I have just built a full main menu for my pc game and need to terminate the running program using a button held within the form. I have built a button labeled exit and tried a couple of closing codes such as:
Me.Close
ExitApplication
I have a simple GUI form to hide / show / minimize / terminate / force terminate Processes. i can do all well but for show and hide i need the MainWindowHandle to show or hide it
So here is hide process code:
Dim Proc As New Process = Process.GetProcessesById(List.SelectedRows(0).Cells(1))
Dim hwnd = Proc.MainWindowHandle
ShowWindow(hwnd,0)
If i try the same with show code:
Dim Proc As New Process = Process.GetProcessesById(List.SelectedRows(0).Cells(1))
Dim hwnd = Proc.MainWindowHandle
ShowWindow(hwnd,9)
The MainWindowHandle become 0 cuz its hidden is there is any other way to get the MainWindowHandle of Process ?
FormA calls DialogB where user cancels DialogB which exits via ForceTermination(), see insert.Caller FormA check for DialogResult not = OK, which it isn't, and I can see this in debug as Abort(3).However, the code continues merrily along its way until I get a 'null reference' error which I'm trying to avoid via Force Termination().This is caused by the user cancelling DialogB, a selection process to get a database (SQL) instance.[code]
View 13 RepliesI have a program that uses two forms. The program opens to the Main form, and the user can navigate to the other form from the Main form through use of a button. Here's the way I've currently written it: When the Main form loads, it declares and instantiates the other form during the load procedure. When the user presses a button, the second form is displayed by means of the ShowDialog method. On the second form, there is a Return to Main Screen button which closes the second form, bringing the user back to the Main form.
So, here's the structure of the code:
Code:
Public Class frmMainForm
Dim frmSecondForm As New SecondForm
Private Sub btnSecondForm_Click(blah, blah, blah) Handles blah, blah, blah
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Here's my reasoning: Originally, I wrote the code so that a new instance of the second form was created every time the button was pressed. The problem was that whatever data was displayed on the second form, previously, was lost when the user returned to it a second time. Since the user would be switching back and forth between these forms, frequently, I needed that data to persist.
What is the best practice for accomplishing this:
1) Declare and instantiate the second form on program start, as I have done, and use the button simply to show the form?
2) Declare and instantiate the second form each time the button is pressed but maintain the variables on the Main form and pass them ByRef to a custom constructor for the second form? Is this even possible?
3) Something else?
I am currently working on a program that has several buttons in it lined up. Each button goes to different applications (.exe programs). The program I am making is suppose to be a fullscreen program and won't let you see any of Windows when it's running.
Therefore I want to make a "back" button that always stays on top of any application and when I push it it will take me back to my WindowsForm (startpage of the program).I am also wondering if you can make it so all .exe programs only can run ONCE. So if I press one of the buttons saying "open notepad" I want it to work so it can't open Notepad once again making it two notepads open. Just go back to the first Notepad opened.
I need to open, and when done, close an external Exe. In this instance, the Windows Calculator. Here is what I'm doing
vb.net
Public Class Form1
Dim MyProcess As System.Diagnostics.Process
Private Sub btnOpenCalc_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
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From what I've seen and read, this is the way to terminate a running exe isn't it?
I'd like to make a simple program where my form consists of a textbox and a button. Here's the ide in a nutshell:in form1_load I invoke the sub:
private Sub LoopingLesson()
dim i as integer=1
while true
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what I want is when i hits certain value, like let's just say i is divisible by 365, then the 'while' looping will stop, and a message box saying "target reached" appear. then after I click button1, the looping will resume until it reaches the next number divisible by 365, and so on.
I recently started out using Visual Basic, and I've run into a problem.I need to be able to change between my two forms when I run my program, however since I'm still rather new at this, I've been unable to figure out a way to do this.
View 8 Repliesi have in my form a text box and 3 buttons one is for browsing the other is to execute what i browse and the other is to exit the program when there was a program set to run from my hard drive it was running smoothly with admin rights now that i have setup in order to run ffrom the text box value it will just run it will show the command line for a sec or two and it wont run the program
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I am not able to get the exit window button to terminate once I click on it. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. This is the code I am using for it: btnExitWindow.Enabled = True. Everything else is working fine when I run the program.
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How do catch key event (short cut keys like alt+d,Ctrl+u) when a program running in system tray ?
View 2 Repliesi have a query iam able to add items in listbox from form 2 to form1 from windows application in vb.net but iam unable to add items in listbox from form 2 to form1
View 3 RepliesIn certain error situations within my VB 2008 code, I need to quickly terminate the program. This should be simple, but I haven't been able to figure out how to do it.
View 5 Replieswhen i run any of my program this error is show to me i don't know why, "it said that the program will terminate OK".
View 13 RepliesI've started a process through system.diagnostics .process.start("C:/process.exe")Now my question is, how can I terminate the same process in vb.net
View 4 RepliesI'm trying to close down a program from within the constructor for the main form. I've tried Me.Close() but this gives an error: ObjectDisposedException was unhandled. Here's the details:
System.ObjectDisposedException was unhandled
Message=Cannot access a disposed object.
Object name: 'Form1'.
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Actually my problem is to stop a loop when i click on stop button. example:i have two buttons 'start' and 'stop' in start buttom i wrote a for loop as
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I am trying to figure out how to have a form running in a loop waiting for the user to input something....
such as:
private function looping()
while 1=1
if textbox.text = "hi" then do_something()
endwhile
end function
How can I do this? threading? Backgroundworker?
I am trying to end a program immediately when a critical exception is caught. But I am finding that code after my Try/Catch block is executing even though the code withing the Catch block is executing, and that Catch code is calling Me.Close.
I suspect it has something to do with background .net threads or something, but I have no clue how to deal with those kinds of issues. How can I stop the program as quickly as possible? If code after my Catch executes, it will (and does) throw lots of uncaught exceptions later. Currently, it is not feasible for me to try to catch all the other exceptions. I just want to report an error and end the program.In my form load routine, I create and set up a number of objects and arrays by calling various subroutines.The success of most of the subroutines depends on the sucess of three subs in particular, which are called early on. If one of those three fails, there will undoubtedly be a number of hard to trap exceptions later on in the load routine.
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I am creating a visual basic program, which acts as a very simple GUI for another program. I have built the whole Visual Basic project, but I am unable to do one part, the most important part you could say. I have a button (button1) on a form, when the button is clicked, I want it to run a program, named 'mover.exe' which is located in the SAME FOLDER that my visual basic program will run from. The directory of this folder will change. So, there are two problems I have:
1 - To make the program run the .exe program when button1 is clicked (it also must be run with administrative privileges).
2 - To make the program always look for 'mover.exe' in the folder in which it is started from.
I was a vb6 user, done a few projects only with forums Now i am moving to vb.net(vb2010) and i have some trouble.Lets say we have a form(form1), a module(mod1) and a textbox on the form1.
i want to start a Sub (DoWork) in the module but in a new thread.
Dim Thread1 As System.Threading.Thread
Thread1 = New Threading.Thread(AddressOf mod1.DoWork)
Thread1.Start()
The DoWork sub does some stuff and when it's finished i want to change the text of a textbox1 in the main form and start another sub (DoWork2) on the main form under the main thread not the one DoWork is running under.
Plese do not refer me to another post that mighe give me a part answer, try to explain to me what i have to do and why.
I have just started a simple project in VB 2008 express (having previous experience (not much though) in VB6). At the moment I have only 1 form and when I click on the red x close button the form closes but the process is still running in task manager. I have the following code which I assumed would exit the program and terminate the process but it doesnt seem to work[code]...
View 6 RepliesHow to terminate function/code (not entire page) when it takes some time, for example, more than 1 sec?[code]...
I found the command "Server.ScriptTimeou", but it stops the entire page instead of one command.
On my program the user clicks a button which then runs the main code for my program. The problem is once the code is executed I can no longer move or interact with any form boxes, reliably at least . Sometimes there will be a period of delay where I can move it for an instance. Is there anyway I can make it so that my form is able to be moved while the program is running?
View 3 RepliesI am trying to write up a program that has a few forms that you interact with and do various things with but I also need to have a TCP/IP client/server running in the background to handle a automated connection to a PLC. Is there anyway to have the TCP connection open and receiving/sending in the background even when the operator is doing something else?
View 1 RepliesSome time ago I saw a code to host an exe from within a visual basic form, acting as its parent. How would I go about doing this in vb.net? I havent programmed in ages, but recently have gotten an interest again in order to complement
View 3 RepliesI'm lending a copy of my .exe on a memory stick and because I dont completely trust them, , I would like to build in a function that as soon as my app has finished doing what its doing And the big red X is hit it will delete itself, but my problem is that i cant put the deletetion in the form closing because the prog is still running, so what should I do? Is there a way that I can get the app to close as soon as the dedicated task is complete, It will remove itself from the memory stick but if the X is hit before the process is complete the then the prog will remain.
View 14 RepliesStop program closing if a special form is running?
View 8 Repliesthis might seem a fairly stupid question to ask, but how do you use a Button to close all forms and end a Program?
View 4 RepliesI have a button on form2 that when pressed, I want it to enable a button on form1.What I've tried is this:
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Form1.Button3.Enabled
End Sub
but its telling me that the property access must assign to the property or use it's value.