I have a frm_Main, which starts a thread. The thread then goes and calls a module, which has a thread.sleep() in it. This causes the mouse to freeze up while it sleeps, despite being called by the child thread. I thought this would have be on the thread time-slice? However it is causing my form to freeze for the sleep duration.
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Currently I'm using System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000) to let my app pause/sleep for some time. This works great but I can't open my app anymore when it's sleeping and it uses about 25% of my CPU. I guess there must be a better way to do this. I also tried using a timer but that didn't work out to well for me..
View 5 RepliesYesterday I opened Visual Studio (2008 v 9.0.30729.1) and all the winform classes in my project display with class module icons with the little 'VB', instead of form module icons with the little form icon!
When I double click on a form module, the form designer doesn't open, just the code module.
When I run the project, it runs fine. There are no errors. The project builds fine.
I did Project --> show all files, and I can see the designer and resx files below the form module which doesn't look or act like a form module.
I can't open my forms to design them!
I know there is always better ways of doing things. Normally when you create a thread and I want it to pause/sleep for a set amount of time I use the <Object>.Sleep(1000) but this is frowned upon in .Net2+.
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I have this little application that is using a System.Threading.Thread.Sleep, application runs great but Windows thinks the application is not responding even though it is running.
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i got inside
WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted sub
the code below
WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("form").InvokeMember("click")
Call ProcessNextLine()
when it clicks this button it should load another page(Like log in)
Call ProcessNextLine()
takes next line from txt file (It's url) + navigate
but I want it to wait let the page load before calling "Call ProcessNextLine()" I tried System.Threading.Thread.Sleep not working?
I want to have My.Settings.Delay in seconds not milliseconds adding the 000 for the user. I tried My.Settings.Delay + 0 + 0 + 0. but can't sort how to do this.
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Dim var As Integer
Dim startVal As Integer
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View 2 RepliesThe coding that I have a problem with might make people think that I am creating some malware. So the project I am doing is associated with iTunes. iTunes allows people to have one library. There is another way, but it is very confusing to some people, and very unreliable. So my project is that I will allow people to have multiple iTunes libraries on one computer. So the problem is this. In order to have an option to choose your library, I gotta make sure that iTunes is not running.
So this is the script:
Private Sub CheckAndCloseiTunes()
retry:
'Custom class that includes the function to safely close iTunes
Dim Processes As Process() = Process.GetProcessesByName("iTunes")
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So when I use the Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000) code, the form becomes unresponsive.
I've been trying to use "System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(15)" as the delay code but if freeze the form. I used this "Location.Refresh()" where location is the name of the form, but it didn't give me what I need. This code is going to work on a ProgressBar while typing and the value of the progress bar change while typing. The progress bar jumps to the new value and I want it to move. So I thought about puting it in a "For ... Loop" but the whole form freezes.
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I have 5 Picture Boxes, each picture box has an image but all 5 of them has a visibility of false. I have a button, when clicked will show 5 of the images. But showing the 5 images with a delay. So it's going to be
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I have two projects
a.sln and b.sln they have their own classes, modules and forms.
As I work on solution 'A' I devise a class and save it in solution A's folder. As the class develops, I now find a need for it in solution B.
How can I move it from solution A's folder to my Common folder then link it into solution A and B.
Currently I am doing this manually, Moving then linking to it. Is there a way to do this withing the IDE
I have a project with several forms and modules. The problem which I am mentioning revolves around 3 items : 2 forms (e.g. form1 & form2) and a module. (Using VB.NET 2008, .net 3.5)
Now I have a structure declared in a module. I have a variable of that in form1 and form2.
'Module Code
Structure MScanner
Dim Indicator() As MuseIndStru
Dim FName As String
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Now what is happening is, I am passing structure variable MScan (Form1) to Form2 (see function of form2 InitFilter) byvalue. Then in form2 I am changing value of a copy of the structure (see variable MS being changed in a private sub). But then when I close form2, form1's variable of MScan also get the value of variable MS (declared in form2).
I don't understand as this is not suppose to happen. I have reloaded my project as well but this problem is there. Why is my form1's variable value MScan being changed by form2.
I was a VB6 programmer. And back in the day global variables, functions and subroutines were put in a module. The program started in the module using a sub named Main(). Now in vb2010 it looks like using sub Main() is possible only for console apps, which is not what I want, I'm still trying to write a windows app but it looks like everything has to go at the top of the starting form?? How is this good coding practice? Shouldn't public vars and functions be in their own module?What is considered best practice?Are there any links that would walk me through the differences between vb6 and vb2010?
View 2 RepliesI would like to group the elements in the Solution Explorer (Forms , Modules etc) .Is this possible in the VB .NET Editor ?
View 5 RepliesI have created a class (pasted below in case I did something wrong) for which I want to create an instance that is usable across forms/modules. I can create an instance of the class in a single form/module no problem via DIM User as New User but how do I go about create a public instance accessible from all parts of my program?
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I have an application with two forms - a splash form and the main form. The main form reads an XML file and displays data from the file in a rich text box. While that is happening the splash form is displayed. When the main form is ready to be displayed the splash form closes and the main form is displayed. I have a progress bar on the splash form to inform the user of the progress of the load. I want to set the maximum value for the progress bar to the number of elements in the XML file. In the main form I am using a reader to count the number of elements. After I get that number I wan to update the maximum on the progress bar control so it displays correctly. That is where I am getting the cross threading error. Now I could do that in the splash form. But where the real issue lies is I want to update the progress bar value every time I read an element in the main form process to read the XML file. That I don't think I can do in the splash form as it would duplicate the process of the main form and defeat the purpose of the splash form.
I have researched this issue but can't find an answer. I have tried the delegate route but I still get a cross-threading error. I assume that is because I am cross threading across forms.
Forms :: ToolStripStatusLabel and threading
View 7 RepliesI'm trying to dive into what I consider a deeper end of VB.net to see how far I can go with it. I have a project created, ironically called "My First Server". The aim of this is to create a server which can handle multi clients but additionally isn't the commonly shown tutorial setup of a console application. So it is created as a Windows Form application. The main form (Public Class PrimaryForm) consists of only one control which is a listbox control. This is named LogOutput.
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When it comes to threading. I've managed to adapt one of JMcIllhinney's backgroundworker codebank examples to somewhat suit my needs, but not completely. I have a main form, and a second form that appears while I'm running through a for loop. It informs the user what is currently happening. I set up a backgroundworker that allowed me to continue to use the main form during the for loop, but the other "status" form was completely frozen, and any labels or graphics were shown as white boxes. I am struggling to figure out how to be able to move/interact with both forms while the loop is running.
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is there anyway to sleep a thread for a "tick". i.e. the tick in StopWatch.ElapsedTick. right now the best i could achieve is this thread.sleep(1). i need it faster
View 13 RepliesI have a few forms that have a lot of really intensive updating along with a great deal of user interface (text boxes, button clicking etc) Is it possible to open a separate form as a separate UI thread from the start up form that called it to "show" or open or whatever the new method might be?
View 6 Repliesusing bas files in visual basic 6 because I could write functions or subs that I would just easily use over and over rather than keep rewriting code. Do these work in the same way in .net? If anyone has any good info on modules like how to start writing functions and subs. Assuming of course that they work like vb6 bas files. If I were to make this sub a function how would I do this and I am assuming the benefit of this specific example would be a Boolean to check if if saved the text file or not?
Code:
Public Sub SaveList(ByVal List As ListBox, ByVal filename As String)
Dim i As Integer
Dim w As IO.StreamWriter
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During the design of a new application I was wondering if using a module with properties is considered to be a bad practice. Some example code:
Module modSettings
public property Setting1 as string
public property DatabaseObject as IDatabaseObject
End Module
The code above is just an example to emphasize my question. In the past, this structure was used a lot in VB6. In the past I used it as well in my .NET projects.
But nowadays with buzzwords like Dependency Injection, Testability and Separation of Concerns the above structure smells bad. I can't really describe why, but it just feels wrong. I must admit I'm not very familiar with the keywords above, yet.So I'm wondering whether the above code really is a bad practice. If so, what would you use a Module for?
What advantage is there, if any, to using Modules rather than classes in VB? How do they differ, and what advantages/disadvantages are there in using modules? In VB or VB.NET, I use both.
View 3 RepliesI created a module named Sample, in it i made a Public Sub called Sub. But how do i do to add something "behind sub", so i can write like this:
Sample.Sub.alternative1
Sample.Sub.alternative2
etc.
I have finished creating the code for my client/server application although both parts currently execute modules/in console(this was for testing purposes).I am now looking at making both parts of the program completely invisible (they will eventually be executed as a Windows service upon startup). How do i go about this? Does the code need to be copied in to a "Windows Service" project, or is there a way I can hide both of the modules upon execution?
View 5 RepliesI'm using Visual Studio 2010 and coding in VB.NET.
My problem is that I've collected all the modules I've written and intend to reuse and placed them in a separate folder. When I want to add a module from the above folder to any given project, it takes a copy of the module and places in the project's source code folder, instead of referencing the module in the folder containing all the other modules.
Is it possible to include a module in my project and leave it in the folder with all the other modules, so that when I improve upon a module, it'll affect all the projects that uses/references that module. Instead of me having to manually copy the new module to all the projects that uses/references the module. Right now I have multiple instances of the exact same module that i need to update manually when I improve code or add functionality?
Im writing a application in visual basic to tell the user about their pc.
All this is in a module
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic.Devices
Imports System.Management
Imports System.Net
Imports System.IO
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The problem I am having is that if one of the things in the module fails such as if the users graphics card does not have any onboard memory then it will fail.This is causing everything else to fail aswell.I am very new to visual basic so ifyou could please excuse me if I have made any stupidly obvious errors and any suggestions are welcome