File I/O And Registry :: Saving / Reading Text Files
Aug 14, 2008I require some help in saving and reading files in Line by Line format, How would I save to a specific line in the text file, or read a specific line?
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File I/O And Registry :: Reading Text From Non-.txt Files
Apr 24, 2009An application that my company uses stores report files with a .dat extension for use with their software. These files can be opened in notepad and the basic report information can be seen as text. I am attempting to write an app that opens and reads data from these .dat files and displays it in a checked listbox. My hangup thus far is that I can't figure out how to read the data from the .dat files since they are not .txt files. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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File I/O And Registry :: Reading Files By First Line
Sep 1, 2008Alright this is what im working with. Im Working with vb.net 2003.I have (X) amount txt files in "C:Marble".In each txt files there are 3 lines.I want to read the first line of each txt file and display them in a listbox. [code] Things i need to Find:
-1 How to tell how many files are in a folder
-2 How to create a loop were it reads the first line of each file in that folder
File I/O And Registry :: Reading All Files In 'Windows' Folder
Aug 23, 2011I'm trying to return a integer / count of the ammount of files in the directory and sub directories in the 'Windows' folder, I need to be able to do this as fast as possible (no lag) and tell when it's done, hope I explained this right.
View 3 RepliesFile I/O And Registry :: Reading Files From A Large Directory?
Jul 15, 2009I wrote a cleanup program to go through some directories and delete files based on if the creation date is older than say 6 months. It works fine with some of the directories I have that contain around a few thousand small files. However, there is one directory (that contains small backup files from another program) that is loaded with over 300,000 files and it locks up on me as soon as I read in the first file in that directory.I am convinced it is the directory has too many files in it to open it. The server that the directory is on is slow. It takes a half hour to open the directory while on the server itself. I know it will take forever to delete the amount of files I want to delete, but I don't understand why it gets stuck and hangs there with no error message.Here is where I get stuck. Listbox1 is the directory I'm attempting to access
For Each selectFile In My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles(ListBox1.Items.Item(Count), FileIO.SearchOption.SearchTopLevelOnly, "*.*")
compFile = Path.GetFileName(selectFile)
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File I/O And Registry :: Reading TAB Delimited File Using MS Text Driver
Jun 14, 2011I am trying to import a TAB (NOt comma) delimited text file into a DataGridView. The following code works fine if I have a comma separated file. All I have to do is change the FMT to "Delimited".It just does not work with FMT=TabDelimited. All columns are read into single datatable column. The text file is ANSI text and I have double checked to make sure Tabs are tabs and not spaces, even exported a sample Tab Delimited file from Excel.Can this even be done using Text Driver? [code]
View 2 RepliesFile I/O And Registry :: Text File Reading And Writing?
Jul 17, 2010I have just recently been using VB 2010 after using VB5. I have noticed a lot of changes. The problem I have is that I wish to open and save text files to and from arrays in the background. I've attached what I would do in VB5. I have searched around, but all the examples I find use a Textbox instead of an array. Can anyone show me how I can do this with VB 2010?
View 1 RepliesReading A Text From A Binary File, Changing And Saving?
May 4, 2009I'm new to VB and trying to figure out how I can replace a bit of descriptive text in a binary file. I presume its binary as I cant open it with anything but a hex editor. I've changed the text (file description) in the hex editor and saved it fine but I'm unsure how I go about saving just the section of information I need. I can work out the saving bit later.In the attached file you'll see the highlighted bit I want to edit. I need to replace the whole line or the file corrupt but I can fill it up with null characters and the numbers are just
View 3 RepliesVS 2010 Reading Text File And Saving Content?
Aug 18, 2011I am trying to create a console application that allows me to read the contents of a text file and saving the data by specific name in a set of files. For example, the text file I am going to read is a tab delimited file. Some content of the file includes full name, school, location, and whatnot. I want to save the content by school name in a set of files that have the school names. In this case, everyone that attends "Central" will be saved in a file named Central.txt.Everyone that attends "Central Park" will be saved in a file named Central Park.txt.These are the sub procedures I came up with so far:
Readfile()
'Use StreamReader
WriteFile()
And I think I am on the right track of reading the text file:
Dim objStreamReader As StreamReader
Dim strLine As String
'Pass the file path and the file name to the StreamReader constructor.
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File I/O And Registry :: Reading Text And Splitting To Arrays Then Echoing To Textboxes
Mar 1, 2010I'm currently making a program that will be used to practice German. It reads from textfiles that have English words (noted by # prefix) and German words (noted by $ prefix). An example of this:
#hello $hallo
#good $gut
#evening $abends
The way it currently works is it loads a text file, finds all # and splits to an array called "English" and finds all $ and splits it to an array called "German" What I want it to now do is feed the "English" entries into textboxes on the left, and "German" onto textboxes on the right so I can then match them out and make a sort of memory game out of it. Unfortunately, I don't know how I would loop an array through multiple textboxes. Conveniently, the textboxes on the left have even numbers, and the ones on the right have odd. Is there a way to possibly find all evenly numbered textboxes and loop "English" array entries into them, and the same for "German"? I've realised this has now gotten a little convoluted, but hopefully somebody understands. I can screenshot the form for better explanation, and copy my existing source code if anybody wants it.
File I/O And Registry :: Reading A Text File?
Oct 30, 2009i created a text file with some employee data in vb 2005, on my form i i have a bunch of textboxes and a combobox. i can load the employee numbers manually into the combobox but want the employee details to show in the textboxes when selecting the different employee numbers. i declared a structure with the various fields and a reader to read the text file. here is where i am stuck. my code thus far:
Public ABCStreamReader As StreamReader
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File I/O And Registry :: Recursively Edit Text Files In Sub Folders?
Jul 20, 2010I found this code on here to open a text fille, do a find & replace then save the changes, and the code is in a loop that will do that to every file in a given folder. My question is I also have files in sub folders, and more sub folders, and i'm not sure how deep it goes. I want to recursivly go though all the sub folders and do this to all the files, not just the files directly in the main folder.
Here is the code so far:
Code:
FolderBrowserDialog1.Description = "Select Path for files to edit"
FolderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog
OpenPathVariable = FolderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath
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File I/O And Registry :: Reading Multiple Keys From The Registry?
Aug 27, 2008I am writing an application that connects to a specific com port. This com port can change depending on how many physical ports are on the PC, and if other USB devices have installed com ports before this one.
I have the communication to the com port all working great, but I need to get the com port description not just the "COM#" which is all I currently get.
I found in the registry where the description is stored but am having trouble doing what I need.
In this key:
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ControlClass{4D36E978-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
there is a varied number of sub keys. The are numbered 0000-NNNN depending on how many ports you have. Inside each of these keys, there are multiple values, although I am only interested in one or 2 of them.
My problem is, that I do not know how to get a list of the subkeys (the 0000-NNNN keys/folders) from the original key I posted. I have looked through a few registry tutorials, and I can view the default value in the listed key, but I could not find how to list the subkeys of the listed key.
Does anyone have any sample code they could share that shows how I can get a listing of subkeys, and then run through those subkeys checking for a specific value in one of the strings contained in the subkey?
I am using VB.net 2008 and Windows XP.
VS 2010 Saving And Reading From Files?
Mar 5, 2012I have to create a school reward system. Currently i have written code for creating user accounts and logging into the system. I have been able to write to the file i need to and i have been able to log in. However i can only log in for the first saved account. when i hover over the stored variable whilst stepping through it appears that unnecessary gaps have been added to stored information...User.stored username is the data structure type that i have stored information as...
user.storedUsername = " TestStaff "
I believe it should be like this:
user.storedUsername = "TestStaff"
Reading Data From API Feed And Saving Into Files
Mar 17, 2011I am reading data from an API feed and saving the chunks into files. When the files reach 10 MB I start a new file and write to that file. What happens now is that an entry (<entry></entry>) can get cut off at the end of a file and continues into the new file. I try and reconstruct the files by taking the last entry and combining it with the first entry of the next file but this is tedious and was wondering for better suggestion on handling the data transmission and file creation.
The data stream is of variable sizes and where one request can return 60 MB of data the next can be as little as 2MB. I know the data stream will end with a token </feed>but my problem is the cut off data in between. I guess I could just make the max size really large and then hope the data is never more than that but then I have to work with large text files and reading in and parsing would be a problem.
timestamp = DateTime.Now
numbytesread = responseStream.Read(bufferread, 0, BUFFER_SIZE)
If numbytesread > 123 Then
'timestamp = DateTime.Now
responseData = Encoding.UTF8.GetString
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File I/O And Registry :: Using "Click-Once" To Publish Embedded Text Files?
Nov 1, 2008this is driving me insane. I have 4 text files that are needed for my application to run and I'm using the following code to read the data in them :
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File I/O And Registry :: Binary File Primer - Read The Nth Record Without Reading The Whole File?
May 4, 2009I need to write data to a file, preferably in binary format, but I am unaccustomed with the concept. Where's the easiest place to get the basics? I could come here with a specific need, but I'm at the point right now where I am more willing to work within the confines of keeping it simple.
Here's what I know:
1. how to open a new file
2. how to specify the record length
3. how to close the file
Some specific questions:
Does the record length have to be constant throughout the file?
Can I read the nth record without reading the whole file?
File I/O And Registry :: Saving For With Dynamic Controls
Sep 13, 2009I'm working on a kind of database program. What it does is, after an user fills in a couple of textboxes and hits an "Add" button, it creates a series of textboxes, and places these in the same form. After that, and here's where I have the problem, I want to be able to save the form, saving not only what each dynamically added textbox says, but also it's location in the form.
Here's part of my work up to now:
Code:
Public Class Form3
Dim k As Integer = 1
Dim i As Integer = 0
Dim j As Integer = 0
Dim x As Integer = 8
Dim y As Integer = 40
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NOTE: Age, name, last name, tel and type are all the fields that the user has to fill in, they are textboxes.
File I/O And Registry :: Reading Xml Attributes?
Aug 9, 2009I am trying to read all the attributes, there are 3, from a single node. This is what I tried from an example I found:
Code:
Dim xl As New XmlDocument
xl.Load(XMLfile)
Dim rn As XmlNode = xl.SelectSingleNode("p1")
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I have used a messagebox to show the xl.OuterXml, I see the file is loaded.
File I/O And Registry :: Reading A HTML File And Replacing Certain Parts?
Nov 5, 2010friend of mine has no HTML knowledge so I'm attempting to write a program that replaces certain parts of a html file to suit his needs.I've edited the HTML file and marked certain parts with "tags" like this:
#IMAGEURL1# I have a textbox where he can copy + paste an image URL and hopefully the #IMAGEURL1# is replaced with the contents of the textbox.
So can someone please enlighten me to-as how to open a HTML file (there's no textbox to display the contents just yet, I'll add one if needed), find the specified text and then replace it with whats in a textbox.
File I/O And Registry :: Saving Data From Class Properties?
May 28, 2009I currently have a class
Code:
Public Class Customer
Public Property AccountNumber() As String
Public Property PMDue() As String
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Account Class is initialized as new customer. To save the data from each property in the Account Class, I'm currently looping thru the properties each time Account obtains new data. I tried to simplify the process by the following line...
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CustomerStreamToWrite.WriteLine(Account)
This does not work as written. I figured it would be much faster. It did not write out the property data. It saved "WindowsApplication1.Customer" Not exactly what I wanted. Is there a method to get it to save the properties in a written out style by just using the class name?
File I/O And Registry :: AVI Header - Program To Download And Play AVI Files The Files Are Large In Size And Long Time Wise
Dec 11, 2011I wrote a program to download and play AVI files the files are large in size and long time wise. I have the files playing as they are being downloaded but i can't see how long the file is or seek reliably. i was reading that the AVI headers are in the last 512kb of the AVI file *why would't they put it at the start* lol so my question is is there a way to download the last 512Kb of the file i'm downloading. i have the Bytes Read and Length of the file while its downlaoding i'm just not sure where to go from there, or how to do it atleast. If i had the length in time of the Avi file i could set the trackbar to be able to seek properly. or if someone has an idea how i could get the time of the video by using fps and some math i could prob do it that way too but idk how i would tell how i can find how many kb are in the fps i'm sure it changes so think that way is't going to be reliable. how to get the last 512kb would be the best option not sure if it can be done even.
View 4 RepliesFile I/O And Registry :: Reading .ini And Showing Settings?
May 6, 2009I want to read 'File.ini' line by line checking if specific text exists in the file and then display on a windows form weather particular settings are turned on or off.So far this code works if "TargetText" exists but if it doenst I get an error on the code line: "If line.Contains("TargetText") Then".
Code:
Using z As System.IO.StreamReader = New System.IO.StreamReader(File.ini")
Dim line As String
' Read first line.
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It works if "TargetText" exists in a line in the file but if it doesnt exist I get the 'Null Reference Exception. Object reference not set to an instance of an object.'
File I/O And Registry :: Reading From Reg. And Displaying In Listbox
Mar 6, 2010I'm trying to read multiple values from a registry subkey in the CurrentUser key. I need to display these values in a listbox with multiple lines. I so far can only get one of the values from the subkey. I know (or at least I think I know) that I need to list the values in a string (with a possible loop), and then just display the string to the listbox. The subkey is the TypedURLs under CurrentUserSoftwareMicrosoftInternet Explorer Typed URLs. Here is my code I have so far (I did a year of basic VB as part of my Uni course).[code]
View 4 RepliesFile I/O And Registry :: Reading File 2008 Express
Nov 19, 2008I'm new to Visual Basic. I'm trying to get this code to read a .txt file line by line. If the only thing that the line says is "B" it should add one to the intTotalBoys integer and so on with G for Girls, F for Fathers, and M for Mothers. I'm not sure why it won't work. [code]
View 4 RepliesFile I/O And Registry :: Reading From A File And Ignoring Comments?
Oct 28, 2009I would like to read from file, and ignore lines that start with --. I know how to read line by line but i just need to ignore those lines.
View 3 RepliesFile I/O And Registry :: Reading/Writing Objects To File?
Jul 5, 2009So I need to write out an object to a text file as well as read in objects from text files.How do I accomplish this? This is the code i've used to read and write just simple lines of text. Is there a small modification to this or just a different function i use to read in an entire object?
Code:
Dim path As String
path = "Security.txt"
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File I/O And Registry :: Reading File Properties Without Loading File
Sep 19, 2010I want to be able to able to read the dimensions of a TIF image without loading the entire file.
PS Using Visual Basic 2008 on Vista64.
File I/O And Registry :: Reading A Textfile And Sorting Things Out?
May 11, 2009I have a txt file, that i want to read into my program. The problem is this:The textfile is a stats file for a game and looks like this:
Code:
ip:port wins username points
ip:port wins username points
ip:port wins username points
ip:port wins username points
ip:port wins username points
etc.
The main thing i want to do is sort these things out and then add to mysql database table that would have these columns:
Code:
ip authid wins username points
So what i wanna do is splitting this textfile data up and then adding everything to a mysql table.
VS 2010 Saving Data From Applications By Saving A Text File Via A Stream Reader As A String
Feb 12, 2012Currently I am saving data from my applications by saving a text file via a stream reader as a string. I have come to a problem. In my current application, I have an array of the following structure:
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