I'm trying to look in the program files for a directory(the gimp directory). I could hard code it but they change the file name and the exe name with the versions. So I only know that the folder contains the word gimp. How do I search for it only knowing a portion of the file name.
I have thios code that will load a php file (text file) into a sting via streamreader then its supposed to find and replace a portion of the text and write the changes back out to the file via streamwriter. I put my code together and after running it look at the file and it's unchanged. After looking closer it appears the problem is the find & replace operation I am doing on the string. Here is my code:
I've written an application [Visual Studio 2005 / VB) that works fine when I build it on my Win 7 PC.But when I try to install it XP as a test it falls over imediately on a 'file.exists' call made to establish if the data file exists or not (and if not then create it).
But it raises an exception because it can't find the directory that the file is supposed to be in. For the files location I was using Application.ExecutablePath but on the XP machine it is some weird directory like Code:
I've been trying to find the size of a directory with vb.net but not having much luck. I've tried things like: My.Computer.FileSystem.GetDirectoryInfo(basePath). but no appropriate methods or properties are coming up.
I am trying to find out the Active Directory Group that the current user belongs to. I have the current users username stored in strUserName and have got this [code]....
I'm making a Cleaner for my PC that could delete all files with a specific name.So I have all the names in a .txt file, like:
A B C D
Now I need somekind of function that would search in a directory ( The user gives the dir. in a textbox ), and its important that it would also search in all sub folders and see if there is a match to any of the names in the .txt file. And it shall not care about in what format the file is. It can be in .exe , .txt or any format.
i am using following code to retive Domain Users from AD
but i am getting APPUser and IUSER in the give
how to avoide this type of user from the list i wantreal user names only
Dim pctx As New PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, "192.1.1.1", "myusername", "mypwd") Dim grp As GroupPrincipal = GroupPrincipal.FindByIdentity(pctx,
I have started working on the module based application (plugin based architecture) and client want setup of module that can be run later and added automatically in main application. So, what I am thinking to apply in module setup project is to find the installation directory of main application and then paste dll of module in specific sub-directory.
Is it possible? Is there any other way to add feature in main application later using setup?
I am trying to get the next available computer name based on a pre/sub fix e.g. "PC0001", atm I have a working solution from sql asset database.Anyone got an idea on how to convert the following from sql query to directorysearcher.filter?"Select TOP 1 Computername from computers where Computername LIKE '" & computerNamePrefix & "%' AND ISNUMERIC(right(ComputerName,4)) = 1 ORDER BY Computername DESC"At the moment I got the following
mySearcher.Filter = "(cn=*pc*)" mySearcher.Sort = New SortOption("Name", SortDirection.Descending)
I'm trying to load the most recent file from a directory, but my following code doesn't work. Am i getting something obvious terribly wrong?!
Dim myFile = Directory.GetFiles("C:UsersJoeDesktopXML Logs").OrderByDescending(Function(f) f.LastWriteTime).First()
I get two error messages:
Data type(s) of the type parameter(s) in extension method 'Public Function OrderByDescending(Of TKey)(keySelector As System.Func(Of String, TKey)) As System.Linq.IOrderedEnumerable(Of String)' defined in 'System.Linq.Enumerable' cannot be inferred from these arguments. Specifying the data type(s) explicitly might correct this error.
I am trying to publish a project. Via the publish wizard I have published the project. So I have:Project.applicationSetup.exeand a directory application files in which:Project.applicationProject.exe.deployProject.exe.manifest. When I start the setup it does it's thing (only one question: do you want to install ...etc) and 2 seconds later its done.
Problem: 1. I can't find the installation directory... (I can find the app in the 'add/remove programs' but not anywhere in program files or ..)
2. there are a few xml and mdb files I want to include in de project (or else the project does not work).
But because of (1) I don't know where to do so. Or beter yet, I would like to include these files in the installer.3. Why doesn't the installer ask me where I want to install?
im an amateur programmer making a program for somebody else. i need to get it to run out of the box no problems and i need to find a way to automatically find the desktop for xp but it would be nice if the same code worked on vista/7 to but thats only if its convenient.
I am using Active Directory to authenticate users for an intranet site. I would like to refine the users that are authenticated based on the group they are in in Active Directory. how to find what groups a user is in in ASP.NET 4.0 (VB)?
I am trying to write a simple Visual Basic 2008 installer that copies word macro templates to Word's startup directory. On Vista and 7, that directory is the user's AppDataRoamingMicrosoftWordSTARTUP directory. Is there a way that I can programmatically find this directory? I.e. is it safe to say that this directory will almost always be in this location such that I can simply get the user's home directory and then add AppDataetc.... or is there a registry or something else that I can access to get Word's current standard startup directory?
how to find out what Active Directory groups a user belongs to? I already have the code finding out their username but now I need to find out what group they belong to so I can assign the relevant photocopier code.
In html it's easy to get a button to get an file on your local hard drive but I can't seem to find or remember how to do it for a VB application (using Visual Basic 2010). What I would like is for the button to find a local directory, select it and then add the address to a textbox.
I have a fairly straight forward peice of code that just tries to set the default saved directory for a standard .net save dialogue to a specific folder. If that folder doesn't exist, it sets it to the desktop. This works fine for everyone but one user who is getting the following error: Could not find special directory 'Desktop' How is that even possible?
I have a process serves as an application updater.It checks it's local cache of files and compares this against list of files online.On it's first run there are no files in the local cache and it therefore downloads ~100 of these files.[code]This appears to work very well, since Explorer confirms that all files are extracted and available.However when I later run this process again, it cannot verify the existence of 6 of these files and therefore tries to download them despite the fact that they are clearly both present and up to date.The offending code is a simple File.Exists call which appears to deny the local existence of these files, and therefore tries to get them again.The system continues to work well, but over time the continual downloading of these 6 files is going to get kind of silly.
I have a SQL Server table with a list of files (path + filename), and a folder with multiple layers and files in each layer. I'm looking for a way to reconcile the two without having to process the list twice. Currently, I'm doing this:
For Each f as FileInfo In FileListFromDatabase If f.Exists is False, mark it as deleted in the database Next
[Code]....
Is there a better way to do this? I'd like to avoid converting all the matching files (of which most will be) to FileInfo objects twice. Since I'm a T-SQL developer first, I'm picturing something like an OUTER JOIN of the two lists where they don't match. Something LINQ-ish?
Lets say I have a variable: varEmail. It contains a variable equal to the user's email address, so it might contain a value likeNow, lets say I want to get just a portion of the email address, e.g. strip off the domain, like so:
I am trying to extract the first portion of a string up to the first SPACE or any non-numeric digit.I thought I could do it but the string may contain an alphabet in the front followed by varying digits of numerals, making it more complicated.Here are some examples of the string to be parsed and the expected results:
String[code].....
I would have to use a series of instr statements but the code would be much cleaner using RegEx.
I have a drawing image, Dim DrawingImage as Image = My.Resources.Img, which will be drawn on my form. The DrawingImage is supposed to be 64x64, but the Img.png is 114x114. How can I get this DrawingImage to stretch so that there is no cut off portion?
P.S. Is there a way to BringToFront this DrawingImage?
