I get mixed results in Google, so I'm wondering how can I simply launch a ReadMe.txt file in Notepad thats in the same directory as my application?
View 1 RepliesI use this code
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what code i use that my application pick test.pdf file from application directory.
Years ago when coding with VB6 and earlier, I used a file open command to create, read, and write a file that made it easy to store useful information.I believe it was binary and you wrote/read the data to a specific line in the file. When you opened the file with something like notepad, it just showed random ascii chars. When I needed a line of data, I could specify what line to load it from.
View 2 Replieswould like to know if it is possible to have my application launch and open a file which will be called todays date. its just a simple text file and i am basing it on the streamreader style function.
View 9 RepliesI have a visual basic program with a readme file. I used an online tutorial to make the readme accsessible when debugging by adding the readme to the debug folder and then adding: Dim sHelpFile As String
just below Public Class Form1 as well as
Private Sub Form1_Load1(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
sHelpFile = Application.StartupPath & _
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I'm building a simple Notepad where users can open CSS & HTML files & was wondering how I can program it to open the file in the main text box like the regular Windows Notepad does.
View 4 RepliesI just published this simple console application that is supposed to show a textbox with the value of a setting called "userID" with value 1001. This works like a charm. Now what I need is to change this value outside the editor, from notepad etc. When I open the application a lot in there is non-sence etc. but with a quick (ctrl + F) I found the value 1001, and changed this to some other integer.
I ran the application again, and it failed, didn't even give any userful error-message. At a point I tried just opening a newly published non-corrupted version of the application, didn't change anything, then saved from notepad, and it were also corrupted. It seems like notepad can't open some characters or something. Do I need to publish the application in some specific text-unicode language or something? I use vb.net for this
what is the codes for open and save a notepad text file
View 5 RepliesSuppose I have this Dim proc As Process proc = Process.Start("Notepad.exe", "C: est.txt") Now, if I want to use Notepad.exe to open another text file (ie. C:2ndTextFile.txt) without closing it, how am I going to do it?
View 7 RepliesI have searched, but failed to find a suitable answer to this. My small app saves a text file using a savefiledialog and stream writer. Then if successful, displays a messagebox confirming sucess and asks if the user wants to open the text file now. and this is the problem... How do I determine if the user has changed the filename and or path in the savefiledialog when saving? I'd prefer not to hard code a path and file name if possible.... but that seems like the only option? and therefore I can't show the file straight after saving reliably??
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So I open files and do whatever with them right. I've set the initial directory to equal the last directory, but whenever I open multiple files, it never sets the directories properly. It acts as though nothing was opened there, so it takes the previous directory as the last one. Thoughts on what's not working? Here's the code.
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With FileOpenDialog1
.InitialDirectory = LastDirectory
If .ShowDialog = DialogResult.OK Then
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I have multiselect enabled earlier and everything else works but this. When you open a single file, the last directory works fine. It only happens with multiselect.On another note, does anyone know why it freezes when I try to do a lot of files and use another program? I opened 700+ files to see what would happen. When I switched to a IM convo, it froze. When I left it to run, it worked.
the application is used to find a given file name in a given file directory and put messages to remind user at a given time.
View 2 Repliesopen file in the same directory as the application in vb 2008 express edition
View 9 RepliesAt the moment I am using this:
Dim Open As New OpenFileDialog
Open.ShowDialog()
TextBox2.Text = Open.FileName
But that only allows me to open specific files. Can I make it so I can open a folder?
how can i open file .exe in the same my application directory i tried Call Process.Start(IO.Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, filename))but it open my application not anther one?
View 2 RepliesI'm new to programming and to Windows Forms development. I'm using VB.NET and Visual Studio 2008.
My question is: How do I open Notepad from a Windows Forms application, and then place some text string in the Notepad window?
i want to open or start a new application ( example : notepad ) when i press a control ( example : button )how would i do this?
View 2 RepliesHow do I get a file's directory when open with or send to event happens?I want it like media player, the application can get the file name & path when the user runs it with Open With.
View 1 RepliesI have a bath file whihc is in the same folder as my program. I want it to open if a certain string is correct in a text box so i used this
If InStr(SerialText.Text, "KN6-585-BE4") = True Then app.path(+"lol.bat")
I get a blue line under the word 'app' and it says "Name app is not declared"
Could anyone help me? (I'm a noob, mihgt take some explaining)
Oh if you need to know i am using Visual Basics 2008 Express edition.
I'm running in to a bit of a strange error with an application I'm writing. I have a number of shortcuts on my computer desktop that take me to my various folders (documents, music, etc) and have always been able to navigate using them when I open a file through applications such as Word. However when I use an OpenFileDialog box in VB.NET and select one of these shortcuts to take me to the file I'm after I am getting the following error message...
View 3 RepliesI have several groups of files with idential names, but the files inside may or may not have identcal names, and may differ only in the size or date stamp. I want to combine them to save all unique directory names, and unique file names, and if the date/sizes are unique, then add some number on the end of the file name to make them unique as well. Only idential file sizes and names and dates will be discarded. How do you open directories to compare directory/file names and other properties?
View 8 RepliesI have an excel file i want to copy all the row of that excel file into a .txt file.In the txt file the separator is comma.
View 8 RepliesI need to read the following file in vb .net:"C:WindowsSoftwareDistributionDataStoreDataStore.edb". It contains info about installed software updates. I've taken a look at the file by opening it with notepad. This isn't a plain-text file obviously, but I can find and see the text I want easily with Notepad, and I want to extract this text by using VB .NET.
The problem is, i've tried to read the file by using an io.streamreader, but I can't get the same results as in notepad. I've tried to change encoding but that doesn't work. I mean in Notepad, I can read some text easily: "A s e c u r i t y i s s u e h a s b e e n i d e n t i f i e d" [...], but the only thing I get with the streamreader is some bunch of ugly characters, and the text I saw with Notepad isn't there.
Do I have to read the file in binary or what? HOW NOTEPAD DOES IT? HOW DO I READ THIS FILE LIKE NOTEPAD DOES?I absolutely need to extract some updates info that aren't in either the registry or WMI/QFE.
backing up an excel database in my application i used...This..
Dim partdb As String = My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath
FileCopy(partdb & "part.accdb", "part.bak")
this copies the backup file to the root of my c:.Whats the correct way to file copy within the application directory?
I am trying to create an application where you can browse to a folder, press install button and it will copy some files to the directory of your choosing? I found some example code but how do i go on with my code from here? Cant figure out how to copy the files. You can see at last in the code i tried to copy files but its not really working, how do i use the function? I want the files to come from the application directory. And copy to the browsed folder.
Public Class Installer
Private Sub Installer_Load(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
End Sub
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What is the fastest and easiest way to graph data in VB.net?
How do I export 2 columns of data in Vb.net, to either an excel file or to a notepad file?
I have a menu with a lit of mp3 files, once I click on a name it should open and run mp3 file using the default player (example windows media player), I searched and found how to do that but within the application which I don't want.
View 1 RepliesHow i can open pdf file in vb.net applicatin?
View 19 RepliesWith the click of a button I want to open a rtf file embeded in the application itself.
how can I do this?
I have referenced this thread and the website it points to:pening a file in my application from File ExplorerAs of now, I can't get My.Application.CommandLineArgs to work properly. Any time I select an file to open in my program I get a windows error forcing the program to close. I only want to get the file path from My.Application.CommandLineArgs and pass it to a function that will then parse the file (a text file of various extensions, even if it is not associated with my program) and display the contents in a RichTextBox.My function to open the file is complete and works, but if I try to use My.Application.CommandLineArgs on a file the program crashes immediately.here is the code I'm trying as a test:
Private Sub ParseCommandLineArgs()
If My.Application.CommandLineArgs.Count > 0 Then
MessageBox.Show(My.Application.CommandLineArgs(0))
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