I have a program. Every now and then (every 1-2 hours) i would like this program to run, do its stuff, and then close. I don't want it running all the time, just for a minute or two before closing. Is there some kind of windows thing that will tell my program to run or must i make a 2nd program to do this for me? (If i have to make another program, then how can I keep it completely invisible?)
View 3 RepliesHow to write a VB.NET metronome program that beeps X times a minute? I have tried several solutions but the down work. The sound is either delayed or doesn't occur at all.
View 3 RepliesI am making a program that NEEDS to be password protected, so i made a textbox with a code so that when the user enters the right password it lets you in. But if the user/person enters a wrong password 2X it will kick you out. So is there a way to keep the
View 3 RepliesIf e.CommandLine.Count > 0 Then
Dim IncomingCommand As String = e.CommandLine.Item(0).ToString
If IncomingCommand.Substring(0, 2) = "-1" Then
form1.close()
End If
End If
I am trying to make the program close if the -1 string is sent with the program. See my installer allows for me to run certain programs before it actually installs, but it doesn't shut down copies of the program itself. So I have a next startup instance set to shut the program down if the -1 is received. But if the program is not running it starts up instead. This is not desired. form1.close doesn't work. e.cancel = true doesn't work, etc etc. What can I do to make the program not start during this instance.
I'm currently in the process of building a text editor type program, and have run into a brick wall. I haven't done VB in years, so I may just need a little reminder on some things. I have coded everything so far as far as opening files, saving them, changing fonts, colors, etc. However, I'm looking to add a Close button to my menu strip that will just close the currently opened file, and not the entire program, while also ask the user if he/she would like to save before closing the file, and then if they select yes, it will show the save dialog, and if not, it will go ahead and close the currently opened item.
View 2 RepliesI am trying to build a small program which will allow some one to click on the exit button and the sound will play and at the end of the sound the program will then close. The sound clip is about 3 seconds long Here is what I have:
Imports Microsoft.DirectX
Imports Microsoft.DirectX.DirectSound
Public Class Form1
Private Dsound As CSoundDevice
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I wrote service with vb.net. I have a little problem. My service is run the another program. It is ok. But that second program is doesn't close. Stay running in task.
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Is it possible to close a program when another program close, For instance....Say I have program A and B....I want program B to be close when close or exit program A...
View 12 RepliesI want to ask you how to close a exe program using visual basic...I found some codes on google but I cant get them working!!
View 9 RepliesI want check a text file each minute for a change. How Can I start this procedure each minute?
View 4 RepliesIn my work, we have a program done by other company, and we don't have the code to change it. This program register a serie of numbers and then if the user whants, save them to an xml file. But if the user forget to save and close the program, it doens't ask if whant to save the data, it simply close and all data is lost. I whant to know if its possible to build a vb.net application that controls when the close button is press and freeze the program or something to remind the user to save the data.
View 3 RepliesI am creating an updater for my program that runs in a separate process. I need it to be able to close the program it's updating before running the new setup, but I do not want to use Process.Kill() because that could cause data loss. How can I safely close another application, as if the user had clicked the "X"?
View 2 RepliesI would like to be able to close a running program (service) from another program.I know I can use...
Process.Start("C:XxxYyyProg.exe")
to start program: - Prog.exe
Located at: - C:XxxYyy.
But is there any way to also stop (close) Prog.exe from within another program ? The same one that started it for example...PS I should mention that in this case, Prog.exe is a third party program which I can't alter. It does have an Exit option from a right click.
I made a project on vb.net.Im working with multiple forms.Now,from the main form, I activated the 2nd form.then hide the main form. My problem is when I directly close the 2nd form, my project is till running.I closed it trough the "Close Button" of the form.Any way i could interact with that so I could go back to the Main(first) form when i close it there.
View 6 RepliesI have a form with a listbox. I have controls on the form that can add items to the listbox with the click of a button. I already have the save file, open file dialogs working properly but I want to add something else that works with them. Lets say I open a file and the listbox adds all the strings from the file. Now, lets say I add something to the listbox and instead of saving the file, I just close the whole form. How do I make my program ask if i want to save the changes to the file when it is about to be closed? (I only want it to ask that IF there are changes to the file).
View 9 RepliesI am created two projects with two different executive files, which the one are for the normal program to create and the other one is for an update. I want to separate these dialogs. I have already added the update executive file as reference in my program. I would like you to help me to resolve this issue as I have problem with open the update dialog when I clicked on the menu item. When I clicked the menu item which are suppose to close the program and load the update form from the update executive file but they did not show up.[code]...
View 10 RepliesHow can I make something that closes the program if it's minimized?
View 11 RepliesI don't know if this is possible I want my program to execute certain code before it will close even when the x is pressed is that possible. Because its leaving streamreaders open.
Timer1
Open sreamreader etc
So the timer is set to 100ms to constantly update the data waht happens is its leaving it open when someone closes it during its cycle.
I have build a app , that has a simple "are you sure?" protection against closing by excident.[code]...
View 4 RepliesIs it possible to issue a Open CD and a Close CD using VB.net? Are there any examples of code I could see or articles? Thanks for you help, in what seems to be such a trivial matter. (I know though that the simpler the function the more code seems to be
View 2 Repliesi have just started to use this program...i accidently opened more than 1 program and i cant close them.
View 1 RepliesI would like for my program to pause for about 3-5 seconds and then close/exit after pausing. I've used the my.application.doevents() and threading.thead.sleep as well, which may work, but when I add close() after the pause it just closes.
View 8 RepliesI've stopped my program from closing using this code:
Private Const WM_QUERYENDSESSION As Integer = &H11
Private Const WM_ENDSESSION As Integer = &H16
Private _systemShutdown As Boolean = False
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So I obviously dont want my users to close the program but I want to be able to close it myself , I know how to password protect it but all I need is a code for a button to enable the close button.
how I can close a running program using VB (2008).The program i had in mind was internet explorer (iexplorer.exe).If i under "form1.load" set "me.hide" (too hide form1, obviously). followed by "timer1.start" below that. Will the timer1 start on load or will the .hide function disable the form from executing commands?
View 5 RepliesI've been working on two projects, one needs to have multiple forms, but when I open one form, it needs to close the sender.
But, when I try it, the program exits! I don't want it, I just want to close the form, not the app.
I tried the 'Form1.Hide()' too, but it doesn't sound good to me. There is other approach?
how do you close a program if it has multiple forms? Me.close doesn't seem to be
working...
How can I close a window of external application programmatically in VB.net.I just want to close the current window without closing the whole process.
View 1 RepliesI am using the MsgBox Function as a help on my program to notify users of unusable entries in my program. After the MsgBox pops up, and the user clicks on either 'OK' or 'Cancel', the program need to clear the box that the bad data was entered in, and continue with the program. What I am trying to do I guess is keep the program from returning unusable values by informing the user of entries that will return such values. But, where I am running into a problem is in when I click on OK or Cancel, the program continues as if nothing was called as a result of the MsgBox info being thrown.
Here is the code I have so far, mind you that I have used several of the other MsgBox codes to no avail.
I think what I need to do is have a line of code that calls my "textbox.clear" if certain criteria are met. but when I tried this, the program did not return to my GUI, it simply ran with a value of "0" in the "textbox.text" that the clear was called on.
In my program I got multiple spots where I open a Connection to an Oracle database, read some lines via a stored procedure which returns me a cursor, put them in an IDataReader, close the connection and go on.
Now everything works fine till the point of closing the connection. I've watched the connections opened to the database via TOAD for Oracle and I figured out, that the database seems to keep an connection opened after I said m_Connection.Close and m_Connection.Dispose.
I use Oracle.DataAccess and get an error after a short time, that there are to many connections. I debuged my session and made sure, that vb performs the close() command and it does it, but the database not.
I have an assignment from school where the program is supposed to close when the user presses Alt X.
I have done this using Java but that was a long time ago and I can't remember how I did it. How do you do it in VB?[code]...