (that is to say buildthe msi file and setup.exesupplying the parameter of installation path).
View 5 RepliesI have this installation [URL] and I need to make silent installer for it, so I have found a solution but I don't know the code. I need:
1. VB 2008 Code for executing application in background.
2. VB 2008 Code for auto-clicking invisible button for mother application.
I created a small application and an installer project for it. I can install and also run it, only thing htat i dont like is that during setup, it downloads .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and this takes long sometimes. I want to have it on the installation CD later.
I have seen in the installer's detected dependencies, that there is the 3.5 framework contained and it has a InstallURL property = [URL]..I am a little confused about all the Framework stuff on this site - so just 3 simple questions:
1) which file exactly do i have to download,
2) where to put it and
3) what to write into the property InstallURL then? (Maybe needed to change also other properties)?
I am looking to go to a URL/URI download the resulting string as if I had opened a file and then get it out into a String variable.
I have been stuffing about with IO.Stream and Net.httpxxx but haven't managed to get the elements to line up in the right way.
I get "the given path's format is not supported" from opening the page in the standard stream, because it's not in the local file system ... that bit i understand, the bit I don't get is ... how do I achieve the equivelent of:
Public Function GetWebPageAsString(pURL As String) As String
Dim lStream As IO.StreamReader = New System.IO.StreamReader(pURL)
Return lStream.ReadToEnd
End Function
I read the following question to download a web page whose contents is coded in UTF-8. The page is then converted into a byte array, while I'm using a String to read contents from the page.
I need to turn UTF-8 into Latin1/ANSI since that's what RichText and MessageBox seem to use (I'm getting funny characters).
Is there a more direct way to donwload a UTF-8 page and convert it into ANSI/Latin1?
Edit: When callig MessageBox, accented characters are not shown as expected:
Content = CStr(e.Result)
'Théâtre, Métro
MessageBox.Show(Content)
Does any one know how to download webpages that have a nonscript tag. I have used httpwebrequest and weclient but I always get the text in the nonscript tag. The only thing that i have gotton to work is the webbrowser but I have encountered many problems.
View 4 RepliesI am working on a task in which I have to download all flash objects swf and flv files running in web page. I have got no clue to find he source of .swf file, as mostly swf files comes from other servers. I want to find out some way to find the source / url of .swf currently running. Kindly suggest me some way.
I have 2 ideas in mind, but currently unsuccessful in implementing them
1. Using WebBrowser class and somehow find url of swf.
2. Using Pcap to fetch all http packets and after decoding, some how try to find url coming.
Probably a simple question but I cant figure it out. I have a webbrowser control, which navigates to a URL where it logs in, then a different URL where theres some information I need. I would like to save this page as an HTML document. I can navigate to the page easily, so is there any way to tell the webbrowser to save the current page as an HTML document?
View 2 RepliesI have been wanting to make a file downloader (enter the website link, it browses files, with the Filter you give it, then has a download link for each file.) I haven't coded VB since 2006 and can't even remember the basic code.
View 4 RepliesI'm trying to Download a String from a Webpage, but in order to do that, I need to download the whole webpage. I've found it easier to use DownloadString, but I can not figure out how to process each line of the Downloaded String, as it is one whole string.
View 4 RepliesI've been trying for a while to use a method I've found on the net to login to a webpage then download zip files off the page.Here is what I am doing:
Code:
strURL = "https://www.someurl.com/"
Client = New WebClient()
[code].....
In a loop, I need to read a list of URLs from a text file, download the web page, and search for a bit of text using a regex.
I used the following code, with DownloadStringAsync() to avoid freezing the UI, but it triggers the error "WebClient does not support concurrent I/O operations.":
Private Sub AlertStringDownloaded(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs)
If e.Cancelled = False AndAlso e.Error Is Nothing Then
[Code].....
I'm creating an application where I want to save a webpage to a file. The webpage has a Javascript function written into it. See below
<html>
<head>
<title>Javascript</title>
[Code]....
There is a reason for this. I will be required to retrieve data from a Javascript API. The API can only display data on the webpage and somehow I have to retrieve it from the webpage.
I'm using Visual Studio 2008 but with .Net Framework 2.0. Haven't tried out 3.0 or 3.5.
Is it possible to create a setup installer that will auto install fonts when user install the applications?
View 6 RepliesI need to auto login into a phpBB forum.I tried the following code out but though the username and password fields gets copied nothing else happens.The form doesnt get submitted.
Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load WebBrowser1.Navigate("http:www.warez-bb.org/login.php") End Sub
Private Sub WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs) Handles WebBrowser1.DocumentCompleted
' WebBrowser1.document.Body.InnerHtml.ToString()
[Code]...
Though I am using a webbrowser control at present but I want to remotely login without opening any browser nor a webbrowser control.Now I could hide the webbrowser control but then I wont know whether the site loading operation was successful or not (in case the site was down or so) Is there a function or a value that is returned after successfully loading a website via which I could check (without opening anything) whether my operation was successful or not
I am having a problem clicking this button. Using the buttons Id doesn't work can anyone tell me how to click this button? here is my
HTML
Dim theWElementCollection As HtmlElementCollection = WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("Input")
For Each curElement As HtmlElement In theWElementCollection
[Code].....
I want to download the same information which is obtained when we right click view page source in browser. I want to do this either in vb.net or perl
I need it for google image search result webpage.When that page is saved then html code is not same as view page source info.tags for images are absent. [code]...
I am new to programming and trying to create an application to login to a website and download a report automatically. I am stuck at the login part. What i have so far:
[Code]...
I used the search, Could not find something on auto starting the program from download, or auto run, I'm not sure what it is exactly called, that might be why I didn't find anything.
View 2 RepliesI have been working on this one for a couple of days now. The company I work for wants me to automate a login (coupled with a phone dialer) to a national Satellite retailer. When the call center individual gets a call the ACD system forwards them to a URL and is supposed to log them in. Unfortunately one of the sites heavily uses frames and I cannot programmatically autofill the userid and password and programmatically press the "OK" button on thee website. The website is: [URL]. I have been able to drill down and fill in the userid and password fields, but this has stopped working but I have never been able to Invoke the OK button event.
View 2 RepliesI've spent hours trying to get this figured out and I keep getting the same F'ing error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object.". I need to be able to automatically click a button on a web page through my webBrowser (webBrowser1) but the problem is the button on the page is setup a little funny. The button looks like...
[Code]...
I have an email creator that needs to extract the emails created from the html page, display the accounts in a richtextbox1 & then save the accounts as a .txt file on my system. How would I go about doing this? Doe anyone have a great code sample??
View 1 Repliesall I want is a function like this:
[URL] but then with the option to provide username & password. I have managed to do this with the webbrowser, first logging in then go to webpage and get source code but this takes much longer than just getting the source code...
Is there any way to do this? I found this:
[URL]
I tried with &username=...&password=... in the URL but it didn't work
My idea is that i want to create a auto-shutdown app that will allow me to auto-shutdown after downloads have completed using IE6. Third part download managers have these built in for example however i would like to make one for IE download dialog. Any ideas on how do start. Detect when a download is active, set time, autoshutdown etc.
View 3 RepliesI wanna know if it's possible to make an application that opens a web page and auto-click a defined text from that page.
View 2 RepliesI have WebBrowser1 and this code on a button: WebBrowser1.Navigate(URLBox.Text) That all works fine and I can enter text and go to the webpage. How do I:
1. Check for when the page has finished loading?
2. Auto populate 2 fields on the webpage and click login?
I have some values in the registry to set the user name, I also have a web browser, How would i make the web browser auto fill in the user name field in the web page window on load?
View 4 RepliesI'm currently developing an application for a POS Terminal using VB.net. Our project is approaching the last stage of development and I've been tasked to create 2 installers. 1 for Initial Installation, and the other for upgrade installation.
The project is composed of several elements. These are:
1. The application executable
2. Common DLLs that we developed
3. some resources (.resx and XML)
The requirement for the upgrade installer is that only those files with modification should be installed. (i.e. if only the xml or resx files are modified those are the only items that will be reinstalled, since the size of the upgrade installer is a consideration so we cannot reinstall everything).
I'm using Visual Studio 2005 for my deployment project but I'm a bit confused about how to set the properties of each file in such a way that during the upgrade, only the files that were modified would be updated and the rest of the files will not be removed since I'm setting RemovePreviousVersion property to True. I have a hunch that I need to do something with the custom action but I haven't been able to figure it out. The upgrade installer setup is almost the same as the initial installer except that all files are excluded.I tried to acquire a copy of Phil Wilson's book (The definitive guide to Windows Installer) but its not available in our local bookstore and it would take too long to order it.
Basically while tinkering with the settings/properties there are instances where the dll was not updated and there are also times when the application exe was removed.
I already verified that the Product code is the same for both installers and that I'm sure that the version number is being incremented for each upgrade.
If I will be redoing both installers from scratch, how should I go about it?
I'm also confused about the Condition property and the transitive property.