Get A Special Folder In Vista?
Jan 5, 2009How do you people get this special folder?
D:UsersMy User Name
I tried to get all special folders but was not able to get this one in Vista! IS that possible or I cannot find it?
How do you people get this special folder?
D:UsersMy User Name
I tried to get all special folders but was not able to get this one in Vista! IS that possible or I cannot find it?
I'm trying to acheive something similar to this in my VB.net application: But is there a way I can get this with custom text in it like this: and have my application show it?
View 19 RepliesI have discovered Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments and My.Computer.Filesystem.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments
I know how to check if the folder exists, but it's awfully difficult to find a way to create a folder in a 'special folder'.
How do I programmatically create a folder in the users 'My Documents'?
What i would like to do, is have it load up with the settings for the users desktop.here's what i'm trying to do..when first loading a new settings file, a label with a directory as "C:Users rujadeDesktop" is created. if i install the app on a foreign p.c., when running the program for the first time, it loads the label with "C:Users rujadeDesktop". i'm trying to figure out how to load it with the user's desktop directory instead.[code]...
View 11 RepliesI'm trying to make buttons that will open each of the "special folders" in Windows Vista. Here's an example:
Private Sub Button5_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button5.Click
Process.Start("explorer.exe", Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments))
End Sub
As you can see in the above code, the button will open the Documents folder. My problem is the only folders this method can open are the documents, pictures and music folders, while I also want to open these folders below:
Downloads
Videos
User folder (aka the folder that has the user name on it)
Computer (aka My Computer in XP)
how to do that?
I've been going round and round with this and thought maybe someone would know.I've created a program which with process.showdialog calls up a form into which the user enters username and password then is given access to the program itself. If the username and password is incorrect, the program closes.
There is a frmMain and in the form load I've added the process to open this sort of splash login screen. It's not a splash really, it isn't timed to close down.
I fill out the login information, click the save settings checkbox which creates a settings file in MyDocuments. My problem is that in debugging, removing the click closes the login page without the click actually becoming unclicked. The Main program opens before there's been a chance to register the "unclick." Hope this makes sense.
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now i have folder call help in("D:help1.jpg")in this folder files download fom another program and save. now i want that i have pen drive .i want to make such command that when click button it copy the files from ("D:heelp..") and copy to the pen drive.
i need to access to a special folder and operate there, but i don't have permission to do this, how i can set permission to access to special folder and delete/create files?
View 18 RepliesI have a program here that gets a list of directories from drive, and it works fine, but keeps listing the directories that are actually shortcuts/ junctions. For instance,[code]Will list all the directories(and files as well with .GetFiles) in 'c:\Users\All Users\', even tho 'All Users' is just a shortcut. This can lead to some problems, like 'c:\Users\All Users\Application Data\' lists all the files/folders in "All Users" including "Application Data", so it'll just keep recursing itself until it quits with an error. I can hard code it, and ignore that specific folder, but theres a few other shortcut folders that exist as well..So is there any way to detect and ignore those "directories"?
View 4 Repliesif it is not possible to password protect a folder in Vista how it comes that exist some application specifically designed to lock folders? How do they managed to achieve something that should be impossible? Why there is not a function in vb.net that allows to lock folders?
View 8 RepliesI was having trouble before editing the registry on a WPF application I'm working on, in order to get autostart to work, so I ended up creating a shortcut in the startup folder to automatically start the application. My problem is, that this not working on Windows 7 (and Im guessing Vista too). Here's my code. Does Environment.SpecialFolder.Startup not work on Windows 7?
Dim PathToStartupFolder As String = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Startup)
If File.Exists(PathToStartupFolder & "Application.Exe.LNK") = False Then
Dim ShellObject As New IWshRuntimeLibrary.WshShell
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I have made an application that shared a folder for "everyone" on windows XP. I tried to run this application on a Vista PC, but when it tries to share , it fails. What's the different in sharing folder from vista to XP ? How i can fix my application for vista ?
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I have an app written on an xp pc which I want users to run on Vista
The app needs to delete a file on a portable drive in a particular folder
This folder was created on the xp machine and copied to the portable drive
The app will not delete a file in this folder on Vista but it will on xp
When I check folder security on vista (which does not exist on xp) I find that the folder does not have full control assigned
my app will write a file to that folder & delete it but will not delete a file put there from the xp pc
If I change the security in vista to full control it works
what I want to do is see if the folder has full control when the user selects it and advise them they need to alter security as I can not do it in the program
basically I want to advise them the moment they select the folder, not when it fails to delete the file after entering misc details in the app which are reuired before the file is deleted.
I have nerver used my application in windows vista or windows 7.It turns that WinXp SP 2 supports great but when i run it in windows 7 , it shows error like this but I can't install MDAC28 in windows 7 Because it is for windows 9x.Isn't vista/7 contain JetOledb components?.I have some other questions too in windows vista/7 there are some restriction on folder viewing .. In few of application , I used to save some info in system32 folder now those applications are also working.How we can save infos in windows 7 at system directory?
View 19 Replieshow do you find the default temporary folder in windows xp, vista and windows 7?
View 1 RepliesWhat is the syntax for the windows XP/Vista Application Data folder When i use
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i compile my form with the below code when i run it on vista work fine without any problem but when i try to run in on XP cant run... that happened with any XP machine.[code]when i run my exe to other Vista machines work fine... but on xp NO.
View 1 RepliesI am been working on an a small app that has a Forms.Webbrowser control that navigates to a Adobe Flash program. I have developed the app on Vista 32bit platform and have had no problems. I have sent the app to a couple of people to test out and one is using Vista 64bit and is running into a problem. I know the webbrowser control just uses the underlying base framework of IE. The problem on the 64 bit machine is when the site is navigated to it says that it needs to have Flash installed. When the user goes to Adobe's site it says they need to use a 32bit browser.
As stated on Adobe site here:[URL] the Flash player need to be in a 32 bit browser. What options do I have to be able fix this problem? Is there another control that I can use that would be the same in a 32bit platform and 64bit platform? Besides navigating to the Flash program, the browser also goes to standard web pages.
I've created the design of it, I just have no clue how to load.
Basically, there is a Dropdown box that connects to a folder. In the folder, are txt files. I need w/e text files are there on startup to be shown, in the dropdown box. Then, I need it so when somemone selects one of the files in the dropdown box, it read's the text file and performs some tasks. (I am getting really confused on how I could do this)
So basically, the dropdown is just for selecting the Text File.
In the textfile would be things like this:
open {test.java} (This would internally open the named java/ or whatever file)
find {test} (This would find the word test in the file)
add {testadd}, {under} (Would add "testadd" underneath The searched "test"}
remove {testadd} (Would remove "testadd")
save {test.java} (would save)
stop {c:/location/compile.bat} (Would Basically load the bat file.)
As if this wasn't complicated enough, then how would I get the compile.bat stuff (Like the log that comes from it, etc) to show up in a rich text field?
I cannot figure this out O_O
Check this out: If you do something like this code:
Dim X as Double = .14
Dim Y as Double = 14
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Here's my xml
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes" ?>
<MyXML>
<myNode name ="nameValue" webLink="http://www.bing.com/search?q=help+and+help&go=&form=QBLH&qs=n&sk=" />
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I am using Visual Studio 2008 Setup project. I need to copy one folder and the sub folders into the program files but when I tried to copy or add the folder to "Application Folder" in File System editor, I am able to add only files and not folders.
View 1 RepliesHow would I create a dir Inside %temp%? Then extract the file to it and Open a That folder. So far this is my code.
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how to change the install folder path in a setup and deployment project/Installer class from program files to C:usersPublic in windows 7 and allusers folder in xp.Want to add MVP with my name.
View 3 RepliesI installed the new one. I then imported an old project made using vb 2008 EE.I found that a few errors were reported.In the project I addressed some function from a dll called "rsource.dll". I used the following function call:Public Declare Function rs_init Lib "rsource.dll" Alias "init" () As Double.The other different thing is the projevt was developed on a 32 bit OS but since then I have upgraded to 64bit (if this makes any difference). he other thing is where is the debugger PAUSE button. has it been removed from vb 2010?Also when i run debug it seems to create the exe in the Build output target folder instead of the default bindebug folder why is this?
View 5 RepliesPrivate Sub Button21_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button21.Click
If TextBox11.Text = "" Then Exit Sub
MkDir(Dir1.Path + "" + TextBox11.Text)
MsgBox("Folder Created:")
TextBox11.Text = ""
End Subok now the file i have is from my.resources.test1 put this file into the folder that wascreated after mkdir line of code i have tried differnt ways of doing it but dose not work. it seams that this whould be so easy i dont if its me getting a mind block or something
Visual Basic 2008/2010 - Save Page As, create a Folder, upload the folder to a specific ftp site I am working on this vb app that will goto a specific site, click on a button(i am still working on the button process) do a save page as, create a folder, save those files to a folder and then upload that folder to a ftp site.
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I have the following directory structure in my asp.net webdirectory i want when any body access anypage inside my admin folder then it auto redirect to login page of admin folder until they login
View 1 RepliesToday, while talking with my colleague, something odd came out of his mind. A "secret" way to handle string coming from vb6, which was like:
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I've got a program that in a nutshell reads values from a SQL database and writes them to a tab-delimited text file.The issue is that some of the values in the database have special characters (TM, dash, ellipsis, etc.) When written to the text file, the formatting is lost and they come across as junk "â„¢ or â€" etc"
When the value is viewed in the immediate window, before it is written to the txt file, everything looks fine. My guess is that this is an issue of encoding. But, I'm not real sure how to proceed, where to look, or what to look for.Is this ASCII or UTF-8? If it's one of those how do I correct it before it's written to the text file.Here's how I build the text file (where feedStr is a StringBuilder)
objReader = New StreamWriter(filePath)
objReader.Write(feedStr)
objReader.Close()