I have a vb.net form which has a button in it. The button will call A.exe (it's a vb.net exe) using the command Shell("A.exe ", AppWinStyle.NormalFocus).
How can I make sure that everytime I press on the button, A.exe will only open once, and does not open a new form each time?
How do I Close a Form and then open a new one straight away? Im trying to make a Login for a Program, but I want the Login Box to open first, then disappear when the credentials are correct and a new Form to load.
View 3 RepliesHow do i make my button open a program and make it windows size?
View 6 RepliesHow can I make a program that will open an image, put it in picturebox1, and save it resized?So far I have the open code
OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog()
PictureBox1.ImageLocation = OpenFileDialog1.FileName
Me.Text = OpenFileDialog1.SafeFileName
PictureBox1.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.Zoom
Just for fun i am trying to make a program who can open add-ons like firefox. I was thinking that i maybey can use something like this: Me. Controls. Add(the add-ons file}and if it's possible, what kind of files shuld i use, dll?
View 2 RepliesI want my users to be able to have my program open on startup. I am coding in vb.net. How can I go about doing this?I can't find a "system startup" folder anywhere that I could just copy a shortcut to.
View 4 RepliesI need to make my program open a file, write a length of 142 bytes over an existing 142 bytes and save. Please help. I have gotten no where with it so far...
View 3 RepliesIs it possible to only make a program open when another program opens it? so when someone tries to open it themselfs by clicking on it, it pops up a error message?if so then how would someone go about doing this in VB 2008?
View 9 Repliesi need to know the exact code that once you click a button on visual basic program it will open a program in a directory for example:C:Program FilesiTunes.exe
View 5 Replieshow i can making my app in open with list for windows like if i chose my app to open txt file my app will open the txt file like example: ex.txt ==> open with my app and my app with view the ex.txt
View 1 Replieswhat is the code to make windows open a program at the startup?
View 4 Repliesi'm relatively new to vb. I'm trying to make a relatively simple program to get all open window titles in a ListBox. I'm kinda borrowing off some tutorial's/sample code so I might have some declarations I don't need but this is what I have:
Code:Imports VB = Microsoft.VisualBasic Public Class Form1 Declare Function GetWindowTextLength Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowTextLengthA" (ByVal hwnd As Integer) As Integer
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How can I make the second form (same size as the first) open exactly where the first form was?So Form1 is hidden, and form2 is shown in exactly the location form1 was in.
View 2 RepliesI want my login screen to open over my editor! Example MS word how they have the tips screen over top and you press the close button if you don't want it there.
View 3 RepliesFor creating a new form I use: Dim form2 As New Form Form2.Show()How to make the new form2 to open a text file in its textbox?
View 6 RepliesI have it so a form opens first. But I want
LoginForm1.vb to open first.
How can I do this?
Question 1: How to make 'Button1' open a external program of there choice using the File Browser.
Question 2: How to send 'TextBox1.Text' to an external process
Question 3: How to save data in a .dll file made from Visual Basic
If anyone has source codes that I code edit for Visual Basic 10/08,And If you could sort of walk me through what I would need to edit to make it work for my programs
I develop a small calculator in VB 2008 but i lost the code due to virus attack on my computer. But i make a exe when i complete is it any way i open this exe in my new project?
View 5 RepliesI am very much a beginner to VB.net and I'm still flicking through tutorials, learning basic stuff however I need to make a program fast and need help with it. I need to know how to make the form open a game save,whether that be for PC, Xbox or anything else.
View 3 RepliesHow can I get Visual Basic to open another form using code? I have attempted to google the solution several times and never found anything that works.
Also, do VB forms share variables? Is there any way for one form to send data to another form?
I am developing an application with a number of windows forms. The first form I designed is the one that opens when I run the program. This was fine all during the development and testing.
Now I want to add a Login form but can't figure out how to get it to be the opening form when a user starts the program.
Does anyone know how to call an InfoPath form to open from VB? The form is located on a webserver so the path would be something similar to[url]...
View 1 Repliesi need to open a form (loginform1.vb) when the program starts. i do not want this form to be able to be closed, as it will be used as a login for the form. i have already tried loginform1.show() but this is able to be exited, and it is started in the background.
View 4 RepliesIs there a way to direct a form in VB.NET to open and maximize in the second monitor. That is if there are two monitors displayed, to have the form load in the second window maximized by default?
Say a program was made with two forms and a computer has two monitors attached.
I want FormA to show in MonitorA by default and FormB to show in MonitorB maximized by default
I've got a VB.Net form application that dynamically loads user controls based on which navigation link the user clicks on. I'd like to make it easier to use at Design time by putting a link of some sort to open the User Control at design time. The link would go onto the form in the space where the User Control will be going. This just saves a little time from having to browse through the files to open the correct file.
View 2 RepliesOn my program I am trying to make a form that would activate the program.I have the activation codes but when the user enters the activation code in a text box, is it possible that it would erase that activation code or wont accept that activation code again after being used once. Then if the program accepts the activation code can it open the main form (form1) and if the user closes the program and the re-opens the program, is it possible that the activation form doesn't open again and instead, going to the main form. I have this password code:
Private Sub textbox4_KeyDown(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles MaskedTextBox1.KeyDown
Static WrongCount As Integer = 0[code].....
Then can there be slashes every 4 characters in the text box?
How do you make a glass form in VB.NET? Like the vista/win7 effect, but extended into the form. I saw a tutorial for C#, but can't find one for VB.NET
View 6 RepliesI was able to make a program that can draw on a form but if I draw very fast, the lines are cut. Check image below :
Another is I want to make my form be able to load a power point presentation. Is it possible? Also, I was wondering if it is possible to save the form as image file like what we do in screenshot?
Im trying to make a program that has a main form(menu form) and when i click on the buttons another separate form will appear.
View 1 Repliesi would like to be able to make my form title to be something like (document title) - (name of program). The document title is the title of rtb document. how would i do this? i sorta have start.
Me.Text = String.Format("iPad - {0}", rtbeditor.Name.ToString)