I have a listbox that while running gets populated with multiple file locations. I want another button to open these files from the locations when selected. I have not been able to find a method to open these files after they are populated and selected. I have tried multiple methods for achieving this and I think the easiest should be close to below but I must be missing something.[code]...
View 3 RepliesHow to open a file in filelistbox? Every time I clicked/choose a file in my filelistbox nothing happens.
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Dim a As String
a= Shell("rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler " & FileListBox1.SelectedItem)
Im trying to open a file from a listbox using this:
Dim str As String = ""
str = ListBox1.SelectedItem.ToString
MsgBox(str)
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but it wont work I keep getting a file not found error even though the first message box is correct in every way, so what do I have to do to get this to work?
Basically my problem is that I want an item from the listbox to open the file (containing the name) with the native application for the file extension when the 'Open' button is clicked.
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How can i open a text file in listbox? File have for example some names, one/ row:
row1 Johny
row2 Jimmy
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when i press on johnny label1.text = johnny I know how to do it in vb 6 but in vb 2008 i don`t know?
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When I click Cancel program crashes,how to solve it.
how to convert it to listview that i can open selected folder from listview not from listbox in windows explorer.
'If (listbox1.SelectedIndex <> -1) Then _
'Process.Start(listbox1.SelectedItem.ToString())
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I made a program in Visual Basic 6.0 and am trying to convert it to vb.net.so i am at the stage where the program needs to load the Access file and populate the listbox according to which radio button i chose.
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but now i need to load the text file into a text box from the listbox. one thing that confuses me is if a try to load the file from the list box, this code only shows the file names, no path, no extensions.
with the following: Open a text file which is selected in a listBox and then load the selected files contents into another list box
View 7 RepliesI have been trying to find the best way create an Ole Object container of my own with the use of open-file-dialog, a button and a listbox. I just want to attach a file together with current dataset.I get an error that says 'Items' is not a member of 'Systems.Collections.ArrayList
Public Class MainForm
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Dim alrAttachments As ArrayList
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Let's say, when you click a button it just opens a specified .txt file and adds the data of it to a listbox. I mean automatically, without that file opening dialog showing?
View 1 RepliesWhy would a .sln solution file open and appear empty in Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Express - i.e. no windows showing projects and code files etc.When I inspect the file in a text editor, it contains references to vbproj files (which are present) which indicate that it should not appear as empty.No error messages are reported when the file is opened.
View 2 RepliesI would like to open the excel file after create the excel file. The creating file function is done, but the system unable to open the excel file. My coding as below:
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Dim xlWorkBook As Excel.Workbook
Dim misValue As Object = System.Reflection.Missing.Value
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I have a simple program which display the file names in a list box. And I want the file to open when it is clicked. The problem is I don't know the code on how to open the selected file in the listbox.
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
For Each file As String In My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles("C: GlennOffice Doc"
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When I load up an image, a entry in added to the ListBox with the location of the image file. I also have a PictureBox... when you click a item in the listbox, I need the PictureBox to load the image associated with the ListBox entry. [code]...
But I am stumped on what to do, can I set a variable for each new entry which contains the image?
how to use open file dialogs to open a file to a text box?
View 6 Replies I am starting to learn reading and writing to textfiles. One quick problem. My code here
'Read is the variable that will read the kp.txt file"
Dim read As IO.StreamReader
read = IO.File.OpenText("C:2/kp.txt"[code].....
however when it is read into the listbox those 3 words appear on one line in listbox
How can i make it so that each line of the textfile is placed in each line on the listbox?
I've noticed that when you click on a web page in Windows Explorer, or open a file in general, and the default application to open it is internet explorer, ie opens and opens the file. However, when I tried this on my Web Browser it opened, but ignored the file and went on its usual routine. How can I get my Web Browser to open and open the file that was clicked on in explorer?
View 1 RepliesI saved a file with the extension .doc. I use the RichText to write and save the text. I did not set any encoding type when I saved it. When I tried to open the file in the Richtextbox again, I got all the formatting characters in the RTF file. How do I correct this? How do I open and re-open a .doc file in the Rich Text box control without the formatting showing up in the box with the document contents?
View 4 Repliesim having a slight problem with my open file dialogue box, i need to be able to open the dialgue box, and click the file and open in my pdf reader, or at least load it to my other form ive created. what ive go so far:
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i'm using VB 2008 and i need to open / save listbox with openfiledialog and savefiledialog. I know how to do it with text files but i need to find out how to open a listbox.
View 5 RepliesI have this code which makes a list of all programs currently open and running in the taskbar into a listbox but i cant for the life of me figure out how i can open one of those windows by clicking on the listbox and it opens the selected windowthis is the code I have Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form..[code]while searching online for a solution im guessing i have to use the hwnd showwindow command but i dont know how.all i need to do is when i click an item in the listbox it opens the coresponding window.
View 2 Repliesi have a project with a listbox and a button. I would like the button to load a text file (in a list) from a website like; [URL] The links format is like this;
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My knowledge of VB.net is limited (only have been reading from the book)
so what i need to do for my project is to populate a listbox with files from a certain directory (C:folder)
then once it's populated, i can select an item and it will open up in a rich text box.
This is what i have so far for the active directory > list box:
Dim di As New IO.DirectoryInfo("C:Documents and SettingsuserDesktopfolder")
Dim diar1 As IO.FileInfo() = di.GetFiles()
Dim dra As IO.FileInfo
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When I select multiple paths from openFileDialog in my listBox control enter only one path by try. This is probably because that I use OpenFileDialog.FileName. I wish to load all selected files in one time...but in this case Add(OpenFileDialog.FileNames) give me the value stringArray in same listBox. I suppose that maybe exict peace of code through ItemCollection which give me opportunity that I import all file path in one try in listBox control. It was interesting because how I may implementing matrix between openFileDialog and listBox..
View 4 RepliesI'm trying to create a form with just a button and a listbox. The listbox needs to be filled with the names of all the open application windows. The button needs to refresh the list. All I can find on this topic points me to win32api but I can't find what I need. I'm using Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition on Vista. I've managed to do this for the 'running processes' using the following code:
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I like to open a file. The open option should be shown in a separate window. My code works fine but the open window is not displaying to open a file. Here is the code:
private void OpenMyFile()
{
string path = GetPath() + ViewState["fileopen"];
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1.In my program I have 2 textboxes.In first textbox user need to put some number.Let's say he put number 10, then in other textbox program need to write numbers from 1 - 10, like this:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
If he put 20 in first textbox, in second textbox it should be:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20
2.I need to do this...Import text file to listbox.Export items in listbox as text file.
i'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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