I'm trying to use a GUID to generate 6 random alphanumeric characters (just letters and number). Is there a way to change the format of a GUID before it is generated. Or must I generate the GUID in its standard format and then manipulate it.
View 5 RepliesI have been programming an activation type of security protection for my software but i ran into problems when i try to generate an alphanumeric key with conditions. i cant seem to be able to make the keys to be valid with the condition.Basically i can get the 25 keys but all of them seem to be returning 1(ones) instead of 0(zero which what i want. below is my sample code may be someone can tell me what i am doing wrong, by the way i did google, woogle,bing, bang, yahoo, yadoo etc but no go.
generate the keys
Public Function GenerateCode() As Object
Dim IntRnd As Object
Dim IntStep As Object[code]....
the damn thing keeps returning 1 instead of 0. I do know i can simply change to 1 and be off the issue. but if is that easy to generate 1 the isnt easy just to break it. oh yeah the whole thing hangs when i generate the code? if i loop it, its able to get a 0 but i cant take the key thats in the loop?
I have been programming an activation type of security protection for my software but I ran into problems when I try to generate an alphanumeric key with conditions. I cant seem to be able to make the keys to be valid with the condition. Basically I can get the 25 keys but all of them seem to be returning 1 (ones) instead of 0(zero which what i want.
Code:
generate the keys
Public Function GenerateCode() As Object
Dim IntRnd As Object
Dim IntStep As Object
Dim StrName As Object
[Code] .....
The damn thing keeps returning 1 instead of 0. I do know I can simply change to 1 and be off the issue. but if is that easy to generate 1 then isn't it easy just to break it. The whole thing hangs when I generate the code? If I loop it, its able to get a 0 but I cant take the key that's in the loop??
I need to define a regular expression that accepts Alphanumeric and the following special characters:
@#$%&*()-_+][';:?.,!
I've come up with:
string pattern = @"[a-zA-Z0-9@#$%&*+-_(),+':;?.,![]s\/]+$";
But this doesn't seem to be working.
I'm working in Microsoft Access attempting to concatanate the results of a query into a single string. The code looks like this:rtn = Trim(rs.Fields(0).Value) Trim$(rs.Fields(1).Value)When I display the string in a list box, I only see the value for Fields(0) I cannot see the value for Fields(1).When I run the code in debug mode, I can see the value of rtn and it contains these non-alphanumeric boxes like this:"Earth4[] Admin[]" (where [] indicates the non-alphanumeric character)What can I do to cleanup the string, remove the [] and then display in my list box?
View 8 RepliesI'm trying to fill a listbox with random alphaNumeric license plate numbers. I've succeeded in the random "plate" generator, but can't quite seem to figure out getting it to loop (500 times).[code]...
View 4 RepliesI have to process a string that could include all sorts of non-standard characters and I've been asked to provide a regular expression that will match and remove all characters that are non-alphanumeric except punctuation and spaces. Is there a way to do this?
View 3 RepliesBasically, for each character in a charArray created from the string to split, if the character is a letter, digit, or hyphen, I append it to a temporary string. When I see a split character or the last character, and the temporary string has value, I add it to the collection to return.
For i As Integer = 0 To (charArrayLength - 1)
charToInspect = CChar(charArray.GetValue(i))
If IsLetterOrDigit(charToInspect) Or charToInspect = hyphen Then
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Here's the basic premise though: I need to convert a GUID-like string to a different format as shown in these examples:
Original String:
{291B3A3B-F808-45B8-8113-DF232FCB6C82}
Converted String
B3A3B192808F8B541831FD32F2BCC628
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It works, but it doesnt seem very well written... Oh and if you are wondering why I wrote my own ReverseString method rather than just using the Reverse extension method on the String class - It seems to return a collection of chars rather than a string (god knows why) and I couldnt find any easy/obvious way to convert this collection of chars back to a string (I thought just CStr would do it but apparently not)
VS2010 (SP1) / .NET 4 on Windows XP. The question is simple, the answer; not so much. When generating a salt, should the LENGTH of the salt be random, fixed or a random number within a (min/max) range? I am using RNGCryptoServiceProvider to generate the salt, just unsure of the length of the salt.
View 12 RepliesI'm wondering how I would go about generating a random number in VB.Net. As I am developing an ATM system for a bank, a randomly generated 4 digit PIN code would have to be assigned to each person.
View 2 Repliesi am working with Visual Basic 2008 and i wanted to know how u can create a random word?
View 8 Repliesi have a few questions about generating random numbers:1) is it possible for the programme to generate a random number that it has previously generated (i.e could it produce the same number more than once?)2) can you specify what numbers to generate? e.g only whole numbers up to 1000?
View 4 RepliesI have to generate a series of random numbers, say 100, within range of -1 and 1 and scale them by a value, say square root of 2. After which I take those 100 values and their sum = 0. Then scale that sum by another value. Check the code below to see what I mean.
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I have an assignment that requires me to create 5 different arrays: nouns, adjectives, verbs, prepositions, and articles. From those 5 different arrays, it has to display 10 different random sentences in the listbox named lstRandomSentences. The sentences have to be in the following order:
<article> space <adjective> space <noun> space <verb> space <preposition> space <article> space <adjective> space <noun>. Each of those arrays have to be randomly chosen in the list box and that's what I am having trouble outputting randomly.
I am trying to make a number be generated as this Windows Form loads, then the user guesses by entering a number and clicking a button to check whether it is correct or incorrect.
I have the code complete, I'm just confused on how to declare the random variable outside the button sub procedure so it only generates one time.
Here is my code.[code...]
I'm using VB.NET 2008 Express Edition and I'm trying to create a simple program that will roll a number of dice I choose. It does this by generating a random number within a specified range (I'm rolling 3-sided dice in this case so I'm generating numbers between 1 and 3) and adding each number to a textbox to create a total of all the dice rolled so far.
This is my
Private Sub butRoll_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles butRoll.Click
Dim RandNum, i As Integer
Dim RandomClass As New Random()
'if at least one dice is rolled
If txtD3.Text > 0 Then
[Code] ......
Now the problem I am having is that although my random number generator is generating the right numbers (confirmed by checking the txtLastRoll textbox), when I add it to txtTotal, it seems to be getting another number from somewhere and adding that to my random number then adding it to the total and I have no idea how this is possible! txtTotal always starts as 0 but txt1 is not showing that. Normally I would just set txtTotal to 0 there but if I do that, I won't be able to add the numbers together. I've tried finding a pattern in the mystery numbers appearing in txtTotal but they just seem to be random.
I am working on an application, where I have already normalized the databases. Now I am creating an application in asp.net with vb.net as my code behind fine. These random numbers would be stored in the Id column. So, no way there would be repeating the keys. But my application could generate the key, which would probably get repeated. How would I check the database for, so that random numbers wont get repeated? is there any function? Could you give me the code for the same.
View 10 RepliesIam doing a project in vb2008 for a quiz program. i want to randomly generate questions in a textbox a question should occur once in the quiz session. i had my code:
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.OleDb
Imports AgentObjects
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How would I go about doing this, is there a for next loop involved and is there a way not using the for next loop ?
View 15 RepliesWhy does it give exactly the same numbers despite different variables? See below code:Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim MyRand1, MyRand2, Myrand3 As New Random
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im workin on a task that will get the current computers Default Gatway, So i chose the easiest option, using the Registry, in most cases i find this with no problem at all, here's the code im using right now,
Public sHost As String = My.Computer.Registry.GetValue _
("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001servicesTcpipParametersInterfaces THE GUID NEEDED HERE ", "DhcpServer", Nothing)
Which works fine, if i put My GUID in where i've stated in above code, I get the right value ect..., no what i was woundering is how would i get the program to preform this task on another Computer as their GUID will be diffrent, if their away i can do this with simplicity?
How do I go about generating a random vector coordinate that is within say 200 units of another vector coordinate?
View 2 Repliesis there a code for generating random letters and numbers?? like between 0 to 9 and A to F??
I used this code :
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I want to generate a cd key with the format "####-####-####-####". I am generating the key using some algorithm like "PPKG6B8ZPG79U05R" but I need this as "PPKG-6B8Z-PG79-U05R". For this I am using CreateKey = String.Format("{0:" & sFormat & "}", strKey), but it gives the result as "PPKG6B8ZPG79U05R".
View 3 RepliesI want to generate random number, which is 9 digits including leading zero if the number is less than 9 digits, say 123 will be 000000123. I have the following code which doesn't include leading zero :
Dim RandomClass As New Random()
Dim RandomNumber = RandomClass.Next(1, 999999999)
I want to do is have textbox1.text show 10-20 characters that are random letters and numbers when i press button1. I have tried to do this but I am not so great with generating anything that is random. If possible have it be a mix of Capital and Lowercase letters.
View 1 RepliesDim strFilename As String strFilename = Format(Now, "ddmmyyyyhhmmss"
That generates the day number month and so on. But i want to generate a string with "VB Code Snippet" then after that just any 5 letters or numbers so it might generate "VB Code Snippet 7ef82"
I am using Visual Basics 2008 Express edition. I want my program that I am making to generate a random amount of numbers and letters in this form when I click Button1.
WM9RX-GG6J2-4WKD9-FDJWM-TYH76
Is this possible?
Public Function GetPrinter(ByVal PrinterID As Guid) As DataSet
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