This time, basically, i'm working with Random Access Files.I have this et of code to read data from a form a save it into a .dat file. This works fine.
Public Class frmDramaClub
Structure MemberRecord
Dim ID As Integer[code].....
how do you save data stored in an array of records (structure) to a text file using StreamWriter? I currently have
Private Sub btnSaveToFile_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSaveToFile.Click
Dim sw As New StreamWriter(New FileStream("EmployeeDetails.txt", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
For Each record As EmployeeType In employees
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but it doesn't work. My array is fixed and currently has 3 elements (for testing purposes). If I enter two records and add these to the structure I get the following data saved to the text file:
123,helen,66000
879,john,89975
0,,0
How do I stop unused elements of the array being included when writing to file? Should I use a dynamic array instead and if yes, how do you use dynamic arrays with structures?
Anyone tell me how to save data to ms access file
View 1 RepliesI have 15 years' worth of files (approx. 10,000) that were created using VB6 structures and stored using the random access method. I am trying to write a conversion routine that will read the old structures and put them into a new format that is more compatible with the .net environment. I have not been able to successfully read any of the old files using the tools available in .net. Each file starts with a header record structure. The header record tells me how many tags are in the file. The next record (ie record number 2) is the first tag pointer record in the file.
There are num_of_tags of the pointer records. Each pointer record has the string that holds the tag's 'literal name and two long integers that tell where in the file this tags records are. Those actual records are stored as History data structures, [Code]
I have recently decided to give .net another chance, but i have a few questions about it before i get really into it. RE: Files, I use random access files to store data as opposed to databases (namely i don't see the need for a database for storing so little information(records <200 max) knowing that it is an older system and less "cool" i don't care...) Will vs2010 express read, write to random access files? Would it be done kind of like vb6 (which is my current vb version)? I will be needing to print the text of rich text boxes, is vs2010 express capable of doing this?
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Private Sub SaveFileToolStripMenuItem1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SaveFileToolStripMenuItem1.Click
Dim MyStream As Stream
Dim SaveFileDialog1 As New SaveFileDialog()
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I wanna save the data present on the form to the text file.I am using vb.net for this. how can i write the text present on the form in the same formate (showing on the form) in the .txt file.
View 2 RepliesIm new here and hoping that I post this in the right forum. I am SLOWLY learning VB, and have run into a problem that I cant figure out. I have a standard form that you can enter data into.I want to take that data that is entered, and save it to a text file once I click the submit button at the bottom of the form. The form could have up to 500 entries into the form.
View 19 RepliesIm reading User/Pass from a text file. It has multiple user/passes in it and I want it to randomly select one to use. How would i do this? Here is the code im using now
Using parser2 As New TextFieldParser(filename2)
parser2.SetDelimiters(delimiter2)
While Not parser2.EndOfData
[Code].....
I have this to read a random line from a .txt file[[code]....
View 3 RepliesI have a number of word documents I am converting. Everything is going great until I get a file that is read only. In this case I get a Save As prompt.
Is there any way to open the file in read/write format? I should have admin privileges so access isn't an issue.
I'm using VB.net to open the files. More specifically
doc = word.Documents.Open(path, Type.Missing, False, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing)
I'm making somewhat of a File Shredder, wherein, it overwrites your file with a random combonation of 1's and 0's, and i was wondering, is there a way to, once you've overwritten the file, rename it to a 'random' name?How it works: (Not very effective, I know)It overwrites the file w/ 1's and 0's.Basically, theres a textbox, where a 'random' combonation of 1's and 0's(Here after known as 'data') come sup everytime.So, it overwrites wht is on that file w/ the 'data' and saves it, using a save file dialog.Is there a way so that when you save it, it saves it as a 'random' name? Like if the file was 'MY INFORMATION' Once overwritten it'd be like l_fnfu4ufhf or something.
View 3 RepliesI have two windows vb.net form. I got a text file. I am trying to encrypt some data and save it to a text file with the 1st windows vb.net 2005 form. Now with the second one am trying to decrypt the data and retrieve it here.
View 3 RepliesI am writing a program to calculate Pi to several hundred billion decimal places and this will require lots of GB of memory. I wrote a test program in VB2008 that saved the first 16 digits of Pi (without the decimal point) to both a text file and a random access file, just to be sure it was outputting the numbers properly. For reference the first 16 digits of Pi are:
View 8 RepliesI want to read a random line (that I've chosen via random number) in a text file. I want to the system IO reader. But I am confused as to how to read a random line. Here's what I have...
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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 Replieshow can we or can we import data from PC RAM, and stored it to data like text or grafik...
View 6 Repliesi need to read binary file and in this file found the string and replace it with other one and save the file afterwords. I found many example to read binary, but to find and replace is for me mistery.
View 3 Replieshow can I retrieve random data(questions) from access 2007 using vb 2008?
View 4 RepliesI need an example of how to create and use a random access file
View 3 RepliesCreated Structure
opened file using FileOpen(1, "filename.dat", OpenMode.Random, , , bytes in structure)
used structure .ID = record number
FilePut(1, structure)
FileClose(1)
The program enters the first record but although when I enter more records it still shows only one record in the file.
I am moving all of the prgrams that I have written, to VS2008. However, I use Random Access File Foemat for the databases that have been used for over a decade. I need to be able to read and write to a Random access file.I have multiple fields in the database and cannot lose access to this information.VS2008 doesn't use the following type of code to define the Fields that will be used in the Database. I did what it suggested, using the Structure / End Structure, but that was as close to a solution that I could find in the Help Files.
Type EquipType
EquipName As String * 32
Location As String * 28[code].......
Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
FileNum = FreeFile()
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I'm doing a Program for a Friend of mine, He Want to have a Console Program Running on his Computer.OK the problem i am having is With Stream Read, I have 3 test users inside Test File, if User 1 logs in his information is store in logged file with time and data.but if User 3 logs on user 1 2 and 3 are all saved on the logged file
i dont have read to end of file in my Code.i dont have my Program with me, so i going off the top of my head i have something like this what i want to be able to find out how to do is Right from any part of the file and out put it, I take it i need to use Random Access but how to i code Random Access for this type of file. All i can find is how to Randomly place Words in a text file with Length and size.
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I achieved reading and writing data to a random access file, buthow do I write and read data from a certain position in the *.txtfile? Would it be better if I created multiple file modes to
View 2 RepliesI am working on a application where user enters his personal information (name, city...), so, should I, that is, should user save his data inside of the application, or should there be a data file where the information would be stored?
View 7 RepliesI am using Visual Basic 2009 to create a file of records to store students tests scores.Currently i can write to the file, create new records etc. However i cannot edit a particular record, im sure i have to use file seek function but i have no idea where to start.here is some of my source code to give you an idea of where im at
Do While (Not EOF(1)) And found = False 'loop until no more records or the record is found
nosrecords = nosrecords + 1
FileGet(1, onestudent, nosrecords)[code].....
how to read and write random access records in .NET. Now I know random access files are dead and the response on every query I found with google/bing/yahoo searches was don't use random access use Binary serialization but I can not. I have a situation where I need to read and modify 256 byte records in a file that is used by another application.
Now for a bit of background the file is made up of 27 fixed length records of 256 bytes. Each of the records has a separate structure consisting of 30-120 fields. The proplem I am having is I can create the record structures but when using the FileGet method I am receiving an error. Now I have found samples that showed the same format I am using that claim to work.
The error I am getting is Option Strict On disallows narrowing from type 'System.ValueType' to type 'ProgramName.ModuleName.Record' in copying the value of 'ByRef' paramater 'Value' back to the matching argument.
The basic layout (simplified) is as follows:
Code:
Structure Record
<VBFixedString(6)> Public SomeParam as String
Public SomeNumber as Short
[Code]....
Now the overloads for FileGet show all of the data types including Object. But I have tried various methods to retreive the 256 byte record but without success. Do I have to actually read each of the several hundred fields of the structure one by one? Or am i overlooking something (I have been known for this in the past)
Or (and I'll kick myself if this is the only way) do I just have to set option strict Off in the module and the code as above will actually work.
I would love to be able to just ditch the random access file but I have to keep it for compatibility with several other applications at this time.
The application reads information similar to a DXF file. For purposes of discussion, the data consists of lines, those lines have endpoints, x1,y1,x2,y2. Within the file those lines create "paths", in other words, they are connected. There can be many separate paths within a single file. However in the original file, the geometry is not in any particular order, the paths are not indicated.
View 3 RepliesI'm tasked with the job of creating a javascript version of a units conversion application written in vb6. I have the source code but I don't have vb 6. The source code uses a dat file to hold a conversion array (unit type, unit, xfactor, plusfactor). Getting the data out of this file would be good to me. I tried creating a little app in vb 2010 to write the data from that dat file to a txt file using essentially the same code as the source code. And that has been somewhat successful (took a while to figure out the fixed string business). Now I can pull the data out as an array. The math elements of this array look fine but the strings are somewhat read-able but too garbled to use. I can't seem to fix that by changing the character set/encoding.
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