How To Get Location Of Embedded Icon Files As String
Oct 31, 2010
My program toggles an existing IE add-on between enabled and disabled. At the same time, it creates a shortcut to itself in the Quick Launch folder using one of two icons which reflect whether the next click is a toggle on or toggle off. I store the two icons in the same folder as the targeted executable, and everything works fine, but I would rather have these two files embedded. I know how to embed them. The problem is locating them. At the moment I use:
Dim MyShortcut As IWshRuntimeLibrary.IWshShortcut
MyShortcut = WshShell.CreateShortcut(QuickLaunchVariable & "Toggle.lnk")
MyShortcut.TargetPath = path/executable
MyShortcut.IconLocation = path/iconfile
MyShortcut.IconLocation requires a string and I don't know how to get to the location of an embedded file as a string. There is no MyShortcut.Icon which would allow me to simply refer to the embedded file.
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Jul 28, 2009
I'm not sure exactly if the folder icon is in shell32.dll, but nonetheless if it is.Basically, whenever I come across a folder in a FileSystem list, I want to add the icon for a folder to the image list that I am using for the ListView. The problem is that I'm not sure how to reference a specific icon location in a icon collection in a dll.Is this possible with Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon and shell32.dll?
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Oct 6, 2009
Dim iconloci As String = located
Dim iconindex As String = iconloci.LastIndexOf(" exename: ")
iconloci = iconloci.Remove(iconindex)
Dim theicon As Image
[code].....
It works perfectly for files on the local system. But i need it to also grab icons from exe files in network locations(\\example-pc\example). Vb net just throws an error when trying....The error:QuoteValue of "\\examaple-pc\example-folder\example-file.exe" is not valid for 'filepath'.
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Oct 22, 2011
I got a error when I run this code:
Dim btch As String
Dim LeftPart As String
[CODE]...
It says index and location must refert to a location withing string
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Dec 14, 2009
I want to create a patcher/installer type program. I have 3 files that need to be embedded or stored in a file. Two files need to be extracted when user clicks a button and one of those two files need to be run with a parameter when the button is clicked and last file needs to be extracted when program closes down. All 3 files need to be able to be updated in the program.
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Mar 11, 2012
I have a tar.gz file which contains other tar.gz files. For example: file1.gz contains a.gz, b.gz, c.gx, and so on.I can read tar.gz files which have no embedded gz files. However, I need the ability to read embedded gz files. The following is a code snippet which reads .gz files which are not embedded - this works fine. how I can read embedded gz files?
For Each fi As FileInfo In di.GetFiles("*.gz")
fullPath = dirpath + "" + fi.ToString
dirInstream = New GZipStream(File.OpenRead(fullPath), CompressionMode.Decompress)
[code]....
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Jun 25, 2009
If I took a COM object (specifically Excel 2003 workbook) and made it an embedded resource of my executable, would that improve the notoriously slow .NET-COM interop at all?
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Jun 1, 2012
I know how to open local .msg files in webbrowser in html format.The problem is when the .msg has embedded pictures, the only thing that appears is a blank space ("picture not found") where it is supposed to be.If I open the .msg file in Outlook, I see the images correctly, but in my program I can't see embedded pictures.
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Nov 15, 2011
Im new at this and Im trying to insert an embedded resource into a string. However, I get an error at the last statement below. Can anyone tell me what I forgot to do or what Im doing wrong?
Peter
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Reflection
Dim oEmbed As Object
[Code]...
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Mar 26, 2010
I am using a com object to maniplate data inside an external program using VB.NET. One of the methods this com object provides requires 1 string parameter.The external program, however, requires a sting of a specified length, regardless of the number of characters used. The string to be passed to the function (length 36) is a combination of the below key fields.[code]I have tried the VB6 compatability's VBFixedString type but the com object's method throws an exception due to a type mismatch.If I convert the VBFixedString back to a .NET string before passing it to the method, the first null character is again interpreted as a string terminator and the rest of my string is chopped.
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Jun 24, 2009
I am pulling a random name from my database that matches up with images (embedded images) in my project.[code]
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Apr 9, 2009
i want to specify a folder and then have all files from "Temporary Internet Files" copied in to the specified location. I have specified both locations, and yet it fails. I think this could be caused by the fac that the "Temporary Internet Files" is located within a hidden file/s How should i go about copying the directory?
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Sep 4, 2010
I am making a simple text editor, I am creating the menu and I need to add icons such as open, save, redo etc.I was just wondering if VB has built in default icons for these or do i have to download them from here or a 3rd party?
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Mar 31, 2011
i'm making a progam to study,but it has his own save file format. (*.lad)and it get a dirty icon , so i want if i save,or open a file with the progam, the file has his own icon.
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Oct 11, 2009
Is this possible? It gives me an error, and I had previously thought it could work for folders and drives and stuff like that as well. Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon("C:") did not work when I tried it, and threw an error. How can I get the associated icon from EVERYTHING? This is vb.net
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Dec 23, 2009
I want to upload files from particular location. I got problem with GetRequestStream() function.
Here is the
Dim path() As String = Directory.GetFiles("C:files") 'I tried and with("C:/files/")
For Each files As String In path
Dim ftprequest = DirectCast(WebRequest.Create("ftp://" & FTPHost & "/" & files), FtpWebRequest)
ftprequest.EnableSsl = True
ftprequest.Credentials = New NetworkCredential(user, password)
[Code] .....
Error message is:
The remote server returned an error: (500) Syntax error, command unrecognized.
When I tried with My.Computer.Network.UploadFile(...)
I got this error:
The remote server returned an error: (550) File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access).
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Nov 1, 2008
this is driving me insane. I have 4 text files that are needed for my application to run and I'm using the following code to read the data in them :
[Code]...
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Mar 24, 2012
I 'm searching for a tool which checks for files which is newly created or updated or deleted in specified location.
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Jan 13, 2009
I have got the following code which is ment to copy files from one location to another.[code]This is copying the files however it is not copying the folder structure. How can i modify the code so that it creates the relevant folders and copy the folders into the correct folders?
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Nov 10, 2010
Im working on a way to use a Select statement to set the image of a picture box.[code]...
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Oct 4, 2011
i am working on an application that would copy files from one location to another that is thru network, i already tried using File.IO and Webservice but still copying huge/large amount of files is veryslow. also, my boss asked me to save base64 strings to database and connect to the database and regenerate the file, but when i tried saving a total of 100Mb Files, when im querying it in the database it still takes atleast 10-15min just to query it..
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May 22, 2012
So I'm working on an app that needs to create files on the end user's computer to store info in (mainly text files and HTML files), and I'm trying to figure out the best location to write these files to. I've been reading various articles @ this online all afternoon, and the advice I've read so far seems to be "all over the place".From what I understand, if the end user is not logged into Windows as "admin", then there are a limited number of locations where files can be written to their computer, without them having to deal with UAC popups, etc.I would like my end-user's to have to jump through as few hoops as possible (none, preferably ), so should I only write my files to these specific locations? when I write the files to the end-user's computer, I have 2 different types of info that needs to be stored...
Info "A" is temporary data that only needs to be stored/accessed while the end user has my program open (and this data can be safely deleted each time they close my program).Info "B" needs to be stored somewhere where it never gets deleted, so that it can be accessed by my program for as long as the end-user has my program installed on their computer.So would it be best to store info "A" in the Temp folder, and info "B" in the App Data folder?And for any files that I store in the "temp" folder, do these files get automatically deleted when the end-user turns off their computer, or do I have to programatically delete these files every time my program exits?
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Apr 10, 2006
I am getting ready to release a .NET 2003 application, and this application has a file type associated with it.During the installation I register the extension to be associated with my application, and everything is working fine.My question has to do with the icons. I want a specific icon for the exe, and also a specific icon for the files associated with my app.i want to have both icons in the exe file.I guess my question would be, how do i embed 2 different icons into an exe, so that if you selected that exe as an icon source, windows would see the different icons in it (as seperate icons)I know I can embed them as a resource, but windows only sees the main icon.To give you an example, of what I am trying to do, winamp, the mp3 player program, has several icons in its exe (see picture)(the visual studio IDE exe - devenv.exe - also has more than 1 icon in it)
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Dec 3, 2010
How do you get the cursors in an executable file? Like how to extract all cursors from a .exe, .dll, .ocx, .cpl or .src file, and then convert to an System.Drawing.Icon...
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Mar 12, 2010
I'm developing an application which relies on several files to be copied over to a specific location on the users hard drive ("C: est") when they run the program for the first time, and am having a hard time wrapping my head around how to account for the fact that the original location may be in a different location for each user.
Any ideas for either getting the path where the files would be and then copying them to the desired destination?
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Jun 14, 2009
within my project i need to open and save some files. i wont go into detail as theres no need. what i need to do is open the files from the install directory, which could be where ever the user puts it! i also need to be able to open them whilst im building too. if i hard code the directory in then it will fail..obviously
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Feb 20, 2011
I have got the following code to copy all the subfolder & files from one location to another.
[Code]...
to access the code. However i want it to run asynchronously and the progress of the copy to be displayed on a progress bar however i have no clue how to do this.
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Oct 21, 2009
Im working on a way to use a Select statement to set the image of a picture box.
select case currentno
case 1
PictureBox2.Image = Image.FromFile(C:UsersValued CustomerDocumentsVisual Studio 2010ProjectsChiroReportChiroReportChiroReportPnt_GuideLAT CERVlatcerv52.jpg)
[code]....
The Select statement should work fine but the path to the file i want to open doesnt. Id love a way to reference the Pnt_GuideLat Cerv directory based on where my program gets installed on the Hard drive.
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Nov 1, 2011
I am wanting to build a menu from multiple xml files in a central location this will be to help with adding crystal reports after application has been deployed to an end user.I am able to get the list of all the xml files in a folder it is just the adding the ReportName to the different menu buttons i have set up.
Dim dirs As String() = Directory.GetFiles(Application.StartupPath & "Reports", "*.xml")
Dim dir As String For Each dir In dirs Dim xe As XElement = XElement.Load(dir)Next
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Jul 14, 2010
I am trying to copy a directory with sub directories and files to another location on my computer. Whenever I try, I get the following error, through my "console":
$>Error: System.IO.IOException: The directory is not empty.
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.Directory.DeleteHelper(String fullPath, String userPath, Boolean recursive)
[code]....
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