Find SQL Server Instance Install Path Using .NET In Windows 7?
Dec 12, 2011
I have an application that allows the user to conduct database backups and restores. The users had been using Windows XP, with network security that allowed users to read the registry. For restores, the installation path to the SQL Server named instance was easily found by looking up the instance name in the registry using
restoreDir = My.Computer.Registry.GetValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\" & m_DatabaseInstanceName & "\Setup", "SQLPath", Nothing).ToString
They have recently upgraded to Windows 7, and locked down the registry so that users can not read values from it. Is there a way (via code) to find the path to a named instance of SQL Server, so that the app can automatically place the database files (mdb & ldb) in the correct folder?
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Mar 26, 2011
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Aug 31, 2010
I'm in Visual Basic to create an update center for the software I make.I must find out what the installation path of a program. Eg notepad (which I know), or another program.I can easily find the file of the updater (Application.ExecutablePath).
But how do I install so the path of a program
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Feb 20, 2012
Is there nay way that my application could create a new instance (say MyInstance) and attach my DB to that, with sa password?
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Feb 20, 2012
Is there nay way that my application could create a new instance (say MyInstance) and attach my DB to that, with sa password?
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Aug 8, 2011
I have the following function to find a SQL Server instance. It works fine on local computer. Would you please tell me how to use this function to check an instance on other computer on a Local Area Network? I am using VS 2008 (.NET Framework 3.5) and SQL Server Express 2005.
Private Function MyInstanceFound(ByVal MyInstanceName As String) As Boolean
Dim InstanceFound As Boolean = False
Dim MC As ManagedComputer = New ManagedComputer()
[code].....
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Oct 9, 2009
I'm need of some way of finding the UNC Path of a share via a script or command line or even a custom created program. I'm trying to automate deletion of users and the setup is a bit complicated.
Home folders are set up like this:
We create a folder on a Disk on a fileserver.When this folder is created, a share is automatically created on a lower levelThen the DFS Links are set up towards the newly created share.
Now, when deleting a user, I could just delete the DFS Folder, meaning that the target folder is the one being deleted. But since it's a share, that cannot happen.
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Jun 6, 2009
I have a project that i have created in Visual Studio express and SQL server express. i want to create an install file so that i can send to others to install. Currently it is requiring the user to install SQL server Express and 3.5 .net framework.what steps can i take to stop the user having to install these 2 so that it is a simple install for them.
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Jun 25, 2009
Ok, so I'm at the point where I'd like to publish my app and see what problems may arise while it "runs" normally after an installation. I've never actually published an app before or deployed one.I have VB 2005 Pro and was assuming there was some kind of "upgraded" publishing feature over the Express edition, but they appear to be the same. When I publish, I am left with a folder that has these files:
[code]...
when I double click the setup file, it gives me the option to install, and I do. I can not select an install path or anything though. The application is running fine.What I'm curious about though is I have databound controls in the application with an Access DB file as a resource. Once I install the application, where do I go to manually edit the .mdb file? and where is it installing my App too? It also creates some text files which I can't seem to locate either.So what's the normal procedure for building a project, specifying output path etc, and providing the end-user a "nice looking" (read not default) setup/installation screen?
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May 15, 2012
I read your suppose to go to file system, properties and change default path or something like that but I could not find that nor could the person who made the post.
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Jul 29, 2010
A while ago, I wrote a web-based guestbook application that wrote it's own database.
My code was very amateurish, but, as it was my very first publication, I was very happy with it. Only about a month after I'd published it did I realize I'd made a huge mistake in the code.
I've only ever connected to a specific named instance of SQL Server, and it occurred to me that, if the SQL Server instance has a different name than the one I specified, it wouldn't work.
So, since my users will probably not know what the name of the instance of SQL Server that's running is, I thought adding a field where the user can specify it would help if they do, but what if they don't? My answer was to get the local instance, regardless of name.
I tried Data Source=.local;, Data Source=.; and other variants, but nothing worked.
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Nov 27, 2009
When I develop my app I have my db in
"Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=C:db
emoteit.accdb;Persist Security Info=False;"
How could I handle that in a finished application that uses install program. I want my DB in the same directory as my app. How could i handle this in my app? so the path should be correct?
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Oct 9, 2009
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Can anybody suggest where that invalid path is located? I have gone through every property I can find in Project|Properties, and they are correct. I have looked in App.config, and that is correct. Where else should I be looking?
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Jun 14, 2012
I'm using acrobat that returns unix paths instead of windows path's. So im wondering if there is a way in vb.net to convert the path to windows path.
i tried using:
docs(i) = javaScriptObj.path().ToString.Replace("/", "").Substring(1)
position = docs(i).IndexOf("")
docs(i) = docs(i).Substring(0, position) + ":" + docs(i).Substring(position + 1)
this only works on local files, but fails when im starting to use network drives.
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Nov 29, 2010
Well now i have an issue which is pointing in the use of "path's" physical and network.I have a SQL server on a Server machine and i have a desktop machine used as client.I'm runing from my client machine a stored procedure in order to add a streaming data base.But also before i run this procedure i run another one which prepare the desired "path", this procedure takes:
myPath="\ServerSharedFolderSQL
in order to run the first procedure i have to turn myPath in each physical name:
myPath="DriveLetter:PublicWorkFilesSQL"
Now my Issue is how i will have the physical path, which is build it on the server and which it's from very difficult (to imposible) to know it? Basically i need a function which will return me the physical path, which the implementation it's not knowing to me. My developing environment is vb.net 2010?
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requestXml = Request("requestXML")
SubmitRequest(requestXml)
Private
Sub SubmitRequest(ByVal requestXml
[code]....
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