I have a 3rd party software installed on my machine. (Its a voice modem). I want to know if there is a way using vb.net to find out the device information. For example, I want to know if it sees the Audio in and Out. Its currently using my speakers. I can go into the control panel and select sound, and its set in there. Is there a way I can check that through the code?
View 1 RepliesI currently connect to a MySQL database using the ODBC MySQL 5.1 Connector, how would I be able to detect if the driver is installed before a connection attempt?
View 4 RepliesI want to start a new project, an application to detect drivers installed and not installed.
can someone give me some details about how can be checked, what codes i need to retrieve.
Trying to figure out if there is anyway built into windows 7/Vista/XP and/or Dpinst to verify that a driver is installed? I created a program that uses DPinst to install a driver and now I need to figure out how to tell the user that it is safe to close the program once the driver is install as the driver takes longer on some machines to install. Would anyone know how to get this to work?
View 7 RepliesI am in need of a form that shows various options, exactly like the Options in Visual Studio. Since there are so many options I too want them categorized, with a TreeView to the left taking care of showing the right category.The usual 'easy' approach here would be to just place a TreeView control on the form, add some nodes, and give those nodes a tag or key that corresponds to a panel or UserControl with the options for that category.Since there will be a lot of options however, this is not really feasible design-wise; the form would be cluttered with possibly 50 panels, all of which I would need to select and bring to front from time to time to add controls to them that represent the options.
So I decided to create a custom control that does exactly that. The control is very similar to my Wizard usercontrol, users can add OptionsPanels at design time, which inherit Panel and simply represent one panel of options. When they do, the panel is added to a container panel, and at the same time a TreeNode is added to a TreeView. The control uses a custom ControlDesigner to handle design-time clicks in the Treeview, selecting a different node would select and bring to front the corresponding panel, allowing the user to add the controls he wants.
Due to the design time support the problem of having 50 panels is no longer present, only one panel will be visible at a time and selecting the right panel is as simple as selecting the corresponding TreeNode, just as during run-time. Anyway, I got all this working, but only for a single 'level' of categories. As you can see in the Visual Studio options, there can be multiple levels of categories. For example, the Environment node has a bunch of children, where each child represents one 'options panel'. There can even be deeper nesting, see the Text Editor node for example.Let me begin by drawing out the basics of how my control works so far.
The main control is an OptionsView control, which contains a SplitContainer with a TreeView to the left and a OptionsPanelContainer to the right. The OptionsPanelContainer is merely a Panel to which only OptionsPanel controls can be added, and which raises events when this happens, as well as when OptionsPanels are removed from it. An OptionsPanel also inherits Panel, and these are the actual panels the users will see in the control, one for each option category.For now, each OptionsPanel has exactly one corresponding TreeNode (and vice versa). In the Visual Studio options, each 'parent' category usually has a 'General' node as the first child, and the parent and this General node show the same option panel, but I am ignoring that for the moment.
The OptionsView control has a property Panels that returns the ControlCollection (Controls property) of the OptionsPanelContainer (in other words: it returns a collection of OptionsPanels that are in this container panel).
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<Editor(GetType(Designers.OptionsPanelCollectionEditor), GetType(UITypeEditor))> _ <DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)> _ Public ReadOnly Property Panels As Control.ControlCollection Get Return Me.PanelContainer.Controls End Get End Property
A custom CollectionEditor for this property takes care of the designer: even though the property type is ControlCollection, the CollectionEditor knows it should create instances of the OptionsPanel control instead of just Controls.When it does this, a corresponding TreeNode is also created and its Tag property is set to the OptionsPanel. Vice versa, the Node property of the OptionsPanel is set to the node. Hence the node and panel both know their corresponding object.
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Public Class OptionsPanelCollectionEditor Inherits System.ComponentModel.Design.CollectionEditor Public Sub New(type As Type) MyBase.New(type) End Sub Protected Overrides Function CreateCollectionItemType() As System.Type
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So far so good, this all works fine. I can add Panels via the designer and when I do a new TreeNode appears in the TreeView. I can select this node and the panel becomes visible (comes to the front).Now, I am a little stuck. How do I implement child option panels? And more importantly: how do I let the user add child panels?The most logical choice I think is to let each OptionsPanel have a property (ChildPanels or something) that returns the child OptionsPanels for that panel. Once the user selects an OptionsPanel then, he can look in the property grid to find its ChildPanels property and add child panels to that.
There is a problem though: what would this property return? It must return a ControlCollection of some container (this is, I think, a requirement for the designer features to work, otherwise panels are not added to the Form.Designer.vb file). But there is no container. I cannot add them to the OptionsPanel itself, that would make no sense because the parent OptionsPanel has its own set of controls (the options itself...), there cannot be another (fully docked) Panel on top of those obviously.The container of the main OptionsView then? That is not an option either, its Controls collection holds ALL OptionsPanels, not just the children of the selected panel. I cannot 'select' only the right panels either, that would require me to return a new instance of ControlCollection, it would be impossible to return the actual ControlsCollection that holds merely a small selection of its controls.
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The Or keyword is confusing me. So in the above example which variable gets set. Does options = options or does it set RegexOptions.none.
I have a question about of capture sound function, someone have a code example for visual basic 2010 in windows 7?, I tried using mcisendstring function but the sound quality, is poor.
View 5 RepliesI have background sound loop with the My.Computer.Audio and it works fine. I want to play another sound (like a beep) when desired without stopping the background sound. Several examples I have found don't seem to work. I am in VB.NET 2008 Professional.
View 8 RepliesI'm ready to start adding sound to a 3D game and I'm looking for a decent Free library.it would not require DX and be something like:
dim MySound as SoundLib.Sound
MySound = SoundLib.LoadSound("soundfile.wav")
SoundLib.Play3DWorld(Location.X, Location.Y, Location.Z, VolumeModifier, MySound)so far all Im finding is expensive, C#, old, or not .NET compatible.
im making a techno progam in visual basic 2008 and after 3 hour im think how to save the sound they make and catshing a sound recorder but what the code im try to find on internet but find 0 pleas give me the code im try to find
View 1 RepliesI'm creating an application that will have 3 streams of audio. I can get 2 streams playing easy enough using DirectX AudioVideoPlayback and setting the balance for each Audio Instance. However, I need a 3rd Audio instance to play out of another output such as the Rear or Centre. An alternative would be to be able to select a different sound device in the machine to play the 3rd audio stream.
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I need to get the decibel level of sound being sent to the sound card (not the actual sound level the speakers are instructed to emit via volume level)There is next to no information i can find on the net to even access sound data. Could anyone point me in a direction for this? The OS will be vista/7.
View 2 RepliesI'm creating an application that will have 3 streams of audio.I can get 2 streams playing easy enough using DirectX AudioVideoPlayback and setting the balance for each Audio Instance.However, I need a 3rd Audio instance to play out of another output such as the Rear or Centre.An alternative would be to be able to select a different sound device in the machine to play the 3rd audio stream.I've been searching the net for 2 days now trying to find a solution, but have so far been unsuccessful. I've tried a few alternative libs such as DirectShow.Net, DirectSound, BASS.Net, QuickTime and OpenTK.Some of them do what I need to do, but they are either too difficult to use and therefore impractical or they are missing some other essential features such as Events which are required to make the rest of the application work. Would anyone oppose to me posting this same thread on other forums?I will of course post a solution if one is found elsewhere without advertising external websites.
View 4 RepliesAs i'm learning more and more about developing ive just got my head around creating classes and modules, i started wondering about something to do with configuration of applications where deployment is in a more diverse environment say in a company where different branches dont need access to all parts of a program, so i thought id throw the question out there in a basic sense and get some feedback. so i can go off and do some more reading and learning.
So the scenario in my head is like this.
So we have for arguments sake FrmConfig which is the master configuration form, then we have FrmMain which is the root menu our application general user interfaces with. So here based on what options are checked as enabled in FrmConfig effects what controls (like buttons/menu options) are enabled in FrmMain.
I am trying to build a small program which will allow some one to click on the exit button and the sound will play and at the end of the sound the program will then close. The sound clip is about 3 seconds long Here is what I have:
Imports Microsoft.DirectX
Imports Microsoft.DirectX.DirectSound
Public Class Form1
Private Dsound As CSoundDevice
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Is there a way to generate a pure tone (e.g. 440 Hz) for a specified period of time through the sound card without using having to find or make a separate .wav file for each tone.I tried using the "Beep" function, but while it produces the tone for a specified period, it sounds broken up into a (probably 500ms) time frame which repeats with an audible space between the repetitions.
View 2 Replieshow to record sound from sound card ?
View 1 RepliesI have been trying for days now how to create a process to the user to easily create a connection to any installed data types they have installed. I have found an example right inside vb2008. I never use this because I code my own connections, but this would be real nice if I could include it or duplicate it.
View 1 Repliesi have windows app i want to disable the sound card and enable the sound card by using command button
View 2 RepliesI am looking for a free open source .Net based (prefer C#) pdf driver. where I can download one?
View 1 RepliesIm working with a CD722UN Customer Display for our POS application. it comes with a USB2.0 connection and a installation package containing a driver etc. now, for my application. how should i do when i want to access this driver? at the moment i'm using the "CD722UN application"s .dll path but that can wary from clients OS etc. [Code] my first thought was to first check if there was a device installed in the device manager and somehow use the driver from there? [Code] what is the best solution?
View 1 RepliesI'm pretty sure the answer is no but I am curious, is it possible to write a driver in .NET code? I am talking more software driver here rather than hardware driver (ie something like a file system filter as opposed to a driver for a printer or something).
View 3 RepliesIs there a tutorial on how to use VB.NET with mongodb?
It uses C#. However, I am used to VB.NET. Can the C# driver interact with VB.NET?
I'm starting to get into the microcontrollers and I was wondering if anyone had any experience using visual studio and/or visual basic writing drivers and application software for USB Devices and using different microcontrollers from Atmel and Microchip?
If you know of any good websites or anything out there that would get help get me started that would be great.
Is there any way we can kill a driver (.sys file)?
View 10 RepliesIs there a way to get a list of ODBC drivers that are installed on a Windows XP machine from .NET?
I basically would like to see (in .NET) what is in:
Control Panel->Administrative
Tools->Data Sources (ODBC)->"Drivers"
Tab.
I have build an application in VB.NET (3.5) wich connects to an oracle DB. I works perfectly on my pc. However. When I install the app on a pc without oracle it will not connect to the DB on the server. Do I have to install somekind of driver on the client pc?
View 4 RepliesI seem to recall that there is an API which will return the INF file associated with a device driver but I'm drawing a blank. I want to get the path to the INF File, File Name Section Name and File Date.
View 17 Replieshow to install a ODBC driver using vb.net windows application ?
View 3 RepliesI am working on a project that needs to using an activeX driver (libaray), a .ocx file. The driver have some properties and methods. I added the reference and have a new instance. When I try to put values to the properties, I got error messages from the driver.
Imports CBMCOMMLib
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
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MaxTraces is one of the properties. Am I using the library correctly?