Is there a way for suspend a process using vb.net. For example, while my program running background, it should wait for other programs (like X.exe) run and suspend them. With my permission (X.exe) will continue to do its job. If i reject, then terminate them.
View 5 RepliesIs it possible in visual basic to suspend and resume processes. As in entirely pause a process (threads)?I mean an external thread. I'm using Visual Basic 2010 Express btw.
View 1 RepliesI have a a main thread and another background thread that does some work (see below).I want to do something within my worker thread and then wait until some other event happens in the main thread before continuing. How do I do this? I thought I could use ManualResetEvent but I can't get it to work properly. I'm a bit confused about the Set, Reset, WaitOne methods and where exactly I should call them from.When the worker thread is suspended it shouldn't affect the main thread.
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System. EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
End Sub
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
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how to lock or suspend the form when i call another form and until that is finished this form should be locked.example: i got frmAddEditClient form and frmViewClients as another form, now i got list of clients in frmViewClients and i will select a client i would like to edit the client profile ( for which fuction is defined in frmAddEditClients) so on click of btnEdit in frmViewClients form i place code to [code]now i got everything working fine but i shud make the frmViewClient form to lock so that untill edit operation is done user should not change anything i.e is not selecting other ClientID. in the frmViewClient form.Once edit is done frmViewClient is unlocked and then clientId is refreshed.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to use a separate thread to handle specific events in VB.Net. The idea being that I do not want the main application to be held up if a particular event handler takes awhile to finish. How do I get my main thread loop to suspend the thread while allowing it to handle events when they occur?When I create a Windows Forms application, there is a UI thread that handles the UI events. I do not imagine that this thread is continuously polling some variable to see if someone has pressed a button. I imagine the thread is suspended until the OS tells it there is something to do. I was trying to figure out how to ensure that my event handlers were not being executed by the UI thread. From what I have read, I can do this by raising the events from a different thread. But what does that thread do while it is waiting for other events, just exit?
I wanted to know how to create a thread that works like the UI thread, only it processes the events I want it to process. I am not sure how events work in .Net. I understand that event handlers are run on the thread that raises the event. I believe that .Net allocates threads from some thread pool to process events such as timer events. I am not clear on how it works, though, and what those threads are doing when they are not handling events.
Ive got a container with a bunch of child textboxes stacked using dock top. My code updates the textboxes and they vertically expand/contract etc. I'm thinking that my code might run faster if I turn off the layout refreshing until all the updates to the textboxes are done.
I'm getting confused with what I'm reading about suspend/resume layout - do I need to suspend for ALL the child controls, then go through them all at the end and Resume individually?
I have created a windows service in C# .net and now I want it to alert me if its going to shutdown. For this I make use of Dispose/Unload events but now I want if the services are stopping due to system shutdown process it will alert me.
View 1 RepliesI am looking to introduce a suspend and a resume feature into my program however [code] is there any way to introduce this feature..
View 2 RepliesLooking for a solution to pause and resume a thread. When I use suspend and resume it says its no longer supported. Here is the code. I'm just trying to get it to cycle between two "do until" events.
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I have a DataGridView that uses a BindingSource that has a DataTable as it's DataSource. If I filter the DataGridView by using the BindingSource filter on a particular column, then I change a cell value in that same column the row disappears. For example, if I filter my "Shipped" column which contains CheckBoxes to only show True and then I set one of the CheckBoxes to False the row disappears from the DataGridView.
I do not want the row to disappear until the BindingSource filter is changed or removed. How can I suspend the BindingSource filter and then resume the filter if the filter has changed? I want it to work like MS Excel's filter. If you filter a column in Excel to only show cells that equal "Apple", then change the cell to "Banana" the row still shows, but if you change the filter the "Banana" row is removed. This how I want my BindingSource filter to work.
[code]I get an error that the connection to the IMAP server has disconnected because the suspend event is not triggered until the computer wakes. How do I get the trigger before the computer sleeps?
View 2 RepliesIs there anyway to suspend a for next loop until a textbox has been filled in and the keyboard enter has been press
Dim playersname(7) As String
Dim players As Integer = 7
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Is it possible to wait/suspend execution for a certain amout of time without hanging the main UI thread?
View 7 RepliesI have written a windows service that is meant to launch a notepad when a specific action happens. The problem i have is that even though the service launches notepad, the actual notepad it self is NOT visible. I know that it has been launced because i can see the process in the task manager. By the way the process is listed as a SYSTEM process rather than a process under my user name (i believe that is because my process is a "LocalSystem" one).
View 4 RepliesHow can I call a function from inside another function and suspend the calling function until the called function is finished? I hope I can get some replies because I don't know how to ask the question and make sense:).
Anyway what I am trying to do in steps:
1. The user clicks button1 which triggers the click event.
2. From the click event I call a function
3. I then pop-up a form, that has instructions for the user to read.
4. After the user has read the form he will click the "Done" button and return to the calling function.
The problem is the the calling function continues to execute. I want to stop execution of the calling function until the users clicks the "Done" button on the instruction pop=up. I know I can use a msgbox but the instructions can be lengthly and does not look good in a msgbox.
I have tried the Call method with return in the "Done" button click but I can make that work. I also tried a goto statement but I can get that to work either. In the call statement I said call frmInstruction.show() and it got there but as I said the calling function continued to execute.
My understanding is that thread.join will suspend the execution of code on the calling thread until the spawned thread finishes or is aborted...
With that in mind, I tried this:
For i = 1 to 50
threads = New Thread(AddressOf test)
threads.IsBackground = True
threads.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA)
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However, the rest of the code runs when the loop finishes, not waiting for all the spawned threads to finish. Since the rest of the code needs the threads to finish (otherwise the rest will error).
I want my vb.net dll to get the data sent from c++ project(exe).Can any body help on in what form this void pointer can be sent via pipe. The void pointer corresponds to enums or structures. I have to get this structures/enums on the vb.net dll end. I have mentioned about using pipe. My question is as what type the pointed to data can be send over the pipe so that I can easily handle the received data at the vb.net dll end.
View 1 Repliesi am trying to write a little program that checks for a process and kills is.here is the
Dim p As Process = Process.GetProcessesByName("Cheat Engine")(0)
p.CloseMainWindow()[code]...
My problem is it�s woking ,yes if the programm ,,Cheat Engine" is running the process is getting killed.But if the program is not running my program crashes.
I'm executing a remote process using WMI and would like to redirect the StandardOutput of that process back to my program. I have found these code examples:
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I am getting an error with this code.
The process cannot access the file 'C:UsersdavidDesktopTest Folderdavid 2.xml' because it is being used by another process.
how do i end the prosess after I create the file? Or am I creating it in the wrong manner.The underlined line is where the error ocures.
Public Sub AddDTData(ByVal value1 As String, ByVal value2 As String, ByVal filename As String)
dtUser.Rows.Add(value1, value2, Now.Date)
If My.Computer.FileSystem.FileExists(filename) Then
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How to get full path of current directory of process from where process starts Like if i use my software to start somefile then I want my software to know where she started it from ( files path) What I mean is the file I opend using my softwares location.
View 2 RepliesMy app starts an On-Screen Keyboard process like this:
Dim PID as System.Diagnostics.Process
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PID = Process.Start("C:WindowsSystem32osk.exe")
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It seems to work 90% of the time. However, sometimes the PID.Kill() fails because it says the process already exited. At this point the OSK is always still there on screen. Yes, I know my code should be testing to see if the process is still running before trying to kill it, but given that the OSK is still on screen..
I have a program that starts another program after setting the regkeys basically the program continually syncs the calandar of outlook and another application.I set the regkeys than launch the c:sync.exe app. I have tried a simple process.start and launching the process as a thread and they both do the same thing: The other process starts and works as it should but my main program goes "White screen" or "not responding" until the process.start has exited.
I want the process.start to run in the background so if users click in my main app it responds and truly that they can access the context menu of my main app from the taskbar while the process.start is running.
i want a code that if a process that i picked is no match in a process list that process that i picked will start
View 4 RepliesTrying to create a button that when clicked will check to see if a certain process image is running and if that process is running give the process focus. If the process is not running then start the application.
View 9 RepliesI am working on a small VB application that listens for commands sent from an Android app.
One of the functions is to extract an archive. I am familiar with how to listen for the unrar process to finish, so I can display a progressdialog on the phone while the extraction is happening, and clear it as soon as it's done.
BUT ... if there is an error/alert from WinRAR, WaitForExit() never gets called because WinRAR is still sitting there open until I click "OK" on the MsgBox.
For Example ... if you try to extract a file that is not actually an archive... an alert will pop up saying "No Archives Found", and basically everything is halted on the VB app and the Android app, and the Android app just sits on a progressdialog saying "extracting..." until you manually hit "OK" on the computer.
As you can imagine, this is a problem if the whole point of your app is to NOT have to go over to the computer.
So... I am wondering if there is something similar to WaitForExit() that will wait for an error and allow me to close out the alert and let the process end.
Here's my Sub for the UnRar command:
Private Sub UnRar(ByVal WorkingDirectory As String, ByVal filepath As String)
Dim objRegKey As RegistryKey
objRegKey = Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey("WinRARShellOpenCommand")
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I have an issue using Process.MainWindowTitle,Process.MainWindowHandle on some older VB6 applications. After Process.Start I use Process.MainWindowTitle to display in a listbox. The MainWindowTitle returned is not the Window Title but in fact the Project name of the VB6 exe.? I also store the MainWindowHandle to use the ShowWindow and SetForeGroundWindow API's. It would appear that the ShowWindow API does not work, but the SetForegroundWindow does. ie: if the VB6 app is minimized, showwindow does not restore, if it is NOT minimized setforewgroundwindow sets it to the foreground. The exact same code does work correctly for any other .net exe or notepad, only on these vb6 programs I am having a problem.
View 9 RepliesI try to open a text file and write in some text, when i run the program it says the following error:The process cannot access the file 'D:VB projectsCategory_Characteristics.txt' because it is being used by another process.
THe code is as follows and the error hits in line :
Dim objWriter As New System.IO.StreamWriter(FILE_NAME)
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Dim FILE_NAME As String = "D:VB projectsCategory_Characteristics.txt"
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I was wondering if this code could be better optimized for multithreading. What it does is open a process and loops through the data, there could be any range of files to open (so I would like to have say 2 or 3 processes at once):
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I have a procedure (parent process) that starts several processes (child processes). The child processes calculate several array variables. How can I pass those arrays to the parent process? At the moment, the child processes write the arrays to a streambuilder and the parent process reads the stream. Is there a better way to do it? Is it possible to have the child processes write to RAM memory and have the parent process read from there? It is like declaring a global variable in the parent process and give the child processes access to it.
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