Forcing Custom Date Passed Regional Settings?
Feb 11, 2011
This has been driving me batty for the last while. I have an application that is passing up data to a SQL server table. Part of the data is dates. Because of settings on the SQL server the update will not accept the MM/dd/yyyy format. I have been trying for quite some time to get around this.
For some more information. Changing the update method or the server regional settings is not an option and I don't want to change my regional settings as this may not reflect the production server when this goes live.
Here is what I have tried so far
Code:
Dim dateEnd As Date = Date.MinValue
Dim dateStart As Date = Date.MinValue
If IsDate(Me.txtPostEnd.Text) Then
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It works fine if the day is 12 or below because it still thinks that is the month. Is there a way to force the code to recogize that I want to use dd/MM/yyyy format or even dd/MMM/yyyy format?
This has to be done at thhe vb code side as the update to the SQL server is completed via a custom framework so I can't customize the SQL code to insert the data using a CONVERT
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Jan 23, 2012
I have an app using UK default dates.When i deploy the app i noticed i get some date related errors when saving data (as some test PCs were setup with US regions). Setting the locale and other regional settings back to UK resolves the issue but wondering if there was a quick way of doing this?
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Nov 3, 2011
I am developing an application that uses Sendkeys function to output data in another application such as Notepad. But if the user changes the regional settings some characters like "/" change according to the language. Can I retrieve and set the regional settings of another application such as Notepad ? Is there another way to do that ?
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Aug 15, 2011
using vb.net I need to access the regional settings on a remote server and check to see if they are en-gb
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Sep 17, 2011
Is it possible with VB .NET to make the program use specific regional settings? More precisely , I want to make my application always use the English regional settings (those defined from Control panel > Regional settings) in order to always use (and calculate) the decimal numbers by using the dot symbol ( . ) as decimal separator , regardless the settings on the current PC (in order to avoid forcing the user to change his Regional settings) ?
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Jul 24, 2011
I've searched around but can't find a clear answer for this. From my winforms VB2010 app, I'd like to be able to detect the country of the user's PC at runtime. Specifically, all I really need to detect is whether the user is in Australia or Canada.Most things I've seen will say "have a look at System.Globalization.CultureInfo", but with no clear example. I also know that the old-school "GetLocaleInfo" API can be used for this as well. I do have some code using the latter, which detects Australia when LOCALE_ICOUNTRY returns a value of 61. However, that won't work for Canada, as it returns 1, which is the same as USA (I know that these are based on telephone country codes).
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Feb 4, 2010
Using OLE and Jet, you may receive errors when saving system dates and times to databases in different regions.Consider what happens when saving dates and times returned using the Now() function in Canada or the US: the date string "#2010/02/03 08:59 AM#" will save fine. If using 24 hour time, the string "#2010/02/03 08:59#" will also save fine.
If you change your system region to Spanish (Peru) or Spanish (Mexico), the ante meridiem changes from "AM" to "a.m." (or "p.m."). The date string becomes: "#2010/02/03 08:59 a.m.#"Note that this will NOT save correctly to the database and throw a System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException. The workaround we use is: Public Function clean_date(ByVal strDate As String) As String Dim str_buffer As String
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Feb 4, 2012
I'm running Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Express on Windows 7, using a Regional Setting set to New Zealand.
When I enter a date in a NZ format (d/mm/yyyy), the IDE highlights the date and tooltip reports date constant not valid. But it is valid for NZ! Meanwhile, the IDE happily accepts dates in the US format.
I would have expected VB to look at my PCs regional settings and set this as the default format. What is wrong here? I have reinstalled the application, but still have the same problem.
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Dec 13, 2011
example: inside regional date format setting i set "Short date format dd/MMM/yyyy" and inside vb.net program i set "strSQL = strSQL & ",'" & Date(Date.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy")) & "'" ----> working fine. if user changed the regional date format setting to other format like "mm/dd/yy" facing problem during saving record into sql table. error date conversion. It's possible to avoid using computer regional date format from vb.net? or have any other way...
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May 12, 2009
Iam looking to change programmatically, from Regional language setting [control pannel] date format to dd/MM/yyyy .
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May 12, 2009
i used date in my project often. but every time i used format(now,"dd/MM/yyyy"). But i want to change the system date format to "dd/MM/yyyy" permanently.
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Nov 5, 2011
My Australian dates (dd/mm/yyyy) are being converted to U.S. date format (mm/dd/yyyy) despite using custom date specifier for Access table fields.Allen Lamb
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Jul 16, 2009
I have a date, myDate = 07/16/09 14:22I would like to arbitrarily force the time portion of it to a predetermined value like myDate = 07/16/09 18:00.
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Dec 16, 2011
I have a DB table with the following columns
PolicyNumber
NextPremiumDate
PremiumNumber
Example For each PolicyNumber i have 5 NextPremiumDates.I want to display the 1st NextPremiumDate which is easy ...but i want to show the next NextPremiumDate only after the last NextPremiumDate has passed...How do i check if the last date has passed?I mean if i have 5 dates in the table given above...how do i check if the 1st date has passed then show 2nd date ...if 2nd has passed show 3rd and so on.
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Apr 23, 2009
how can i make it like IF (todays date is passed a specific date) then basically what i need is to see if the date is passed a static date i set in the vb code.
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Mar 18, 2010
Add custom settings to the My.Settings namespace
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Mar 13, 2009
I have noticed that hwen i set the datetime programmatically on the wpf datepicker the writing "show calendar" does not disappear but remains visible underneath the date passed?is there a way to solve this problem
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Mar 23, 2012
I want to pass a List of T where T is an object I've created that has about ten properties (strings, dates and integers).The lst passes to the function successfully. I am also passing an New T of the Object (itm as T).I can see all the values (see image below), but because it's generic I cannot seem to retrieve the property values and I cannot figure out how to iterate through the properties of each itm as they are retrieved in the For Each.[code]
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Jan 25, 2010
I've read alot of stuff about the Speech API having some way of modifying the voice properties for synthesis but for some reason it's read-only.
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Jun 1, 2011
I have a custom settings class which I use for Machine Wide Application Settings and save as a file. I use a custom file instead of the visual studio settings config because Int the settings to be machine scope or application scope which are normally unusable as they are readonly.I dont want the settings to be user scoped.
Imports System.Xml.Serialization
Namespace My
Public NotInheritable Class MySystemSettings
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Oct 17, 2010
I have a Visual Basic .Net 2.0 program. I'm moving the settings from an older settings file, to an app.config program settings file. I'm trying to do this as nicely as possible.
So, I added my setting as shown in this image.
On load I do this:
If My.Settings.databaseConnectionSettings Is Nothing Then
My.Settings.databaseConnectionSettings = New ArrayList()
End If
[Code]....
So, the question is, how do I get that arraylist of my DatabaseConnectionSettings saved to persistent storage? I want to do this in the cleanest way possible. That is, I don't want to have to convert it to a string or save it to a separate file every-time I want to use it. I would like to be able to use the My.Settings accessor method.
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Nov 24, 2011
I want to save a Custom DateTimePicker.Value in my Application Settings. The custom format is : dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss, instead of dd/MM/yyyy The field i've created in the application settings parameters is LASTSAVE (DATE / APPLICATION)
When I try to link in the ApplicationSettings/PropertyBinding ... VALUE with my field LASTSAVE, i have an error :
The Value '01/01/0001 00:00:00' is not valid for 'Value'. 'Value' mustbe ... 'MinDate' et 'MaxDate'.
Name of the parameter : Value
I then entered the MIN and MAX date in the properties of my control DATETIMEPICKER.
I have also put into the properties Value a start date like 23/11/2011 12:00:00 ;
However, when i retry to link in the ApplicationSettings/PropertyBinding ... value to LASTSAVE / I have the same error (The Value '01/01/0001 00:00:00' is not valid for 'Value'. ). I've saved all, do a process that put a value in the datetimepicker.value, but it's not saved, cause not linked.
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Dec 6, 2007
In Visual Studio 2005 or 2008, when adding any User Controls to a Windows Form or other User Control in a Project that implements and is using a custom settings provider, a "Failed to create component" error is displayed. If all references to the custom settings provider are removed from settings.settings and that file is saved then User Controls can be added to Windows Forms and User Controls. However, if the custom settings provider is referenced again in settings.settings, then opening the designer of a Form/Control which includes a User Control results in a "One or more errors encountered while loading the designer..." error message.
I have had a very difficult time in tracking down the root cause of this issue because I assumed it had to do with my code and not the IDE. I am working within the context of a large project which uses User Controls heavily and have written a custom settings provider to persist user settings to a SQL Express database. This settings provider works properly, however if I want to open any Forms or User Controls in designer view I must first manually remove all references to my custom settings provider in setting.settings and then re-add them after the changes are done which is inconvenient to say the least. This problem is not present if the Project is in C#.
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Mar 9, 2011
(using VB.Net 2008) I am trying to save one of my custom types to the application settings. I've read a variety of opinions on the internet about whether this possible.
When creating an app setting, none of my types appear when browsing. However, previously I needed to save off one of my datasets, and it worked simply by hand-entering it as the setting type (ie, I just typed "MyProjectName.DatasetName"). However, when I try the same trick with another custom type that isn't a dataset, I get a "type was not found" error. So I'm a little confused, can the program "find" some custom types and not others?
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Mar 20, 2010
I was just wondering what is the Quickest way to set up custom settings, every software has settings that are created and saved, Example a Hotel Software has rooms, roomtypes etc that are used in combination with other things, an Accounting software has Account type, Employee Software will have Full time,Parttime, or anything else, An Employee time Clock would have departments, Tax Brackets.
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Jun 4, 2010
I would like to be able to specify exactly where the My.Settings file gets saved. It bugs me how it gets saved off in the middle of appsettings nowhere, and I would prefer it gets saved where the executable is. If anyone knows how to do this, that would be great. (P.S; I'm using VB.Net.)
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Aug 13, 2009
how do i detect when the user has changed the colors in the custom colors in colordialog?
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Oct 28, 2010
So I've been working with DotNET for a few years now; long enough to establish solid preferences for one available element over another, one available logic over another, and then to develop preferences for aspects of elements and logics.
The one that conflicts me the most is the stock Settings construct. It's a great idea - I mean everybody needs basic data persistence that isn't worthy of databasing, right? It's implemented in a way that anybody - and I mean anybody from flat beginner to highly advanced - can benefit from it. It does some heinously stupid stuff, though; for example, it angers me (and I mean full-on, where's my crowbar-OK-now where's the silly @#*! who came up with the idea anger) that the only way to save it is the way that's hardcoded in. The .SAVE method takes no parameters, there's absolutely zero exposure for the save-path to provide a more deliberate location, so the only place any settings ever get saved is in a ridiculously long (and literally arbitrarily designated) user-profile-based path.
So what happens if/when a user is ready to upgrade their OS (or just reformat and reinstall their OS, which the kinds of people who end up on my client list are prone to do just as part of quarterly maintenance), and they want to save their personal application settings to load in the next time around? They either have to hunt out that moronically obfuscatory save location or I have to write special (and I mean riding the short-short-short bus special) code which is more or less a whole new settings class identical to the settings classes implemented in the application to begin with, just to allow them to export their settings to a known location for transfer.
And what happens if a specific setting needs special treatment beyond the basic 'changing' and 'changed' events provided by the stock class? Since any change to the Settings Designer rewrites the whole code-behind property declarations, I can't do it in that code file; I either have to extend the Settings class or get back on the short-short-short bus and write that special 'mirror-class' again.
I'm not much for just general whining though, so some time back I wrote my own serializable classes (designed for specific data persistence, like generic/universal application settings and then also MySQL server connections/credentials and then also form properties and then also application-specific settings) along with shared save and load methods which give me more control over where settings get saved. These classes have evolved over the last year or so until they're actually pretty awesome (even if that's
just my opinion)... I've even implemented full on-disk and in-memory encryption functions for applications that need different privilege levels, to prevent any tampering at any time.
And then a multi-user application project comes along and suddenly each individual settings class needs multi-user support based on the Windows user logged in, and suddenly the stock Settings class is the best option again even though it's still the worst possible option in settings persistence.
So what I want to know from this discussion is this:
How do YOU handle application and user-settings persistence? Is there something really key that I've been missing all this time that makes the stock Settings class more than absolutely worthless (which has been my opinion since about the first time I ever had to work with it)?It never hurts to try. In a worst case scenario, you'll learn from it.
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Jun 27, 2011
I have a custom control that as a custom property. The property has several preset values to chose from a drop down. The control can be added to a form. The property can be viewed and set in the properties box in the IDE. It all works fine.
Here's the problem: I can create new versions and recompile the control and/or the application without the properties preset value being lost as long as I do it in Debug mode. However, once I try to recompile in Release mode the custom property values predefined setting is lost. I first thought it was something with going from debug mode to release mode. But it seems to be ANY time I recompile in Release mode the custom property values are lost. Is this a quirk in VS that needs a configuration setting, etc. to get around it?
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Dec 1, 2011
I want to prevent a form from loading if the systems regional datetime settings format for the date is not in the form of dd/MM/yyyy.
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