The program photographs people and save it to the database (SQL Server 2005 VARBINARY(MAX)) .Sometimes we get a bad picture means a binary file looks like '0X00' or somethng like that and when we try to display the picture we get an error. How can I check via VB.NET the validity of the binary file before saving it to the database Best Regards, Uri Dimant SQL Server MVP [URL]
View 3 RepliesAm working on a form in vb.net.. i have got a fields like name, email-id, phone number, etc.. now i want to validate the email that the user gives.. for example, Name : Sathya
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I just want to know how I can check if a file selected by the user is binary or not.
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View 2 RepliesI am working on a form in which users are asked to provide a file's URL. I need to check if that URL really points to something. I use a CustomValidator with server-side validation. Here is the code :
Protected Sub documentUrlValide_ServerValidate
(ByVal source As Object, ByVal args As System.Web.UI.WebControls.ServerValidateEventArgs)
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I used backgroundworker to receive file segments from a server, it taking the segments and save them directly to a binary file. the problem is,I using a global variable to store the "FreeFile()" number.when "backgroundworker" receive "START" it do F = FreeFile()
when it receive "Segment", it should append to that file, but the problem is ... backgroundworker no more recognize the file (which its identifier saved in global variable F) and telling "Bad File"?!
whats the soultion?I think about opening the file and close it each time (not leave the connection to the file available). But I didn't figure out how to append to Binary files, It always replace their contents. and If I use "Append" option it corrupt the file!
i tried out this [code]i can create and write in the .bin file but how to read it then?
View 20 RepliesFor some reason the last PDF file to be written to the "final document" is the only PDF File that is visible when the "final document" is open. However, all of the bytes are accounted for in the file size...so for example: file1 = 60 bytes and file2 = 49 bytes. The final document has 109 bytes but only contains file2 when viewed in the pdf viewer.
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In MSDN documentation defination about lambda expression is "A lambda expression is a function or subroutine without a name that can be used wherever a delegate is valid ". Here validity of delegate is necessery only when we are passing lambda expression as an argument to a method.
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I want to scrape string data from some binary text files that contain embedded SQL tatements. I don't need any fancy cleanup--just some way to extract the readable text
View 4 RepliesI need to convert PDF files to Binary strings, the resulting string looks like this"JVBERi0xLjQNJeLjz9MNCjI1IDAgb2JqDTw8L0xpbm...."
I have a program that pulls all the PDF files in a directory, and reads using Binary Reader, but I am not getting the results I need.[code]...
How can I read arrays from Binary Files?
View 9 RepliesI have this code which works well:
Public Function LoadBinaryFile(strFilename As String) As Byte()
Using fsSource As FileStream = New FileStream(strFilename, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)
' Read the source file into a byte array.
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I am trying to make a program in Visual Basic 2010 that should do the following:
-Open file as binary
-Start with position 57 and read the following characters until a 0 is found, print the whole name
Inside the binary file, all the files' names end with 0 (which should not be printed), example:
B000000.dat0
eft.dat0
G000000000.b70
For the above examples, the names that should be printed are B000000.dat, eft.dat, G000000000.b7 respectively. The code I wrote is below. The problem is that i am not sure how to read the name until the 0 is found since the names are variable in length and so are the extensions(dat, b7). Also some names have 0 in them which makes things difficult.
Using gs As New FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Open)
gs.Position = 57
Using gr As New BinaryReader(gs)
For x As Int16 = 57 To 70
Dim textvar(x) As String
textvar(x) = gr.ReadChar
text3 = textvar(x) & (gr.ReadChar)
Next
End Using
End Using
I wrote a programme about 12 years ago in visual basic 3.Since then I have moved interstate and changed jobs quite a few time and lost the original Visual Basic 3 discs.Visual Basic 3 saved the files in a binary format that has not been used in any other version of Visual Basic. So now I cannot read or modify the files.
View 3 RepliesUsing fs As New FileStream("C: estsomefilename.ext", FileMode.Open)Using rdr As New BinaryReader(fs) fs.Seek(225, SeekOrigin.Begin)Dim b() As Byte = rdr.ReadBytes(32)Dim s As String = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(b)
End Using
End Using
End Sub
I search but I didn't find the answer all of them explain how I use binary files only
View 2 RepliesHere is my code:
Public Function ReadBinaryFileLarge(strFilename As String) As Byte()
Dim position As Integer = 0
Dim bufferSize As Integer = 4096
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Is this the correct way to go about this problem? If not, how should I attack it?
I wrote some software in Vb6 a long while ago and this program creates a datafile. This datafile stores variables like doubles, ints, arrays etc, using the Get/Put methods from VB6. This all worked great for vb6.I am now starting to rewrite this tool in .net and find that the binaryreader as well as the other fileopen methods do not convert the doubles correctly. So as I rewrite the software I still want to read the old datafiles just like before.if I use a byte array and read 8 bytes, the bytes read are identical in Vb6 and vb.net. We are talking about reading an existing old binary file created by vb6.
for example the number 3, stored as a double has a 8 byte array that looks like this:
[0][0][0][0][0][0][0][5] in vb6.
in vb.net if you use the bitconverter.getbytes(cdbl(3)) you get
[0][0][0][0][0][0][8]64]
in vb6 the first array is converted to the # 3 correctly.in vb.net the array is converted to something way way off.
I am using a Hp Touchsmart Tm2 laptop with a built-in Validity VFS-301 fingerprint reader. I would like to know if there is any way to incorporate fingerprint security directly into my VB 2010 program.
View 4 RepliesI have a requirement to create multiple fixed length files so that I can use the files for testing in another application. The following code causes an error when run.
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I need to document binary files containing integer and real numbers. I use BinaryReader, and BinaryWriter classes, with functions like ReadInt16, ReadSingle, or ReadByte. The files should be readable by any other hardware architecture/OS besides x86/Windows.
I need to document the type of default binary encoding, and can't find the MS documentation.The best I found says that it uses UTF8, but as I understand, UTF8 is for text formats, not for binary numbers.
I suposse that the answer I are looking for, is something like "little endian" or "big endian" format.
I am trying to develop an application that will let me do the following
1) Be able to search to large binary files for a specific byte array (header) and to continue searching for another byte array (footer). Then i want it to copy the section of the binary file between these 2 locations to a specified file. Then the program is to continue searching for any other header/footers An example would be search a large file and carving out the jpgs it finds etc. This routine would have to be able to handle raw images of 20gb or more if needed.
I need to read a binary file. The Byte-Ordering in this file is different from the Intel-Standard. In good old FORTRAN I've used Equivalence-Statement in such cases (For example Defining a 4-Byte-Integer-variable and 4 Bytes at the same memory location / read the file as bytes / store them in the neccessary order / access the memory using the Integer-Variable). In VB dotnet I programmed a solution using shift-operators:
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I am trying to write a simple application that monitors the COM port and writes the incoming binary data to a file. So, I gathered a File class is provided, but looking at its methods list in the Help page, I see no method for writing individual bytes (and the Write methods seem to close the file after writing).
How can I write a byte array into a file, keep it open and repeat this as necessary?
i want to read/write to some files.Specifically my application searches text files but i also want it to search binary files. The problem is : how will i know when the file is binary and not text ? Also how will i get the hexademical contents of a binary file ?[URL]
View 2 RepliesWhat do you think what is faster:
1. writing 1000 records in a binary file on a server? or
2. passing the same 1000 records in a database on a server?
and
1. search a specific record in a binary file? or
2. search the same specific record in a database file?
I have some functions written in C that read & write large binary files (> 4 GB) using routines CreateFile, ReadFile, WriteFile & SetFilePointer, that use the HANDLE data type to access the file. Some others who are more familiar with Visual Basic would would like to be able to call my C routines to work with such large binary files. We particularly need SetFilePointer to jump around with the files.
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I am trying to write data to a binary file using the Print() method, but when I run it I get the System.IO exception Bad File Mode.
Here's the code for the FileOpen declaration, that might have something to do with it?
FileOpen(filenumber, "path to file", OpenMode.Binary, OpenAccess.Write, OpenShare.LockReadWrite)
Print(filenumber, expression(variable))
I've gone through about 16 hours and two packs of cigarettes trying to figure this out. First a little background. I was using 6.0 up until 2004 when I went to prison. I'm out now, and trying to relearn the trade, using VS 2005. I'm currently porting some 6.0 code from another project, SpyCast Webcam Studio, into VB 8.0. It's disheartening, to say the least. None of the old built-in subs/functions work anymore, so I have to scour the forums to relearn each and every function.The section I'm doing now takes a snapshot from the webcam (Video API --> PictureBox --> Save as Jpeg), then upens the file to upload it to the server via HTTP POST. I've been using this code in SpyCast for years with no trouble, but I spent many hours trying to piece together the right code to open the binary file to read its contents. I pieced together two methods I found around the forums, one using FileStream() though the code I found wasn't for binary files, even though it said it was, so that code doesn't really work. Method two uses Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileOpen() and works better.
Here's the kicker. By the time I run through the rest of the rigamarole of uploading the file, by the time I read it on the webserver, it's *slightly* corrupted. It's a valid Jpeg, no errors, but the picture looks like when I use to watch the Playboy Channel when I was a kid scrambled with weird colors and whatnot. [code] Each "chunk" is basically one "line" of the file. It looks like a single LineInput() return is the text between two carriage returns. Am I correct? I tested this with a flat text file, and it looks true. However, That one input line returns the text or data with the carriage returns *stripped*! ***?!? =( Fine, I have no problem adding my own vbCrLf to each LineInput(), if I were opening text. but this's binary. A character could be Chr(10) or Chr(13), both of which are removed from the original file contents.So I could very well need to use something other than LineInput(), but I haven't found any other examples on the web using this method.