I'm trying to pull the creation date of all the files (1000+) in a folder on a local server to list in an excel file. I've been trying to use FileSystemInfo for this, but it doesn't seem to work to get the creation date of MULTIPLE files because it doesn't allow me to use wildcard characters to read all (not even sure if that's what I'll need to do).
View 1 RepliesI've written a loading program that writes text files to our database. The text files are dumped by another system every 2 hours onto on a shared network drive at my work. Here's the problem though - the files don't have a date/time stamp within them. I've been getting the date for each file from the creation date. That works okay, but when I've written loading programs in the past, I like to move the loaded files into a folder called "Loaded Files". That way, I can quickly see visually how many files I've loaded vs how many have not be loaded.
The problem this time, is that if I were to move the file into another folder, the creation date changes...a lesson I learned when I copied all of the files into a directory on my C: for testing. They all had the same date/time stamp!My question is, what's the best way to handle this? I don't want to move the files after loading them if it alters their creation date. I mean, what if I have to go back and load one for some reason, the date will be lost forever. I also don't want to write something into the software that has to check a file each time before loading it to the database.
I have a files list which contain the directory of file. I want to know file creation date of that files. I used fileInof.CreationTime. But It is not displayed creation date. How I can know about this.
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I'm trying to save a files save date, modify that file and then restore the file back to it's original date. I can't get it to work, I've tried it several ways and cannot get it to work.
My code so far is
origdate = My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFileInfo("inspection").L astWriteTime.ToShortDateString()
' changing file content here
System.IO.File.SetLastAccessTime("inspection", origdate)
be able to check if an application i am writing has been run on a week by week basis. i have created a button that when pressed creates a text file with nothing in it, i can read back the date it was created which also gives me the time which i dont need, i then need to compare the date the file was created to see if it is older than 6 days if so delete the file. how can i check to see if a creation date is older than six days???
View 9 RepliesWhat is the easiest way to automatically fill a datetime column in an SQL data table with the date the row was created? Using SQL Server 2005 if that matters.
EDIT: I've tried using GETDATE() for default and that works for an INSERT Query but not when the TableAdapter adds the row.
I would like to implement into my program a version query of the executable and I figured the easiest way would be having a check on the date of the executable. So how can I check the creation date of the executable that is currently running (from the program itself that is)?In short - double click on .exe and it will tell the date of its creation
View 10 RepliesI created a background thread that constantly scans a specified folder for any .xls files that are created or modified. These files come from a vba macro in outlook that will automatically save the attachments of the mails in the this folder. This will update the modified date/time, or at least it seems to.
For Each fi In aryFi
fidate = System.IO.File.GetLastWriteTime(path & fi.ToString)
fidate1 = System.IO.File.GetCreationTime(path & fi.ToString)
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Everytime I check to the code, the fidate and fidate1 variables are indeed the correct dates/times of the file it's currently checking. It almost never gets inside the elseif block at runtime though.
So I am attempting to do the following: Use VB to select multiple Files(Excel, Word, RTF, PDFs) and create one PDF from all these files. I need to perform this for approximately 2000 files with a different number of files going into each PDF. I have Acrobat 8 and Visual Studio 2008.
View 2 RepliesI need some help in the creation of a program to generate a security code based on the current date. I need to create something that first multiplies the MMDDYY (ie X=MM * DD * YY) then also adds the MMDDYY then finds the remainder and then multiplies but a specified number. I would like to create a small program that sits in the system tray with this code displayed. The code will always need to be 6 characters, so I might need to pad it with zeros. It has been years since I took basic VB, and I am really rusty.
View 1 RepliesI'm new here at Dream.In.Code, and this is my first question! To begin I would like to say I am new to Java but not new to coding, I am using Eclipse IDE 3.7 for Java and only have a basic knowledge of Java. I understand how it works; I don't know very much code... On to my question! I am wishing to create a simple JAR file for my own education/demonstration. Yet despite my searching and reading through my book I cannot find any relevant information about how JAR files are constructed. So, what defines a JAR file? How does one compile/make one?
P.S. I wish to work with JAR files because of their seeming simplistic nature and cross-compatibility. This is true, yes?My dearest apologies, I realise I posted this in the wrong forum. May a moderator move it for me?
I'm trying to monitor the creation of files from macros I have launched from VB.Net. The code below works and the event fires but nay code I insert in the OnChanged events gets this error:Error 7 Cannot refer to an instance member of a class from within a shared method or shared member initializer without an explicit instance of the class.
The error message makes no sense to me. I just want to call a SUB() on the same form or make a call to me WP class as shown. How do I do that?
Imports System.IO ' WP
Imports System.Diagnostics ' WP
' WP Monitoring
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I would like to fine-tune their work tool.The basic idea is to load different libraries etc CppThere in my working environment, such as files - *. dsm.Read the information from them is no mean feat.
View 2 RepliesI have several records in a database that have Start and End Dates
09/15/2011 - 09/30/2011
10/15/2011 - 10/22/2011
11/01/2011 - 11/15/2011
When user stores a record, I need to make sure dates don't overlap.My simple code checks date ranges within a specific record (e.g. user enters 9/16/2011 or 10/21/2011, I throw an exception.)But, on the slim chance a user gets creative (e.g. 10/14/2011 - 10/23/2011 or even 10/14/2011 to 11/16/2011), now they have circumvented my check.BTW, the user could enter 10/14/2011 to 10/23/2011 if they were editing the record that contained values 10/15/2011 - 10/22/2011.So, I'm trying to solve this riddle with a linq query. However, what I have isn't working exactly right.
UPDATE Nevermind about code not working. While trying to provide an example to expand on Miika's repsonse, I found my answer. So, giving credit to Miika for pointing me in the right direction and posting my working code below:
Here's my code:
Private Sub CheckForOverlap(myMonth As Messages.MyMonth)
Dim am As New MyMonth()
Dim amCollection As Messages.MyMonthCollection
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I have found many pages referring to having the date be part of a txt file being created, but not like the way I need. Having said that, this is what I've got.. [code] I read a page on working with txt files and learned what I could from it. It said to use the method in the beginning of my code for creating the file. It works great, but I would like to have a new file name everday, hence the date being integrated. So even if program was running, when midnight hits, a new txt file is created and new entries are written to that file. But I can't even get the date to be put in there. Everytime I try to make this work by using methods I read about in other pages, I get a syntax error, or a warning saying an end of statement is expected. I'm not sure those methods are compatible with what I've already got going.I was actually trying to store these values in a database, and I got real close I think, but I couldn't get any help to fix my problem so I'm trying to write to daily txt files instead. url....
View 6 Repliesi am trying to get files name, modified date in a folder Before i get those files, can i pump a command by using vb to the folder and make them sort by modified date?
View 6 RepliesI have a website that has highly granulised access and hence requires many web.config files. The problem is I would like to trim the menu so that only certain users will have access to certain folders. I have enabled trimming and setup roles in the sitemap, however when I access the page the menu is not show, as I am authorized to view the default page which is not in a subfolder. When I type the url of a page in sub folder's I have access.
How should I handle this:
A site map for each web.config file - don't know how this will work Removing the sub web.config file to only use a single one
I know this is out there and probably illogical but I was wondering if it was possible to take multiple picture files and compact them into one file.... and then retrieve them from the program later? Way to combine any amount of image files into one file
Module Module1
Sub combine()
Dim img1 As New Bitmap("i1.jpg")
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I'm developing an application to help law enforcement retrieve and analyze logs and other files left by the use of Pidgin (a multi-protocol messenger client). Right now I'm nearly done, but I want to add the ability to search chat logs for user-defined words or phrases and I don't even know where to begin.
Chat logs are stored as html documents in a folder/sub-folder/sub-folder/sub-folder fashion, where each sub-folder can have dozens of sub-folders inside of it, and the final sub-folder can have dozens if not hundreds of chat logs. If anybody could point me in the right direction, I'd be very grateful.
(Also, this is the first program I've written since about 2005, and I'm essentially teaching myself VB as I go. If you'd like to see what I've cobbled together so far, you can find the program here.)
I'm trying to copy multiple excel source files into one excel file. My current code is working only for 3 source files..If more than 3 files are there, it doesn't copy the data but creates blank work sheet in the output excel file. Lets say I have a source folder with 5 excel files. Each workbook contains one worksheet with data. It copies upto 3 worksheets along with data into output excel file.
Lets say excel1 contains A as work sheet, excel2 contains B as work sheet ,excel3 contains C as work sheet ,excel4 contains D as work sheet ,excel5 contains E as work sheet .Now my output excel file should look like..OutputExcel with A, B, C, D, E along with respective data.But my current code is giving output as A,B,C worksheets along with respective data but its creating blank sheet1,sheet2 in place of D & E.
SSIS Script Task Vb.Net Code:
Public
Sub Main()
Dim filePath
As
String =
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I have a report that I want to filter using a From Date Text Box (which is a string) and a To Date Text Box (which is a string) so the user will insert a start date and and end date to filter the report, how would I do that? This is what I have:
Try
Me.FuelTableAdapter.FillByDate(Me.ShuttleRunsDataSet.Fuel, FromTextBox.Text &
ToTextBox.Text)
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I'm trying to create a program with VS2008 that will:
Allow me to copy 30 newest .txt files from a folder by looking at date modified. This can be hardcoded or a text box that prompts the user for how many days of files to pull.
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I am populating a datagrid control using files in a specified path (DirectoryInfo).I would like to filter the files based on a user specified date range (start date & end date). While search S/O, I found this post, but I am getting an error on DateComparer ("'DateComparer' is a type and cannot be used as an expression.")
Here is my code:
Dim dirInfo As New DirectoryInfo(strDirectoryPath)
Dim dStartDate As DateTime = "03/01/2011"
Dim dEndDate As DateTime = "6/30/2011"
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How can I pick out files using todays date? I have files that have dates and times in a folder, 08-25-2010-123803654.xml, 08-25-2010-123804441.xml, 08-24-2010-123851240.xml, etc. I want to pull out just todays entrys and when i put in my code it gives me an error.
My code is:
SourceFolder = "C:TEST(DateTime.Now.tostring('MM-dd-yyyy-*')"
MY Code:
Module Module1
Private Property fs As Object
Private Property BaseName As Object
Private Property FullTargetPath As Object
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How to resove this problem with package made in Visual basic 6?
View 6 Replieshow can I sort (not filter) directoryinfo files by date (oldest to recent) ? I am using asp.net and visual studio 2008
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to split a date column into multiple columns by year. If I could achieve a roll-up subtotal at the end that would be awesome.
I'm thinking the best way to do it, is using a .NET datalist control, but I'm open to suggestions.
Example data:
DATE | SALES
1/1/2009 | 1234.56
2/1/2009 | 4567.89
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what is the best way to check if the files in a backup folder are older than the files in the reference folder?
View 4 Repliesi have to get the files in all the directories with date formats in file name and also in extension. Some thing like new_mmddyyyy.txt / new_yyyymmdd.* like this....
View 14 RepliesI have a program that creates folders with current date. I want to paste my files into folder that uses current date as name of the folder. My code below works great but i have to provide the folder name that the files will be paste into. How can i paste files into folder that uses current date as folder name?
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml.Linq
Module Module1
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