I have tried to control another application to automate a process we do 100 times a day. It is simple enough, a few key strokes is all but I have been foiled in all attempts
View 1 RepliesI have an application that I want to load using the scheduler in windows. I am also wanting the "enter" key pressed when the app loads. Because you cannot use a batch file I tried using a vb app. It works great on two different windows 7 machines but not at all on the xp machines. The xp machines load the app but don't follow through with the sendkey.
Sidenote - I had to repeat the sendkey function in order to get this to work because I am not sure how to use the sendkeys.sendwait function. I tried and it never worked.
Dim ProcID As Integer
ProcID = Shell("C:Program FilesAdobeFlash Media Live Encoder 3.1FlashMediaLiveEncoder.exe")
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So I have a form with a textbox1 thats supposed to enter in a set of keywords and then ebay will give you the"Instant suggestions" in return, but when I have my textbox1.text send the text over to the ebay form, ebay will not return any suggestions, unless I use the sendkeys.send method. Well, I do not like the sendkeys.send method because it's way too buggy &only works under the right conditions.Here's a pic of google instant and ebay does the same thing. So here's what I'm trying to get ebay to do:Here's the code that I have:
Dim theElementCollection As HtmlElementCollection = WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("input")
For Each curElement As HtmlElement In theElementCollection
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I made this VB.NET code to take a picture of my entire screen, but instead it only takes a photo of the focused area. Why is this?
Public Function SaveScreen(ByVal theFile As String) As Boolean
Try
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Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
CheckBox1.Checked = True
While CheckBox1.Checked = True
SendKeys("{END}")
End While
End Sub
That is the code, the error is "SendKeys is a type and cannot be used as an expression."
In the process of testing of old (XP compatible) applications with Windows 7 we have xperienced a problem, that our major application Clarify (based on VB engine) does not work properly with turned on UAC (SendKeys and DoEvents do not work). Having turned off UAC, works our application error-free. Due to the corporate policy we cannot turn off UAC but we are looking for a solution, how to turn off UAC (not prompts) only for our application or how to het to work an application based on VB with turned.
View 2 RepliesI have embedded the WMP control in my Visual Studio 2010 app which works on windows 7 (Framework 4.0), but installing the app on winXP, I get the following error:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Interop.WMPLib, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
File name: 'Interop.WMPLib, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'
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WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftFusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftFusion!EnableLog].
I guess this is a reference issue, but I have added references to WMP libraries (axinterop.wmplib.dll and interop.wmplib.dll). The WMP works on the XP machine, but not when called from my application.I have searched the web now for 5 days and changed references, and reinstalled the media player on the XP machine, but nothing works.
I'm using vb.net 2005 and trying to get a old vb 6 app upgraded that uses sendKeys. I'm using:
SendKeys.SendWait("%{TAB}")
which should be the proper text for Alt+Tab, anyone else having a similar problem or know of another way to get this to work?
I have a User Control that contains a System.Web.UI.WebControls.FileUpload control as well as a button to 'Submit'.
When the button is clicked code similar to the following is executed:
If FileUploadControl.HasFile Then
'Save the file and do some other stuff
End If
This code works just fine with Windows XP. However, if I run it from a Windows 7 64-bit machine using IE8 32-bit the HasFile property always returns false and nothing is saved?!
I write a program designed for interacting with an Android phone that is hooked up to a Windows machine. One of the tools in my program is a utility designed to help the user root their phone.Now in order to root it goes through a command line utility called adb which lets you access a terminal on the phone. It must then type commands in that terminal. Most processes that this program does can be done through a batch file, however rooting the phone isn't one of them. The reason being once it actually logs in to the phone's shell, it stops running commands because it just gets stuck on that line, waiting for it to finish. So despite being a little primitive I designed that part of my application to use sendkeys. So the way it should work is:
1) It launches powershell as an adminstrator
2) Types the following commands (I have abbreviated the number of commands it types for the sake of this board. There's actually about 20 lines total): [code]
For the people that have this happen to them, it's always the exact same thing. It's like it completely skips all letters until it gets to a special character. I have no clue what could be causing this. The only thing I have found was that sendkeys wasn't totally supported but that running it as administrator would fix that, which is why I now have it run as admin. But that didn't help. I also had some success by using powershell instead of cmd, but it's still failing for a small number of people.Any ideas what would be causing this? Every other part of the program works perfect except for this. I haven't found any common element between the people that it is failing on. They aren't running the same anti-virus or the same programs. I program and debug on Windows 7 64 bit, yet someone else can run it on the same OS and it won't type it out properly.
I am trying to get an application installed on a friends computer, written in VB 2008 Express. However, he continues to receive the Windows Application 1 stopped working message whenever he launches it.
He states that there are not any error details, and I am in a different state so I cannot even begin to diagnose the situation, so this is all I have to work with. Are there any suggestions where I can even begin to look that would cause this? He is on Win7. which is what I developed the app on. The program is pretty simple, and utlizes sql server r2. Any suggestions on some starting points to check? I have run it on 6 or 7 other computers with no problems.
i have developed windows application using VS 2005 to print PDF documents using third party software PDFCreator. This application is working fine in my system but when i try it another system its not working and there is no error thrown as well.
Sample code which i use in my application is given below:
Dim PDFCtrl as new PDFCreator.clsPDFCreator
PDFCtrl.cPrintFile("c:file1.pdf")
Well to simplify it, whenever I use sendkeys from a background thread it just doesn't work. I even created a textbox, button, and backgroundworker with the following code:
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
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VB 2008 Express. I write a program designed for interacting with an Android phone that is hooked up to a Windows machine. One of the tools in my program is a utility designed to assist the user root their phone. Now in order to root it goes through a command line utility called adb which lets you access a terminal on the phone. It must then type commands in that terminal. Most processes that this program does can be done through a batch file, however rooting the phone isn't one of them. The reason being once it actually logs in to the phone's shell, it stops running commands because it just gets stuck on that line, waiting for it to finish.
So despite being a little primitive I designed that part of my application to use sendkeys. So the way it should work is:
1) It launches powershell as an administrator
2) Types the following commands (I have abbreviated the number of commands it types for the sake of this board. There's actually about 20 lines total):
SendKeys.SendWait("mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system{ENTER}")
SendKeys.SendWait("cat /system/bin/sh > /system/bin/su{ENTER}")
SendKeys.SendWait("chmod 4755 /system/bin/su{ENTER}")
SendKeys.SendWait("flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img{ENTER}")
Now it seems that for 90% of users, this works perfectly fine. However for a small group of people, this is what actually gets typed in to the powershell window:
> /system/bin/su{ENTER}
_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img{ENTER}
For the people that have this happen to them, it's always the exact same thing. It's like it completely skips all letters until it gets to a special character. I have no clue what could be causing this. The only thing I have found was that sendkeys wasn't totally supported but that running it as administrator would fix that, which is why I now have it run as admin. But that didn't work. I also had some success by using powershell instead of cmd, but it's still failing for a small number of people.
Every other part of the program works perfect except for this. I haven't found any common element between the people that it is failing on. They aren't running the same anti-virus or the same programs. I program and debug on Windows 7 64 bit, yet someone else can run it on the same OS and it won't type it out properly. Is there something better that I could be using instead of sendkeys?
I have just purchased a new computer with windows 7 on. I have put VS2005 on and for some reason Application.startup says its not a member?
View 1 RepliesI am upgrading user control from vb6 to vb.net.In the vb6 application I am loading 3000 labels using a label control array.In vb.net I am doing same but it's taking too much time to load.In vb6 it's taking 1-2 seconds, but in vb.net it's taking 30-40 seconds for same work. Why does it take too much time in vb.net for same work?Code is given below, here Led is the label control array.
For l = 1 To 3000
Led.Load(ledCounter)
ColLed.Add(Led(ledCounter))
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i've been looking for a solutions/alternatives to use sendkeys in Vista after reading many threads about the issue, i did see posts of alternatives, there was mentioning that SendKeys does work in Vista with .Net v3.x Framwork. (thread :"[RESOLVED] cant use the sendkeys function in vista " post # 14 ,with the following link
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so before i download and install .Net v3.5 Framework (because the computer i am using is not mine, borrowed it from a freind)i wanted to ask , can anyone confirm that this is true,if i will install .Net v3.5 Framework on windows Vista then the SendKeys command will work as usual (as on windows XP)??p.s. here is a link explaining how to know which version of .Net framework is installed on the computer[URL]..
I have VB.Net application that has worked fine for years on XP and Windows 7. For some reason the last update I put out does not run even the simplest VB commands.Simple Environ() fails.I have tried putting simple VB commands onto a MsgBox on the start of the app and everything raises an error. I have no idea what is going on! The exact same app runs fine on Windows 7 clients. All the XP machines including a fresh XP virtual machine with the .Net 3.5 framework even gives the errors. No VB commands are working. I thought maybe something happened to my vbproj files, so I copied an older one from a couple weeks ago when things worked fine and it still does not work.
View 2 RepliesI am having trouble running a VB.NET 2.0 Serial Port application in Windows 7. I developed it in Windows XP, it ran fine in Windows 2000 and now when the company upgraded the machines to Windows 7, the application does not kick off. All platforms were/are 32-bit. I did some research online, but have not found anything relevant to resolve my issue. Does anyone know what the issue might be and the possible solution to it?
View 5 RepliesI'm trying to use the Shell to have my application call an external application but its not working...I don't understand why. I get the following error: 'System.windows.shell' is a namespace and cannot be used as an expression!
Heres my code....any ideas what I'm doing wrong. Its got to be a simple...stupid error.
Private Sub mnuUpgrade_Click(ByVal Ctrl As Microsoft.Expression.Web.Interop.Legacy.CommandBarButton, ByRef CancelDefault As Boolean) Handles mnuUpgrade.Click
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I refer to the CompileExecutable function at.>> [URL] I have attempted to try and get it working for a Windows Forms based application from about my 4th post in this thread.>> [URL] Has anyone had any success in using it or a variation of it? links to VB.Net tutorials see here.>> [URL]
View 1 RepliesWe have a issue with laptops for the current client in which IE continually shows prompts to users about working offline. The laptops are on a flaky wireless connection (Personally I would much rather fix this but they would much rather just fix this issue, apparently this works better money wise. I have my doubts).
Anyway the issue I'm facing is removing this box from opening at all.. Now there are two ways I can think of doing this. A possible Hook if it is available to catch it before it comes out and stop it. Or the less nice way is to when the box comes up to automatically hit the "try again" option using a sendkeys push.
I have a small application I have developed to just put in some text into another applications input box, and it works perfectly!..... On windows 7. When I try to run the application the exact same way on windows xp the entire computer freezes for a little bit of time, then after it continues to run my application it doesn't insert any text to the applications textbox. I am not sure entierly what could cause this. Both are 32-bit and are running the same version of visual studio. Here is the code that I use. modApi.vb
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I need to know how can I simulate pressing (Windows Logo Key + R) to run "Run" program ?And how to simulate pressing Application key as in this thread :
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I want to take the values from textboxes on a windows form and then update the values in the sql server database...I want to update only those fields for which a value has been entered by the user and leave the database fields as it is (no change or updation) for which the textboxes are left empty by the user.....I opted for sql command and then i couldn't find out How can I generate the query dynamically for such a situation??? Like I intialize the string by str= " Update Bookings set " and then how i can alter it by considering the textbox values that have been changed....I couldn't find the way...I need shortest and optimized code for this situation....
View 5 RepliesOn Windows 7 (UAC set to off), the Sendkeys.Send() runs as fast as windows XP when putting strings into Notepad (for example).
View 7 RepliesI want to take the values from textboxes on a windows form and then update the values in the sql server database...I want to update only those fields for which a value has been entered by the user and leave the fields for which the textboxes are left empty by the user.....How can I generate the query dynamically for such a situation???
Edit:
I haven't yet coded for the update option...Here is my insertion code and i wanted to implement the update feature the same way just couldn't figure out how i can generate the query dynamically....It's a Booking System application
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Is it possible to send keys to a specific windows handle without having to bring that window to focus?Right now I have the following code almost doing the trick:
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
Private Declare Function SetForegroundWindow Lib "user32" Alias "SetForegroundWindow" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Integer
Sub SendKeysToApplication(ByVal AppTitle As String, ByVal Keys As String)
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It will bring the windows calculator window to the top and set the value "1" on it.Is it possible to send the keystroke without poping the window?
I have a need to open 10+ Unix windows and run 5 or 6 commands on each window. I would like to set up a VB application with a menu so that I can select which Unix windows to open, and which commands each window needs to run. What VB 2008 commands (1)run otherapplications on the same PC; (2) set the focus to another window (3) allow a VB application to send acommand scriptthat will be used by the Unix window as if
View 1 RepliesI am using sendkeys because I believe a webform I want to fill possibly use javascript to detect whether someone submits the form. My code doesn't seem to do anything,
WebBrowser1.Document.Forms.Item(1).GetElementsByTagName("INPUT").Item("selectorReconnect").SetAttribute("checked", "-1")
Dim textArea As HtmlElement = WebBrowser1.Document.All("greconnect")
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