I need to find out the path to the logged in users profile folder in VB.NET.
I know there is one to get the AppData folder but I need only the profile path becuase there is a file I need to read in the root of the profile folder.
I've been searching for a while, but it seems that I can't find an easy way to get the current user profile folder. I've tried "%userprofile%" environment variable, but it didn't worked (or I'm doing something wrong).How can I do it? I want to add the value to an string variable.
I actually tried something like: Dim Userfolder As String = %UserProfile%
I tried with quote marks too, but none seems to do the trick.What I'm missing?
How do I get the startup folder path for "Current user" and "All user" in VB.net?
View 2 Replieswhen building my application I am getting some temporary files shown in Solution Explorer under Miscellaneous Files lie App_Web_YDKG.VB with following code block in that generating error
Protected ReadOnly Property Profile() As System.Web.Profile.DefaultProfile
Get
Return CType(Me.Context.Profile,System.Web.Profile.DefaultProfile)
End Get
End Property
Error : Error 58'Protected ReadOnly Property Profile() As System.Web.Profile.DefaultProfile' has multiple definitions with identical signatures.C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727Temporary ASP.NET Filesinfinityvb2ae71c27d560144bApp_Web_pwduczex.38.vb456
If can you for me how to build the source on how I Load a Registry Hive. NTUSER.DAT in : C:Documents and SettingsUserNTUSER.DAT
Mer30.Sure with source for vb.net 2008
Using the Asp.net Membership & Profile Providers: Am I able to retrieve a user profile using their Membership UserID instead of their Username?The reason I ask is because if I have the UserID and not the Username I would have to write the following two lines of code [code]Dim Profile As Profile = Profile.GetProfile("UserID")Will this affect performance? Is my design bad? Am I missing something? I am aware that I can retrieve the current logged in user using the following code: HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name
View 1 RepliesNeed to copy files to a directory within the user profile. simple task if i hard code the path, however i need the code to account for different users who run the code. this is where i run into the issue. code so far
Dim src As String
src = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("userprofile")
Label1.Text = src
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I am looking for code to create user profiles on new pc without logging them in.I will have admin rights but want to create a default profile for each user and copy some files to each profile before the user logs on the first time/
View 8 RepliesHow would you go toBrowse Forums Users , collect all the users by NAME, display them in a listbox and when clicked go to their profile.
View 1 RepliesI want to pass an asp.net membership user name to a subroutine and retrieve the profile property named FullName for that user, how can i achive this in vb.net?
View 2 RepliesI am creating a VB.NET application for a Calculus class as a little side-project. It requires user profiles that are saved locally in the program's main files. I am using 2 separate classes to access the user profiles right now.
The first class is called Config and it is used to manipulate the basic config file which contains lesson document paths, settings, and user profile names.
The second class is called User and it is used to load up user profiles from a profile directory where user data is saved in separate text files.
The Config class retrieves the user names, and user profile text file paths. This text file path is then handed off to a User object that can then load up and interpret the file.
how should I format the config file and user files so they are secure enough that someone can not easily retrieve or manipulate data?
Here is a sample of how I am reading the text files:
Dim userList() As String = {Nothing}
If My.Computer.FileSystem.FileExists(configPath + "config.cfg") Then
Using MyReader As New Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.TextFieldParser(configPath + "config.cfg")
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The problem isn't reading the text file, I am just not sure how to make it secure. I was thinking about first parsing the entire file to translate it from 'encrypted' to text, and then save it as a temporary file which I would pass off to the above code, then delete the file immediately afterward. As for 'encrypting' (is that the right word for this?) the file, I could maybe bit-shift each character using a key that I would save at the beginning of the file.
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 know, it's a bit weird asking for a query to tell me my own email address right, I'll explain further...
I'm writing a COM add-in for Outlook 2007. One of the subs generates and sends an email to a particular address and this all works fine.However I have a need to have an option for the sender to be able to include themselves on the recipients list.As more than one person will be running this I cannot just set the sender's email address manually and would prefer to just add a check box on the form to enable this feature.
The only bit I'm stuck on is working out how to find the email address of the person sending the email. I could do it with an AD query against the logged on user but this needs to work for non-domain users also so need another method.
I want to retrieve a folder path when I right click on a folder with the mouse. If I use
Code:
FileIO.FileSystem.CurrentDirectory
then i only get the current folder and not including the folder I right click on...
Is it possible to retrive this path?
I'm just trying to move my folder from one path to another path.The coding seems like it has moved it but the folder is not appearing in my destination path?
View 7 RepliesHow to get the folder name from the full path of folder?This is file path,
"c:projects
oottwsdlprojdevlopeta2 ext"
Here text is the folder name.But i want to get the folder containing text, that is beta2
I have the following windows service file:
Imports System.ServiceProcess
Imports System.IO
Public Class fswService
[Code].....
2 problems: first, intellisense error saying: 'fswService' is a type and cannot be used as an expression. second, I can not figure out a way to pass on to the service the path of the folder to watch (which is stored at My.Settings.userPath).
Basically I am trying to enable the user the ability to select a folder and the folders music files populate a list box. I want two list boxes on the page, one with all the contents of the folder and then the other one for files selected from the first box. I have no clue on how to do this at all...
View 4 RepliesI'm currently writing a program that needs to open a file specified by the user, replace a certain string of text with a different string of text, and save it to the user-specified path. Here's what I have so far:
Private Sub forceButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles forceButton.Click
Dim writer As New IO.StreamWriter(OpenChart1.FileName)
Replace("", "E *", "N 5 0")
End Sub
If I have a file path like "C:My DocumentsImagesImage1.png", how can I get the parent folder name of the "Image1.png" file? In this case, "Images", but that's just a sample. I've looked through System.IO.Path and there doesn't seem to be anything there.
View 6 RepliesThis is a messy way of updating my application but I don't have much other way I can think of doing it. Here is the background information:
My app does not use ClickOnce or any deployment other than just copy/paste the files into a zip and uploading on the web My app has a "update check" form which checks for strings on my website to compare current version with a newer version
Now basically, it downloads correctly. Nothing about that is the problem. I use My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile to do so.
Currently, the user downloads and has to REPLACE the file. Its not an update, its just an "updated" application. I'm not fully sure how I will go about proceding this later, but currently I'm trying to do the first part of my pseudocode below. Which is to get the application's path so that I can "replace" it later programmatically so that it performs a "auto-update".
Pseudocode of what I am trying to accomplish (anything in bold is what I'm trying to accomplish that I haven't already done):
Get folder path of application Download the app update with My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile download Extract this updated folder and replace the contents with the current folder path of the application.
I have the download aspect complete. As far as this question goes, how do I get the folder and replace the contents? As far as extraction though, what are your thoughts on the best method to extract and then replace?
I need to get the path to a folder eg: "C:" . but when i use the below code i have to sellect a file (any type) to get the folder path
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In VB.NET (2008 Pro) how would I be able to change the path of a folder to represent the recycle bin or printer folder, control panel etc.I have seen it before in VB6 (code below) where the user was able to select a windows path and it set the folder to that path, and also, changed the icon to that particular folder. [code]
View 4 RepliesI am going through all the files as follows: For Each FI As String In System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(FolderBrowserDialog.SelectedPath, "*.jpg", IO.SearchOption.AllDirectories)' here I need to get the select path's folder name, which is the folder name the current .jpg image is on Next.
View 6 Repliesi have been asked my a mate to make a mod launcher for a game now i have everything done apart from when loading the mods folder it gives me the full path aswell as the file name... so my question is how can i split the path so it just diplays the folder names and not the path to it... i have looked online for it but cant find alot the frustrating bit of this is i have done it before and cant think how i done it.
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How can I get my app. to remember a path to an folder that has been enterd into a TextBox?
on Form1 there is a SettingsButton, clicking it opens a SettingsDialog, on the Dialog I have a TextBox.
Dubble bclicking on the Dialog opens a FolderBrowserDialog, in that Dialog I select D:My DocumentsTest Pics or enny other folder by clicking on OK that path is desplayed in the TextBox.
If the SettingsDialog is closed or the app. is closeed the contens of the TextBox is lost.
I need to replace a path's last folder. what's the best way to do this?
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Is there a code checking that whether a shared folder is available?? Or check whether ftp path is available?
View 2 RepliesI was googling / searching the forums for this type of code.I want to be able create a folder within my application folder, mainly because I don't want people using my program to use a specified path to be able to use my program.
Example,If I would using a specified path It would be ("C:/Macbrutal/Foldername")And the user who would install my application surely, doesn't have macbrutal as username for windows so their path would be ("C:/User/Foldername") and that would bring my program an error, if you get me.
So to brake it down a little, Let's say my path for my program is ("C:/Macbrutal") I want my program to generate a folder where my application is located (not with specified path) which would be (C:/Macbrutal/newfolder")
I want to know the path of windows directory then create a folder within it automatically example : test1
so the vb.net application shoult detect the path to windows then create inside of windows folder a folder named test1[code]....