I am currently developing the 'solution' through the UI Dialog properties of VB 2008, so my application can be installed onto a computer .It works ok, installs successfully, creates the desktop icon, start menu icon and programs folder....... BUT, when I go into the Control Panel, the uninstall option is there, but not with my own icon it uses the Windows default icon.
View 2 RepliesI want it to show on click of a button on my windows forms application... I have not had any success in getting the dialog to show at all...
View 21 RepliesIm doing my first project with WinForms, and Im trying to get the DataBinding working. Theres no database in my project, but I'd like to bind some of the TextBoxes to objects' properties. In the other section of this forum (here) I found this line of C# code which does it: textBox2.DataBindings.Add(new Binding("Text", this.myPerson, "LastName"));
my question is can data binding to object properties be set up during design time (without writing code)? If so, how? P.S. I know how I would set up this binding if in WPF, but I'm forced to use WinForms.
Where can I find the files (of the project) I need to create the setup? The builder in Visual Basic sucks really hard, so I'll try InnoSetup.
View 4 RepliesI have my own class of graphic objects, and now I'd like to allow a user to right-click on one of those within the application and see a properties window. Is there a pre-built dialog or control for displaying properties at runtime? I'd like to have something just like the IDE properties window button for my application.
View 4 RepliesI created a simple BMI calculator through the guide.I have built it and published it on my laptop running Vista Home Premium with .net 3.5 SP1 installed.I can run the setup and subsequent exe file fine on my machine but when I try it on my girlfriends netbook (one of those fiddly little things) it wont install saying that some of the files are missing. It is running XP and also has .net 3.5 SP1 on it.There are only 2 extra files in addidtion to the setup.exe that vb 2008 creates and they are the application manifest and the program icon, both of which are located with the setup.exe but it still won't install. It is an offline installation but won't run.I copied the bin folder from the project to the setup folder and tried that, still no joy, yet if I try and run the actual program directly it works?
View 16 RepliesHow do I direct certain files to be placed in certain folders on setup? I have a specific file that needs to be place in lets say mydocumentsmisc folder. I was alble to create the setup.exe fine but am struggling on how I can dictate where the files go. Looking at the application folder I can see the files I added but the all go to the application dir.
View 9 RepliesI've set up a basic loop to delete all the files in a particular folder. I've set the loop in a Try block so it doesn't crash the application when it gets to a file it can't delete. I'd like for the app to just pass over these type of files. At the moment, my loop stops completely when it gets to that exception.
View 1 RepliesIs it possible to change source path of content files in setup project? I need to copy some of files located in source directory to installation directory while installation.
View 2 RepliesWhen setting up the user interface I can add a radio buttons dialog with 2 buttons. How do I use the response to determine whether to display the installation folder dialog and custom actions?
View 4 RepliesWhere do you setup your dialog forms from? Do you set properties and populate items from the form that calls the dialog form or do you do it in the dialog form's Load event?Lets say for example I have a main form and a dialog form that lets the user add/remove some strings from a listbox that the main form then uses (and therefore the current items in the listbox should be remembered next time the dialog is shown). Would you populate the listbox with the existing strings from the main form and then show the dialog window, or would you pass the strings in to a property of the dialog window and then let that window put them into the listbox when it loads?I realise its not the best example because you could avoid having to do either if you just didnt dispose the dialog window, but there are numerous situations in my programs where I need to setup items on a dialog window (and dispose it when it has closed) and I currently tend to do it all from the form that is showing the dialog window. This often means I end up with a ton of code in my 'main' form if it calls several dialog windows though so it just got me wondering if other people tend to let the dialog windows do all the work themselves.
View 5 RepliesI am new to Visual Basic using Express 2010 software. Not understanding something very basic. Working from a book. On form1 I have two check boxs set up they are Check Box1 & 2. And also one Picture Box. I am trying to set up properites window for these objects in the form.
Object Propterty
Setting
CheckBox1 Checked Text True Calculator
[code]....
The end product form 1 I should see a Calculator (Check Box 1) with the a place for a check mark and another box for a Copy Machine (Check Box 2) that also as a space for a checked off. Then a image appearing in the Picture Box. how to arrange these 3 objects in Properites Window getting them onto the form; being very basically illustrated. First time at Properties Window.
Lets say i'm making a new dialog. I don't want to expose the properties of the form to code elsewhere, only specific ones I define. I tried making the form Protected (including the Designer generated code) and putting it in another class, but then I can't figure out how to access the form from my code. Am I going about this completely the wrong way, or what?
Code:
How do I get at and invoke the properties dialog supplied by the manufactured? I have search this many times and found that most of the posts contain solutions that the original poster claims don't work The standard PrintProperties class does not handle a lot of printers who have specifictsks, eg a printer designed to pint on the face odf CD/DVD. I have found examples of how do this in VB6, but every examply I find for the versions of VB Basic after thet have comments that the solution provided did not persist the user chnges. Bow, come on, there has to be a way of displaying and persisting the user choises the dialog bog provided by the printer manufacturer!Terry
View 3 Repliesif I use a third party distribution application like Setup2Go etc. to make my setup files, will my application run properly on user's computer?I mean how the required system files and dll files shall be included into my setup.exe?Does user need anything install, prior to my application's installation?
View 3 RepliesI am using Visual Studio 2008 Setup project. I need to copy one folder and the sub folders into the program files but when I tried to copy or add the folder to "Application Folder" in File System editor, I am able to add only files and not folders.
View 1 RepliesI am using VS 2008 VB and setup my application software in Win XP without any issue. But after installed in Win 7, it doesn't work well (it show one file not found, but I saw the file in the right folder). Could it be the incompatibility of VS 2008 and Win 7? If I upgrade to VS 2010, will the issue be fixed?
View 10 RepliesAm getting below error, the program cant seem to find some custom dll on my project when installed. in the setup and deployment i check only 'primary output source from myapp'
[Code].....
How to resove this problem with package made in Visual basic 6?
View 6 RepliesI am trying to write a code to verify the existing files left in the folder. I have it when there are no more files left after sending it to anothere folder that the handler exception windows appears. I think it is be cause there are no files in the folder left and the system does not know what to do with an empty folder.
View 6 RepliesIs there a way to display the connection properties dialog for connection string browsing(for database) in run time?
As I want the user to be able to connect to various database using the GUI.
how to open a "data link properties" dialog using manged code
View 1 RepliesI've been looking at multithreading because I have been trying to make my own dialog box and it seems it might be the only solution. When I used dialog.show, there was no way to cancel the copying operation without the program finishing the current file it was copying (which I found to be annoying), and if I used dialog.showdialog, the program wouldn't continue executing code until I closed the dialog box. So I defined the thread and gave it a sub procedure to execute. But it turns out I can't directly access the main form's controls now. I read all about delegates and invoking and haven't come up with an answer to simply GET a value.
Here's the code in question:
Private Sub TransferFiles()
For FileCount As Integer = 0 To Me.ListBox1.Items.Count - 1
Dim NewName As String = Me.ListBox1.Items.Item(FileCount).Tag
Next
End Sub
Is there a dialog box for loading files, the same as the savefiledialog? I know how to load a file once I know it's name/location, but how do I open up a box to allow my user to select a file from the drive?
View 6 RepliesI am creating a program that uses XML files and saves them automatically when the user updates information. When I have XElement.Save("Name.xml") it saves the XML file in the same directory as the EXE. What I am trying to do is allow the user so select the location of the XML. Also is loading XML files through the loaddialog box basically the same way as XElement.Load("Name.xml")?
View 1 Repliesim used to C programming.
Private Sub SaveAsToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SaveAsToolStripMenuItem.Click
timedate.Stop()[code]......
The problem is that if I save a file I get "myfile.GDL" if I overwrite that I get a new file "myfile.GDL.GDL" ect.the other problem being that the filtering in the windows save/open dialog wont show .GDL files unless I select "all files".
i don want to build a deploy project but just a normal VB.NET Project and that project is kind of extracting files so how can i include files (compress) to project executable app then when i click "Extract" it will extract.last time, I use CHILKATZIP and ZIPForge.NET but it only compress another exe howabout its own project.Thanx,Code Quest
View 1 RepliesI have created a Windows Application in Visual Studio 2005(VB .Net) and used Sql Server 2000 as Backend,Now I want to know how to create a Setup of my Project so that I can install it on clients machine.I have tried by Adding a setup and Deploy project in My application but my setup file include SQL Database files(.mdf,.ldf) and my client has Win Xp installed so my Setup file is asking for sql server connection,but on clients machine Sql server 2000 can't be installed as its compatibility.
View 3 Repliesi need to copy some files from Application Folder to system32 and need to create regisrty while run the setup
View 1 RepliesI am creating a setup file using features brought by Visual Studio.I have some files which can't be removed from the application's folder. How to put the condition on it? or how to prevent user moves it after installation is done?Those files are critical (eg .dll).I already set the 'Hidden' property to 'true', but I think that is not the correct way :)So I try to find another way to do that.
View 1 Replies