I need to obtain the target of a shortcut (.lnk) file using Visual Basic 2008 or 2010 under Windows 7.For Windows XP and VB 2005 I used the Windows Script Host Object model and DLL, like this:
Imports WSH = IWshRuntimeLibrary
. . . . .
Dim MyShell As New WSH.WshShell
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How can I get the target path of a shortcut?
View 5 RepliesI have an .exe application written in vb.net. When I make shortcuts to the application, say on desktop (or anywhere else) and then click on them I want to programatically get the path to that shortcut, ie. C:/Users/xxx/Desktop/shortcut.lnk.
I want this so I can store the pairs shortcuts : (program + different cmd args).
I have taken over support for a VB.Net WinForms application. When this application is installed via a ClickOnce installation it generates a shortcut on the desktop. The annoying thing, though, is that if you do a right click and properties on the shortcut that was created, it is clear that it is not a regular shortcut as it does not have a target tab, so it is not obvious from the shortcut properties what this shortcut is referencing. So my questions relating to this are: what is the idea behind this kind of shortcut? Why is the the target for this type of shortcut hidden? (What are they even called? This is the first time I have ever seen a ClickOnce installation, so was somewhat surprised when I found that the properties tab was missing.) How do you find out what executable is being referenced by the shortcut?
View 1 RepliesI was doing window services where I'm generating txt files in target path based on some details from a database. I was getting same file name in the place of sec variation required so that I can avoid duplicates over there.
Code:
using (transactionscope scope = new transactionscope ) {
string nowtime = datetime.now.today.tostring(HHMMss) // it was working fine
}
File should be generates by specific file naming convention !! ex:hhmmss >>> no millisecond.
I'm creating a shortcut with my application, and its working successfully, except that the "Target" line is being cut off. Not all the arguments are listed. When I run the target application of this shortcut using process.start and these arguments, it runs fine. Is this simply a limitation of the "Target" textbox? Is it simply not displaying all the arguments, or is it functionally limited in this way?EDIT: I have determined that it is simply not displaying the full string, but seems to work correctly. I would still like to fix this somehow, but if not, not a big deal.There are 259 characters in the textbox, including spaces. Doesn't seem like a significant number to me.Here is the code, but it doesn't really matter, it is working fine:
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How can i extract Target Path of Existing Shortcuts on the desktop.
View 4 Repliesi'm using VB.NET 2003 application program.by using OpenFileDialog, we can select the file name or file path.
Code:
OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog()
pgmPath.Text = OpenFileDialog1.FileName
by using FolderBrowserDialog, we can select the folder name or folder path.
Code:
FolderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog()
folderPath.Text = FolderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath
is there a way i can select shortcut. i just want to select shortcut for a folder. but when i used FolderBrowserDialog, it show only the folder list. its not showing the shortcut i have.
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for example: in desktop i have 4 folders, 1 EXE shortcut and 1 folder shortcut. but when i open FolderBrowserDialog it shows only 4 folders, not showing the 2 shortcuts. a way i can show files that end with ".lnk" and select that shortcut. is there a way i can select shortcut's...and by using this shell command i tried to open the EXE's.
Code:
ProgramPath = "C:ProgramsApplication1.exe"
Shell(Chr(34) & ProgramPath & Chr(34), AppWinStyle.NormalFocus)
and it works fine with all the EXE to get opened.but when i tried to open a shortcut using the same shell comment
Code:
ProgramPath = "C:ProgramsApp.lnk"
Shell(Chr(34) & ProgramPath & Chr(34), AppWinStyle.NormalFocus)
error occurs... "File Not Found"is there a way i can open the shortcut. how to select shortcut (files that end with ".lnk"?
I get this error every time I try to debug.But, I do not know how to fix it or why it started occurring.
View 1 RepliesI use the following code to get the shortcut files in a folder and to list them in a Listview control. But is there a way to extract the path of the EXE to which this shortcut is referring to ?
vb.net
Dim di As New IO.DirectoryInfo("C: est")
Dim aryFi As IO.FileInfo() = di.GetFiles()
Dim fi As IO.FileInfo
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Scenario:I am attempting to perform some work on files (rename/delete) in folder, usually in a network location. Because the location of products folder is not critical, it's rarely ever in the same place on different networks. A simple shortcut on the client machine is all that's required from the client perspective and the rest of the product is self contained on the server somewhere. To run the 'fix' my small application will perform quickly and easily, I need to parse the path held in the target box of the .lnk. Then perform ifexists for a specific file and then do my renaming/deleting.
To keep it as simple as possible, the end user should just 'drop' the shortcut onto my form then click 'fix'.The problem: How in the heavens can I retrieve the target location from the .lnk into a string without windows scripting host?
I'm trying to extract the icon from a shortcut (lnk file), but I end up with the shortcut symbol in the lower-left hand corner of the image. How can I extract a shortcut's icon without this symbol?
Here's the code I'm using:
Dim ico As System.Drawing.Icon = System.Drawing.Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon("C:shortcut.lnk")
When using Sendkeys with vb.net, is it possible to tell if the target of the Sendkeys has changed between sendings?
View 1 RepliesI have a Access program and I'm using VBA code in the background to run Winunzip using shell command. Well, the path of the .zip file has spaces in it and it's not recongizing the path as a valid path. Is there a another way to tackle this problem besides the shell?I can't us pkzip either. Has you can see I had to use progra~1 instead of Program Files.[code]
View 2 RepliesWhat I am trying to do is have a button that will pop up a dialog to where you can select a directory. Then the path of the directory will be placed in a text field.Click Button > Dialog Pops Up > Select Directory > DirectoryField.Text will equal "C:Program FilesStuff"
View 3 RepliesHow do you provide an image to the program, so the program finds that image on the screen and tells its coordinates. So if I was to provide an image of the start button, the program would tell the coordinates like (2,1000) or something similar.
View 13 Repliessample_form.rtf (1.48MB). Number of downloads: 36. I have a working form to give specific choices to the user and retrieve the user's choice. (See code below and attached image in WordPad file.) I know I can use a global ("Public") variable to pass the text of the three choices from the calling form to the called form, but is there a way to pass these from one form to the other exclusively? Of course, my main objective is to have as little memory being used as possible. I would like to make the form in my example (frmDialogChoice) a generic form that can display any set of three choices.
code within calling form:
Dim intSwitchToMake As Integer
Dim insFrmDialogChoice As New frmDialogChoice
insFrmDialogChoice.ShowDialog()
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The following VB 2010 code runs, but returns only a black bitmap. I suspect the problem lies with the call to GetCurrentObject but I haven't been able to find good documentation on the arguments for it.[code]
View 9 RepliesObtaining content of other application's ListBox
View 4 RepliesWhat is the best way to go about retrieving data from a proprietary hardware device that interfaces via HID USB? The particular device I need the data from is a blood-pressure/heartbeat measurement & monitoring device.The hardware came with software that downloads the data from the device and places that data into a (passworded/encrypted) MS Access database that I cannot connect to using programmatic methods, at least not without having the (admin's) password. The software provided produces reports, but the formatting renders them virtually useless (well, completely useless) for the needs of our company.
The device manufacturer provides to it's customers no API or any other technical information for accessing the data produced by their product; so, this pretty much leaves me stuck trying to figure out how to obtain the data via custom application in order to reclaim the initial justification for the expense associated with the hardware, which by the way has already been purchased.I don't need code snippits specifically, though examples would be nice; what I really need is to know is how to best approach this project, from a general design and programming stand-point.
I want to be able to search the windows event log (security) on our 2008 DC to find out when a certain user logged in. Using the system.diagnostics.eventlog namespace I can search and view information based on the event Id(4624) but I cannot work out how to display the login name of the user.
View 3 RepliesI am developing a software that would scan the image in a picturebox and obtain the rgb values of each pixel in the image and convert each rgb values to HSL values. I am using vb 2008 express edition. I am still a student. I am just starting to learn vb 2008. All I have done is to obtain the image in a file and paste it in the picturebox. Below is my code. I dont really know how to start with the process of obtaining the rgb values of each pixel and converting them to HSL values and averaging the HSL value.
Code to obtain image:
Option Strict Off
Option Explicit Off
Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
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I still do not know how to start with the process of obtaining the rgb value for each pixel.
I am developing an application to be deployed on an XP Tablet edition PC. I am interested in monitoring information (e.g. Channel, AP MAC Address) about the Access Points that I am connecting to to location where in the facility a given Tablet PC is operating in.I have been unsuccessful in finding any code samples/snippets showing information on how to retrieve this sort of information.
View 1 RepliesCurrently working with converting SQLException error messages into messages that are more useful for the end user. My largest issue has been finding the information I'm looking for.For instance, error code 8114 is
"Error converting data type [Type1] to [Type2]" And error code 8152 is "String or binary data would be truncated"
Using ADO.NET in VB.NET with SQLServer, is there a simple way to figure out which columns are affected by these errors?
I've been looking into a way to obtain Parent Processes and then list them in a TreeView so I can list the child processes as child nodes However, it doesn't look like the framework has any built in methods. I thought I heard something about MS putting it in the .NET Framework 4.0. But, that's irrelevant at the moment.
Since there are no specific methods, is there still some way I can manually retrieve this info? Or would have have to use some unmanaged code? Maybe an API?
There is Notepad opened.How can I display the full application name from the taskbar into label1.text.
For Example:
Label1.text = Untitled - Notepad
or
Label1.text = Whatever - Notepad
Can I check the applications if they contain the word "Notepad" and if they do then display the whole name in label1.text?
From what I'm finding, there doesn't appear to be any particular function available to obtain the value from a particular field from a double clicked on row of a datagrid...
So if you wanted to double click on a particular result in a datagrid, then pass one or more of the values of that row, you couldn't?
I was thinking something like this, but of course that doesn't work, any ideas?
Private Sub InventoryDataGridView_CellContentDoubleClick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewCellEventArgs) Handles InventoryDataGridView.CellContentDoubleClick
Dim invID As String = InventoryDataGridView.CurrentRow(???ParticularField???)
End Sub
I'm trying to obtain name/value pair of enumeration typed into text box with LINQ. It's OK with name, but when LINQ reaches values, it throws error: "Conversion from string "Black" to type 'Integer' is not valid". I have read that if I want to obtain a value, then I gotta use conversion function.
Here's code (button's Click event):
Private Sub GetEnums(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As RoutedEventArgs)
lstEnums.Items.Clear()
Dim typeName = Type.GetType(txtEnum.Text)
Dim enums = From en In typeName.GetEnumNames
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Is it possible using Reflection or some other method to obtain a reference to a specific class instance from the name of that class instance? For example the framework for the applications I develop heavily uses public class instances such as:
Public bMyreference as MyReference = new MyReference
Then throughout the application bMyReference is used by custom controls and code. One of the properties of the custom controls is the "FieldName" which references a Property in these class instances (bMyReference.MyField) as a string. What I would like to be able to do is analyze this string "bMyReference.MyField" and then refer back to the actual Instance/Property.
In VB6 I would use an EVAL or something simular to convert the string to an actual object but this obviously doesn't work in VB.net. What I'm picturing is something like this:
Dim FieldName as String = MyControl.FieldName ' sets FielName to bMyReference.MyField
Dim FieldObject() as String = FieldName.Split(".") ' Split into the Object / Property
Dim myInstance as Object = ......... ' Obtain a reference to the Instance and set as myInstance
Dim myProperty = myInstance.GetType().GetProperty(FieldObject(1))
I've been going round in circles with this for about 30 minutes.
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Pretty simpe, I want getText to receive the text from each selected item in the list box.
The first one plucks out chars from the first selected listitem only The second gives me the listindex of each selected listitem The last gives me the text but only for the first selected listitem